Ez egy hardcore platformer. Szerencsére a jobbak közül. Nagyon belekell tanulni hogy ha végig akarja valaki játszani. Nem Super Meat Boy beli nehézségre gondolok itt, hanem arra hogy sokszor a haját tépi az ember amikkor már 10-20 perce ugyan azon a pályarészen dekkol mert valami miatt nem tud tovább jutni. Ennek általában rage quit szokott az eredménye lenni. Ettől eltekintve viszont kellemes szorakozás, nagyon jó zenéje van a játéknak, és a kinézete is nagyon pofás, a grafikusok kitettek magukért rendesen.

Játékmenet terén sincs probléma, viszont ez az a játék amihez kötelező a kontroller, lehet annélkül is játszani csak elég esélytelen :D Kontrollerel jó az irányitás, könnyen rááll az ember keze. És a játék elégé ♥♥♥ozatosan hozza be az ujabbnál ujabb elemeket, így folyamatosan meglehet tanulni mi hogy is müködik.

A sztorival nagyon nem is kell foglalkozni, az első 5 percben kiderül hogy mi is az, testvérünket lenyeli a sárkány és nekünk az a dolgunk hogy megmentsük. Ennyi. Azt hiszem nem löttem le vele semmit sem. Ettől eltekintve egy nagyon jó játék, igaz nem a sztorira hanem a játék elemekre koncentrál és a játékmenetre.

Nehézségi szintek között is tudunk válogatni, van easy, normal (néha hardnak felel meg), hardcore és über hardcore. Útobbi kettőt fel kell oldani viszont szerintem nagyon kevés lesz az a mazochista ember aki über hardcore-t is ki akarja tólni, mivel ott összesen csak 1 darab életünk van, az elejétől a végéig. Ezen kivül kaptunk még Time Attack módot is, illetve egy Dream Rush modot ami a multi. Kártyákat és achikat szintén kapunk.

Tőlem kap egy 8/10-et, mivel egy nagyon jó platformer, viszont néha elfelejt játék lenni és szarrá szopat bizonyos pályarészekkel. Így csak azoknak tudom ajánlani akik tényleg szeretik a platformereket és jók is benne.

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+ many details
+ optical changes in the worlds
+ cute little animations
+ loving backgrounds
- set pieces repeat

+ captures charm of the original
+ cute opponents
+ both worlds absolutely correct

+ great soundtrack
+ seamless music change
+ sweet feedback sisters
- sparse effects

+ fair checkpoints
+ refreshingly challenging
+ gentle introduction
- but suddenly rock hard
- occasional frustration moments

+ varied and complex
+ many secret rooms
+ alternative routes
- explore rather an end in itself

+ worlds complement each other clever
+ never unfair
+ require brains
- occasionally is no reference

+ elevators, boxes, carts, etc.
+ giana both with individual ability
- no new skills or weapons

+ atmospheric dream worlds
+ different settings in the levels
- no real story
- sisters remain pale

+ solo playtime around 10 hours
+ two hardcore modes
+ additional challenge modes


In principle we make in the three worlds and a total of 23 levels not much: We are looking only for the exit and go collect as many colorful crystals as possible. The road is in a sense the goal, and that goal is really crowded with lifts, secret rooms, cuddly opponents stones dissolve when we step on it, underwater passages, alternative routes ... in short, with just about everything classic side scroller in the 80s had to offer and 90s so.

And with a trick: By pressing a button we can namely always switch back and forth between blonde Giana and her punky counterpart. The punk variant has a purple mane, but that's not the trick. The trick is that also changes the game world when of said button. And immediately.

While Blondie bounces through a dark nightmare, Purple is a candy-colored mood country road. The smooth change is so wonderfully staged voices that we find ourselves in completely reasonable liberated switch again and again - but we want to see just what exactly now changed again. Because change is happening a lot: The withered plant is the beautiful flower, the grim Cuddly devil to fluffy cuddly owl that just yet so nasty piranhas googly-turtles.

These changes are not just visual gimmick, but playful centrally. A platform is one world out - and not in the other. A lift serves one world to the top - down and in the other. A thorn scrub impales us in a world unceremoniously on - and disappears in the other. In addition, each sister has her own individual ability. Blondie can spin around when jumping and so hover for a short time while Lila mimics the cannon ball and shoots from wall to wall.

As long as we sing along music, depends primarily on how much fun we have in mind to be particularly thorough. Let's Play Twisted Dreams by simply before pleasure after a few hours already over; Finally, we have infinite lives in normal mode and the check points are emphasizes set plentiful. As the game knows accordingly no extra lives (and no powerups), the detection of secret rooms is rather an end in itself and merely serves also to snatch the levels of the last crystals.

Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams combines satisfying gameplay with dazzling environments to create a worthy platformer.

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Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams is a very well done remake, with some modern gameplay dynamics that will appeal the player. It's frenetic, it's hard, it's indie and it's a good platform game!

when i've got this game from gmg for free it makes me think twice to start. it was free and usually these days free games are ♥♥♥♥. I don't need to tell how this game changed my mind or else because there is just a simple reason : this game is great and it reminded me Trine!

Giana Sisters is a platform game which includes a lot of collectible gems and 3 bosses. Game's peaceful world is very relaxing and it makes you to keep playing level to level. There are 2 sisters first one is in the good world and the second is in the demonic world. You need to use both sisters to pass puzzled levels and the ost is changing successfully sister to sister. Level designs are very good. The game wants you to explore some hidden paths and it rewards you with a hidden gem. Boss fights are not easy and i hate boss fights in all games. Shortly if you are a platform game fan like me i recommend this game.

+Good graphics and optimization
+Soundtracks are good
+Good level designs
+Controls are cool

-unnecessarily hard boss fights

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Персональный рейтинг - 7 из 10

Есть две новости: хорошая и плохая. С какой начать? Логичнее начать сначала с плохой, хорошая потом сгладит. Так вот, во время моего первого знакомства с Giana Sisters она мне жутко не понравилась! Скучная, однообразная, где-то чересчур сложная, без внятного сюжета и повествования. Хорошая новость: это было полтора года назад, и не так давно я решил освежить воспоминания, дабы потом как следует отругать игру, попутно поупражнявшись в злословии! Но то ли с игрой, то ли со мной произошла метаморфоза, и мои теперешние впечатления несколько отличаются от тогдашних.

Самое удивительное, что игра действительно местами невероятно сложная, порой однообразная, а иногда даже навевает скуку. Возможно, дело в том, что любой платформер, являясь по сути достаточно стремительным по темпу игры жанром, не терпит излишней спешки. Я опросил 100 случайных платформеров, которых встретил на улице и 90 из них ответили мне: "Не стоит никогда никуда спешить без необходимости, если не хочешь, чтобы игра наскучила раньше срока". Согласитесь, в этом есть разумное зерно.

Да, игра порой безумно сложна, потому не рассчитывайте одолеть ее с наскока, ничего не выйдет. Уровни похожи друг на друга поскольку выстроены, словно однотипный паззл, из одних и тех же кусочков. Да и навигация по этапам сильно затруднена, разработчики зачем-то заставили уровни указателями, которые вместо того, чтобы ориентировать наоборот, сбивают с толку!

Но все искупает отличная механика. Преодолеть ров с острыми как бритва шипами; пересечь холл, заполненный ловушками; найти секретную область; победить босса. Здесь есть все, что вы хотите видеть в платформере. Не забываем про отличный саундтрек, динамично меняющийся в зависимости от того, какой героиней мы управляем в данный момент. Апологеты хардкора могут опробовать себя в режимах БЕЗ чекпойнтов (читай, без сохранений), но по мне это сродни самоистязанию. Говорят, нашелся кто-то, кто сумел пройти все уровни игры, не погибнув ни разу! Хотел бы я посмотреть на этого несчастного человека...

Попробуйте и вы. Но помните - спешка хороша только при ловле блох.
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Personal rating - 7 out of 10

I got 2 news for you - good and bad. Which one I should start from? Guess, starting from the bad one would be wiser, because the good one will soften the final effect. So, after my first Giana Sisters run I was left with a poor impression. The game seemed tedious, boring, frustratingly difficult at times... in short, pretty dull. So I decided to make it one more time so I could spew in my anger and write a bad review! I don't know what exactly happened to the game or what happened to me, but this time I enjoyed the process!

Thing is, the game is really that difficult, sometimes monotonous, sometimes boring. Maybe the problem is that every platformer, being a rather fast-paced genre in terms of gameplay still requires some patience. I addressed a question to 100 random platformers I'd met on the street and 90 of them answered: "Do not speed things up too much if you don't want the game to become boring too soon". It makes sense.

Yes, the game is harsh, so do not expect it to be completed it one go, you will fail. Levels seem quite repetitive, because most part of them are made out of the same pieces tossed together. Besides, developers have rather strange view on navigation. Levels are filled with pointers and arrows which basically confuse more than provide help.

But! It's got mechanics that overweighs everything. Say, cross the hole with spikes; fight through a hall with enemies and traps; find a secret area or deal with a tough boss. Giana Sisters got it all what you might fancy in your mind when being asked a question "What should a platformer have?" Add a beautifully written soundtrack to the mix, plus Hardcore game mods for true perfectionists. One of those mods requires a player to complete the game in one go, with no checkpoints! I heard about a guy who could do it. Poor fellow, wish I could see him...

Try it and remember - do not rush.

Great platformer, really nicely made, good fun.

I'm god awful at this game, I've yet to go back to beat the final boss and it took me a long time to beat the second one as well, but it's a good platformer, and the world changing concept is neat. The game is simple yet difficult, but the music does get repetitive and I would reccomend listening to your own while playing if that bothers you.

I'm not fan of platformer game, but I still recommend this game.

It looks beautiful, switching the characters and world is unique and fun to do. Music is great and I had great times in the beginning. Then the game was harder and harder and I'm terrible.

If you like platformers, this game is for you.

This game is absolutely gorgeous. It has great platforming elements where you switch between two sisters, one being subtle and cute in her ways and the other taking a more hands-on approach and more punk-ish. Frustratingly hard at many times (The "easy" mode is the same level of difficulty as other games in "normal" mode), but one can't deny its charm. Lots of replayability if you consider yourself a completionist. The controls can get iffy at times (mostly because you press a button and don't land exactly where you want, causing you to die) but thankfully there are enough checkpoints in the levels to compensate for that. Highly recommended!

And the soundtrack made by Machinae Supremacy is damn straight awesome!

so much good game

its like super mario for experts with a heavy metal soundtrack.

9/10 even though i dont like heavy metal.

Az 5 éves lányom elsőszámú kedvence. Az első pályákkal a kicsik is könnyen boldogulnak, később azért még elkél a segítség. A játék legerősebb része a zenéje, ami szerintem nagyon jól sikerült. Szép látványvilággal rendelkezik, irányítása könnyű. Csak ajánlani tudom kicsiknek és nagyoknak.

Eléggé megbántam, hogy anno megvettem ezt a játékot, de miért is:

Ami tetszett benne:
-A karakterváltogatás és az, hogy a pálya ilyenkor hogy alakul át
-Szép grafika

Ami nem:
-A stílusa leginkább az Akimbo, a kis kung-fu harcost idézően nevetséges és lélektelen. Hülyén néz ki a játékban minden.
-A hülye pályadesign miatt nem tudod, mi jelent rád veszélyt és mi nem
-A két karakter nagyjából egyformán használhatatlan
-A hanganyaga valami kritikán aluli. A zene borzasztó, a hangeffektek pedig idegesítőek.
-Helyenként baromi könnyű, de aztán átcsap frusztrálóan nehézbe. Igaziból nincs egy konstans tension level benne. Vagy legyen ilyen nyolcéveseknek való csalátbarát tingli-tangli, vagy egy normális HC plaftormer. Helyette így csap át egyikből a másikba.

Már indulás után fagy WIN7-en 8GB ram, GTX 750ti 2GB videokártyával. Mégis mi kellene neki? A hót primitív beállítás alkalmazás még elindul (még jó, hogy "Big Screen Steam" a kanapéról), utána a beállítást figyelmen kívül hagyva elindul ablakban(!), aztán kampec. Nagyon akartam játszan vele, de inkább arról győzött meg, hogy a jövőben kerüljem az indie játékokat.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wg4wQzSG5iA

True to most 2D platfomer conventions the plot is quite simplistic. The player controls Giana as she searches for her sister Maria who has been kidnapped in the Dream World by a dragon. This provides the simple impetus for Giana's journey through The Dream World which she has the ability to manipulate shifting her persona between a cute girly girl that inhabits a halloween inspire iteration of the dream world and an edgier punk chick who traverses a variation of the Dream world that is more colorful and cheery. Giana's personas also have different special abilities. The cutesy Giana has a graceful twil jump that allows her to glide through the air over extended distances while the punk Giana can launch herself forward as a fireball. Swapping between these personas and mixing up moves to traverse the environment in integral to surviving Giana. The persona shifting in Giana Twisted Sisters is similar to the time shifting mechanic in Sonic CD except that it can be performed on the fly and you are in no way limited to how often or how many times you can shift.

Black Forest Games does a commendable job making the most of this gameplay mechanic. The shifting mechanic also adds a puzzle element to the game. Figuring out which sisters maneuvers will allow you to best proceed through an area is the central puzzle theme. It's fast paced and never leaves you scratching your head for long but keeps you mentally engaged with your surroundings. Platforms will apprear in one dimension that don't appear in another, platforms move in a certain direction with one persona while moving in another with the opposite persona, enemies change completely requiring one persona to defeat the enemy while the other can use the defeated enemy as a traversal tool... There is almost always something new in Giana Sisters

While Giana Sisters starts as a cakewalk the difficulty ramps up quickly as you are required to shift dozens of times to complete small stretches of levels. Some areas require you to cacoon yourself in bubble gun and float through razor sharp crystals, others require you to run through a gauntlet of obstacles while being chased by a wall of fire. Boxes can be pushed to create raised platforms and some levels have a more open design that require Giana to collect several keys in an undetermined order to open a passageway to a new area. These challenges are remixed and recycled into devilish combinations late in the game.

It's backdrops are colorful and layered with detail. The juxtaposition between the dimensions is natural and entirely seemless. It is easy to spend time shifting between dimensions in some areas just to see how objects in one dimension are translated in the other dimension. Large hollowed out tree trunks in the cheery dimension become massive reptilian skulls, wells become rotted tree stumps, owls become horned demons... Texture resolutions are high and effects for things like water are far from generic with cloudy patches and bubbles. It is unfortunate that most of the same elements are reused for much of the game. Assests from the first level are found in great abundance in later stages and while I appreciate a 2D platformer that doesn't fall into fire, ice and desert level cliches, a greater degree of variety would have been appreciated.

While perhaps one of the most obscure franchises to be resuscitated in recent memory Giana Sisters proves itself to be a worthwhile and enjoyable experience. It's colorful, challenging, and makes excellent use of a handful of mechanics. It is perhaps the best mix of platforming puzzles and reflex based gameplay on the market. While the limited soundtrack and small pool of art assets can make the last portion of the game a little less invigorating than the first, it does little to take away from the excellent gameplay. If you have conquered Donkey Kong and saved princess Peach a dozen times from the clutches of Bowser than it's time you considered shifting through Dream Land as teenage hero Giana.

For a game billing itself as a retro platformer, Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams almost seems to go out of its way to break the mold that has formed out of such a rapidly populating genre. Shunning away from its restrictively minimalistic, outrageously challenging and graphically simplistic peers, it preserves and refines the classic platformer gameplay while giving it a modern face life. Giana Sisters is one of the most visually impressive games the genre has ever seen, but it's when you combined its looks with how well it plays that it becomes something really special.

Although I wouldn't call minimalistic, Giana Sisters is certainly a pure platformer. The difference between the two which I feel is important to define, is that the former is intentionally designed to be basic to the largest degree possible, while the later takes the fundamental gameplay of the genre and doesn't add extra systems or mechanics because it doesn't need to to be fun. This is one of Giana Sisters biggest strengths and one of the reason it feels like a classic platformer from the 8 and 16-bit days but with all the benefits of current technology, and not simply a game designed to emulate the era.

The one additional mechanic to the typical running, jumping and dodging of any platformer is the world switching of the two sisters. With the press of a button you can shift between them, going from the lighthearted and colorful environment of the first to the hellish nightmare of the second. Both the music and graphics drastically change between the two, an effect that is incredibly cool to witness, but alternating between worlds also plays into the gameplay with certain platformers and machines only appearing and functioning in one or the other, as well as certain objects reversing direction or their entire physical property. It sounds more complicated than it actually is and takes only moments to grasp when you see it in action, but is used intelligently in conjuncture with the other obstacles in the game to test your skills and reflexes without resulting to cheap level designs or traps.

I should probably point out that yes, this is a very difficult game, but it isn't that way right from the start. The challenge is a gradual slope and it wasn't until the last handful of levels that I felt it was seriously demanding. Checkpoints are plentiful and there is no penalty when you die, both of which make this a rather accessible game even for those usually scared off from supposedly "hardcore" platformers. If it proves too easy there are several additional difficulty levels some of which are quite frankly ridiculously brutal in design, and conversely if you find you can't handle the normal levels an easy mode has since been patched in for those that want to enjoy the game without risking an aneurysm.

If there is one thing that sets Giana Sisters apart from everything else though, it would be the astounding presentation. The graphics are stunning, with textures bursting with detail and color, and impressive water and lighting effects complimenting the great ascetic design (which is even more impressive when you consider there are technically two renditions of object, enemy and environment in the game, one for each of the sisters' worlds). Animations are immaculate, especially the transitions when you swap sisters and have the world transform around you. The soundtrack jointly composed by Chris Hülsbeck and Swedish metal band Machinae Supremacy, each playing their own arrangement of the same track, is simply amazing and like everything else switches seamlessly as you swap sisters, creating a very memorable and original sound that is worth the price of admission by itself.

The only thing Giana Sisters manages to falter with is variety. While I enjoyed everything about the game it didn't take very long before I felt like I was running in place, replaying the same level with a few minor tweaks that were hardly noticeable in the grand scheme of things. You are essentially dodging the same enemies and traps the entire game, with only the exact placement of them changing slightly from level to level. This problem is extrapolated by each level taking anywhere from 10-15 minutes to complete, a length that begins to drag after a point and had me wishing for more numerous but shorter levels that I could better apportion for prolongation consumption.

Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams is perhaps the best example yet that the classic platformer is not dead but merely neglected and misunderstood. Although it doesn't hold up well for extended play, for bite sized sessions it is still a great deal of fun. The soundtrack is marvelous (and I don't even like metal traditionally) and everything polished to a degree that sets a new standard for indie developers. If my overly enthusiastic hyperbole hasn't convinced you that this is worth your time I'm not sure what will, but just know that you'll be missing out on a great game if you decide to pass this up.

Buy it, play it, love it; you can thank me later.

One of those rare gems coming thru Greenlit.

Giana Sister is an impressive and beautiful platformer that's unforgiving. The level designs are sharp, colorful and brilliantly rendered. If I were to make a comparison, this is hand to hand with Trine series.

The essence of precision platformer is here, you make mistakes - you die as you only have limited lives. There's no need to use weapons, you only need to jump to pawn or evade the incoming attacks. More often than not you need to swap to your twisted reality, either to proceed or to get around enemies. Throughout the levels you'd required to collect the gems that influence your ratings in that particular level. Collecting gems, however, is not necessary to win - it's just a bonus challenge. At the end of the every world levels, there are a boss waiting. Bosses usually a challenge in a platformer, and in Giana they're indeed a challenge. Bosses have an attack patterns, that sometimes agonizingly require precise timing to evade yet necessary to win. I can't count how many I have to restart just in the first boss stage.

That said, the difficulty as a whole had been a subject of discussion since seemingly many players only want to win the game in a reasonable time. The Developers listened and added an easy mode to address the issue - hence the easy mode.

The game contains other mode than normal campaign. You can play to beat your own score (Time Attack mode), to Uber Hardcore that every time you die, you return to level one (how hardcore can you be?). A very good added value in my opinion.

Finally, as a platformer, people prefer to play with gamepad. Game supports even dinput - it recognizes my Rumblepad 2 and assigns the buttons without problem. Good stuff.

Now for the recommendation.... the game appears to be on sale quite often. 50% is a VERY good value, even at full price. 75% off is a steal, more than that... uber mega steal?

9/10 score.

Giana Sisters is a platformer where you play as two sisters. Each sister has a special ability (fireball and twirl) that you have to use to make your way through levels. You will find checkpoints along the way that you will return to after dying, which you will do a lot. There's plenty of secret areas to find and lots of little crystals to collect, though their only purpose is to determine how many stars you are rewarded for completing the level (the purpose of which is to unlock the boss levels and if you score high enough on every level, hardcore mode. Good luck with that.)

This game has a wonderful aesthetic. When you switch characters, the world around to morphs to match the personality of the sister you are currently controlling and the music changes with it. The music is really well done and switches seamlessly between styles. Unfortunately that's really the only good thing about the game.

Giana Sisters starts out fun and fresh introducing you to the world. You'll quickly discover the controls leave something to be desired, especially the fireball which has a habit of rocketing you towards an enemy just slightly out of range, then ending one pixel before hitting it so you instantly die. Puzzles rapidly become more complex and deathtraps start appearing everywhere while the checkpoints get further apart and before you know it the game has become a trial-and-error exercise in frustration. I stopped enjoying the game about halfway through but I slogged through the rest to see if it got any better. It didn't.

I find it hard to recommend this game since there's a lot of better platformers out there that aren't nearly as frustrating.

TRY THE DEMO BEFORE BUYING THIS GAME! (I sure wish I did.)

I really like platformers and bought Giana Sisters to get more of that goodness as it looked gorgeous. At first I thought it was an okay game, but soon I grew really tired of it.

The main gimmick of Giana Sisters is switching between light and dark world. You can switch whenever and wherever at will. The switch mechanic feels forced, artificial and really out of place. You have to keep constantly switching thorough stages and sometimes in a split-second timing to avoid a deathtrap. Take a look at Trine. It has the switch system done right. You have 3 different characters and almost always you also have 3 ways to approach the stages. Sometimes you didn't have to switch characters in a stage at all. In Giana Sisters there is always only one way and it will require switching and numerous times at that.

The stages get really long and tiresome quickly. There is too little variance. It almost feels like you were playing the same stage over and over again.

My last complaint is the fact that the game is in "2,5D". It would have worked a lot better in pure 2D as it is sometimes hard to see deathtraps because of the foreground objects or camera angle, which cannot be changed. 2,5D also causes bugs and glitches. I have got stuck inside solid platforms more than once without any hope to get out. Once just before the goal.

This platformer lover is disappointed.