Those who clear all the scenes using the Camera will be named "Master of Impossible Photography."
I for one am not interested in doing this because 10-4 exists. (and 7-4, and a couple others that were huge pains to no item)...If anyone can do this, good for them. I'll settle for my (no item used)/(doll or camera or orb) clears :V
Yeah, part of the issue is that for several of the scenes, you may as well be doing a no item challenge, which is super-player-tier hard. In fact, since you have to use camera as sub, it's even HARDER than a no item challenge for some of the problem scenes; the wide shot is actually pretty dang important in several of them, or at least quite helpful. There's several cases where the camera just doesn't really help, and the wide shot is just better... and that's on the scenes that are already very hard to clear no-item in the first place.I think it's pretty clear why no one went for it before-the camera is stupid effective early, sure, but then you get to scenes where it's useless and it's just not FUN. And really, shouldn't the challenges be fun?
It's a cool idea, but it doesn't actually make a fun challenge, unfortunately.
Scoring.
Survival challenges are always nice ; stuff like no-miss or no-bombs.
Easy and Hard aren't offered because the number of participants is already low enough that dividing the categories up any further would be ridiculous. There would be little to no competition. Even a player mostly comfortable with Easy modes can try Normal, and a player comfortable with Hard modes could easily try either category.Increasing available categories can promote participation, though, since people may try it when they wouldn't otherwise. There's already been little to no competition in many rounds because there's simply too few submissions for any competition to exist.
Random challenge generator (https://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php?topic=12298.0). Whole process is in the linked thread, but the RCG itself is attached. You can set certain parameters, and some truly hilarious runs occur.Oh wow, I remember that. It was partly the inspiration for my atypical challenge thread... perhaps I could bring back some of the weirder things like one half of the screen only, or certain combinations of restrictions.
No bomb scoring.