WorthPlaying writes: "In this game developed by WorkJam, players will take on the roles of two different characters trying to understand out their past, present, and intertwined destiny. Will you be able to discover the true meaning of theresia?
"Players will lose themselves in theresia's haunting music and twisted atmosphere," says Michael Manzanares, Project Lead, Aksys Games. "If you're looking for an emotional scare in an adventure this fall, theresia should fill your need nicely."
Diehard GameFAN: Welcome back to the fourth installment of “What’s Worth Keeping?” where we help me pare my game collection down to twenty games per system. After all, I own pretty much every system, handheld or console out there and there’s no chance of me ever playing all of these games again, so it make sense to keep only the ones I know I’ll come back to regularly, giving other gamers a chance to own (and hopefully play) the titles I jettison. So far we’ve looked at the Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox and Sony Playstation. This time we’re going to look at a handheld – specifically the Nintendo DS.
Man, If I had to review all the shovelware and crap this guy has had to for the DS, I'd have trouble trying to think of good games for the system too.
European gamers are about to get a burst of Arc System Works games in 2010. New PAL publisher pQube will release Castle of Shikigami III, Jake Hunter, and Theresia in Europe.
Before the pQube and Zen Media partnership, 505 Games used to handle Arc System Works stuff like Guilty Gear Accent Core and the occasional JRPG. In addition to working with Arc System Works, pQube has a deal with Ertain. That Japanese publisher used to make the Gladiator games, but now focus on the "relaxing genre" with stuff like Paint Classic Masterpieces.
IGN writes: "Theresia offers a mature, high-concept Nintendo DS experience that, while frustrating at times, might provide adventure gamers with the fix they need. Two games in one, it sends players down a pair of twisted tales following different characters. While the stories are intriguing and puzzles well-designed, parts of the game are just clunky and stuck in ancient trappings.
Both accounts begin with your protagonist awakening in unfamiliar surroundings with no memory of who they are. They must explore a mysterious facility and piece together clues to determine what has occurred. This is much more grown-up stuff than you normally find in a DS game. Set in a world of agony and misery, the stories deal with themes of genocide and atonement. While the tone is welcome, Theresia could maybe use just a tad lightening up. The humorless atmosphere might have been interspersed with the occasional comic relief. I did find myself wanting to push on and discover the meaning to all this madness, though."
