Building comparison
head to head
Luigi's Mansion: Dark MoonvsMafia III
Neither is harder. They score identically on all four axes, so the difference between them is in kind, not degree.
Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon
Optimization · Practiced Mastery
Mission-based sequel sending Luigi through five haunted mansions with the Poltergust.
Mafia III
Optimization · Practiced Mastery
Revenge-driven open-worlder dismantling a sixties crime empire district by district.
Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); Mafia III leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).
Luigi's Mansion: Dark MoonMafia III
Axis by axis
Execution4 vs 4
Same score on execution - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon
Strobe timing and vacuum wrangling
Mafia III
Stealth takedowns and gunfights
Reads0 vs 0
Same score on reads - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon
Ghosts are scripted mischief, not adaptive
Mafia III
Racket guards follow fixed AI
Variance1 vs 1
Same score on variance - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon
Mission layouts are fixed
Mafia III
Open world is static
Optimization5 vs 5
Same score on optimization - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon
Gem hunting and mission rank routing
Mafia III
District takeover loop and underboss assignments
A matching score does not mean a matching test. Two games can both sit at 10 on execution and demand completely different things of you - which is why the reasoning above matters more than the number beside it.