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Dark Souls III cover artvsTruxton cover art

Dark Souls IIIvsTruxton

Dark Souls III leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Truxton leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION8 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION7 /10
Dark Souls IIITruxton

Axis by axis

Execution8 vs 9

Truxton leans harder on execution: Dense bullet dodging at arcade speed is unforgiving

Reads1 vs 0

Dark Souls III leans harder on reads: PvP invasions exist but are optional

Variance1 vs 1

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

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.

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