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DJMax Respect V cover artvsGuitar Hero III: Legends of Rock cover art

DJMax Respect VvsGuitar Hero III: Legends of Rock

DJMax Respect V leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION9 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION2 /10
DJMax Respect VGuitar Hero III: Legends of Rock

Axis by axis

Execution9 vs 10

Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock leans harder on execution: Through the Fire and Flames defines a hands ceiling

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance1 vs 0

DJMax Respect V leans harder on variance: minimal randomness, fixed note charts

Optimization2 vs 2

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.

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Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock