head to head
vs
Dark DevotionvsPeak
Dark Devotion leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Peak leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).
Dark DevotionPeak
Axis by axis
Execution7 vs 7
Even - both lean on execution about the same.
Reads1 vs 0
Dark Devotion leans harder on reads: Bosses repeat fixed patterns, never adapting
Variance3 vs 3
Even - both lean on variance about the same.
Optimization6 vs 5
Dark Devotion leans harder on optimization: Learning movesets and routing the temple is the meta-game
Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.