games website Sister Gina: Twisted Dreams review: Core, female version of Mario

introduction

A long, long time ago (more than 20 years ago, in fact), a small studio in Germany created a Super Mario Bros. parody game on The Commodore64 platform called The Great Giana Sisters.

But at that time, under the pressure of Nintendo, the small studio had to cancel the development, and The Times changed, and more than 20 years later, the game was reborn on the NDS platform and mobile platform, and obtained a good response. Black Forest Games bought the rights to the game from production company Spellbound Games and raised development funds through Kickstarter to create a new series.

Their initial goal was to raise $150,000, but they ended up raising $190,000, which they did. It should be noted that Spellbound Games, the production company behind the NDS version of Sister Gina, was founded in 1987 by one of the creators of the original version. Of course Spellbound Games is now defunct, so Black Forest Games is doing this in part to save the brand.

In addition, the name of the game needs to be explained, the name of the game is called "Gina Sisters: Twisted Dreams", but because the name of the project is called "Gina Plan" when raising funds, so many of the "Gina Plan" as the name of the game, about this point, we go to the home page of the game to see can understand more clearly.

The development funds raised on Kickstarter

Kickstarter is a website dedicated to supporting and inspiring innovative, creative, and creative campaigns. Crowdfunding through online platforms makes it possible for creative people to get the money they need to make their dreams come true.

More and more games have been funded in this way, and the most successful Kickstarter project to date is Obsidian's Eternal Plan, which has raised more than $4 million, ranking first among all Kickstarter projects.

Obsidian's Project: Eternity will be a traditional RPG that blends Baldur's Gate, Fallout, and Planescape Requiem

Project Gianna certainly can't compare to this level of giant games, only raised $190,000 development funds, but for such a small game, these funds are still enough.

Game screen

The screen of this game adopts the 3D screen modeling of American cartoon style, which is presented in the form of horizontal version of the clearance, which not only retains the essence of the original 2D horizontal version of the clearance, but also makes the game screen give the player a great sense of evolution.

A number of games have done this before, such as CAPCOM's Resurrection of Hitler and KONAMI's next generation Rocket Rider, which use this form of 3D modeling and horizontal leveling.

As far as screen modeling is concerned, the characters and scenes in the game seem to be good at first glance, but if you look closely, the details are actually rough, but because the production company uses bright colors to render the entire world of the game, these details are covered up to a certain extent.

Of course, this practice is not the company's first, the Trinity series is such an extreme use of representative work.

The screen style of this game is mainly a kind of European and American fairy tale, each level of the game looks very much like the European and American fairy tale world, mushrooms of different forms, old barrels, green grass, strange trees with eyes and noses, which makes the game world look like the fairy tale world of Little Red Riding Hood or Alice, in terms of art, the picture of this game is still quite good.

Music and sound effects

The music of this work is very distinctive, not using the fantasy style music like the Trinity series, nor using the children's fun orchestral style like Rocket Knight, but using a very intense avant-garde pop electronic music.

In line with the fast pace of the game, the entire game is very hot and vivid to play, and also makes the entire game feel more popular and more in line with the current trend. In addition, the music is made by Chris Hulsbeck and Machinae Supremacy Band, the latter is a well-known metal band in Sweden. So it's no surprise the music is so avant-garde.

In terms of sound effects, the game feels normal, basically all there is to have, this is not a big game after all, if the sound effects to achieve cinema level is too harsh.

Game experience

Due to the change of the production company, the gameplay of the game has also changed, the original version of the game, the protagonist can only tread enemies like Super Mario, or fire balls, the gameplay is similar to Super Mario.

But to this new game, the game has turned the world around, first of all, the game mimics the practice of the Trinity, players can switch sisters at any time in the process of the game, the red-haired sister has a similar sprint ability to Sonick, can become a fireball for sprint, and the yellow-haired sister can rotate in the air like a top for a while, to reach some special places.

And the game is very intimate for the two sisters respectively designed a key, as long as you press one of the special keys, you can use her unique ability, without pressing the switch sister's special keys, which is the biggest feature of this work.

The game has red crystals and yellow crystals, similar to the gold in Super Mario, the player must switch to the red sister status to get the red crystal, and vice versa only switch to the yellow sister status to get the yellow crystal.

When you switch to your sister's form, the scene becomes red and bright, while when you switch to your sister's form, the scene becomes dark and weird, which is also a very careful game design detail.

In addition to switching the form to obtain the corresponding crystal, constantly switching the form to solve the puzzle is the greatest fun of this game, which is similar to the Trinity series, because this game has only two protagonists, and can be switched at any time, so many puzzles require players to constantly switch the sister form to pass, it can be described as fun.

Conclusion

"Gina Sisters: Twisted Dreams" this game absorbs the elements of classic horizontal action platform games such as Super Mario and Sonic, but also absorbs the core elements of the popular Trinity series in recent years, in the gameplay is relatively rich, the scene design is also satisfactory.

In general, it is a more carefully designed skill-grade game, suitable for boring time, but compared with the original that simple elements and simple picture, this new game has obviously become some core to the feeling of the game, it seems not too suitable for casual game players, if you are action platform game enthusiasts, may wish to give it a try.

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