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.

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.)

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.)


Display Setting:
-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: Default (2 types) / Exelica (8 types) / Crueltear (8 types) / Faintear (8 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) / Arrange (Xbox 360 and Playstation 2 BGM) (Arrange Mode has its own BGM and cannot be changed. Though it only affects Stage BGM, other BGM, such as the boss themes, for example, will affect your chosen BGM selection.)

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 Naomi Arcade and Dreamcast versions' arcade mode with a multiplier that increases the more score items you get, but decreases when an enemy gets thrown or explode. Dialogue appears at certain points of the game.

Story: Same as Arcade mode, but with more dialogue that happens every now and then at certain intervals.

Arrange: A mode with no continues where enemies (bosses included) are overly aggressive but score items are obscenely high.

Arrange Mode differences:
-The differences in stats of the Triggerhearts (movement speed, captures, shooting, etc.)
-Arrange Mode has its own BGM. (For stage BGM only, other BGM uses your selected BGM selection.)
-Enemies (and Bosses) fire 3 times more bullets and have different attack patterns.
-Score Items grows faster (1.5x)
-Automatic collection speed of Score Items are faster.
-No Score Multiplier display. But the total number of items will be displayed instead.
-The Score Items increase by 5x when obtained. (Max count is 99999.)
-Enemies base points adjusted.
-Conditions on the V.B.A.S. system has increased by 10x.

Training: Play though any of the game's 5 stages with a variety of options.
-Game Mode: Arcade/Arrange
-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 will appear in stages 1 and 3 in Arcade and Arrange if you destroy the main boss' final form if the Score Item counter reaches 3000 or higher. However, in Story mode, she will always appear in stages 1 and 3, ignoring the V.B.A.S. condition (you can even reach her after defeating the first form of the boss if the Score Item counter didn't reach a specific amount.) She will always appear in stage 5 before you face the final boss.

Arcade/Story:

Arrange:

Character Specific:

Exelica:

We Walk This Path Together - Exelica: 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.

Happy as Long as We're Together: Get the True Ending playing as Exelica in Story Mode.
-Clear the game on any difficulty without continues as Exelica in Story. Easy difficulty suggested.

Tears of Hope - Exelica: 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.

My Sister Is Stronger than Anyone: Get the Normal Ending playing as Exelica in Story Mode.
-Clear the game on any difficulty with continues as Exelica in Story. Easy difficulty suggested.

Crueltear:

We Walk This Path Together - Crueltear: 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.

United We Stand, United We Search: Get the True Ending playing as Crueltear in Story Mode.
-Clear the game on any difficulty without continues as Crueltear in Story. Easy difficulty suggested.

Tears of Hope - Crueltear: 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.

After All, She's My Little Sister: Get the Normal Ending playing as Crueltear in Story Mode.
-Clear the game on any difficulty with continues as Crueltear in Story. Easy difficulty suggested.
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Score Specific:

I'm Just Getting Started: 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: 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: Complete the game with a score of 150 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.)

Defier of Ver'mith: 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: 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: 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: Complete Arcade Mode or Story Mode on Easy difficulty.
-Simply clear the game on either Arcade or Story on Easy, continues OK.

Proof of Valor: Complete Arcade Mode or Story Mode on Normal difficulty.
-Simply clear the game on either Arcade or Story on Normal, continues OK.

Triggerheart Pride: Complete Arcade Mode or Story Mode on Hard difficulty.
-Simply clear the game on either Arcade or Story on Hard, continues OK.
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Other:

Not Too Shabby: Defeat Faintear in Level 1 of Arcade Mode.
-Reach a certain score item count in stage 1 of arcade to make Faintear appear after defeating the stage 1 boss. Defeat her as she has two health bars.

Looking Forward to Our Next Encounter: Defeat Faintear in Level 3 of Arcade Mode.
-Reach a certain score item count in stage 3 of arcade to make Faintear appear after defeating the stage 3 boss. Defeat her as she has two health bars.

'Til We Meet Again: Defeat Faintear in Level 1 of Arrange Mode.
-Reach a certain score item count in stage 1 of Arrange to make Faintear appear after defeating the stage 1 boss. Defeat her as she has two health bars.

Just How I Like It!: Defeat Faintear in Level 3 of Arrange Mode.
-Reach a certain score item count in stage 3 of Arrange to make Faintear appear after defeating the stage 3 boss. Defeat her as she has two health bars.

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

Mission Complete: Defeat all the bosses and complete the entire game without dying at Normal difficulty or higher in Arcade Mode or Story Mode and without making changes to PLAYER STOCK, BOMB STOCK, or EXTEND TYPE.
-This requires not losing a single life throughout the entire run of your playthrough and going against all forms of the bosses including Faintear's appearances.

Ace among Aces: Defeat all the bosses and complete the entire game without dying in Arrange Mode.
-This requires not losing a single life throughout the entire run of your playthrough and going against all forms of the bosses including Faintear's appearances. Very difficult, considering how arrange mode is.

That's My Little Sister: Complete the game in Arrange Mode.
-Simply clear Arrange mode, be aware that arrange mode is very difficult and has no continues.

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

Fire Safety: 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: Unlock all of the achievements.
-Get all 27 achievements to unlock the final one (which makes it 28).