head to head
vs
Dark Souls IIIvsDarksiders III
Dark Souls III leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Darksiders III leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).
Dark Souls IIIDarksiders III
Axis by axis
Execution8 vs 7
Dark Souls III leans harder on execution: fast roll timing against aggressive scripted bosses
Reads1 vs 1
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance1 vs 1
Even - both lean on variance about the same.
Optimization7 vs 6
Dark Souls III leans harder on optimization: movesets and builds are fully mappable
Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.