Celeste

Celeste really is what its about, Climbing a mountain... I picked this game up not knowing what it was. Not having much platforming experience I got it thinking it would be a light and fun game to play for a short bit. I quickly realized I was incorrect and had made a mistake, this game was not for me... but I was struck by one of the first things the game tells you "You can do this" like it knew most people would think this way. So I kept going, easy enough at first but rapidly I was slowed to a dragging pace. At some point in each chapter I would audibly say "There's no way" and would get off. Everytime the next day something would tell me to try again. So I would try, die, try, die, try, die hundreds or thousands of times but eventually I would make it, only to say the same thing the next level. I have played many souls & souls-like games and enjoy high difficulty but this game hits different. Its brutally hard and frustrating and annoying at times but also beautiful and amazing and incredibly rewarding. This game is a mountain. Its filled with walls, setbacks and false peaks but if keep going you will learn can something about yourself. So begin the climb, be persistent and stubborn, forget the failures and relish in the successes and remember "You can do this".

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☐ Your Mom probably would enjoy this
☐ Kids
☐ Everyone
☐ Everyone except kids
☑ Casual players
☑ Pro players
☑ People who plan to take one game and make it their life
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☐ Potato
☐ Really bad
☐ Bad, but playable.
☐ Bad
☐ OK
☑ Good
☐ Beautiful
☐ Masterpiece
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☐ Free
☑ Buy now
☐ Consider to buy it
☐ Worth the price
☐ Wait for sale
☐ Maybe if you have some spare money left
☐ Do not buy it
☐ Do not throw money into a trash can
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☐ 90's PC
☐ Minimum
☑ Medium
☐ Fast
☐ High end
☐ NASA computer
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☐ You just need 2 arms
☐ Easy
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☑ Average (Depends on the difficulity set)
☑ Hard
☐ Dark Souls
☑ Only the best of the best can complete this game (for golden berries or mods)
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☐ Long enough for a cup of tea
☐ Short
☐ Not too short
☐ Depends on you
☑ Long
☐ Very Long
☐ Endless
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☐ Only gameplay, doesn't include a story.
☐ There is a story, but most of the game is focused on gameplay.
☐ Better than nothing I suppose...
☐ Average.
☐ Decent.
☑ Amazing
☐ Fantastic!
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☐ Game itself is one big BUG
☐ Bugs destroying the game
☐ Lot of bugs
☐ Few Bugs
☐ You can use them for speedrun
☑ Nothing (I've seen)
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☐ One long, tedious grind
☐ Fun at first, but gets old quick
☐ Better than mobile
☑ Consistently fun
☐ Can't stop playing, even though I should be finished
Comments:
Ive heard a lot about it but never got it until recently... (I spent a week playing it nonstop)
Definitely in my top 10s, the base game is super fun and not insanely difficult like the mods or harder achievements. Its perfect for anyone wanting a good challenge. I was worried about it being long and getting boring over time but it stayed super fun all throughout the game. I loved the story, it wasnt complex but it was a super addition to the game.
I also found the mechanics super easy to learn and very fun to use, the game felt great to play and if I had a neuralizer I would use it on myself to experience this game for the first time again
The game was also a super good length, not too short to feel like it wasnt worth it and not too long to say "jeez when will this end"
I got all the achievements and even the super hard ones didnt feel gruelingly annoying to get, just very challenging
totally worth it 110%
Here is a checklist of stuff you should try:
-getting all berries
-Finishing all b-sides
-Finishing all c-sides
-Getting all the achievements
-getting all gold berries
(for those who want to torture themselves)
I hope this review helps! You can upvote it if you found it helpful!

Very good game, the story and it's themes + funky art makes everything beautifully enjoyable. 10/10.
Might turn you into a girl though.

i have nothing else to say that hasn't already been said but i will say i used to be a noob gamer but celeste unfortunately changed all that, took me a thousand hours but im able to say i finished all the b-sides, c-sides, farewell because celeste never gave up on me. every death, every minute with this extraordinary game was worth it. i'll never play another game quite like it.

My terrible reaction time turned this into a horror loop where I die every 2 seconds.
20k deaths/10 would suffer again : )

The moment I got mods for this game, I knew it was all over.
I've currently beaten a few hardlist levels, and the end is still nowhere in sight.
Seriously please help I can't stop playing
Also steam is a liar, I have about double the time it says I do

This game is amazing, and despite its difficulty, if you're a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, you can even play with assist mode. Regardless, the audio and video are both beautiful, and it's just overall a rather mellow and enjoyable experience, and said mellowness doesn't feel at all diminished by the difficulty. If you don't have patience, though, this might not be for you. Have previously played on console, just to elaborate.


---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☑ Beautiful
☐ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS

---{ Gameplay }---
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't

---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf

---{ Audience }---
☑ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☐ Grandma

---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☑ Potato
☐ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{ Game Size }---
☐ Floppy Disk
☑ Old Fashioned
☐ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Will eat 15% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data

---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☑ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

---{ Grind }---
☑ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding

---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☐ Some lore
☐ Average
☑ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life

---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☑ Average
☐ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond

---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☑ Worth the price
☐ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money

---{ Bugs }---
☑ Never heard of
☐ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

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