head to head
vs
Dust: An Elysian TailvsSamurai Warriors 4-II
Dust: An Elysian Tail leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Samurai Warriors 4-II leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).
Dust: An Elysian TailSamurai Warriors 4-II
Axis by axis
Execution5 vs 4
Dust: An Elysian Tail leans harder on execution: Combo juggling with forgiving timing
Reads0 vs 0
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance1 vs 1
Even - both lean on variance about the same.
Optimization5 vs 6
Samurai Warriors 4-II leans harder on optimization: Character builds, weapon fusion and objective routing drive clears
Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.