head to head
vs
Baldur's Gate: Dark AlliancevsExanima
Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Exanima leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).
Baldur's Gate: Dark AllianceExanima
Axis by axis
Execution6 vs 7
Exanima leans harder on execution: Physics-driven melee demands deliberate weight and swing control
Reads1 vs 1
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance3 vs 3
Even - both lean on variance about the same.
Optimization6 vs 5
Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance leans harder on optimization: Feat and skill selection have clear dominant paths for each class
Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.