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Castlevania III: Dracula's CursevsFuri
Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Furi leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).
Castlevania III: Dracula's CurseFuri
Axis by axis
Execution9 vs 9
Even - both lean on execution about the same.
Reads0 vs 1
Furi leans harder on reads: Bosses are scripted patterns, however adversarial they feel
Variance1 vs 1
Even - both lean on variance about the same.
Optimization6 vs 5
Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse leans harder on optimization: Partner choice, route branching, pattern memory
Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.