head to head
vs
Dark Souls IIIvsStar Wars: X-Wing Alliance
Dark Souls III leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Star Wars: X-Wing Alliance leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).
Dark Souls IIIStar Wars: X-Wing Alliance
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 2
Star Wars: X-Wing Alliance leans harder on variance: Mission scripts learnable after first playthrough
Optimization7 vs 7
Even - both lean on optimization about the same.
Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.