Thanks! Yeah after rewatching my run a second time, there's definitely a lot of room for improvement if I just played more cleanly at the end. I'll be pushing higher for sure!
That said I'd be lying if I said I wasn't being carried by SPE and Koizumi's replays lol. I have been thinking about how to score higher with Limi though, and now that I understand the game better I have some ideas. For one, I'm starting to think though that SPE had a point about what he said way back about speedkilling the train-stage boss:
Interestingly, his big piece of advice (and I am not sure I believe him) is that I should just quick-kill the stage 1 boss after two reflects in order to have a big time bonus to bank on later in the game. I am not sure if that is worth missing the extra one (or more?) volcanon.
If you speedkill the boss you can pretty realistically have 30 seconds left over while still getting the first 2 volcanons and the dome kill. This is compared to about 4 seconds if you milk it for the extra volcanon, so a net total of 26 seconds. The boss timer bonus continues to take effect through the entire rest of the game, so if you were to max the multiplier during stage 2, the total amount of extra points you'd get from speedkilling is:
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26 * 2000 * (2+3+4+5+6+7) * 999999999 ≈ 1.6 quadrillion
Now, maxing the multiplier is still the hard and most important part, but I can see a path for it. There's the
double-volcanon at the beginning of the train stage - that would make up for the volcanon you'd sacrifice by speedkilling the boss. Then for the factory stage, there's the
double-volcanon on the tank + planes, and the
volcanon on the turrets at the end (though I'm honestly not sure if this one's possible for stage 2). In your current run you already get 13 volcanons - if you added those 2 that would get you to 15. For comparison, that's the same as Chery's stage 1. There's also another
double volcanon you can do on the second phase of the factory boss - although I don't know if the boss has enough health to let you do that plus the other volcanons you're already doing. If yes then that'd be 16 volcanons; otherwise, it'd at least let you kill the boss faster for more bonus points.
Of course that's all just theory - actually executing all of that is a whole 'nother thing. You definitely picked the harder character to master lol.