head to head
vs
Super MetroidvsVigil: The Longest Night
Super Metroid leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Vigil: The Longest Night leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).
Super MetroidVigil: The Longest Night
Axis by axis
Execution7 vs 7
Even - both lean on execution about the same.
Reads0 vs 1
Vigil: The Longest Night leans harder on reads: Eldritch bosses cycle fixed patterns, no adaptation
Variance1 vs 1
Even - both lean on variance about the same.
Optimization7 vs 6
Super Metroid leans harder on optimization: Sequence-breaking route optimisation is the enduring meta-game
Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.