Celeste! ♫ the best a game can get ♫

playing on switch & realized I needed a reasonably OK d-pad p early on. ordered an 8bitdo controller. no regrets!

anyone else not love the celestial resort stages? there's just something about the rhythmic glob maneuvering that I can never quite get a handle on.

If you can get locked in on the cycles it’s more fun.

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2018-12-23-new-very-hard-levels-are-coming-to-celeste-in-early-2019

zs, you seen robot assisted runs? this one is particularly nuts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEcv7BD1q9o

I spent last week in bed recovering from surgery and playing Celeste.

Went from loving the story but rushing through the levels and not caring at all about strawberries to beating the game and suddenly realizing that I really really wanted to go back and get everything I missed the first time through. I can't remember the last time I felt the need to 100% a game but I'm pretty sure it was like, the first Donkey Kong Country?

Anyway, this is a great game. Looking forward to driving myself insane trying to unlock the Core level.

finally went on sale on switch btw

jfc the b sides

this game owns so hard

run one done. 2016 deaths yowch. swear a large percentage of those were on summit flag 10

I don’t know what happened with this game, but first time round I found it WAY too difficult and gave up on the fourth or fifth screen. Six months later, after a bunch of twitch-learning playing Super Mario 3 on the Switch NES emulator, I’m magically able to play and even enjoy it. It’s a great game!!! Obviously.

Although I have to be careful to play in 30 min bursts or my hand will literally die

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bx5JGv0HVKp/

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2019-06-02-celeste-free-dlc-contains-over-100-levels

levels meaning screens - apparently that makes it about as long as the summit chapter

ahhhhhh. well that's a little confusing!

can't wait! i've been meaning for an excuse to play through the regular levels again anyway. i'll probably do it again to prepare for the DLC (which is apparently harder than any of the normal levels, but perhaps not to the level of a b-side? not sure)

chapter 6 b side

fsck me

Niiiiice

That shit is hard. I think I finished b-sides 1-5? Maybe 6?

I’ve done b sides 1-5. I’m halfway through 6. it is brutal. I swear I dropped 200 lives on one screen alone

DONE

905 deaths

can we get a report on the health of your left thumb? i think that b-side is where i had to take a break (now several months long) to heal

summit b side done. thumb in tatters

live shot of ||||||||'s thumb:

https://i.imgur.com/5Qf3he2.jpg

... and core run through done. just the core b side to do now before...

c sides

there’s A LOT of content in this game. and while it is def a 10/10 there are some mechanics I just don’t get on with (controlling the cloud jumps and the beast-head tadpole thing that flys at you, come to mind... generally all of the things that fly at you are pretty annoying)

core B side DONE

C sides unlocked

Nice, just yesterday I picked this up for the first time in a while and started working on summit B. Game’s good.

It took me a long time to get practised enough to enjoy playing this game, but it’s SO good

It reminds me of Zelda BOTW in the sense that, I feel like every other game I play like this is going to feel lacking by comparison from now on

bagged my first C side. not sure if I'll go for them all

think I'll try for the first golden strawberry and the dashless golden then maybe call it a day.... maybe

fffffffff dashless strawberry dome. how hard could it be I thought

brutal

I will never play this game (too hard) but the thread title delights me every time I see it.

the game has accessibility options that let you adjust the difficulty in a pretty granular way! I believe you can turn down the speed, add extra dashes, and turn off spike damage. Play this cool game!

the thread title delights me every time I see it.

:) i was hoping someone else would like that

I don't think this game is all that hard? The main story is quite doable. The post-summit stuff is much harder but that's your treat for completing the game.

yeah, agreed. it never felt unfairly difficult to me. well, not until one part towards the end of the summit b-side, I guess.

never made it past the first screen of the c-side resort. I think I doubled my death count on that one screen alone!

I really liked this game, but gave up on it pretty early. Maybe I'll go back to it some day.

zs, you seen robot assisted runs? this one is particularly nuts

watched this yesterday. Some of the middle section parts were truly insane. I love the bot's approach to the black blobs in the hotel.

beat 7B a week or two ago, it was A Lot.

preview track from the OST for the upcoming Chapter 9 is up

https://radicaldreamland.bandcamp.com/album/celeste-farewell-original-soundtrack

chapter 9 out now !

Celeste wasn't very interesting when I tested it. The collectable apples were annoying. The dash jump wasn't special. The story was as light as any flash game. It looked like any flash game.

Watched the speedrun and the game never got any better.

So you’re hinting that you didn’t enjoy the game

I never understood how it got so much hype

Sorry I guess. It’s probably my favorite game of all time, if such a thing is meaningful.

As someone who gave up/set it aside pretty early on, but still appreciated what I played, I think it's because it's a super-challenging platformer that isn't based on lucky bullshit, just perseverance. But I think more importantly, those rapid respawns are key. If it took just another few milliseconds to try again, people would have been pissed. (fwiw despite Hollow Knight being a personal all-time fave, I never pursued the harder post-game levels, because like Celeste I ultimately find that stuff more frustrating than fun, even when the game looks gorgeous.)

It's crazy how much work the developers must have done to create content that's only going to be seen (outside of cheats and youtube videos) by very few ultra-skilled players. I beat the game, but almost all of the B-sides, all of the C-sides and all of Chapter 9 are just impossible for me--and for a lot of other people like me, I think. I'm not complaining, though! It's just amazing that they've put so much effort into the margins

you can turn on assist mode if you want to see it!

7B was a journey

I just started playing the game and finished the first two chapters... Can anyone tell me, without spoiling too much, does anything actually happen if you collect all the strawberries? Or all the crystal hearts? Or are they there just so you can brag about having found all of them?

The game explicitly tells you that you don’t have to collect the strawberries.

Yeah, I know, but I was wondering whether collecting them unlocks some extra content or something.