THQ Nordic has revealed that the recently announced Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams - Owltimate Edition will make its way to Switch on 25th September.
The game is 2D platformer in which players can transform protagonist Giana into a punk version of herself at the press of a button, completely changing the game’s star, the soundtrack, and the world around you. Giana’s punk persona is critical to overcoming obstacles and solving particularly tricky situations; in her sweet and innocent form, Giana whirls gracefully over obstacles and opponents, but when "punked up", she smashes through stone blocks with mighty dashes and can master her environment by bouncing off walls.
The Owltimate Edtion contains the original Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams as well as all existing DLC, including Rise Of The Owlverlord. Five brand-new levels and new story cutscenes between each level have also been added, alongside new tracks from German composer Chris Huelsbeck and the Swedish band Machinae Supremacy. Here's a full list of features to give you some more information:
Key Features:
- Impressive abilities: Negotiate tricky level design by wall-running, vaulting and smashing your way through the world, ignoring gravity in the process
- Intuitive and precise controls: Giana’s powers are numerous, but slick controls enable you to master her skills and pull off expert-level manoeuvres with ease
- Jaw-dropping worlds: Fantastical, transforming 2D worlds drawn in sumptuous 3D come to life on Nintendo Switch
- Explore and discover: Pick apart 40 thrilling, secret-filled levels brimming with challenges and surprises
- Innovative gadgets: Navigate evolving landscapes by utilizing everything around you – fly with bubble gum bubbles, bounce on springs and supercharge your sprints via conveyor belts
- Epic boss battles: Push yourself to the limits as you battle gigantic creatures from the depths of Giana’s worst nightmares
We also have a collection of screenshots from the Wii U version of the game.
Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams - Owltimate Edition will be available on Switch for $29,99 / €29,99 / £29,99 when it launches later this month.
Will you be picking this one up?
Comments 36
30 for a digital game that was actually given for free on Xbox One? Don't think so. But glad it comes to the Switch.
I remember playing the Great Giana Sisters on the commodore 64 before it got banned as it was a complete rip off of Mario Brothers.
@Moroboshi876 it was free for all day one? I don’t know anything about this game. It wasn’t free with gold? A F2P game shouldn’t be £30 I’d agree 100%
@Stocksy No, it was given at some point with Xbox Live Gold. But still.
@Stocksy @Moroboshi876
Comparing the price of a game being freshly released on a system that required work to the price it's been on sale at some point elsewhere after a few years isn't fair. If it was the amount a publisher could hope to sell it for, no game at all would be ported to Switch.
But I agree 30$ feels pricey when compared to the price of Celeste, Shovel Knight or Hollow Knight.
Am I the only one who thinks the "bubbly, good" blonde version is way scarier than the punk version? She literally looks like they intentionally designed her with frighteningly exaggerated "good" features.
Briliant news!
This is on my Steam wish list but I'm definitely getting it on Switch now instead.
Release Date
Wii U eShop
5th Sep 2013, $14.99 (USA)
22nd Aug 2013, £12.99 (UK/EU)
So they doubled the price of a 5 year old indie title. Another day 1 purchase
wish I could sell the hundred unplayed games my Steam library because all the games I bought on Steam and never ever played are coming to Switch for redemption
I didn't like this game. Okay it looks really nice but physics and controls are awful.
@Tibob I know, but a game so "old" rereleased for twice its original price, as people point out, hurts even more when it has actually been given away.
@Moroboshi876
Comparing it to the release price someplace else makes sense indeed !
A Wii u port?
@nagash That’s why hoarding games, especially digitally, is always a bad idea.
A gamer should never have over 20-25 unplayed games. It always bites you in the ass.
It’s a good game but for 30$ there’s too many other good platformers for less. I’d recommend it if it was 20$ or less.
Loved this game on WiiU, but as others have said, the double hike in price just tore away all my excitement when seeing this article popup. Will wait for the inevitable 50% off sale.
@BigKing That's what I thought as well. Pricing at $15 again would probably be fair. $30?? Pass.
@Tibob @hcfwesker @rosemo @BigKing The original Wii U release didn't include DLC like the Rise of the Owlverlord expansion, so it's not "the same game rereleased for twice its original price".
@Moroboshi876 It's not given "for free" if you only get it when you're paying for a XBox Gold subscription.
You can complain about the price all you want, but let's try to be fair.
@Kochambra I understand your point, it's just 30 for a digital game is too much as it is, but Giana Sisters is a game that has been in other systems for quite some time, cheaper (maybe not twice) or just for free (with active subscription, yes). Regardless of extra levels.
@Kochambra wow, dlc included for a 5 year old game for double the price. Great deal.
I wanted to play this game on Wii U but never got around to it. Definitely excited to play it on Switch. I think I’ll wait for a sale, though. I have enough other stuff to play in the meantime.
@Kochambra I get all that, I'm not paying double the price for DLC I'll probably never play. So, by not releasing the DLC for WiiU owners, its fine to charge $30 for the whole package again!?!? I used to speedrun this on WiiU, but the load times added minutes to the overall run compared to other versions. Again, I will wait for the inevitable sale a month or 2 after release.
@BigKing Yes, it does include all DLC. That's a detail you chose to omit in your first message, which makes the comparison you made seem quite a bit misleading.
@Kochambra old wine in new bottles, bruah. It's an old $5 game bundled with some DLC most wouldn't buy anyway.
The only thing that I like about the $30 price tag is just how disrespecful it is to the Switch owners
It's a great game but I'm not happy about the price. Will probably get it digitally in a sale. Really hope the load times have improved significantly on the Wii U version as that was the games biggest drawback.
"(...) alongside new tracks from German composer Chris Huelsbeck"
Day 1
@Kochambra I'm all about trying to be fair, read my first comment.
But you must admit that 30€ isn't on the cheap side. It was released for :
> 15€ in 2012
> 18€ (game+DLC) or 5€ (DLC alone) in 2013
I have this on WiiU, I love platformers and this one is pretty. It is also boring. I regretted the purchase and warn people to watch videos before buying. Watch the actual gameplay, not the beauty. The play is shallow and boring despite the pretty.
@Tibob I'm not arguing whether the Switch price is too high or too low, and I couldn't care less whether you people buy it or not.
A user posted a misleading comparison and everyone started repeating the "it's the same game rereleased for twice its original price" fallacy like it was true, which it's not. That was the point of my message.
Loved Giana Sisters on C64. Bought the WiiU version and have regretted my hard earned euros ever since. Beautiful graphics, mediocre gameplay (and I'm being generous).
So juristically speaking not the Ultimate Edition. Just in case they wanna release another.
Forget the fact for the moment that this is thirty beans... but why on earth are Brits having to pay more than our friends in the US and the eurozone? Sterling is tanking, yes, but it's not at parity with the dollar or even the euro quite yet. Hard pass.
The biggest drawback of the Wii U version was that the game crashed in the loading screen from time to time. A full single-life playthrough on Uber-Hardcore mode was practically impossible even if you played godlike.
@JasmineDragon Not at all, she's drawn in a very unappealing way.
How much dlc was there for this game? Rise of the Owlverlord and the Halloween pack?
Got a physical copy, which arrived today, for just over £25 from Shopto, which for me personally is worth it for a physical version of my fave platformers of recent years. Really don't understand some of the negativity surrounding it (the actual game as opposed to the price)...it looks gorgeous, the soundtrack is excellent, it controls really well, is challenging without being unfair and makes constant clever use of the 'shifting' mechanic. One man's trash is another man's treasure I suppose But that being said, the price is a fairly big issue compared to other versions and I probavly wouldn't have paid this much for a digital copy. The new levels and new music are a big plus point for me as a fan though, and may be for others.
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