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 playable characters kinda creepily stare into your soul). However, I do kinda personally prefer the original DS sprites, music, sound effects, and anything else that visually or audibly changed, (which brings me to an issue that many other players brought up that I hope the devs take seriously enough to address), if they would just add a mode that restores the original visual/audio assets instead of ONLY having the remade style, this would truly be the best Giana Sisters game, as well, they would need to add a separate mode restoring the original aspect ratio that could effect both visual and sound styles, even if there are black bars on the sides of the screen, so that the picture is taller, for instance, when the green boss dragon flies, I don't want half of him out of sight unless I am standing on a platform or jump, since he has very funny animations. Please developers, just add this, it would make the game MUCH more worth buying. Also, please add the ability to have multiple save slots, delete old save data and start new games, the lack of this feature is very annoying since it ruins the ability to do let's play or 100% walkthrough videos of this game with its intro, (that only is shown once), if you played it at all already, like I did.
Everyone should be warned, the game can be VERY glitchy, like I can't count how many times I accidentally fell through the floor when trying to activate the bubblegum power-up, thankfully if it pops and you start jumping while standing still quickly enough, you can inch your ya up back to the surface, or slowly walk left or right to cheat at winning. One time when I hadn't beaten level 8-1 yet, I accidentally loaded level 8-2 instead, beat it, and it continued as normal, even though I had to play that level twice, it helped me be victorious on my first playthrough, because the actual level 8-2 that loaded every other time I selected it was too hard for me to win for quite a while. The select menu totally broke after the final boss and I couldn't select the last 2 bonus levels, most previous ones, or go farther back on the overworld than the previous world. THANKFULLY deleting the game and reinstalling it fixed it, which I'm very glad, because I was scared that I almost had the game permanently bricked. Some levels had lines near the outer boarders of some visual asset images, but I think these were another glitch since I didn't notice them after the reinstall. ALL GLITCHES CAN BE FIXED, (that I encountered), though, I'm not sure if all trophies successfully register either, since the jumping on 10 enemies in a row without touching the ground one didn't seem to trigger for me. Yet again, developers, PLEASE look into this and fix it! Audience, please don't let these things discourage you from buying the game, since all of these are easily remedied/ignored, and it is just not worth missing out on this epic game just over caring too much about a few glitches.
Now, I got this game mostly for the funny looking, pudgy, green dragon boss character that is the boss of every area that just gets increasingly more difficult in each appearance, which I welcome, since he is one of the cutest bosses, I ever saw! My favorite ability of his is his ability to fart a fireball at the player while in flight, the animation for it is SUPER FUNNY! Ever since childhood, my favorite creatures for toys, games, comics, books, and shows have always been dinosaurs, dragons, kaiju, and other reptiles and avians as I find them very cool and cute, and my favorite jokes have always been visual/audible fart joke comedy, (especially from those types of characters), nothing could make me laugh more since I was a kid, so anything that combines one of my favorite creatures with my favorite joke subject is automatically one of the best things ever in my opinion and automatically guarantees that I'll be very likely to buy it! I hope at some point that dragon will be playable with that ability in a spin-off game or something, in my opinion, he is the best character in the game and the real reason I bought it, however, I really did love the overall vibe of the gameplay and am now a genuine fan of this series!
