head to head
vs
Devil May Cry 2vsSamurai Warriors 4-II
Devil May Cry 2 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Samurai Warriors 4-II leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).
Devil May Cry 2Samurai Warriors 4-II
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
Samurai Warriors 4-II leans harder on optimization: Character builds, weapon fusion and objective routing drive clears
Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.