head to head
vs
Contra: Hard CorpsvsSeum: Speedrunners from Hell
Contra: Hard Corps leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Seum: Speedrunners from Hell leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).
Contra: Hard CorpsSeum: Speedrunners from Hell
Axis by axis
Execution9 vs 9
Even - both lean on execution about the same.
Reads0 vs 0
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance1 vs 0
Contra: Hard Corps leans harder on variance: Everything fixed once routes and patterns are known
Optimization6 vs 7
Seum: Speedrunners from Hell leans harder on optimization: Route-finding and trick discovery shave the seconds that matter
Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.