head to head
vs
Astral ChainvsDmC: Devil May Cry
Astral Chain leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); DmC: Devil May Cry leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).
Astral ChainDmC: Devil May Cry
Axis by axis
Execution7 vs 7
Even - both lean on execution about the same.
Reads1 vs 0
Astral Chain leans harder on reads: Enemy patterns scripted, not adaptive.
Variance1 vs 1
Even - both lean on variance about the same.
Optimization5 vs 6
DmC: Devil May Cry leans harder on optimization: Color-coding turns encounters into solvable matching puzzles
Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.