The easiest way to clear Raiden Fighters 2, given my prior run which ended on the way to the TrueBoss, was to fail to earn the TrueBoss, thereby winning without actually accomplishing anything new.  This could also be described as the coward way or perhaps the pussy way.  Naturally, that’s what I did.  You need 100% destruction on each of the stage 3, 6 and 7 bosses to earn the TLB.  Easily avoided.  RF2 1CC’d, with a score of 13M and change, and no TLB.  The least possible 1CC.

I’ve already spoiled the sight of the ALL on the Xbox Live arcade leaderboard.   I was curious to give scoring a spin, and quickly racked up 31M.  The game is marginally harder with the rank increase that comes from scoring well, but the difference isn’t dramatic.  Perhaps “scoring well” oversells what I’m doing.  Better than 13M, anyway.  It’s still straightforward to bomb every potentially hard bit.  Stuff just fires from the very edge of the screen more often, which aborted my best scoring run on st6.

It might be worth trying for a clear with a 30M+ score, so I’ll toy with that for a bit. I’ll abandon the cause easily enough, though.  Hopefully it comes quickly.  Not yet sure which I’ll migrate to: Jet or 1.