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This article covers some gameplay points of Shoot the Bullet.

Controls

Arrows - move

Shift or X - Focus mode.

Z - shoot picture. (See note below)

Your camera defaults to capturing shots around Aya. All bullets inside of the frame of the picture will be cleared. As you hold Z down, you can use the arrows to move the picture area around the screen (while the game slows down to "bullet time".) The farther you aim, though, the smaller the picture becomes, and less likely you are to snap a high-scoring picture.

You can only snap your camera when your charge is at 100%. Upon a successful snap it resets to 0%. The camera charges slowly; however, you can expediate charging by holding focus+shoot. Doing this, however, causes your character to move slower than in Focus mode.

If you fail to take a picture of the boss, the picture with result in a "fail" and the camera resets to 0%. The picture will also result in a "fail" if you hold down Z too long and the picture too small to be taken.

Playable Characters

Only Aya Shameimaru is playable.

Stages

Currently it has been found that there are ten 'levels' in StB, as well as an Extra (EX) level. The number of scenes in each level varies.

To advance to the next level, a player must fulfill either:

- achieve a certain number of scene clears in the previous level, or
- achieve a certain number of total scene clears from all levels.

A scene is defined as being cleared when a player takes a given number of pictures of the boss sprite within the time limit. Getting hit or running out of time constitutes a failure.

Stage Listing

Spoiler alert. Many credits to the MotK discussion thread.

Level 1 - Wriggle, Rumia - No preconditions

Level 2 - Cirno, Letty - 3 cleared scenes in Stage 1

Level 3 - Alice, Keine - 8 cleared scenes total, or 3 cleared from level 2

Level 4 - Reisen, Medicine, Tewi - 14 cleared scenes total, or 3 from level 3

Level 5 - Meiling, Patchouli - 20 cleared total, or 3 from level 4

Level 6 - Chen, Youmu - 25 cleared total, or 3 from level 5

Level 7 - Sakuya, Remilia - 30 cleared total, or 3 from level 6

Level 8 - Ran and Yuyuko - 35 cleared total, or ? from level 7

Level 9 - Eirin, Kaguya - 40 cleared total, or ? from level 8

Level 10 - Komachi, Sikieiki - 45 cleared total, or ? from level 9

Extra - Flandre, Yukari, Mokou, Suika - 66 cleared total

Scoring

Your score depends on a number of factors.

- Whether the boss was in the picture. You need this to get a valid picture, but you get a bonus for it anyway. - Boss Shot

- Whether there is a dominant color of the bullets in the photo - <dominant color> Shot. Or Colorful/Rainbow Shot.

- Whether Aya (yourself) was in the picture - Self Shot/Two Shot

- How risky were you (mainly how close were you to the boss/bullets.) - Risk Shot

- Did you capture the the "spell circle"[?](the magical-looking circle that appears everytime bosses starts a bullet pattern) and how big was it. - Nice Shot

- How many bullets were in the picture.

- The size of the picture. Obviously, the bigger the photo, the more bullets you can fit into it, so the higher the score.

- ???

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