head to head
vs
Contra: Shattered SoldiervsDevil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening
Contra: Shattered Soldier leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).
Contra: Shattered SoldierDevil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening
Axis by axis
Execution9 vs 9
Even - both lean on execution about the same.
Reads0 vs 0
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance1 vs 1
Even - both lean on variance about the same.
Optimization6 vs 7
Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening leans harder on optimization: Style choice, weapon loadouts, and boss patterns reward labbing
Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.