head to head
vs
DarksidersvsRiver City Girls
Darksiders leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); River City Girls leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).
DarksidersRiver City Girls
Axis by axis
Execution6 vs 6
Even - both lean on execution about the same.
Reads0 vs 1
River City Girls leans harder on reads: Enemy patterns are fixed and learnable
Variance1 vs 1
Even - both lean on variance about the same.
Optimization6 vs 5
Darksiders leans harder on optimization: Zelda-style dungeons and upgrade routing
Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.