head to head
vs
Deadly Premonition: Director's CutvsMafia II
Deadly Premonition: Director's Cut leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); Mafia II leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).
Deadly Premonition: Director's CutMafia II
Axis by axis
Execution3 vs 4
Mafia II leans harder on execution: Cover shooting and fistfight timing
Reads0 vs 0
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance2 vs 1
Deadly Premonition: Director's Cut leans harder on variance: The mystery's beats are fixed but unknown first time
Optimization4 vs 4
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.