History YMMV / RaidenFighters

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome:
** Most notable is the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_aMmpG9LPU final stage of the first ''Raiden Fighters'']], unofficially titled "[[EarWorm Invade Your Mind]]". Sadly, its official title is just "Fort(ress) Stage".
** Subverted with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0YvV9vtXOo the music]] for Simulation Levels 35 and 50 in ''Jet'', because while the track itself is awesome, the situation it's played in is ''not'' awesome (specifically, [[NoFinalBossForYou you just screwed yourself out of the two Real Battle stages]]).

** ''Raiden V'' from main series to entire ''Raiden Fighters'' series. Both have storyline set and in-game mission briefings, as well as featuring multiple different ships. ''Raiden V'' even took that further by adding [[DesignItYourSelfEquipment customizations to ships]] as well as some other RPGElements. [[HilariousInHindsight Even better]], ''Raiden V'' was released on the same year as the [[MilestoneCelebration 20th anniversary]] of ''Raiden Fighters'' series.

** Score-pursuing players will restart again and again and ''again'', often to the point of OverlyLongGag, if they mess up in the first stage trying to build up to the "X" medals that are worth 10,000 to 100,000 points.

* ComplacentGamingSyndrome: The series offers over a dozen playable ships...but to most players, the only ship worth caring about is the [[GameBreaker Slave]].

* SoCoolItsAwesome: Oh gasp, it's ''VideoGame/{{Raiden}}'' [[XMeetsY meets]] ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros''!

* TierInducedScrappy: Raiden mk-II and Raiden mk-II Beta. The former is more infuriating by being ''slower than in the ''Raiden'' series.'' The Beta is faster, but has a very crappy Bomb and no rapid-firing capabilities.

*** The developers probably realized how much the Endeavor was [[{{TheScrappy}} reviled in general]] that, in a cameo appearance in ''Raiden Fighters 2'', enemy tanks '''refused to run over a bunch of them''' sitting on an airstrip.

* SoCoolItsAwesome

* ThatOneBoss: ''Jet'' has several. Red Eye, the final boss of the second game, reappears as the final boss of the neutral stage path, and difficult as it was in the second game. Most notorious is the [[BeefGate first boss of Phase 2]], which is a giant tank that moves extremely fast, floods the screen with very slow bullets, and fires off almost undodgeable bullet spam if you destroy its forms at the wrong time.

** ''Raiden V'' from main series to entire ''Raiden Fighters'' series. Both have storyline set and in-game mission briefings, as well as featuring multiple different ships. ''Raiden V'' even took that further by adding [[DesignItYourSelfEquipment customizations to ships]] as well as some other RPGElements. Even better, ''Raiden V'' was released on the same year as the [[MilestoneCelebration 20th anniversary]] of ''Raiden Fighters'' series.

** ''Raiden V'' from main series to entire ''Raiden Fighters'' series. Both have storyline set and in-game mission briefings, as well as featuring multiple different ships. ''Raiden V'' even took that further by adding [[DesignItYourSelfEquipment customizations to ships]] as well as some other RPGElements.

** As forgettable as most of the music is in the series, there are a few fan-favorite songs. Most notable is the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_aMmpG9LPU final stage of the first ''Raiden Fighters'']], unofficially titled "[[EarWorm Invade Your Mind]]". Sadly, its official title is just "Fort(ress) Stage".

* DemonicSpiders: [[FanNickname Sniper Tanks]]. And if you're over the ocean where there's fewer Sniper Tanks, we have [[AquaticMook Sniper Gunboats]] that perform the same role.

* DemonicSpiders: [[FanNickname Sniper Tanks]]

* ScrappyMechanic: Micluses require [[GuideDangIt hovering your ship over nondescript spots or fulfilling requirements that are not hinted at at all]]. You can't ignore them if you're playing for score, as you need to find four to raise the medal value to 100,000 points and thus make Micluses the best sources of points, and each Miclus you fail to uncover (or worse, are unaware of) is 1 million points lost.

* ScrappyMechanic: Micluses require [[GuideDangIt hovering your ship over nondescript spots or fulfilling requirements that are not hinted at at all. You can't ignore them if you're playing for score, as you need to find four to raise the medal value to 100,000 points and thus make Micluses the best sources of points, and each Miclus you fail to uncover (or worse, are unaware of) is 1 million points lost.

* ScrappyMechanic: [[ScoringPoints Goddamned]] [[GuideDangIt Micluses!]]

** Subverted with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0YvV9vtXOo the music]] for Simulation Levels 35 and 50 in ''Jet'', because while the track itself is awesome, the situation it's played in is ''[[NoFinalBossForYou not]]''.

** Subverted with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0YvV9vtXOo the music]] for Simulation Levels 35 and 50 in ''Jet'', because while the track itself is awesome, the situation it's played in is ''not'' (specifically, you're locked into one of the two bad endings).

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0YvV9vtXOo The music]] for Simulation Levels 35 and 50 in ''Jet''. Subverted, because this is the music for the "didn't make it to Real Battle" stages.

** As forgettable as most of the music is in the series, there are a few fan-favorite songs. Most notable is the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_aMmpG9LPU final stage of the first ''Raiden Fighters'']], unofficially titled "[[EarWorm Invade Your Mind]]".

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0YvV9vtXOo The music]] for Simulation Levels 35 and 50 in ''Jet''. Subverted, because this is the music for the "didn't make it to Real Battle" endings.

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: As forgettable as most of the music is in the series, there are a few fan-favorite songs. Most notable is the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_aMmpG9LPU final stage of the first ''Raiden Fighters'']], unofficially titled "[[EarWorm Invade Your Mind]]".

* EvenBetterSequel: ''Raiden Fighters 2''.
** ContestedSequel: ''Raiden Fighters Jet''.