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Bushido Blade 2 leans Reads (Competitive PvP); Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3 leans Execution (Competitive PvP).

EXECUTION6 /10READS8 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION2 /10
Bushido Blade 2Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3

Axis by axis

Execution6 vs 7

Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3 leans harder on execution: Combo timing, dashes and beam clashes demand fast hands

Reads8 vs 6

Bushido Blade 2 leans harder on reads: Whole matches hinge on predicting a human's single committed swing

Variance1 vs 1

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization2 vs 4

Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3 leans harder on optimization: Character tiers and combo routes form a learnable layer

Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.

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