I apologize for the lack of updates today, sadly Youtube decided that the best time to update was during the middle of the day in the US. Because somehow thats when the least amount of people are going to be bothered by it? Yeah, I don't understand it either.
Valley -- 4:19 -=- 19:24
The valley is the first level you can get a sign for, so it is a good idea to grab it. With the sign you need a minimum of 13 pictures for this level, it's pretty annoying considering there is nowhere to spam an extra 5 pictures except at the beginning, and I think it is easier to just take the 13 pictures rather then try to align them. I start out by going to the right to make it easier to get a Squirtle on land. Then I spam pester balls to get a Goldeen. After barely getting a Goldeen I get the Gyarados Magikarp to get thrown over the mountain, then get Geodude and Sandshrew. Spam a few more pester balls to get a Dratini picture, and then hit the two Geodudes to get Graveller and an off center Sandslash. Even off-center the Sandslash breaks 2k points; he's such a high scorer. I grab Mankey here because the only other decent one is at the end, and it's faster to grab this guy. I get Gyarados before Staryu, because if you wait for the first one it pretty much stops for a few seconds in front of you. I don't bother trying to get another one and wasting pictures. I then grab a bad picture of Starmie, and then make Dragonite show himself. After finishing with the pictures I set up the secret exit and start spamming more pester balls until the Mankey hits the switch.
Pointwise this was a horrible Valley run, but I finished just barely above 130k points, and I only needed to break about 125k to get the pokeflute safely. I couldn't really think of a better way to set up the menu, so this is the best way I could think of, I'm still a little slow, I was worried I messed up Goldeen.
Starmie, Staryu, Goldeen and Dratini generally are low scoring because of how difficult it is to center them and get them to face you. Sandslash was off center so I lost 2k points there, and the best Mankey for points is at the end, which I don't think is worth the tradeoff for time, since you have to get pretty close to actually get more points on it. Dragonite and Gyarados were both sub-par this run too, but they aren't a big deal considering a low score for them is 3k points.
2 or 3 updates tomorrow, I finished this run and tonight is the last night I have free until my finals are over, so if I get at least a semi-decent SS I'll post that until I can get a really good one.
