Ace Combat 7 - M19 (Lighthouse) - Ace Difficulty - S Rank

I'll get back to Halo 2 Legendary at some point once I find the mood again, but, for now, it's Ace Combat time. I had long ago had the game on PS4, I don't recall in particular if I completed Ace Difficulty there, but I have done so on PC since then. I have been working on obtaining S-ranks across the board on an Ace Difficulty campaign. I accidentally didn't finish up Stonehenge, but we'll get back to that later. I wasn't bothering to save any footage from the remainder of the campaign, but I felt the penultimate and final missions would be worth putting out there just as demonstrations. This run of Lighthouse saw me using the MiG-35. It's a DLC plane, but has similar characteristics to that of the regular MiG-29, so it's still a bit humble compared to some choices I could have made. Since the goal was an S-rank, which is determined by a combination of speed and score (I dislike this system compared to AC4, which at least shows what you are ranking up to DURING the mission rather than having to wait with bated breath at the end of the debriefing), one obviously starts by simply eradicating everything in sight. I don't know how many times I've seen the stage entirely clear 30 entire seconds before the second phase starts, but it felt really satisfying. For the second phase, I realized that I needed to kill a number of drones along with most or all of the targets on the Arsenal Bird itself to make the par score. Defeating the big bird quickly is a simple matter with this loadout, but forgetting to build up score means that the extra time saving is pointless when it exceeds what's necessary for a maximum time bonus (I DON'T LIKE THERE BEING A MAXIMUM TIME BONUS). So, I focused for a bit on at least killing enough drones to exceed the score threshold to supplement the maximum time bonus (thanks, Acepedia), and THEN I went in for the kill.