Giana's Return - Teaser Videos !

[Christuserloeser]

The guys over at Gianas-Return.de uploaded a video showing the game's first level !

Source: http://www.gianas-return.de

[mankrip]

It looks very good.

[Christuserloeser]

New video, introducing the second world:

Source: Gianas-Return.de

[GyroVorbis]

I love how the first one is Mario themed. That's really cool that they did that.

The game looks really nice. Very polished and professional looking. I'm excited.

[RMD]

Is this a freeware project or are they doing that whole comerical thing? I really wanna play it but I wouldnt buy it Looks very polished and the soundtrack is to my liking very much. I'd buy the sound track ^_^

[mankrip]

It's freeware.

[GyroVorbis]

I had no idea, haha.

[TechnoWolf]

Very impressive. Suprised they haven't linked the youtube upload to the progress blog, or did they and I missed it??
At any rate, this one has been a long time coming. Count me in for being among the first to DL and park myself on this game for a good while once it's released. I wonder if they will include a VMU save or save state ability in this new release?

Anyone reading this post who doesn't realize, you can download the "alpha" version (quite extensive and cleanly playable) from...when was this Christus? 2005 or 6?
http://dchelp.net/sbi/files/Games/Giana ... 090_CG.sbi
Make sure the download saves to your drive as .sbi and NOT .zip
Use SBInducer.

[Christuserloeser]

I think it may have been in 2005 or even 2004... It's been 2004. I remember that some members of the original team like CHN abandoned the project when v0.90 was released. That's what caused the delay in the project's development. Kojote needed a while to get a new team together. I think him and operator are the only ones left from the team that released v0.90

[tekkaman1]

Seems like a nice game to pass time. ^_^

[RMD]

Man it would be really nice to see this out before xmas since I'm getting absolutly no games for christmas and the more and more I watch the videos the more and more i'm grow excited.

[Christuserloeser]

Giana’s Return - returns for sure, but when?!

Dear Giana Sisters enthusiasts,

Working on a sequel of such a famous game as “The Great Giana Sisters” is not an easy task. We have heared many comments up to now and most of you might still remember the public Versions of Giana’s Return v0.91 for GP32, Dreamcast and Windows (32-Bit). Most people are happy to see the progress, some just feel ashamed that we are touching an alltime classic and trying to put it in a new shape. As the team itself is very addicted to those kind of games, let us assure you, that we do our best to keep the faith of the original.

The current progress is in a stage, where everything is fully playable but needs a lot of graphical adjusting and level retouching. Our betatester Mulle, a kind and helping hand from Germany, has already put a lot of time into the game, by testing details. The game wont be out tomorrow, neither in a month - but we will not abandon anything.

The storyline is complete and currently beeing added to the engine, same applies for the illustrated story. The tile adjusting will require some more time, so far 4 tilesets are adjusted, this makes 3 sets left.

The rough final should be ready by end of this quarter, we will use the second quarter of 2008 to iron out and fix details - of course this timeline is rough and only applies if nothing bad happens.

To raise your mood and get the time of waiting a bit reduced, here are the links to the three videos, posted on youtube.

World 1 in action:

World 2 in action:

World 3 in action:

A new video of the lava world should be up in the next two weeks. For everyone who was in the dark about the “release date”, now you have more background information.

Greetings
Yours Giana’s Return Team