>>2764645trash inasmuch as these games rarely have intricate scoring systems - or rather, they depend a lot on farming and milking points (e.g. milking enemies out of doors in Elevator Action 2). Newcomers should not play Taito games solely for score because they are essentially secondary to the game itself. If you want to I mean hey, more power to you.
1CC is a different story - with or without autofire Darius Gaiden is an excellent game.
>>2764586raycrisis is my underdog of the series - it has its problems but it is a lot more interesting to play for me. I hope R-Gear is dumped sometime in the near future so I can see how RayStorm stacks up with its cancelled 2D proto.