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* BigCreepyCrawlies: Chapter 6 has players shooting down a swarm of bug mechs created by Faun who pilots a spider tank as he raids a transport shuttle.



* ChargedAttack: The Charge Bomb line of special weapons is the hold type, which requires charging energy in order to charge the bomb in less time, but fires a devastating explosive shot in front the player's ship that can erase some bullets.

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* ChargedAttack: ChargedAttack:
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The Charge Bomb line class of special weapons is the hold type, which requires charging energy in order to charge the bomb in less time, but fires a devastating explosive shot in front the player's ship that can erase some bullets.bullets.
** The later Shield class special weapons are the collect, which absorbs enemy fire and releases powerful shots upon releasing the shield.



* DeflectorShield: The Shield class special weapons creates a barrier in front of the Enforcer that can absorb some enemy fire, and in later variants, [[AttackReflector convert their shots into a counter-attack]]. The Shell version lacks any offensive capabilities, but completely covers the player's entire ship instead.



* SpaceElevator: The setting for Chapter 7 as Alex and Margarette begin their pursuit of Viridian through a space elevator after discovering his true intentions with septonium.



* SpiderTank: Fuan pilots one in Chapter 6 to sabotage a transport shuttle, along with smaller variants.

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* SpiderTank: Fuan pilots one in Chapter 6 to sabotage a transport shuttle, along with smaller autonomous variants.

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* AnimeThemeSong: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRxSrixEcmU "Ginga Force"]]. It has an updated version for the 2020 [=PlayStation=] 4 and Steam.
* AntiFrustrationFeatures: If you lose your last life with a OneUp on the screen, the 1-up becomes your next life.
%%* BattleshipRaid: Chapter 4, 6, and the penultimate chapter involve this.
%%* BenevolentAI: Special.

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* AllThereInTheManual: Expanded background information surrounding the game's setting, characters, ships, mechs, and more can be found in the Gallery.
* AnimeThemeSong: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRxSrixEcmU "Ginga Force"]]. It has an updated version two different singers performing the song between its releases; mikab for the original Xbox 360 version, Narumi Takiguchi for the 2020 [=PlayStation=] 4 and Steam.
Steam versions, but the original version is also preserved in the latter.
* AntiFrustrationFeatures: If you lose your last life with a OneUp on the screen, the 1-up 1-Up becomes your next life.
%%* * AttackDrone: The Option Bits class of sub-weapons provides the Enforcer with two or four option bits by its sides that shoots rapid-firing energy shots that sway with the ship's movement.
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BattleshipRaid: Chapter 4, 6, 4 and the penultimate chapter 9 involve this.
the player performing a raid with a single space fighter against a huge battleship and later a gigantic warship that fills the screen. Chapter 6 is an inversion, in that you're trying to prevent a transport shuttle from being raided by Faun and his robots.
%%* BenevolentAI: Special.Specia.



* BulletTime: The Slow class of special weapons can grant the player the ability to slow time down to either a half or a quarter of the game speed by spending their special weapon energy, but some of them can distort the screen as time is being slowed down.
** TimeStandsStill: The later Stop version of the Slow weapon completely freezes time for as long as the player as special weapon energy for it.



* BrutalBonusLevel: The Combat Training levels pits players in training simulators where they must clear a series of mini-stages within a time limit while using one of three pre-made ships. Upon completion or failure will allow players to take home any extra credits collected during their run, and unlock the one of the Tracking Beam weapons upon clearing the level for the first time.



* ChargedAttack: The Charge Bomb line of special weapons is the hold type, which requires charging energy in order to charge the bomb in less time, but fires a devastating explosive shot in front the player's ship that can erase some bullets.
* CriticalExistenceFailure: Ships and mechs appear fine when they have HP, but they explode into heaps of debris and broken pieces upon destruction. Even the player's Enforcer will blow up into pieces before respawning if the player has any remaining lives.



* DifficultyLevels: The game features the standard Easy, Normal, and Hard difficulty levels across each Chapter, but the Hard mode must be unlocked first through clearning Normal ([[HarderThanHard and for good reason]]).



* EnemyScan: The Durability Display part reveals the amount of HP the enemies, bosses, and destructible objects have.



%%* EvilCounterpart: Di-Special to Special.

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%%* EvilCounterpart: Di-Special Di-Specia to Special.Specia.



* FinalBossPreview: Tini's fighter very much resembles Viridian's fighter, featuring the similar design and same attack patterns. However, Viridian's attacks are taken up to eleven and is much harder to fight.
%%* GenkiGirl: Tini.

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* FinalBossPreview: Tini's fighter very much resembles Viridian's fighter, whose fighter featuring the similar design and same attack patterns. However, Viridian's attacks are taken up to eleven and is much harder to fight.
%%* * GatlingGood: The Beam Machine-Gun class of main weapons are a of energy Gatling guns that are fitted on the Enforcer's underside.
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GenkiGirl: Tini.Tini has a very energetic and playful personality who's also very confident in her hacking skills.
* GreenRocks: Septonium comes from a raw mineral that provides vast amounts of energy that led to the terraformation of Seventia. [[spoiler:It was later discovered however by Specia that the Septonium has harmful effects to the human body, which Viridian plans to use to it to wipe out mankind.]]
* GodMode: If the player clocks in 30 hours of playtime in their Story Mode save file, they unlock the God/Mode item, which makes the player's ship invincible when equipped, but [[EasyModeMockery prevents achievements from being obtainable]].
* HomingProjectile: The player can unlock certain weapons that have homing capabilities such as the Tracking Beam and Homing Missile class of weapons. Some enemies and bosses can also have attacks that home-in on the player.



* InterfaceScrew: Most of the Slow and the Stop special weapons causes a temporal distortion effect on the screen of varying degrees as the player slows/freezes time.



%%* MissionControl: Nina.

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%%* * MissionControl: Nina.Nina serves as mission control for Alex and Margarette during their missions.



--> '''Margaret''': With Viridian's plot put to an end, the people of Seventh Tier were saved. His plans would later become evident to the people, Specia returned to her monitoring duties, and peace was restored to Seventh Tier. Seventh Tier had been developed for express purpose of harnessing septonium energy, and the planet could now only wait to see what the future held. Captain Brown and Nina were released safely, and in all of the confusion, Seram and Fuan were apparently able to make it back to their homesteads as well. Tini's genius in handling the situation was recognized, and she began her new life as an engineer. ...Though she would tightly monitored by Specia. And though Alex and I continue to keep working together, that's a story for another day. Anyway, until we meet again...

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--> '''Margaret''': -->'''Margaret''': With Viridian's plot put to an end, the people of Seventh Tier were saved. His plans would later become evident to the people, Specia returned to her monitoring duties, and peace was restored to Seventh Tier. Seventh Tier had been developed for express purpose of harnessing septonium energy, and the planet could now only wait to see what the future held. Captain Brown and Nina were released safely, and in all of the confusion, Seram and Fuan were apparently able to make it back to their homesteads as well. Tini's genius in handling the situation was recognized, and she began her new life as an engineer. ...Though she would tightly monitored by Specia. And though Alex and I continue to keep working together, that's a story for another day. Anyway, until we meet again...



--> '''Alex''': With Viridian's plot put to an end, the people of Seventh Tier were saved. His plans would later become evident to the people, Specia returned to her monitoring duties, and peace was restored to Seventh Tier. Seventh Tier had been developed for the express purpose of harnessing septonium energy, and the planet could now only wait to see what the future held. Nina and Captain Brown were released safely, and, once more, in all of the confusion, Seram and Fuam were apparently able to make it out as well. Resourceful, those two! Tini's genius in handling the situation was recognized, and she decided to become an engineer. ...Though she would be strictly monitored by Specia. And though Margaret and I are still working together, that's a story for another day. Well, see ya later!

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--> '''Alex''': -->'''Alex''': With Viridian's plot put to an end, the people of Seventh Tier were saved. His plans would later become evident to the people, Specia returned to her monitoring duties, and peace was restored to Seventh Tier. Seventh Tier had been developed for the express purpose of harnessing septonium energy, and the planet could now only wait to see what the future held. Nina and Captain Brown were released safely, and, once more, in all of the confusion, Seram and Fuam were apparently able to make it out as well. Resourceful, those two! Tini's genius in handling the situation was recognized, and she decided to become an engineer. ...Though she would be strictly monitored by Specia. And though Margaret and I are still working together, that's a story for another day. Well, see ya later!



--> '''Nina''': With Viridian's plot put to an end, the people of Seventh Tier were saved. His plans would later become evident to the people, Specia returned to her monitoring duties, and peace was restored to Seventh Tier. Seventh Tier had been developed for the express purpose of harnessing septonium energy, and the planet could now only wait to see what the future held. Captain Brown and myself were released without incident. Alex and Margaret do not speak much of the events which recently transpired, but the two of them are no doubt heroes of all of Seventh Tier. Though I plan on continuing down this path, that's a story for another day. Well then, until the day we meet again!

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--> '''Nina''': -->'''Nina''': With Viridian's plot put to an end, the people of Seventh Tier were saved. His plans would later become evident to the people, Specia returned to her monitoring duties, and peace was restored to Seventh Tier. Seventh Tier had been developed for the express purpose of harnessing septonium energy, and the planet could now only wait to see what the future held. Captain Brown and myself were released without incident. Alex and Margaret do not speak much of the events which recently transpired, but the two of them are no doubt heroes of all of Seventh Tier. Though I plan on continuing down this path, that's a story for another day. Well then, until the day we meet again!



** If the player has a save file for ''VideoGame/{{Eschatos}}'', they can unlock the main and wide shots from ''Eschatos'' to use for their Enforcer, which also modifies its appearance to look like the Arcam, the player ship from ''Eschatos''.
** Some of the music calls back to other Qute Corp. games - the boss track "Bust A Move" features segments with similar composition and synths to "Point of No Return" from ''Eschatos''.

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** If the player has a save file for ''VideoGame/{{Eschatos}}'', they can unlock the main and wide shots plus its color palette from ''Eschatos'' to use for their Enforcer, which also modifies its appearance to look like the Arcam, the player ship from ''Eschatos''.
** Some of the music calls back to other Qute Corp. games - -- the boss track "Bust A Move" features segments with similar composition and synths to "Point of No Return" from ''Eschatos''.



* OldSaveBonus: The main and sub-shot weapons from ''VideoGame/{{Eschatos}}'' can be bought and used if a save file of Eschatos is detected. The combo of the two weapons even makes the [[https://ginga-force.fandom.com/wiki/FV-G27_Enforcer?file=FV-G27_Enforcer.png FV-G27 Enforcer]] look like the [[https://blog.goo.ne.jp/erugih/e/c2e958d434b30b89344efba3b2872d96 FV-30MZ Arkham]].
%%* PlayfulHacker: Tini.
* ProductionThrowback: The 1-up becoming your next life if you lose your last life with it on the screen is in reference to its second-degree spiritual predecessor ''VideoGame/JudgementSilversword'', which has the exact same feature.

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* OldSaveBonus: The main and sub-shot weapons from ''VideoGame/{{Eschatos}}'' as well as its color palette can be bought and used if a save file of Eschatos is detected. The combo of the two weapons and color scheme even makes the [[https://ginga-force.fandom.com/wiki/FV-G27_Enforcer?file=FV-G27_Enforcer.png FV-G27 Enforcer]] look like the [[https://blog.goo.ne.jp/erugih/e/c2e958d434b30b89344efba3b2872d96 FV-30MZ Arkham]].
%%* * PaletteSwap: Players can purchase alternate color palettes for the Enforcer as they progress through the game.
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PlayfulHacker: Tini.
Tini, who uses her hacking abilities to hack the data center [[spoiler:in order to make a copy of Specia]], she playfully turns the security systems against Alex and Margarette with a virus she created in case she got caught, which leaves own her little calling card in the form of a smiling rabbit.
* ProductionThrowback: The 1-up 1-Up becoming your next life if you lose your last life with it on the screen is in reference to its second-degree spiritual predecessor ''VideoGame/JudgementSilversword'', which has the exact same feature.



* ScreamingWarrior: Alex and Viridian in the final battle.

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* ScreamingWarrior: Alex and Viridian in throughout the final battle.



* TimedMission: Your stage objectives have a time limit, but if you fail to complete the objective in time, you will get penalized for your run's overall score.

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* ThemeNaming:
** The Tracking Beam class of sub-weapons are named after Scorpio and Gemini from the Western astrology.
** The engines used by the Enforcer are named after legendary animals or deities from Eastern and Western mythologies
* TigerVersusDragon: The Combat Training X and Y levels are named Judgment Force Tiger and Judgment Force Dragon, respectively, and their respective achievements for completing them are represented with a tiger and a blue dragon.
* TimedMission: Your stage objectives have a time limit, but if you fail to complete the objective in time, you will either get penalized for your run's overall score.score or face a Game Over.



--> '''Viridian''': It's your fault... ''IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT!'' '''YOU'VE DESTROYED MY PLANS!!!''' I'll send all of you... '''ALL of you straight to hell!'''

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--> '''Viridian''': It's "It's your fault... ''IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT!'' '''YOU'VE DESTROYED MY PLANS!!!''' I'll send all of you... '''ALL of you straight to hell!'''hell!'''"



* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Margaret seems to have a fear of spiders, as the small mechs that have hijacked the shuttle in Chapter 6 are in the form of spiders.

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* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Margaret seems to have a fear of spiders, as the small mechs that have hijacked the shuttle in Chapter 6 are in the form of spiders.spiders.
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