head to head
vs
Demon's SoulsvsTrials of Mana (2020)
Demon's Souls leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Trials of Mana (2020) leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).
Demon's SoulsTrials of Mana (2020)
Axis by axis
Execution7 vs 7
Even - both lean on execution about the same.
Reads1 vs 1
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance2 vs 3
Trials of Mana (2020) leans harder on variance: Class and seed selection carry some RNG in stat outcomes
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.