In my opinion, no way. I have and enjoy both MVS carts, but the stages in AF2 are way, way too short. I understand that it's just how the series is, with short stages and lots of boss battles, but I don't care for it. I enjoy the "bullet hell" atmosphere of Strikers. I also think that the boss battles are harder. Overall I think the game is much harder, but in a way that compels me to keep starting again every time I get game over'ed. AF2 doesn't make me feel that way. I get bored of it pretty quickly and switch back to Strikers. The only thing in my opinion that sucks about strikers is that they took a game that was meant to be played on a rotated monitor and squashed it down into a non-rotated one, but they had no choice. And since I don't have a supergun or a JAMMA cab, this is the only way that I get to play a Strikers game without using emulation, which I hate.