History Videogame / GianaSistersTwistedDreams

As of September 11, 2013, a standalone expansion named ''Rise of the Owlverlord'' has been made available on UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} and became available to play on September 25, 2013. A sequel has been announced and Machinae Supremacy is on board to return.

* AdvancingBossOfDoom: Gurglewocky.
* AllJustADream
** OrWasItADream: [[spoiler:The bosses of the game have clear connections to people in Giana's real life.]]

* AscendedExtra[=/=]AllThereInTheManual:
** Maria has a lot more dialogue with Giana in the comic adaptation.
** The entire plot of ''Dream Runners'' was left to a storybook online, which was almost entirely lost for several years.

* BackgroundBoss: Octor Freud and [[spoiler:Gurglewocky]]

* DamselInDistress: Maria becomes this and it's up to Giana to save her.

* DreamLand

* EverythingsBetterWithSpinning: Cute Giana can twirl to glide over obstacles.

* NintendoHard: The game becomes progressively harder after the DifficultySpike. Once it let your hands go you'll be facing long, gruelling levels that requires fast reflexes and keen eyes to achieve the highest ranks.

* DifficultySpike: Whereas the majority of the first world is essentially a cakewalk, the rest of the game ramps up quite quickly.

* FaceHeelTurn: Somewhat. WordOfGod states that Giana became sick and tired of anything that TastesLikeDiabetes (which used to be her fancy), and would now prefer to stomp anything cuddly into the ground. Mind you, she's still good.

* FingerlessGloves: Giana's punk form.

* HarderThanHard: Hardcore [[note]]No checkpoints in the level.[[/note]] and Uber-Hardcore modes [[note]]Die once and it's GameOver, you'll have to start all over.[[/note]].

* BubblyClouds: Standing on them cause Giana to sink. In the dark world, standing on them too long will cause them to zap her with lightning.

* SceneryPorn

* SpikesOfDoom

* VideoGameSettings: Punk and Cute forms:
** BigBoosHaunt / BigFancyCastle: The castle stages, natch.
** BleakLevel: ''Everything'' while in Cute Giana form.
** GreenHillZone / TheLostWoods: Cheery and lively in Punk, creepy and haunted in Cute.
** DugTooDeep: Amethyst Mines.
** PalmtreePanic: Dreadful Straits, Octor Freud's Stage.
** RecurringLocation: Forest and Castles especially.
** RiseToTheChallenge: Recurring hazard in level 3-5, ''Owl Wing's Nest''.
** SlippySlideyIceWorld: The Christmas levels (though the slippery ice becomes lava when Giana is in her cute form).
** TempleOfDoom: Level 3-4, which is aptly called ''Temple of Doomdidoom''.

* AscendedExtra[=\=]AllThereInTheManual:

* TookALevelInBadass: Zigzagged. In Giana Sisters ''DS'', Giana was fairly weak in her Cute form, dying in one hit, couldn't break blocks or do much of anything compared to her [[SuperMode more powerful]] Punk form. In ''Twisted Dreams'' Cute Giana much more capable, with the ability of twirling through the air and is able to switch between her two forms at will, but at the cost of not being able to take ''any'' hits regardless of her form without a SingleUseShield.

* TookALevelInBadass: Zigzagged. In Giana Sisters ''DS'', Giana was fairly weak in her Cute form, dying in one hit, couldn't break blocks or do much of anything compared to her more powerful Punk form. In ''Twisted Dreams'' Giana can switch between her two forms at will, but at the cost of not being able to take ''any'' hits regardless of her form.

* FieryRedhead: Giana's punk form.

* SoundtrackDissonance: The music is based on your ''form'', not the world, so you get hard electropunk music for cutesy, non-threatening terrain and ''Mario''-esque retro chiptunes for nightmare landscapes. The option to just have one or the other play without switching is available, though.

** OrWasItADream

* ArtEvolution:
** The game received several updates that enhanced graphics and some controlling goofs. And as a straighter example, the game is considered by many people '''light years better''' than its predecessors.
** The pseudo-sequel ''Dream Runners'' has a playable Maria, in both Punk and Cute forms, which look very similar to the ''Twisted Dreams'' versions of Giana... next to Giana, who has TookALevelInBadass since the original game, with her cute form being dressed like a cave girl.

* AscendedExtra[=\=]AllThereInTheManual: Maria has a lot more dialogue with Giana in the comic adaptation.

* BossOnlyLevel: [[spoiler:The final level of ''Rise of Owlverlord'']].

* BubblyClouds: The 'Heaven'-themed areas

* CharacterisationMarchesOn:
** In ''Twisted Dreams'', Giana now can switch between her Punk and Cute forms at will, and has learned how to use both to their maximum potential.
** By ''Dream Runners'', both sisters have gained the ability to use their abilities fully without shifting forms.

* DifficultySpike: Whereas the majority of the first world is essentially a cakewalk, [[ThatOneLevel Level 1-6]] and the ''rest of the game'' isn't.

* DreamLand: Where the game takes place.

** ''Dream Runners'' seems to purely be effectively a '''''training course''''', with no plot at all, but with no restrictions on your powers either...

* MarathonLevel: The levels become progessively longer with each stage. Level 1-5 is the first to truly feel like this.

* MercyMode: Sort of a meta-example -- The Easy mode was added after an update, after people complained about the difficulty. The game is still NintendoHard, but on Easy, certain platforms will appear to help the player and even avoid death, there will be less traps, certain enemies will be slower and invincible mooks will appear much less often, and finally, bosses will have extra shields and something else to aid the player.

** Maria is still Giana with green hair, but now with a pink dress to boot. [[SarcasmMode Goody.]] Although, they ''could'' be identical twins. Particularly egregious in that the title screen shows the sisters in silhouettes, which might make you think you might as well be looking at two Gianas.

* SoundtrackDissonance: The music is based on your ''form'', not the world, so you get hard electropunk music for cutesy, non-threatening terrain and ''Mario''-esque retro chiptunes for nightmare landscapes. As of an update, now it is possible to hear only the Punk and Cute music styles.

* SwallowedWhole: Maria gets swallowed by Gurglewocky the dragon in level 1. [[StomachOfHolding She remains inside there for the entire game until rescued after the final boss battle]].

** Gurglewocky must be taken down by using the combination of two of his attacks against him.

* [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair You Gotta Have Green Hair]]: Maria does, with purple hair for her Punk form.

As of September 11, 2013, a standalone expansion named ''Rise of the Owlverlord'' has been made available on Creator/{{Steam}} and became available to play on September 25, 2013. A sequel has been announced and Machinae Supremacy is on board to return.

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An official 2012 sequel to the original ''VideoGame/TheGreatGianaSisters''.

It was also released on the eShop on September 5th, 2013, and has a [[https://www.amazon.com/Giana-Sisters-Twisted-Dream-Directors-Cut/dp/B01586FH6W/ref=pd_sim_63_6?ie=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=G187ESSX49QYTHGZ39MP Directer's Cut disk version]] for the UsefulNotes/WiiU that was released on October 29th, 2015. A UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch port called ''Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams - Owltimate Edition'' was released in 2019.

The game is the first game by Black Forest Games, a company consisting mostly of people who also took part in the development of the well-received-but-sadly-quite-unsuccessful ''Giana Sisters DS''. The development of the game was crowd-funded through a [[http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/project-giana/project-giana Kickstarter campaign]] under the working title ''Project Giana''.

It was also released on the eShop on September 5th, 2013, and has a [[https://www.amazon.com/Giana-Sisters-Twisted-Dream-Directors-Cut/dp/B01586FH6W/ref=pd_sim_63_6?ie=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=G187ESSX49QYTHGZ39MP Directer's Cut disk version]] for the UsefulNotes/WiiU that was released on October 29th, 2015.

* FakeDifficulty: Although not often, there are traps and certain segments full of enemies that will kill an unwarned player at least once.

** The pseudo-sequel ''Dream Runners'' has a playable Maria, in both Punk and Cute forms, which look very similar to the Twisted Dreams versions of Giana... next to Giana, who has TookALevelInBadass since the original game, with her cute form being dressed like a cave girl.
* AscendedExtra\AllThereInTheManual: Maria has a lot more dialogue with Giana in the comic adaptation.

* ArtEvolution: The game received several updates that enhanced graphics and some controlling goofs. And as a straighter example, the game is considered by many people '''light years better''' than its predecessors.
** The pseudo-sequel Dream Runners has a playable Maria, in both Punk and Cute forms, which look very similar to the Twisted Dreams versions of Giana... next to Giana, who has TookALevelInBadass since the original game, with her cute form being dressed like a cave girl.

* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: Lots. Yellow Gems can be picked up only by Cute Giana, and Red Gems by Punk Giana.

* ExcusePlot: Your sister was pulled into a dream world and has been captured by a dragon. Go rescue her!

* PaletteSwap: Maria is still Giana with green hair, but now with a pink dress to boot. [[SarcasmMode Goody.]] Although, they ''could'' be identical twins.
** Particularly egregious in that the title screen shows the sisters in silhouettes, which might make you think you might as well be looking at two Gianas.

* SoundtrackDissonance: The music is based on your ''form'', not the world, so you get hard electropunk music for cutesy, non-threatening terrain and ''Mario''-esque retro chiptunes for nightmare landscapes.
** As of an update, now it is possible to hear only the Punk and Cute music styles.

* TacticalSuicideBoss: Octor Freud, the second boss would be invulnerable [[spoiler:if it didn't try to slap you with its one vulnerable tentacle from time to time]].

* VideogameSettings: Punk and Cute forms:

** In ''Twisted Dreams'', Giana now can switch between her badass ''Punk'' form, and her natural ''Cute'' form at will, and has learned how to use both to their maximum potential.
** By ''Dream Runners'', BOTH sisters have gained the ability to use their abilities fully WITHOUT shifting forms.