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The Dark Eye: Demonicon cover artvsThe Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings cover art

The Dark Eye: DemoniconvsThe Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings

The Dark Eye: Demonicon leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION6 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
The Dark Eye: DemoniconThe Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings

Axis by axis

Execution6 vs 5

The Dark Eye: Demonicon leans harder on execution: Melee combo and dodge timing carry combat

Reads1 vs 1

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 2

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization6 vs 6

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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The Dark Eye: Demonicon

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The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings