head to head
vs
Diablo IIvsDungeon Crawl Stone Soup
Diablo II leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos).
Diablo IIDungeon Crawl Stone Soup
Axis by axis
Execution2 vs 1
Diablo II leans harder on execution: Positioning and potion reflexes, little else physical
Reads0 vs 0
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance6 vs 7
Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup leans harder on variance: Dungeon branch layouts and unidentified item pools are extensive hidden information
Optimization9 vs 9
Even - both lean on optimization about the same.
Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.