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| | | Me playing another thing I dug out of my PS3 download list: "Giana Sisters : Twisted Dreams (DEMO)" for PS3, which appears to have been delisted since I downloaded it back in the day.
And yes the demo's title on the XMB or wherever does have a space BEFORE as well as after colon. I don't know if that was someone making a typo, or was it someone trying to allude to dual worlds separated by space?
The full game is still in the PSN store, currently for $14.99, same price as Steam (although it was on sale for $2.99 on Steam a couple days ago, with no corresponding PSN sale... Does anyone bother putting PS3 games on sale anymore?). Hopefully the Steam version has better performance than this PS3 demo, which doesn't run great. The Steam version DOES have a demo still available.
Anyway I played through it--the PS3 demo I mean. You have infinite respawns at checkpoints so it wasn't really hard, sorta. There are some annoying spike-filled pits to wiggle through near the end, then it rips you off by stopping just as you get to a big boss. Oh well.
This is one of those platformers where you toggle back and forth between two states of the world / yourself to get past obstacles. Because we all love toggling.
The framerate is a very unsteady 30fps. Vsync seems to be off and there is horrible screen tearing--and the controls still aren't very responsive.
The dual worlds are detailed as heck, so, at least you've got that and the half-Chris-Huelsbeck dual-world soundtrack thing, which is probably okay I guess, I don't know, I was too busy hating on the toggling and the poor performance.
According to Huelsbeck https://www.youtube.com/shorts/vNi24u3hapc , the "Giana" name came from '80s pop-ish Italian singer Gianna Nannini; I hadn't heard of her because I'm an ignorant American but apparently she rules a lot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOeSUjNagCU .
The Giana Sisters games apparently have quite a history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giana_Sisters:_Twisted_Dreams , going back to being a SMB rip-off https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8teXm6723-g pulled from stores after pressure from Nintendo, forward a little to the company going bust and the programmer dying after a DS version (maybe they'd patched things over with Nintendo by then?). Also I was incorrect, Giana Sisters DS was apparently pretty well received and for instance a "citation needed" bit of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giana_Sisters_DS says "The iOS port was ranked the most downloaded game app during its month of release in Germany, Austria, Netherlands and Norway."
Wikipedia also said the original game's soundtrack was one of the most popular game soundtracks of all time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwUBu4VLD58 and it does seem to go pretty hard. And yep people have put Twisted's OST up as well https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8H4Fq15uBHg |
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