Celeste! ♫ the best a game can get ♫

I haven't played in a few days and my thumbs are still sort of numb.

i made it to the summit level let's doooo this

I've hit a spot which must be toward the end of the hotel level where I know I have to bounce up this chimney and not get hit by those moving pairs of lava things and I know I can do it and that it will take me 100 tries and ... I just don't feel like it. I'll get to it eventually.

Made it to the summit :)

the voices in this game are adorable

YOLOOOOO

I played the entire main story line without knowing any of these tricks! I figured out just the very first, easiest one on accident and thought that was cool

https://youtu.be/-fzcnDIpuZs?t=5m20s

oh my god! the last time i played i was super freaked out by these whispering voices that i couldn't make out.

MYSTERY SOLVED (voices at 1:10)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE8diav5I1k

possible spoiler: don't play that until after you've gotten through the mirror chapter

I've just about reached the point in this game where all remaining strawberries and uncompleted (i.e. b-side) levels are effectively impossible for my slow-reflexes, low-dexterity, near-middle-aged self.

Beat the core though!

Theo's instagram

https://www.instagram.com/TheoUnderStars/

did anybody watch that video about the whispering voices? i thought it was really cool, but i admit that i am weirdly into reversed whispering voices, probably too much so

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvhCThWWy3Q

the end of chapter six was an incredibly hokey narrative turn visible from a mile off, but also otoh a sweet boss battle

I have now beaten the chapter 6 B side, it only took 2399 deaths

:O

i think that's where i left off with the game, halfway through it

I bought this as a treat for myself for finishing a grad school application

I am dying a lot

It is hard

I thought there'd be ten or so levels that let you into it slowly, but

Nope

It may be a perfect game but I am on an extended break (I'm as early in the game as the hotel, iirc). The game is relentlessly difficult, even if it handles dying well, though to be fair/honest I haven't tried it on the easier setting yet.

My right thumb fell off after 30 mins play

Mind you it's still easier than Ghosts N Ghouls

got through the chapter 6 b-side, damn that was rough. but was surprised that only 800-something deaths or so (lol) got tallied up at the end. cool.

loved the summit b-side, what a complete joy to play through... until those wall jumps, my GOD. third flag from the top just brought my momentum to an absolute stop. probably spent half my time for the level on this one screen. but I made it.

then the first screen of the core b-side really humbled me. now on hiatus due to travel but due to deep self-doubt.

def one of the best games ever.

i took a break a while back because my thumb was hurting so badly! think i'm healed up now, but it's gonna take a while to get back in the groove again

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.