r/celestegame

The title for the streams is gonna be something like:"Beating farewell golden" or I dunno something like that, if you played Celeste you know what I mean. I really like how it turned out the thumbnail, but I wanna hear your opinions.

Btw for the commentary thumbnails I'm gonna stick to the simplistic style

I don't know how to do this kind of jump

I dealt with this jump in chapter 3 by restoring my dashes with room transition, but I encountered the exact same problem in chapter 4 help I'm dying

Idk how this was rated as a "2/10 difficulty"

I have been trying it for the last two weeks but so far my best low death run is 5 deaths. Maybe one more week and I will be free.

Took a while to find all of the shields around the lobby.

Hello! This is my first real post on Reddit because I don't know anyone in real life that has also played Celeste. I had to get this out somehow and this felt like an appropriate place!

I picked up the game on my Switch back in 2019 during college and played it through feverishly, I thought it was just superb in every way. I've never been the greatest gamer technically, but I was still able to clear all the levels aside from Farewell, find the red strawberries, even get a handful of goldens. I definitely felt myself hit a ceiling with the difficulty at a certain point (probably around 188 or so?), and with school and life taking up my time I wasn't able to grind and get better, so I eventually put the game down.

Cut to seven years later, this past March me and my girlfriend had just bought a PS5 from a friend of hers and I see Celeste on sale for $5. Obviously I buy it; a million other games I could play but something about getting to relive the game I was obsessed with for a year's time made me giddy. I started playing and it was like riding a bike. I remembered everything so well: all the stages, the controls, the spikes I died a thousand times on, but something was different this time around. My reaction times were better, I felt myself getting the hang of physics and momentum, I was ... improving??

I breezed through the base game, even completing Farewell eventually, picking up loads of strawberries, getting to 175 in about a week, which then became 180, then 185, then 190 until I was getting golden strawberries on levels I never thought possible. About a month ago I was up to 198, which was already so satisfying, fearing the Hell Trio I've heard so much about.

7b was just infuriatingly long, but somehow one day I sit down for a play session and beat it on the first try. 6b took a lot of dedication but eventually I got farther and farther until I finally cracked 200 berries. Then came 8b, which I knew would be my nemesis: something about the timing of the cycles, those conveyer belts, those fickle lava blocks.. me and 8b simply did not see eye to eye, I put it off for months until I had no other choice. I grinded, I got timing down, I fixed mistakes, I never gave up, and finally...

Just yesterday, right before me and my girlfriend had to leave for a Fourth of July party, I got all the way to the last screen and didn't even choke on the music blocks. 201 Strawberries!! I couldn't believe it, I was so happy I'm still so happy as I type this 24 hours later. Finally I feel like I'm at a satisfying stopping point with one of my favorite games. I don't think I could ever, even with all the improvement I've had over the years, ever make it through Farewell deathless, so 201 feels perfect to me.

I know this is a touch longwinded but I just had to share this achievement with a community that I'm so grateful exists. I've lurked a ton searching for advice, tips, routes for goldens, seeing other people's achievements and being motivated by them, so I'll end this post by saying thank you to all the awesome people who still love an awesome game.

I'm supposed to wavedash off of the moving block and then quickly reverse wavedash back onto the block but I rarely manage to actually pull this off. Is this the intended way to do this part? It feels like such an awkward timing

credit to u/HorrorReach5245 for the idea!

Thank you u/Drexophilia for correcting me: this is a silver berry not platinum.

Thank you u/Martitoad for correcting u/Drexophilia and me: this is a platinum berry, not a silver /j :).

CONGRATS TO u/Plenty_Psychology_88 for beating pumber !! (the second most difficult non-heartside sj map) (guess whats the most difficult sj map :) )

What a fun map! I really like how consistent the room design is, it's just bumpers, greens springs, and moonblocks all over the places. Also it's so dash-full, Lv8 doesn't even use a single jump lol

Can't believe it went from "man I wish there's an advanced version of Pumber it looks so fun" to actually finished it myself now

I never got why the moon had so many fish, both in gameplay and in the background. Then yesterday I remembered Madeline describing her depression as being trapped at the bottom of the ocean with no way out. Farewell is about the depressive state Madeline is in caused by granny’s death, which is why it’s filled with fish like an ocean

Idk if this is common knowledge, but I never noticed until now

11 to go

Definitely the hardest B-Side golden by far imo, took me like 2 weeks of grinding on and off to get. I got so nervous at the end holy

Hell Trio 3/3, Farewell left. This is gonna take a while isn't it?

had to lift some weight off my head