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Resogun cover artvsTouhou Youyoumu: Perfect Cherry Blossom cover art

ResogunvsTouhou Youyoumu: Perfect Cherry Blossom

Resogun leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Touhou Youyoumu: Perfect Cherry Blossom leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION8 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
ResogunTouhou Youyoumu: Perfect Cherry Blossom

Axis by axis

Execution8 vs 9

Touhou Youyoumu: Perfect Cherry Blossom leans harder on execution: Weaving pixel-perfect through dense bullet curtains is everything

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 1

Resogun leans harder on variance: Particle-based destruction and some randomised enemy entry points

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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