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Theta (video game)
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is a video game software developed by Giles Goddard's development studio VITEI and published by Nintendo
for the Nintendo DS
. It was released exclusively in Japan on September 6, 2007.
-shaped wheels in order to move the colored spheres into the wheel(s) of the same color. In higher levels, there are wheels on the Top Screen that would spin at the same time as the wheels on the Touch Screen, causing accidents to occur. For such, there is a button right next to the wheels on the bottom screen that undos to help solve the puzzles. When every level is complete, the colored spheres are moved to the final level that is based on the other puzzle mode. Some other Kaiten Puzzle levels contain other things besides wheels, like pipes.
, complete with coral
s, castle
s and various species of fish
. The object of this mode is to push or drag the colored spheres into certain circles called vortexes according to the images on the Top Screen. Once their inside a vortex, they will slowly spin and charge up for disappearance; however, if any sphere outside of the vortexes that are unnecessary for them (especially the unmatchable, heavier black spheres that are very attractive to vortexes) come in contact with the ones inside the vortexes, they will interrupt the disappearing process, causing the player to start over either by putting the spheres back in the vortexes they left out of, or by waiting for another vortex to occur in case if the older ones disappeared. When some spheres are successfully sucked into a vortex, the aquarium on the Top Screen will slightly clear up. When it completely clears up, the level is finished and the next group of puzzles are unlocked.
Nintendo
is a multinational corporation located in Kyoto, Japan. Founded on September 23, 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi, it produced handmade hanafuda cards. By 1963, the company had tried several small niche businesses, such as a cab company and a love hotel....
for the Nintendo DS
Nintendo DS
The is a portable game console produced by Nintendo, first released on November 21, 2004. A distinctive feature of the system is the presence of two separate LCD screens, the lower of which is a touchscreen, encompassed within a clamshell design, similar to the Game Boy Advance SP...
. It was released exclusively in Japan on September 6, 2007.
Gameplay
theta includes two puzzle modes and a "My Aquarium & Fish Album". There are some unlockable fish and the music for the Aquarium Puzzle mode can be changed using the L and R buttons.Kaiten Puzzle
In this mode, the player must cautiously spin the thetaTheta
Theta is the eighth letter of the Greek alphabet, derived from the Phoenician letter Teth...
-shaped wheels in order to move the colored spheres into the wheel(s) of the same color. In higher levels, there are wheels on the Top Screen that would spin at the same time as the wheels on the Touch Screen, causing accidents to occur. For such, there is a button right next to the wheels on the bottom screen that undos to help solve the puzzles. When every level is complete, the colored spheres are moved to the final level that is based on the other puzzle mode. Some other Kaiten Puzzle levels contain other things besides wheels, like pipes.
Aquarium Puzzle
In the Aquarium Puzzle mode, the Top Screen shows a 3D-rendered aquariumAquarium
An aquarium is a vivarium consisting of at least one transparent side in which water-dwelling plants or animals are kept. Fishkeepers use aquaria to keep fish, invertebrates, amphibians, marine mammals, turtles, and aquatic plants...
, complete with coral
Coral
Corals are marine animals in class Anthozoa of phylum Cnidaria typically living in compact colonies of many identical individual "polyps". The group includes the important reef builders that inhabit tropical oceans and secrete calcium carbonate to form a hard skeleton.A coral "head" is a colony of...
s, castle
Castle
A castle is a type of fortified structure built in Europe and the Middle East during the Middle Ages by European nobility. Scholars debate the scope of the word castle, but usually consider it to be the private fortified residence of a lord or noble...
s and various species of fish
Fish
Fish are a paraphyletic group of organisms that consist of all gill-bearing aquatic vertebrate animals that lack limbs with digits. Included in this definition are the living hagfish, lampreys, and cartilaginous and bony fish, as well as various extinct related groups...
. The object of this mode is to push or drag the colored spheres into certain circles called vortexes according to the images on the Top Screen. Once their inside a vortex, they will slowly spin and charge up for disappearance; however, if any sphere outside of the vortexes that are unnecessary for them (especially the unmatchable, heavier black spheres that are very attractive to vortexes) come in contact with the ones inside the vortexes, they will interrupt the disappearing process, causing the player to start over either by putting the spheres back in the vortexes they left out of, or by waiting for another vortex to occur in case if the older ones disappeared. When some spheres are successfully sucked into a vortex, the aquarium on the Top Screen will slightly clear up. When it completely clears up, the level is finished and the next group of puzzles are unlocked.
External links
- Official Nintendo website (Japanese)
- 1UP webpage