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Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

ese shoot 'em up

Shoot 'em up

Shoot 'em up is a subgenre of shooter video games. In a shoot 'em up, the player controls a lone character, often in a spacecraft or aircraft, shooting large numbers of enemies while dodging their attacks. The genre in turn encompasses various types or subgenres and critics differ on exactly what...

 arcade game

Arcade game

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 developed by Triangle Service

Triangle Service

Triangle Service is a small Japanese developer of shoot 'em up titles.As of February 16, 2007 they have announced a sequel to Trizeal named Exzeal running on the Sega NAOMI arcade board...

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Dreamcast version

It offers a score attack mode, a sound test mode and new stages that weren't in the arcade version.

Although this game is a Japan-only release it is quite "import-friendly" as there is some English displayed during game play.

The game was made by only three staff members and the console conversions were handled by only one person.

Shooting Love. ~TRIZEAL~

Playstation 2 version is a compilation version that includes Trizeal and a demo of Shump skill test (Shooting Ginoukentei). In Trizeal, a fighter can now fire 30 Hz rapid shot and DADADA shot.

i-mode version only includes 2 stages in arcade mode and score attack mode.

Gameplay

Players control and can transform a spaceship into three forms, working through multiple levels and boss sequences. The game can be played in four different screen modes, with one mode mimicking the narrow arcade version. A ship from Triangle Service's previous release, XII Stag

XII Stag

XII Stag , is a shoot 'em up arcade game developed by Triangle Service and published by Taito. It run originally in Taito's G-NET arcade board, and was ported to the PlayStation 2 console....

, is hidden in the game and can be unlocked by holding the "X" button before selecting a stage in Stage Attack mode.

There are 6 levels in the game, they get progressively harder until the last stage which consists of only two bosses. Two unlockable modes become available when the game is completed, they are Omake mode and Lifting mode. Omake mode is a short level which has denser bullet patterns than the normal game, lifting mode is where you have to juggle a stone on your ship to score points.

Marketing

Between the arcade and Dreamcast releases of Trizeal, the developer released a 'SOS statement' claiming the arcade game had suffered poor sales, and if TRIZEAL for Dreamcast did not sell well, the company would not be able to produce the next one. Furthermore, it also claimed it would not be a net-only release because it wanted the game be displayed in shops.

External links

• Triangle Service page (Japanese)
• TS arcade page
• Taito history page
• Sega DC page
• Datam Polystar PS2 official website
• Launch of New Games on i-Game Daisuki!（i-ゲーム大好き！）on 25th September 2006
• Bothtec mobile pages: i-mode
• Yahoo Mobile page
• EzWeb page: Trizeal, Trizeal shooting ginoukentei
• Strategy guide
• Trizeal Ezweb preview
• Trizeal Review for Sega Dreamcast at Bordersdown