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Darksiders: Warmastered Edition cover artvsDouble Dragon III: The Sacred Stones cover art

Darksiders: Warmastered EditionvsDouble Dragon III: The Sacred Stones

Darksiders: Warmastered Edition leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Double Dragon III: The Sacred Stones leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION6 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
Darksiders: Warmastered EditionDouble Dragon III: The Sacred Stones

Axis by axis

Execution6 vs 7

Double Dragon III: The Sacred Stones leans harder on execution: Brutal difficulty and no continues punish every missed input

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance1 vs 1

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization5 vs 4

Darksiders: Warmastered Edition leans harder on optimization: combo trees and puzzle routes solvable

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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Darksiders: Warmastered Edition

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Double Dragon III: The Sacred Stones