Giana Sisters App Reviews

First time Ive ever played this game, nothing overt about it but the aesthetic feels 80s to me anyway. Like watching "gremlins": the pacing is slow, and the characters fantastical.... Early levels are easy (so far), not a lot of extra bells and whistles. Not the most addictive game in the app store but thats part of the charm.

I would love to play the game, I bought it and it was going to install but now the app just continually says waiting. It wont download. If there is anything you can tell me to help it would be appreciated and I will give you a good rating. Ridiculous you pay $5 for something that wont work and free apps work all the time.

Needs a little work and had I known before I wouldnt have paid $5 for it. However that said its a fun game with multiple levels to challenge you.

This is an easy to pick up and play kind of game that is fun and is a nice Alternative to Super Mario or Leps World.

Yikes, what a disappointment. Dont upgrade to 2.0! I havent run it yet on my 5th gen iPod touch, but on my 4th gen this version is filled with graphical glitching, horrendous slowdown, crashes, and quite frankly the new menu system is rather dull and boring. New high res graphics for retina displays? Well the game looks crappy on the 4th gens RETINA display. Also what is the$1.99 Level pack? Extra levels? A sneaky way to unlock original game levels? More info please!! The awesome intro story and opening level? Gone. Oh and your game progress? Say bye bye to that as well. It appears that the game is under new management. Which seems to the root of the problem. Thanks for breaking a already perfect game. :(

The gameplay is now laggy and off after this new update. The fireball firing is delayed. Poor update to a great game.

What happened?!? The previous version was fantastic and ran great! 2.0 has so many graphical glitches, horrible load times, and LAG! Please fix!

The most recent update completely ruined the game, adding crippling hiccups and numerous glitches.

We I downloaded update, it made me start all over again. I was very far into the game. Very upset!!!

It took them close to a year before they updated to the 4-inch display. Now the controls are useless. The buttons take 5-6 taps to register. I paid $5 when this first came out and now its garbage. I wish I could get a refund for the developers ruining a good game.

Zero stars! The second most recent update rendered the game unplayable (on iPod touch 4) and wiped out all my scores/ levels. The most recent update did not fix. Thanks for ruining a great game.

I love the game now that youve fixed the issue with it not saving game data when its closed out. But you still need to work on some things... Personally I dont care about the few minor visual issues like the lines in the water etc. My issue is with having to pause the game to answer my phone or something & when I come back I have to reopen the game & start the level over, usually losing the "punk Giana" which on some levels is a real pain. Another big issue is with the maps freezing up & I constantly have to quit the game, close the app & then reopen. A few times I had to do a phone reboot for the game to work again. Also level 9-1 is all kinds of screwed up. Its very very slow & choppy. Bad enough its unplayable. Fix these few things & add more levels... Id give you 5 stars. Heres a hint for everyone... Since you can go to any level in the game whenever you want, if you need extra lives, go to level 1-3. Its an easy level & there are close to 200 crystals to get extra lives. I would play that level over & over to stockpile extra lives lol.

I prefer the older version as far as the loading screen, the graphics, and the size of the characters...the game characters seems smaller since the update...also the loading screens are plain and boring now with no animations why fix something thats not broken...plz change it back to how it was... if this is how it have to be because its optimized for the iPhone 5 screen I would rather it not be optimized for my iPhone 5...also the game has tares in the background and the attack detection for the fireballs are way off the fire doesnt even touch the enemy and the enemy dies before the fireball even touch them...please fix and I will rate the game higher...why fix something that is not broken at all...smh

I payed $1.99 for this app and it doesnt even work. I would like a refund.

I love to give this app five stars but there are a couple of things that keep me from doing that. One the transition from level to level requires that you go to a map and select the level you want. Which sort of brings me to my primary complaint which is if you play a level and you decide to go back to replay the map gets frozen and you wind up getting stuck. The only way to fix this is if you beat the level that you were currently on. The only way I can do that is by playing it over and over but with the map frozen I cant do that. I can only play the level one time and then after I die I cant select anything. Really frustrating please fix this

There is very very problems...

Update 5: Version 2.2.1, performance is still garbage compared to 1.x. Been recycling the same accurate review for 14 months now, shocked you guys even bother to update. Same ol review with present day revisions: Version 2.2.1, same. Absolutely terrible support, performs nothing at all like the 1.x.x versions. Or the 2009 Nintendo DS game for that matter. Frame rate issues, animations and loading screens/transitions are rough, and upon closer inspection graphical artifacts exist such as lines/gaps between sprites (see 1st retro level for example.) Versions 1.x played flawlessly on my iPhone 5; 2.x has just been unplayable for me (under iOS 6, 7, and now 8.) Really dont see the point of these updates if all they do is break what used to work. Clearly this wasnt ready to be updated and yet you release it anyway, unoptimized and untested; this is greatly concerning to me. I had hopes it would improve, but 14 months later Im convinced you really just dont care. Not a good game plan for success.

I purchased the DLC for level pack and it freezes the screen and wont let me click once I finish all the levels on the island.

Game crashes about 15 seconds into level 7-8 every time.

It is a good game, but with the new update, I can no longer play ANY levels. The app crashes before I can do so.