head to head
vs
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in TimevsThe Nightmare Before Christmas: Oogie's Revenge
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); The Nightmare Before Christmas: Oogie's Revenge leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in TimeThe Nightmare Before Christmas: Oogie's Revenge
Axis by axis
Execution7 vs 7
Even - both lean on execution about the same.
Reads1 vs 1
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance1 vs 2
The Nightmare Before Christmas: Oogie's Revenge leans harder on variance: Little randomness in fixed encounter design
Optimization5 vs 4
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time leans harder on optimization: Wave layouts and boss patterns are fully memorisable.
Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.