On being presented with my Raiden Fighters Jet simulation 30 vision dilemma, the sage advisor suggested that I should perhaps not play that level at all.

There were two obvious options for a sim50 1CC.

a) 15 -> die on 30 -> fail the criteria on 40 -> 50

b) die on 15 -> 90% medal and 98% destruction on 20 -> fail criteria on 40 -> 50

My naive assumption was that one-missing 30 with no other goals was easier than playing 20 well.  Terribly mistaken.  20 is easy, even including the destruction rate and medal goals.  I thought I might perhaps suffer in rank in order to hit the 20 criteria, but that’s also not true.

So now I’m on to option B.  On sim40, you can pass to the real battle stages if you achieve all the criteria.  ycw states that one of those criteria is no-miss.  I assume that he means no-missing just that stage, since I don’t think you can reach sim40 without dying. The other two are activating special medal mode and not timing out any bosses.  I’ve never messed with boss timeouts; I just stay away from special medals.  This will of course all come tumbling down if I ever try to start playing like a man, but what are the odds?

I’ve only tried a few runs with the new route, and I reach the sim50 boss routinely.  I’ve even gotten him into his final phase of attacks.  And died with a bomb to spare.  Don’t ask me why, it’s just the nature of my groove.  So I’ll take a few jabs at the bossbird in Training and see if that does the trick.

And after the sim50 1CC, which is, after all, only barely more reputable than the trivial sim35 clear?  Tis a mystery.