Some notes...
EX-5 is my favorite scene in the video (that I did), because of how well it went with the music and because I'm confident that the time is OK. (Random's 7-4 is one of the biggest highlights in the whole thing for me, because it's crazy and he went beyond what I though was possible for that scene.)
In EX-4 the Hatate WR goes around Reimu in the even closer tier and can snap photos without having to move out of the way of the blue barrier, which could probably be faster than what I'm doing, since I have to move out of the way. I can't tell if its actually possible to snap photos at all times while doing that strategy though.
I'm a bit sad that the strategy I found in SP-9 didn't end up being used in the final submission, despite being potentially faster (providing good execution, of course) as far as I can tell.
My play in 8-8 and 7-1 looks way too sloppy.
6-5 isn't static, or it sort of is, but the whole pattern has a random orientation each time. It's just another luckshit strategy.
I was able to tie Random's 4-5 time using the same strategy, and by going into one of the cells closer to Nitori after the first shot you can get a small gain in camera recharge over the current strategy, it's quite challenging to pull it off though, and then you have to dodge one ring of big bullets too before you can snap the photo.
3-2 and 3-3 are maybe the only scenes that never saw any improvements from their first submission? And they were some of my earliest submissions too. In 3-3 I break the charge to avoid the swarm of kunai before the final shot, I guess doing something stupid like dodging through the kunai swarm would improve it.
And something which I didn't say before because I though someone would go and beat my time if I did:
Yeah...
I'm getting worried about the verification process, apparently stuff gets rejected if its not optimized enough. With that said, I made a 0.82 second improvement to 5-7 just now. Pretty cool looking change to the strategy; sitting against the right side of the screen after the first shot and getting completely obscured by lasers like in the WR scoring runs in order to get more recharge by getting said lasers in the second shot. But after that point I'm not sure if my route is the best anymore, perhaps going diagonally above Ichirin and switching to horizontal camera alignment will save time in getting the third shot off while still catching the next brofist. Maybe even 102.xx could be attained?
Can I keep posting replays to the thread? Could be nice for people to have more resources if they want to improve the times.
