head to head
vs
DmC: Devil May CryvsSoulstice
DmC: Devil May Cry leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Soulstice leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).
DmC: Devil May CrySoulstice
Axis by axis
Execution7 vs 7
Even - both lean on execution about the same.
Reads0 vs 1
Soulstice leans harder on reads: Bosses are scripted movesets, never adapting
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.