I've been asked to give my opinion on this submission.
Entertainment-wise, it's quite repetitive. Because of the fixed-time nature of the game, you're not really seeing any sort of progress towards a goal. It's just sort of accumulating points until the event ends, and then you start the next one, and it's a similar deal. None of the events really have a satisfactory ending of any sort, they just end after some time with very little fanfare.
Besides being repetitive it's also just not a good watch, either visual-wise or audio-wise. The noisy explosion sounds and flashing screen effects are just grating to watch. I vote no for entertainment.
Regarding publishability, I'm unsure about it. What's important to distinguish here is that this movie is not a speed record. There's nothing to optimize besides menu management (which I don't believe constitutes proper TAS gameplay just by itself) and maybe some lag management, which I also don't think can really carry a TAS by itself, as it's also not strictly a gameplay optimization.
This stands opposed to every single other movie on this site (with exceptions of playarounds in Moons and Stars) - even other "max score" runs, which still maintain being tool-assisted
speedruns at their core. In particular, the
Vault explicitly declares itself as an archive for tool-assisted
speed records. Maximum score is allowed as a full completion goal, but the essence remains that it is a speedrun that aims to get that maximum score in the fastest time attainable. That is not the case for this movie, as this game has no concept of fastest time.
As such, by the rules
as they currently stand, this movie would not be eligible for the Vault.
Now, the next important question is, does it actually need to be that way?
Some Vault rules have been quoted about the ineligibility of sports games that run on a fixed time. Now, this is not a sports game. But I believe the same principles apply here.
A hypothetical soccer game TAS where one would just punt balls into the opposing goal repeatedly, while the in-game timer runs down its fixed course, would not be allowed by the Vault rules. The rules were designed this way because we thought it wouldn't really make any sense to publish such a TAS, which would have no speed value, nor anything of value to watch, being just a highly repetitive scoring streak.
And is that description really that different from this movie? Maybe you can argue some entertainment merits (judging by the relatively positive reception of this submission), but I'm personally not seeing it, and that would fall outside the scope of Vault discussion, anyway.
So, essentially, while this movie doesn't strictly violate the rule that eliminates fixed-time sport games from the Vault, I would say it does violate the same spirit. And if this movie were to get a free pass, then we'd need to re-evaluate how we disallow fixed-time sports games, and determine what actually makes this a different case.
If that can be reasonably done - or if the rules for the Vault are changed to allow fixed-time games/sports, and non-speedrun movies in general - then I could see a future for this submission in the Vault. But only then.
