Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams

Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams is a sequel to the 1987 computer game published The Great Giana Sisters, which was developed by Black Forest Games and 2012, 2013 for Windows released for Xbox 360. Furthermore, the title for PlayStation 3 and Wii U was announced. Parts of the work were funded through the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter.com under the name Project Giana.

  • 3.1 Production and publication
  • 3.2 Music
  • 4.1 reviews
  • 4.2 Awards and nominations

Content

Maria is kidnapped in a dream world, where a huge dragon holds them captive. It is now up to her sister Giana, to save them from the dream world. Giana has learned how they can manipulate their dreams. This new capability puts them in her dreams and is now able to switch between the cute blond and the punky red-haired character. The two variants of Giana are symbolic of pubertal development, the conflict between anger and self-confidence that she is going through. The change of the characters has an impact on the skills area and also the music. As in the previous parts Giana can collect diamonds and discover secrets as she seeks Mary.

Gameplay

Description

The game relies on the basic gameplay and motifs of the original title The Great Giana Sisters, but brings the issue of transformation playing in the foreground. Giana's forms have different abilities. While the blonde Giana dominates the vortex jump and slide over greater depths, the red-haired Giana is able to break through obstacles and push off of walls to reach higher areas. The gradual change between Giana's manifestations, the player can also combine their abilities. During the game, the changes and the exact timing of the change to the solution of the tasks is provided.

In Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams, there are three worlds with a total of 23 levels. The levels must be unlocked and can then be selected individually. One objective is to collect as many diamonds, and there are also large crystals, most of which are difficult to reach or hidden. The large diamond switch, if you have found them, free pictures in a gallery. At the end of the world, there is a boss that it is to defeat. The standard adventure mode, there are even more modes to play the game. In Score Attack, it is to collect as many points, opponents also introduce points. In Time Attack all the diamonds and enemies are all the same, because the time in which you go through the level, is the key here. In hardcore mode you must unlock first, there are no checkpoints and you start again at the beginning of the level when you die. Then there's the over- hardcore mode. He must first be unlocked by playing through the different levels in Hardcore mode just like the hardcore mode. At over- hardcore you have only one life for the entire game.

Worlds

In addition to the three worlds there is under the menu item Extras two more. A Christmas world with 750 as well as a Halloween world with 433 diamonds.

Development

Production and publication

Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams is the first title of the German development studio Black Forest games. The company was formed in the spring of 2012 after the bankruptcy of Spellbound Entertainment AG and took over a large part of the workforce, projects and brands, including The Great Giana Sisters. When the company launched its crowdfunding campaign with the goal of $ 150,000 July 30, 2012, the title about a year had already been completed in the development and the first level and the first intermediate opponents. Therefore, the company has already on 24 August 2012, make available a week before the end of the campaign, a playable demo with the first two levels. On 31 August 2012, the funding campaign ended successfully, total Black Forest Games could collect 186 158 U.S. dollars from 6,149 supporters.

On August 30, 2012 Project Giana was one of the first featured item of the GreenLight program on the online distribution platform Steam, which gives customers the opportunity to vote for projects and developers represents a possible distribution through Steam with appropriate quorum in view. During the same period, the developer also called for the vote on the title of the game. The choice was between Twisted Dreams, Giana 's Twisted Dream Project and Giana. On September 21, 2012 Black Forest was with Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams the final title is known. On 15 October 2012, the title of Steam operator Valve got the release for sale on Steam.

Black Forest Games published Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams on 23 October 2012 in the Windows version as a download on the online distribution platforms Steam, GOG.com and GamersGate. On 5 November 2012, the first patch 1.0.1 was filed, the improved gameplay and music, as well as some bugs corrected. The Remixed mode, which makes the game easier, came up with further improvements in frame rate and audio as well as additional control options on 26 July 2013, the patch 1.1.1.Am March 20, 2013, the Xbox 360 version via download Xbox Live Arcade released in April 2013 the game via the PSN should eventually appear on PlayStation 3. Easter 2013 appeared a PC retail version. Included in this collector's edition are two additional levels, two additional skins and a Giana Sisters Fan Posters and the game soundtrack on a separate CD with 19 tracks of composer Chris Hülsbeck and the band Machinae Supremacy.

Music

Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams brings the composer of the original Great Giana Sisters, Chris Hülsbeck, with the Swedish heavy metal band Machinae Supremacy and Fabian Del Priore, who has also participated in Giana Sisters DS, together.

Reception

Reviews

The game received moderate to good reviews ( Metacritic: 77 out of 100 ( PC) / 68 (Xbox 360) ).

  • 4players: 80%
  • Eurogamer.de: 9 out of 10
  • Gamestar: 80%
  • Destructoid: 8.5 of 10
  • PC Gamer: 63 %

Awards and nominations

  • At the German Developer Award 2012 there was Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams an award in the category Best Sound, 2013, the award for Best Youth Game for the extension Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams - Rise of the Owlverlord.
  • The World Games gave the game design and the Sound Award.
  • In the German Computer Game Prize 2013 Giana Sisters received: Twisted Dreams a nomination in the category Best Children's Game.
  • Children's software Price TOMMI: Best PC Game 2013

On March 14, 2014 Black Forest Games announced that more than one million copies of the game were sold.

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