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Neon White cover artvsTouhou Koumakyou: The Embodiment of Scarlet Devil cover art

Neon WhitevsTouhou Koumakyou: The Embodiment of Scarlet Devil

Neon White leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Touhou Koumakyou: The Embodiment of Scarlet Devil leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION10 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
Neon WhiteTouhou Koumakyou: The Embodiment of Scarlet Devil

Axis by axis

Execution10 vs 9

Neon White leans harder on execution: Card-discarding movement tech is the entire game at maximum precision

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance1 vs 2

Touhou Koumakyou: The Embodiment of Scarlet Devil leans harder on variance: Some patterns have random spreads to react to

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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Touhou Koumakyou: The Embodiment of Scarlet Devil