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Cuphead cover artvsSeum: Speedrunners from Hell cover art

CupheadvsSeum: Speedrunners from Hell

Cuphead leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Seum: Speedrunners from Hell leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION9 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
CupheadSeum: 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

Cuphead leans harder on variance: Minor attack-order shuffling between phases.

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.

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