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http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/project-giana/project-giana



I'm just getting into KS and I wanted to get the word out about this little project. It's a remake of something but no need to get into the sordid history of it. The quick and dirty is that it's a Mario type side-scrolling platformer, complete with breaking blocks, jumping on bad guys' heads and collecting floating, shiny things.

You play this cheery blonde girl in a nasty nightmare world. The twist is that you can, at any time, reverse the combo - you morph into a punk chick while the world changes into candyland. The change also affects the look, function and tangibility of enemies, objectives, hazards and interactive terrain (for example, a platform might move up in candyland and down in nightmare land).

A very reasonable $10 already gets you the full PC game. They also just put up two playable levels for backers to try out, and it's really nice.

Looks kinda cool, although the idea of 2 worlds in a platforming game has been done before, like in the excellent flash game series shift.

 farrowking37 wrote:
Looks kinda cool, although the idea of 2 worlds in a platforming game has been done before, like in the excellent flash game series shift.

Nothing is or has been original, it is all about the execution, and this looks pretty well done. At well enough to get my support anyway.

Not saying it was a bad title, it actually really good looking.
While i think the game is cool, i don't have any money to support it with so....

I totally wish I could support this Kickstarter. I like the art style of the game. The game play sounds like it could be fun. I haven't played a good platformer since Kameo on the 360.

EDIT: I take that back... Bastion was the last good platformer I played.