head to head
vs
Devil May Cry 2vsDynasty Warriors 7
Devil May Cry 2 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Dynasty Warriors 7 leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).
Devil May Cry 2Dynasty Warriors 7
Axis by axis
Execution5 vs 4
Devil May Cry 2 leans harder on execution: Infamously easy; guns trivialize most encounters
Reads0 vs 0
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance1 vs 1
Even - both lean on variance about the same.
Optimization5 vs 6
Dynasty Warriors 7 leans harder on optimization: Weapon builds, leveling and map flow decide higher difficulties
Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.