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Demon's SoulsvsNier: Automata
Demon's Souls leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Nier: Automata leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).
Demon's SoulsNier: Automata
Axis by axis
Execution7 vs 8
Nier: Automata leans harder on execution: Fast combos, dodge timing, and bullet-hell patterns demand precise inputs
Reads1 vs 1
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance2 vs 2
Even - both lean on variance about the same.
Optimization7 vs 6
Demon's Souls leans harder on optimization: Builds, routes and learned movesets are fully 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.