Last week Alchemist’s PS2 port of Triggerheart Exelica came out in Japan. An animated opening by P.A. Works who previously worked on True Tears was one of the new features. There aren’t any signs of the PS2 version coming out overseas, but you can still see the opening video thanks to a YouTube uploader.
 

 
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Alchemist is unraveling the “enhanced” portion of Triggerheart Exelica Enhanced. Faintear, the main enemy, will be a playable character in the PlayStation 2 release with a new story mode. Kalna is a new character too, but she’s just a visible C'rna_dyne support ship. Something is better than nothing, but it’s hard to justify the 8,190 [...]

Brandon over at Insert Credit discovered Triggerheart Exelica will get a PlayStation 2 port under the name Triggerheart Exelica Enhanced. Details haven’t been announced what’s “enhanced” in Alchemist’s version, but it better be something substantial. Triggerheart Exelica on the Xbox 360 costs 800 Microsoft Points which equates to about 1,184 yen ($11) in Japan. [...]

Before developing Triggerheart Excelica Warashi released another shoot ‘em up called Shienryu (Steel Dragon). The arcade game was eventually ported as part of Hamster’s Arcade Hits collection on to the PsOne. Today, it’s available as an emulated game for the PS3/PSP. Arcade Hits: Shienryu is one of the five new games on Japan’s PlayStation Store [...]

Planning to play Triggerheart Exelica on a standard definition TV? Get your magnifying glass. The brief sequences where Exelica talks through textboxes suffer the same problem as Dead Rising. Fortunately, the “story” in Triggerheart Exelica doesn’t detract from the focus of the game, which is swinging anchored enemy ships into a storm of bullets. On [...]

Warashi has a huge banner to celebrate the release of Trigger Heart Exelica on Xbox Live Arcade. It’s definitely coming out this Wednesday in Japan and chances are very good it will be released around the world on the same day. I can’t say it’s 100% yet because the announcement doesn’t specify regions. To [...]

I’m going to file this in the awesome folder because Trigger Heart Exelica has been bumped up from sometime in the future to sometime in 2007. Warashi is adding a few extra features to the Xbox 360 version notably upgrade graphics and a tate mode if you’re the kind of hardcore shmup gamer that has [...]