Giana Sisters 2D

I knew this was going to be a Mario clone since I was aware of this series history, and I have played Twisted Dreams before. But I couldn't finish this as I had enough. It wasn't the repetitive boss fight or the awkward power ups or the cheap looking graphics or broken achievements that made me stop. It was the jumping. More specifically, jump underneath a ceiling. During the game you have to make jumps over dangerous pits. For the most part this is fine as most of the levels are open and give you plenty of room even with enemies and hazards in the way. But during the few times you have to a jump in a small hallway, hitting the ceiling kills any momentum you have and you fall into the pit and die. And when they started doing that with spikes on the ceiling, I said to myself I was done. So yeah, this isn't that great Mario clone. And if you want to play a game with the singular Giana Sister, just play Twisted Dream.

TL;DR, not recommended, its a bad port, and it has pretty noticeable bugs that have gone unfixed for over a decade. If you absolutely want to play this, try to get the DS version instead. Longer version: First, the hitboxes are all wrong. Everything seems to be using oversized/misplaced square hitboxes regardless of the sprite shape itself. Meaning flames, spikes and enemies can kill you without touching you, and any precision platforming sections are ruined by your character bumping into invisible boundaries. Enemy hitboxes are so off, that sometimes you may successfully kill an enemy, yet die at the same time. Also some enemies can shoot fireballs even after dead, and the fireballs can go through solid floors. Second, the level select just doesn't work. Many times it will force you to repeat a previous level when trying to select the next one. Eg., I had to play Level 2-2 -> 2-2 -> 2-4. I never got to play 2-3 but it still got marked as completed. I will never be able to properly finish the game, because every time I tried to start level 9-2 (the last one), it just forced me to repeat 9-1 over and over again. I did get the achievement for completing island 9, but 9-2 still show…

11 years after release and the game is still buggy and many achievements are still broken... yup, I would say it was abandoned a long time ago. Broken achievements really bum me out man!

This is one of my favorite Steam games, but there are some things you should beware of, so please, customers and developers alike, please read until the end it is important. I will start with the positives, this is a remake of Giana Sisters DS with what appears to be HD 2D hand drawn sprites instead of the pixel art of the original and a different aspect ratio, (more on that later). There are some gameplay issues the original had that were really annoying that this version thankfully got rid of, like needing to blow air into the microphone on the DS to make the bubble gum bubble floating segments work or tilting the DS to rotate the soda stream, now it is much more bearable with simple button presses and analog stick movement controls. The controls feel VERY good and natural to play, it has great, albeit, sometimes very difficult level designs and boss fights. (Obviously despite the below listed flaws, I loved this game enough to have 100% completed it, so if that doesn't convince you that it is great and you should get it, I don't know what will!) The art style, music, sound effects, enemy and boss designs, and overall appearance of the game is very appealing, (even if the play…

Ringrazio superjek il bengalese perchè veramente mi ha fatto comprare un gioco dove per fare un achievement SINGOLO devi stare 30 ore, puro farming. Meno male che avevo la velocità aumentata altrimenti sarebbe stato un calvario suuuuuu susususuuuuu su su su superjek P.s questo gioco mi ricorda tantissimo spartan firefight che è un gioco di halo su telefono quindi ho giá il prurito al dito per le segnalazioni che dovrò eseguire

This is a good game. I remember playing the original as a child on my Commodore 64 and was so glad to see it as a remake for my modern system