head to head
vs
Blasphemous 2vsDevil May Cry 5
Blasphemous 2 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Devil May Cry 5 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).
Blasphemous 2Devil May Cry 5
Axis by axis
Execution8 vs 9
Devil May Cry 5 leans harder on execution: Three movesets and Royal Guard frames set a towering ceiling
Reads1 vs 0
Blasphemous 2 leans harder on reads: Scripted boss movesets, never adaptive
Variance1 vs 1
Even - both lean on variance about the same.
Optimization7 vs 7
Even - both lean on optimization about the same.
Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.