There is a whole lot to love about mobile phones nowadays, approaching and even surpassing the love and wonder inspired by mobile phones when they were a brand-new concept. Mobile technology has improved and evolved consistently over the years, allowing mobile service providers and mobile content providers to craft and enact changes to the services and content offered, getting higher quality, smaller size and increased functionality and flexibility from every new release. Nowadays, ringtones, mobile music and mobile applications have taken the forefront of the mobile revolution, affording users more variety and entertainment than once thought would ever be possible.
Among the many popular types of mobile applications are mobile game apps, which are either console games ported over to smartphone platforms like the iPhone, or all-new creations looking to make it big. Some games like Phaze are a blend of both, being new titles and new properties that adapt classic modes of gameplay and graphical styles to come up with an interesting new spin on the old. New mobile game app Gianna Sisters is almost all of the above – a new-feeling port of a DS game that is actually a new spin on an old Nintendo classic 1987, The Great Giana Sisters, a game that tried to break into the Super Mario Bros. platforming market with an exceedingly similar sort of game.
As an iPhone app Giana Sisters starts out with a very Mario-esque vibe, complete with run-and-jump platform progression, brick smashing, fireball power-ups and coin collecting, punctuated by ending levels with a Bowser-ish boss in a castle. By the time the game hits the second world, though, Giana Sisters begins to replace the exhausted Mario-pattern possibilities with a new style all their own. Crumbling platforms, deep water and sharp stalagmites all present pitfalls and challenges never present in the old-school Mario games that TGGS somewhat blatantly seemed to copy, and a greater variety of off-the-wall power-ups completes the transition from clone to new player. From dispensers come various enhancements — soda bottles, to be shaken in order to get rid of brick obstacles and extinguish fires, or bubble gum to be blown into person-sized balloons to fly around in. Unlike almost all iterations of the plumber games, additionally, a flower-pot check-point provides a venue to save one’s progress.
Saving progress is a godsend as well, as this game features some 80 newly-created levels that one can run and jump through with the two available control schemes [Classic, the recommended setting, and Touch]. The levels look amazing as well, with layered backdrops that are simple but very effective at drawing the player into the game world with its crisp and clean aesthetic. The music completes the casting of the spell as well, with nostalgic midi-style tracks that blend together to form a variety of moods and styles that set the stage well for the exciting but never overwhelming action. It isn’t altogether surprising that Giana Sisters has something of a cult following, with its clear inspiration point and fresh spin on all things platforming.
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