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Demon's Souls leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION7 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION7 /10
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Execution7 vs 9

Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening leans harder on execution: Style-switch combos and Royal Guard timing are an execution Everest

Reads1 vs 0

Demon's Souls leans harder on reads: Invasions exist but bosses are scripted patterns.

Variance2 vs 1

Demon's Souls leans harder on variance: World tendency and upgrade drops add mild noise.

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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