page about Celeste

Celeste is my favorite game. I think I'm pretty good at it :)

About the Game

Celeste is a game about a girl named Madeline who climbs a mountain. It is made up of 7 main chapters, a bonus chapter, and the DLC chapter Farewell. In the main story, you climb to the summit of Celeste Mountain. Afterwards you can unlock the bonus chapter 8 Core, and then chapter 9 Farewell which was released in September 2019 and is included with the game.

Celeste is a 2-D puzzle platformer. Each chapter is made up of "levels" or "screens" that act as respawn points when you die. Celeste is an incredibly difficult game, but super player friendly. You start with basic controls, and each chapter introduces different elements to maneuver around and gives you opportunities to build your skills. When you die, you respawn almost immediately, and most screens are very short allowing a lot of trial and error.

The last chapter Farewell is SO HARD! I'm currently stuck on it. It's technically challenging especially because it requires wavedashing. It is longer than any other chapter. The last screen is also extremely long. In the time it takes to navigate the final screen, a skilled player could play through all of chapter 1.

Characters

Madeline

• Madeline is the main character in the game! You play as her. the story is about her. She can jump, dash, and wall climb. She is trying to climb Celeste Mountain
• She is canonically a trans woman!
• She has depression and anxiety and a lot of the game is supposed to be a metaphor for overcoming mental illness

Badeline

• referred to in the game as Part of You, sometimes referred to as "madelevil"
• Madeline's "dark" mirror-self

Theo

• Madeline meets Theo on her climb
• Theo has an Instagram account (in the game, it's called Instapix) @theounderstars

Mr. Oshiro

• He runs the Celestial Resort

Granny

Bird

Collectibles

Throughout the game, there are optional collectibles that provide an extra challenge. These include strawberries, casette tapes, and crystal hearts.

Strawberries

Strawberries are hidden all throughout chapters. Some are in obvious places, and some require more searching. Many are very difficult to get. There are 175 normal strawberries in the game. There are also golden strawberries, which are obtained by completing a level without dying. Winged strawberries will fly away if you dash during a screen. There is a winged golden strawberry that can be obtained by completing chapter 1 Forsaken City without dashing.

In total, there are 202 strawberries. Getting them all is extremely difficult and extremely rare. The last strawberry is notoriously difficult, and having 201/175 strawberries is referred to as "being in purgatory".

I have 177 strawberries, or all the normal ones and 2 goldens!

Casette Tapes

Casette tapes are found in hidden rhythm rooms where the blocks on the screen will dissappear and reappear to a beat. There is one casette tape per chapter. Once you find the casette tape for a chapter, you've unlocked the B-side, which is a more challenging variant of the chapter.

Crystal Hearts

Each chapter has a crystal heart that can be found. They are generally harder to find than strawberries or casette tapes and might involve exploiting a game mechanic or following a code. There are 8 blue crystal hearts found in the "A-sides" of the first 8 levels.

There are also red and golden crystal hearts. These crystal hearts are not hard to find. Red crystal hearts are found at the end of a B-side. Once all 8 B-sides are completed, you unlock C-sides, which consist of 3 extremely challenging screens based on the chapter. They require high accuracy and precision. Golden crystal hearts are found at the end of a C-side.

moves / techniques

dash

jump-dash

dash-jump

Wavedash

The wavedash is a very famous and useful technique. To wavedash, you jump, dash diagonally down, then jump when you hit the ground. If timed correctly, your dash refills when you hit the ground but you're still propelled forward so you effectively have 2 dashes.

Coyote Time

My sibling told me about this one basically there's an extra couple of frames after you leave a platform where you can still jump, giving beginners more breathing room. This can be exploited for speedrunning and incorporated into custom maps.

wallbounce, hyperdash, ultrahyper, demodash, corner boost, water boost, etc.

Sources

Some of this I know from playing the game, some of it I know from watching speedruns / other YouTube videos, and a lot of it I know from wikis

There are two Celeste wikis that I know of: celestegame.fandom.com; and my favorite which is still under construction: celeste.ink.

I also found a lot of stuff on the devlog, celestegame.tumblr.com.

also /r/celestegame

Music

The music in Celeste is composed by Lena Raine who also composed Pigstep for Minecraft. Lena Raine is so awesome all of her music in the game is awesome and great and the Celeste OST is incredible. Farewell also has its own OST and it is INCREDIBLE.

One of the most widely loved songs in the game is Resurrections, it's over 9 minutes long! I have a playlist I'm working on that ranks my favorite Celeste songs. But mostly the whole OST is so good and Farewell OST they are both beautiful.

Game Development

Celeste was developed by Maddy Thorson of Extremely OK Games. Maddy and a group of her friends created Celeste in PICO-8 in like 4 days as part of something I dont remember. Then they developed it into its own game!! They had to create an entire new physics/programming/something system because Unity wouldn't work that well. At first the entire game was going to be at pixel resolution, but then they decided to make the UI high res, and the opening map hi res 3D!!!!

misc

the font used in Celeste is called Renogare. It doesn't always load properly lol. It is the font used on this page