The Giana Sisters franchise has a pretty interesting history that I’d recommend taking some time to read up on. The short of it is that the original Giana Sisters released in 1987 and was strikingly similar to Super Mario Bros. …

Here’s a couple levels from Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams. In the video I comment that, up to that point, there wasn’t a lot of variety in the level environments. (It was mostly a very similar outdoor level across multiple stages …

In the eighties, there was a Super Mario Bros clone known as The Great Giana Sisters.  It was pulled by Nintendo but later resurrected on the Nintendo DS platform in 2009. Now, the new title, Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams, lands …