head to head
Condemned: Criminal OriginsvsFatal Frame
Condemned: Criminal Origins leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Fatal Frame leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).
Condemned: Criminal OriginsFatal Frame
Axis by axis
Execution5 vs 4
Condemned: Criminal Origins leans harder on execution: Visceral melee blocking and counter timing
Reads1 vs 1
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance4 vs 4
Even - both lean on variance about the same.
Optimization5 vs 6
Fatal Frame leans harder on optimization: Item routing, film economy, learning ghost patterns
Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.

