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Titan SoulsvsYs IX: Monstrum Nox
Titan Souls leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Ys IX: Monstrum Nox leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).
Titan SoulsYs IX: Monstrum Nox
Axis by axis
Execution8 vs 8
Even - both lean on execution about the same.
Reads1 vs 1
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance1 vs 2
Ys IX: Monstrum Nox leans harder on variance: Monstrum Gift and Grimwald Nox unlocks add marginal variance
Optimization6 vs 5
Titan Souls leans harder on optimization: Each titan has a solvable weak-point strategy
Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.