head to head
Condemned: Criminal OriginsvsCrisis Core: Final Fantasy VII
Condemned: Criminal Origins leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).
Condemned: Criminal OriginsCrisis Core: Final Fantasy VII
Axis by axis
Execution5 vs 5
Even - both lean on execution about the same.
Reads1 vs 0
Condemned: Criminal Origins leans harder on reads: Enemies ambush but follow simple scripts
Variance4 vs 4
Even - both lean on variance about the same.
Optimization5 vs 6
Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII leans harder on optimization: materia fusion is a deep solvable system
Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.

