head to head
Neither is meaningfully harder - they pose close to the same test. The widest gap is execution, and it is a single point.

Execution · Practiced Mastery
The stylish-action benchmark where mastering styles, weapons, and Vergil's blade is the whole point.

Execution · Practiced Mastery
A Capcom side-scrolling shoot-em-up with a shop economy between missions.
Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); U.N. Squadron leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).
Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening leans a little harder on execution, though the gap is small.
Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening
Style-switch combos and Royal Guard timing are an execution Everest
U.N. Squadron
Dodging dense fire and boss patterns is the test
Same score on reads - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening
Vergil is a hard script, not an adapting mind
U.N. Squadron
Enemy waves are fully scripted
Same score on variance - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening
Fixed tower; knowledge carries between runs
U.N. Squadron
Deterministic stages once memorized
Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening leans a little harder on optimization, though the gap is small.
Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening
Style choice, weapon loadouts, and boss patterns reward labbing
U.N. Squadron
Shop purchases, pilot choice, and pattern routes
A matching score does not mean a matching test. Two games can both sit at 10 on execution and demand completely different things of you - which is why the reasoning above matters more than the number beside it.