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Darksiders IIvsSoulWorker

Darksiders II leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); SoulWorker leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION6 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
Darksiders IISoulWorker

Axis by axis

Execution6 vs 5

Darksiders II leans harder on execution: faster combo combat as Death

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 3

SoulWorker leans harder on variance: Gear drops and enhancement rolls gate progression

Optimization6 vs 6

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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