Triggerheart Exelica

Game Info

Triggerheart Exelica is a vertically scrolling Japanese arcade shooter with a little bit of everything: fast-paced action, scalable difficulty, massive hordes of enemy Ver'mith, and cute humanoid weapons who can either shoot down enemy ships or capture them to use as shields or projectiles. Help Exelica and Crueltear save the universe!

Name

Companies

Warashi

Released

5/1/2006

Platforms

Arcade, Dreamcast, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 2, Xbox 360

Type

Shooter, Arcade

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Friday, April 26, 2024 3:00:56 AM

12 Steam users votes up

Chopsteak

Steam user

This was the first shmup I had ever played back when I first found it on the 360. This game opened up the floodgates and lead me to try and enjoy other games of this genre. This game is a whole lot of fun to play even if you are not very good at shmups. I am extremely glad to see that it is no longer stuck on the 360 and recommend everyone who enjoys shmups to give this game a go. If you are like me and not so good at shmups play it anyway, it is that fun.
I hope more players pick up this game and enjoy it, it is a blast.
Edit: After spending more time playing this game I have found myself getting scores and achievements I never would have though possible back when I played this on the Xbox 360. I find it quite addicting to keep pushing further to see just how far I can take my scores on the leaderboards and what feats I can accomplish in the game.
It has been a long time since a game has made me want to push myself to better myself at it as much as I could and left me feeling satisfied by my continual progress.
I may never be number 1 at TriggerHeart EXELICA, but it does a good job at making me feel fulfilled and satisfied at pushing my limits of the game as far as I possibly can.

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Storyline

In an unknown alien galaxy far away from the Milky Way, a war is waging between a group of human-like people called C.H.I.L.D.A. and a mysterious race of violent robotic vehicles known as the Ver’mith. C.H.I.L.D.A. employed their elite squad consisting of humanoid weapons known as Triggerhearts, two of the Triggerheart units, Exelica and her programmed sister Crueltear, were busily fighting the Ver’mith during an attack when a portal known as "Gate" opened and sucked both Triggerhearts in. Materializing on planet Earth, Exelica and Crueltear soon made this planet their new home as they had no means of return, and losing their reasons to fight as they were also uncapable to know the outcome of the Interstellar Wars. Some time later a new portal opened and the surviving Ver'mith forces appeared. Intent on making Earth their primary fortress of attack, the Ver'mith quickly eliminated the majority of Earth’s defenses. As the destruction spreads, the once buried fighting instincts within Exelica and Crueltear re-awoke. The final battle against the Ver'mith has begun, but this time the Ver'mith have their own version of a Triggerheart unit known as Faintear. Outnumbered, but with their fighting instincts awoken, and with a reason to fight once again, the future of planet Earth and the entire galaxy rests on the Triggerheart units.

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