head to head
vs
CupheadvsCygni: All Guns Blazing
Cuphead leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Cygni: All Guns Blazing leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).
CupheadCygni: All Guns Blazing
Axis by axis
Execution9 vs 8
Cuphead leans harder on execution: Tight dodging and parry timing decide every boss.
Reads0 vs 0
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance1 vs 2
Cygni: All Guns Blazing leans harder on variance: Patterns are fixed once stages are learned
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.