Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams

I originally wasn't sure about this game, but after hooking up my gamepad and playing through a few levels everything pulls together really nicely. The controls start to feel incredibly natural and even the simplest maneuvers are super fun. The level design is brilliant and they're constantly throwing in creative uses for the dimension switching mechanic. And now half way through the game I'm suddenly seeing an influx of completely new gameplay elements that are making it even more fun o.o So I'm excited to play some more! :3 And if you're a fan of platformers you should definitely check this out.

The Great Giana Sisters on Amiga was fun and very good....with better graphics than the NES or SNES . Twisted Dreams tops that. How can one review a platformer? Easy if its time to go to bed but you want just a perfect last level and than you realize that its already time to go to work....well than the game works. Great graphics and a superb playability mixed with the curiosity how to get those emeralds....well play it to find out. Thank you GOG for this x-mas sell

I like this game a lot. Great graphic and good gameplay for a lamer like me. A platform game de force with a lot of options that makes it good for all people, old, young good or bad player.

The game caught my interest when I learned that it was apparently a successor to a Mario clone from the 80s - a clone to the point they got sued over it - that was salvaged and turned into an actual franchise. And, unlike Mario, it actually is on PC. Still, as far as I can tell, the only thing this game has in common with the 1987 one is the name and genre. It's not the usual genre for me, but in the end I still enjoyed my playthrough. The game took me 17 nhours to finish. At first the game felt "just right" - not too hard and not too easy - but starting from the third chapter there was a huge difficulty spike and I regularly finished each level with over a hundred deaths. A particularly degenerate example was 3-9 where the part before the first checkpoint was excruciating, while the rest was quite manageable. Boss fights were quite difficult as well, and I ended up having to downgrade the difficulty for the final level. At that point I really wished there was a way to quit the game mid-level without having to backtrack everything again later. The world swapping mechanic was really cool and implemented well. At first I had some criticism in this area, as I felt Cute Giana was just much less useful than Punk, but as the difficulty increased Cute's skill became that much more useful. Still, I think Cute could benefit from some more world interactions. The visuals and music are pretty good, but what especially made them unique was how well they blended together when world swapping. Still, one annoying thing about it was that the game is set really quiet. I maxed out the in-game sound setting and I still had to double the volume on PC side to hear anything, which was a little of a chore. The game has basically no plot, so don't expect anything in this regard. It's also quite safe for kids if you're into that. With so many games being all edge and no point, I don't mind playing something calmer every now and then.

just amazing. do yourself a favor and buy it asap :) ! while playing I just could not stop wondering why I waited so much before buying it. everything is just perfect. grafics, sound, gameplay, everything blends into a great mix. Terrific :)