Characters:
Exelica: Spread Shot that shoots everywhere on screen but takes longer to capture enemies and also slow movement.
Crueltear: Linear Shot that only shoots at a straight line, but is quicker to capture enemies, and also fast movement.
Faintear: Laser Shot that shoots continuously at a straight line, quicker to capture enemies and also has faster movement.

Using the Anchor:
There are two types to use...Manual and Auto.

Manual requires the use of holding the shot button, along with moving you character in specific directions, along with adjusting the speed, and inertia to rotate the enemy and also throw them in the specific direction you want. Not holding the shot button while moving will keep the enemy in place. Releasing the anchor button will throw or explode the enemy. (Using manual swing requires the auto swing option to be turned off.)

Auto however, will automatically rotate the enemy for you either clockwise or counter clockwise depending on the direction when you captured the enemy.

Using the anchor is vital to high scores, thrown enemies onto other enemies will yield bigger score items than just normally shooting the enemy. Be aware that some enemies cannot be thrown, such as bosses and ground enemies (as Overload will be displayed upon contact with a certain enemy via the Anchor).

Score Items:
Score items will appear on any action you do, however, you get more by throwing enemies onto other enemies and also defecting bullets with enemy rotation upon capture. Score Items can be grown for more score if the shot button is held down. Just be careful not to let them go off the screen. Release the shot button to automatically get the score items.

Bonus items:
Bonus items, such as Power Ups (P) and Bombs (B) will appear at certain points of them game to which you can pick them up. Power ups will increase your shot levels by 1, to a maximum of 3. Each power up pickup after that will be 10000 points. Bombs however, will increase your bomb stock by 1, to a maximum of 6. Each additional bomb pickup after the max of 6 will be 10000 points. Use them to get out of any unavoidable bullet patterns you might get hit by. You will lose any additional bomb stock if you happen to get hit by an enemy bullet.
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Options: (Note: Changing the Player Stock, Bomb Stock and/or Extend Type to any other options will not let you post your score on the leaderboards.)

Game Setting:
-Player Stock: 1 through 5 (additional lives can still be earned past 5.)
-Bomb Stock: 1 through 5 (Maximum of 6 in-game.)
-Extend Type: Type 1: 50M and 100M / Type 2: 75M and 150M / Type 3: 25M and 50M / Type 4: 25M Every / Type 5: No Extend
-Tutorial: On/Off ("How to play" feature.)
-Auto Swing: On/Off (Off uses Manual Swing.)
-Effects Quality: Standard/Low (Visual effects option, setting it to Low will improve performance.)

Button Config: (Note: "Quick Reference" can be found in the game's store page, which also displays the control inputs as well. Assumes default settings, can be changed in options. However, there are no options to change movement keys for Keyboard. D-Input and X-Input options are available to change as well. During the cutscenes in Enhanced Story, you can press/hold the button used for Bomb to toggle the dialogue text display on or off. Useful for screenshots.)


Display Setting: (Display settings in Enhanced now includes an example image of what settings changed on screen.)
-Screen Type: Horizontal or either Vertical +90 or -90.
-Indicator Type: Consumer (UI is placed over the wallpaper) / Arcade (UI is placed inside the game screen)
-Wallpaper: Anchor (2 types) / Exelica (2 types) / Crueltear (2 types) / Faintear (2 Types) / Imitate (2 Types) / C'r_Na / Two Characters (5 types) / None
-Screen Mode: Window or Fullscreen
-Screen Size: 1280x720 / 1600x900 / 1920x1080 (all options are 16:9 wide.)

Audio Setting:
-SE Volume: From 0 to 100.
-Voice Volume: From 0 to 100.
-BGM Volume: From 0 to 100.
-BGM Select: Arcade (Naomi Arcade and Dreamcast BGM) / Enhanced (Xbox 360 and Playstation 2 BGM)

Ending Requirements:
-True: No continues, and have met the requirements to fight Faintear Imitate in both stages 1 and 3.

-Normal: Continued and/or have not met the requirements to fight Faintear Imitate in both stages 1 and 3.
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Difficulty differences: (Easy / Normal / Hard)

Easy Difficulty:
-Capture timing is half than normal.
-Enemy durability/health is set lower than normal.
-Destructible bullets will be mixed in with normal bullets.

Normal Difficulty:
-The standard difficulty, with enemy bullets firing at normal speed and at dense patterns.

Hard Difficulty:
-Capture times are a little longer than normal.
-Enemy durability/health is a bit higher than normal.
-Enemy bullets will alternate between slow and fast patterns, along with more dense bullet patterns.
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Modes:

Arcade: Based on the Xbox 360 and PS2 versions' arcade mode without a multiplier that increases the more score items you get. Having a screen full of a lot of score items, especially if they grow, will increase your score exponentially. Dialogue appears at certain points of the game.

Enhanced Story: Same as Arcade mode, but with lots more dialogue that happens before and after stages, and during boss battles with use of CG images. This is also expanded with the introduction of new story specific characters added to Enhanced.
-Skiltall (the old man that takes care of both Exelica and Crueltear after their crash landing on Earth against the Ver'mith.)
-Omelette (A cat given to Exelica by Skiltall, and named by her.)
-Watt (A dog that was once Skiltall's, given to Crueltear.)
-C'r_na (onboard AI for the ship Cr'nadyne.)

Training: Play though any of the game's 5 stages with a variety of options.
-Stage (stages other than stage 1 must be unlocked first without continuing for first time play.)
-Difficulty: Easy / Normal / Hard
-Player Stock: From 1 to 5
-Bomb Stock: From 1 to 5
-Extend Type: Types 1 through 4 and No Extend (see Basic Info for Extend Type score thresholds.)
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V.B.A.S. (Variable Boss Attack System) Conditions:

Faintear Imitate will appear in stages 1 and 3 in Arcade if you destroy the main boss' final form if the Score Item counter reaches 3000 or higher. However, in Enhanced Story, the V.B.A.S system is ignored entirely, so you'll always fight all the boss's forms of each stage and all Faintear Imitate's appearances.

Note: If you continued or have not reached the Faintear Imitate requirements in both stages 1 and 3 in Arcade. You will not fight her in Stage 5 and instead fight the final boss Ver'mith Ennda instead. If you have not continued and then fought Faintear Imitate in stages 1 and 3, you will fight her in Stage 5 before the final boss.

Arcade:

Character Specific:

Exelica:

Haaaaa!!: Get the True Ending playing as Exelica in ARCADE MODE.
-Clear the game on any difficulty without continues as Exelica in Arcade. Easy difficulty suggested.

We are Triggerhearts: Get the True Ending playing as Exelica in ENHANCED STORY MODE.
-Clear the game on any difficulty without continues as Exelica in Enhanced Story. Easy difficulty suggested.

This might hurt a bit, though...be patient: Get the Normal Ending playing as Exelica in ARCADE MODE.
-Clear the game on any difficulty with continues as Exelica in Arcade. Easy difficulty suggested.

I'll wait forever for you, Crueltear: Get the Normal Ending playing as Exelica in ENHANCED STORY MODE.
-Clear the game on any difficulty with continues as Exelica in Enhanced Story. Easy difficulty suggested.

Crueltear:

Cr'nburn Full Load!!: Get the True Ending playing as Crueltear in ARCADE MODE.
-Clear the game on any difficulty without continues as Crueltear in Arcade. Easy difficulty suggested.

As long as the Two are together: Get the True Ending playing as Crueltear in ENHANCED STORY MODE.
-Clear the game on any difficulty without continues as Crueltear in Enhanced Story. Easy difficulty suggested.

Crueltear... Bye: Get the Normal Ending playing as Crueltear in ARCADE MODE.
-Clear the game on any difficulty with continues as Crueltear in Arcade. Easy difficulty suggested.

Now it's my turn to wait for Exelica's return: Get the Normal Ending playing as Crueltear in ENHANCED STORY MODE.
-Clear the game on any difficulty with continues as Crueltear in Enhanced Story. Easy difficulty suggested.

Faintear:

Thrusters at full throttle!: Get the True Ending playing as Faintear in ARCADE MODE.
-Clear the game on any difficulty without continues as Faintear in Arcade. Easy difficulty suggested.

Another Triggerheart: Get the True Ending playing as Faintear in ENHANCED STORY MODE.
-Clear the game on any difficulty without continues as Faintear in Enhanced Story. Easy difficulty suggested.

This is the difference of you and me: Get the Normal Ending playing as Faintear in ARCADE MODE.
-Clear the game on any difficulty with continues as Faintear in Arcade. Easy difficulty suggested.

I'm sure we'll make it until then: Get the Normal Ending playing as Faintear in ENHANCED STORY MODE.
-Clear the game on any difficulty with continues as Faintear in Enhanced Story. Easy difficulty suggested.
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Score Specific:

I'm Just Getting Started – ENHANCED Edition: Complete the game with a score of 50 million points.
-You'll get this once you reach 50M points at any point in the game. Game clear not required. (Despite the achievement description says.)

Top-Tier at Last – ENHANCED Edition: Complete the game with a score of 100 million points.
-You'll get this once you reach 100M points at any point in the game. Game clear not required. (Despite the achievement description says.)

The A-Team – ENHANCED Edition: Complete the game with a score of 150 million points.
-You'll get this once you reach 150M points at any point in the game. Game clear not required. (Despite the achievement description says.)

Defier of Ver'mith – ENHANCED Edition: Score a cumulative total of 500 million points.
-You will get this during the course of your playtime, get 500M points between all your playthroughs total.

Sworn Enemy of Ver'mith – ENHANCED Edition: Score a cumulative total of 1.5 billion points.
-You will get this during the course of your playtime, get 1.5B points between all your playthroughs total.

Destroyer of Ver'mith – ENHANCED Edition: Score a cumulative total of 3 billion points.
-You will get this during the course of your playtime, get 3B points between all your playthroughs total.
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Difficulty Specific:

Crash Course Graduate – ENHANCED Edition: Complete ARCADE MODE or ENHANCED STORY MODE on Easy difficulty.
-Simply clear the game on either Arcade or Enhanced Story on Easy, continues OK.

Proof of Valor – ENHANCED Edition: Complete ARCADE MODE or ENHANCED STORY MODE on Normal difficulty.
-Simply clear the game on either Arcade or Enhanced Story on Normal, continues OK.

Triggerheart Pride – ENHANCED Edition: Complete ARCADE MODE or ENHANCED STORY MODE on Hard difficulty.
-Simply clear the game on either Arcade or Enhanced Story on Hard, continues OK.
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Other:

You've done well so far: Defeat Faintear Imitate in Level 1 of ARCADE MODE.
-Have 3000 score items or higher in stage 1 of arcade to make Faintear Imitate appear after defeating the stage 1 boss completely. Defeat her as she has two health bars.

Hmph, whatever! Later, loser!: Defeat Faintear Imitate in Level 3 of ARCADE MODE.
-Have 3000 score items or higher in stage 3 of arcade to make Faintear Imitate appear after defeating the stage 3 boss completely. Defeat her as she has two health bars.

Training Enthusiast – ENHANCED Edition: Use Training Mode for the first time.
-Simply start Training mode with your selected character.

Mission Complete - Exelica/Crueltear/Faintear: Defeat all the bosses and complete the entire game without dying, without changing the difficulty level “Normal” or higher, “PLAYER STOCK”, “BOMB STOCK” or “EXTEND TYPE” playing as Exelica/Crueltear/Faintear in ARCADE MODE.
-This requires not losing a single life throughout the entire run of your playthrough and going against all forms of the bosses including all of Faintear's Imitate's appearances in Arcade. Has to be done for all 3 characters separately. (3 achievements total.)

Can't Touch This – ENHANCED Edition: Complete the entire game without losing a life.
-Can be done in any mode, but Easy difficulty suggested, use bombs if necessary.

Fire Safety – ENHANCED Edition: Complete the entire game without using a bomb.
-Can be done in any mode, but Easy difficulty suggested, do not press the bomb button.

TriggerHeart EXELICA ENHANCED: Unlock all of the achievements.
-Get all 29 achievements to unlock the final one (which makes it 30).