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Dark Souls IIIvsGrand Prix Legends

Dark Souls III leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Grand Prix Legends leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION8 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION7 /10
Dark Souls IIIGrand Prix Legends

Axis by axis

Execution8 vs 9

Grand Prix Legends leans harder on execution: Notoriously unforgiving 1967 car control

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.

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