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Devil May Cry 2 cover artvsOne Piece: Pirate Warriors 4 cover art

Devil May Cry 2vsOne Piece: Pirate Warriors 4

Devil May Cry 2 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); One Piece: Pirate Warriors 4 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION5 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
Devil May Cry 2One Piece: Pirate Warriors 4

Axis by axis

Execution5 vs 5

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads0 vs 1

One Piece: Pirate Warriors 4 leans harder on reads: enemies are scripted mobs, not adaptive

Variance1 vs 1

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization5 vs 4

Devil May Cry 2 leans harder on optimization: Amulet builds and boss patterns fall fast

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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One Piece: Pirate Warriors 4