head to head
vs
DmC: Devil May CryvsSeverance: Blade of Darkness
DmC: Devil May Cry leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Severance: Blade of Darkness leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).
DmC: Devil May CrySeverance: Blade of Darkness
Axis by axis
Execution7 vs 7
Even - both lean on execution about the same.
Reads0 vs 1
Severance: Blade of Darkness leans harder on reads: Enemies are aggressive but follow learnable routines
Variance1 vs 1
Even - both lean on variance about the same.
Optimization6 vs 5
DmC: Devil May Cry leans harder on optimization: Color-coding turns encounters into solvable matching puzzles
Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.