History YMMV / GianaSistersTwistedDreams

** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isTJbkxwoig Track 3, Cute Giana]]. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iH2RbJkt3TMTrack 3, Punk Giana]].
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tprPXv0xO44 Track 4, Cute Giana]]. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CT77jF_Kpf8Track 4, Punk Giana]].

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7A8g-tyRe3I Indeed]].

*** Is it just me, or is that first link a ridiculously strong EarWorm? Even the C64 form of that theme is catchy, and how many C64 music tracks are still EarWorms some 20 years later?

** 3-7, Boiling Springs, gets pretty nasty near the end where you have to float down a vertical corridor lined with fireball shooters and a part where you have to get from extremely narrow platform to extremely narrow platform above a moat of acid while deathtraps are orbitting said platforms. One false step and you can do the whole thing over again.

* WakeupCallBoss: ''The very first boss'', '''Hansel and Gretel''', is this. If you are not familiar with its simple pattern or don't have good timing to activate the spike floor the boss can be very difficult.

* ThatOneLevel: 1-6, Amethyst Mines, it is the first lengthy level, it is also when the game's difficulty raises considerable requiring precise jump timing and has an absurd amount of spikes with moving platforms gimmicks never presented before. To top the level is lair of the first boss, Hansel and Gretel.

** ''Brilliant!''. Earning Five Stars in every level, requires dying less than three times (five in some levels) and picking at least 90% of the gems. Keep in mind that after 1-5 the ''rest of the entire game'' is made of [[MarathonLevel Marathon Levels]].

** ''Brilliant!''. Earning Five Stars in every level, requires dying less than three (five in some levels) times and picking at least 90% of the gems. Keep in mind that after 1-5 the ''rest of the entire game'' is made of [[MarathonLevel Marathon Levels]].

** ''Brilliant!''. Earning Five Stars in every level, requires dying less than three times and picking at least 90% of the gems. Keep in mind that after 1-5 the ''rest of the entire game'' is made of [[MarathonLevel Marathon Levels]].

* ThatOneBoss: '''Octor Freud''' can become this quickly if you don't realize that the floor changes as you switch between Giana's forms and that you need to wait for it to attack with its vulnerable tentacle.

** ScrappyMechanic: The bubble gum doesn't show up until World 3, but the controls when inside the bubble are absolutely ''horrendous''. Overlaps with FakeDifficulty and also applies to the DS game.

** ''Harder than Quartz'', ''Harder than Obisidian'' and ''Harder than Diamond''. Awarded for beating ''worlds'', not levels, one, two and three, respectively in Über Hardcore. Have in mind that dying once in Über Hardcore means '''''GameOver''''' and you'll get thrown to level '''ONE'''.

* ThatOneLevel: 1-6, Amethyst Mines, it is the first real long level and when the difficulty raises considerable requiring precise jump timing and has an absurd amount of spikes with moving platforms gimmicks never presented before. To top the level is lair of the first boss, Hansel and Gretel.

* ThatOneBoss: '''Octor Freud''' can become this quickly if you don't realize that the floor changes as you switch between Giana's forms and that you need to way for it to attack with its vulnerable tentacle.
* WakeupCallBoss: '''The very first boss''', Hansel and Gretel, is this. If you are not familiar with its simple pattern or don't have good timing to activate the spike floor the boss can be very difficult.

* ThatOneBoss: '''Octo Freud''' can become this quickly if you don't realize that the floor changes as you switch between Giana's forms and that you need to way for it to attack with its vulnerable tentacle.

** ''Brilliant!''. Earning Five Stars in every level, requires dying less than three times and picking at least 90% of the gems.

* SurpriseDifficulty: Many people are easily fooled by the cutesy art and the simplicity of the first levels and take this game to be easy, then comes the DifficultSpike to impale them mercilessly.

* PanderingToTheBase: The addition of the Easy mode as a lot of people were complaining ([[NintendoHard maybe rightfully]]) that the game was ''too'' difficult, which lead to:
** TheyChangedItNowItSucks / RuinedForever: Let's just say that the Easy Mode wasn't that well received.

** Brilliant!. Earning Five Stars in every level, requires dying less than three times and picking at least 90% of the gems.
** Harder than Quartz, Harder than Obisidian and Harder than Diamond. Awarded for beating ''worlds'', not levels, one, two and three, respectively in Über Hardcore. Have in mind that dying once in Über Hardcore means GameOver and you'll get thrown to level ONE.