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Triggerheart Exelica

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…

60 1 May 2006

Triggerheart Exelica is an arcade developed by Warashi, released 1 May 2006 on Nintendo Switch, Xbox 360, Dreamcast and PlayStation 2.

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What Triggerheart Exelica is

Triggerheart Exelica is an arcade game developed by Warashi and released in 2006. It was published by Alchemist. It is available on Nintendo Switch, Xbox 360, Dreamcast, PlayStation 2 and Arcade.

The premise, in the publisher's words

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…
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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Triggerheart Exelica holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 17% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2006 averaged 65, so it scored 5 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Triggerheart Exelica launched on 1 May 2006, within three weeks of New Super Mario Bros., Ōkami, Heroes of Might and Magic V and Winning Eleven: Pro Evolution Soccer 2007. All of them reviewed better. It was a Nintendo Switch launch-window title.

Released around the same time: New Super Mario Bros., Ōkami, Heroes of Might and Magic V, Winning Eleven: Pro Evolution Soccer 2007.

Official trailer

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Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.

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Quick answers

Triggerheart Exelica — frequently asked questions

When did Triggerheart Exelica come out?
Triggerheart Exelica was released on 1 May 2006 for Nintendo Switch, Xbox 360, Dreamcast, PlayStation 2 and Arcade.

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