My original score (the 41060 one) involved a 690 red gem combo and a 120 Shoe combo, I believe. At the moment I can only get a 690 red gem combo once every thrice or so attempts, so there's some pretty soggy biscuits for you. I have once been able to pull of a 870 point combo, but this is then wrecked either with the final Shoe combos or the main chunk of the green gem combo. If I could get a combo of 870 again (this means hitting the Shoe five times in a row, and believe me, that isn't easy) and three hits then I could get those 300 points.
Alternatively, I could simply combo the Matuvu, but then I'm 0.0002 seconds off EVERY SINGLE TIME. How downgrading is that? After the Shoe is defeated the short cinematic doesn't commence for about a second. Why in the name of all that's holy does this second exist?