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Demon's SoulsvsToukiden: Kiwami

Demon's Souls leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Toukiden: Kiwami leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION7 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION7 /10
Demon's SoulsToukiden: Kiwami

Axis by axis

Execution7 vs 7

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads1 vs 0

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

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.

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Toukiden: Kiwami