Giana's Return

After The Great Giana Worlds, Kojote, who had been responsible for the level design of that game, founded a group of coders, musicians and graphic artist who worked on yet another remake of the original Giana Sisters game. In 2009, Giana's Return was finally released to the public. 

This game was primarily made for Windows, but from the official website numerous ports to other platforms can be downloaded, including Amiga OS 4, GameCube, Linux, Dreamcast and Wii. The game was coded in C and it uses the SDL graphics library, which is the reason why it was so easy to port it to other platforms.

Giana's Return consists of 56 levels, which makes it considerably larger than the original Giana Sisters game (32 levels). After each eight levels, the player has to fight a boss. The boss fights are pretty difficult compared to the remaining game.

What makes Giana's Return a bit easier than the original Giana Sisters game is that the player does not lose a life immediately upon hitting an enemy. Instead, he/she loses only some energy. Only when the energy bar reaches zero does the player lose a life.

The levels are based on a great variety of themes, including snow, caves and volcanoes. There are also many different background music tunes, so the soundtrack will not get boring.

Giana's Return is really fun. It has a balanced gameplay, and the game mechanics are pretty good, so you can easily control the character and jump over obstacles. The graphics are also fine, especially the ones featured in the cut scenes.

Credits - some of the people involved in the making of this game are:

Rodolphe Boixel (Thor)
Shahzad Sahaib (Kojote)
Jane S. Mumford (Jayne)
Adam Karol (Wizzard)
Simon Butler
Virgil Metier (tHUG)
Christian Hildenbrand (DayDream)

Official website of the game: https://www.gianas-return.de/
Some background information can also be found in Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giana%27s_Return

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