this map feels desolate, in an eerie sort of way. like there's not just something wrong, but something _missing._ like you're not supposed to be here, but nobody's around to stop you. unsettling.
To me it seems playful and serene, like a park maybe. It's the friendly little green patches guiding you along. They make it seem like you have a friend here Edit: just from watching, to be clear. I haven't played it
Between the atmosphere and the extreme lack of spikes (or any other special elements), this looks like a super easy level that's more of an interactive cutscene, like a story break between actual levels. Instead it's a super precise gauntlet made for people that are 3 levels above anything the game ever throws at you. Celeste is fun
This map feels good. Vibe wise, I mean. Im so used to seeing horrifyingly tense looking gameplay, and while this map is undoubtedly hard, theres something I really enjoyed about Madeline's chill little hike. Yknow what I mean ? Felt nice, is all Im sayin.
if i had only five words to describe the vibe of this mod, it would be "everything is gone but you", which is why I think the flower at the end is so heart warming
It's amazing how this level manages to look like decorative natural terrain in an irrelevant section, when it actually is carefully designed to be really precise and difficult but definetly possible. It did a good job.
Yea, the clear layout makes it much clearer to see what's happening, feels like what a climbing instructor would use to demonstrate advanced techniques in a real environment. Not that i know any of that
This map disturbed me the first time I saw it, and still does. Like, sure, it's calm and peaceful and whatever, but personally I think that's a load of bullshit and I think the creator(s) probably know that. There's a story here, but one that you're not being told. The formula for every room is repetitive- challenging, ramping up in difficulty somewhat, but really never changing. It's eerily quiet. There isn't even the sound of birdsong. The only sign of life besides Madeline is some patches of grass- and at the end of the chapter, you reach a point where even that is dead. Black specks of... *something* drift on the wind in the background- ash, maybe? You can see a city overlooked by whatever mountain you're climbing. That's a sign of human life, right? But the windows are dark and empty, and you keep coming across the ruined pylons of long-collapsed structures. The music is shallow and forlorn and reused from the entrance to the core where literally nothing happened and it was only there as a sort of filler because it was just meant to drive anticipation except in this chapter it never progresses and never changes and the chapter ends in a dead rocky hole in the ground with nothing in it but a single flower and *why is Madeline the only sign of actual human life*
This feels like a playable cutscene gone long and gone wrong, I keep expecting to hear the music progress, or something to happen, or someone to talk to Madeline, and it just never does It's not hostile, it's not really friendly, it just is It's after the end of the world
this map feels so vast. it's like a collection of tiny, cramped islands in the sky and the massive space between them. it never felt like there was anything beyond those gaps and there always was
this level has such an impenetrable aura about it. it's like meticulously designed to be hostile while not losing its sense of forthrightness and naturality. great stuff
The camera cuts are so subtle yet genius in a way I can't describe. In your video about the "Kunst saga" the way you this clutter of visuals clashing for screen space combined with the unsettling ambient music makes this really unsettling atmosphere, but then the images resolve their war and the hellish chords stop being played, replaced by the calm empty field of black and the almost heavenly chorus begins as the video comes to its resolve. What I'm trying to say is that you're the only person I've ever seen that can really tap into the *video* in video essay. You're an amazing artist.
This map's vibe is interesting. There's absolutely nothing about the city in the background that gives the idea that it is empty, but everything about the level makes it _feel_ that way. There is something that once was, and now isn't, and you are there to not see it. This little sign at 5:45 will remain in my mind for a long time. Someone digged for something. But there are no signs of an excavation anywhere (except maybe the very last room? but that feels like a stretch), that sign is a sign that someone was there, you are not the first one to be here, but whoever was here is gone, and the only proof of their existance is a small unreadable yellow sign, telling us of whatever they were doing there. (Obviously the unreadabilty is an artifact of the fact that it's pixel art, but I like what that adds to the sign). It almost makes me think of Rain World. I'm captivated by whatever this map is doing, y'all
I love the way the game plays with the very sparse bit of advice it gives, and then very quietly breaks its own setup. Green is the way forward, you have to figure out how to use the green patches of lands to do those insane jumps, some of them you end up not using anyway... and then there are these stretches where there is no green, and then a couple of new features pop in, crystals for a little bit and then they're gone, you just.... gain your double dash out of nowhere. I dunno, I like it, it's very quietly messing with you while it messes with you.
While the tech is easy to understand, knowing the tech’s names, setups, and criteria for that tech is the hard part Also at the final room, there is a delayed ultra which is “easy” to understand
This gives me some of the the same feelings as Getting over it with Bennett Foddy, but without Foddy’s meta narration. Climbing up a mountain that seems devoid of human life with only the sounds of wind. With challenges that comes from the geometry of the mountain and not from a bunch of different game mechanics. It’s just you learning how to use the movement style to climb above unforgiving great voids of open air.
Never head of this game don’t have any interest in playing and I’m assuming this was a mod for it, but I could tell I was witnessing some real skill. I watched start to finish and enjoyed it all. Very little videos like this ever reach me this was a nice switch up
The dissonance in this video is very real, atleast from the perspective of someone who's never seen this mod Like the map has a chill atmosphere owing to it's naturalistic palate/texture choice, lack of overt hazards, and stripped down piano background music. But then you read the description and Patty says "this is probably the hardest map i'm going to complete" and "FINAL DEATH COUNT: 34610"
i love how... unassuming this looks it really seems like its the introduction to something more intense with spikes everywhere, but nope ! instead you have great difficulty with alsmost no spike at all, and the movvement for the rooms isn't as contrived as other hard maps
This map reminds me a lot aesthetically like getting over it, with the visual connectivity between levels, the stressful and impossible seeming routes to progress combined with the calming music and random architectural quirks of the map making a seemingly impossible but also strangely comforting evironment
This mod gives me the same... calm but curiosity filled(?) energy I used to get from a different game (william and sly), that I wasn't expecting to find again. The calm music while you explore, the wooshes as you jump and fall, the trail of hair flowing the same way the fox's tail did in william and sly. Heck, even the way you did those little crouches in celebration reminded me of the way you could just flick around to celebrate getting into somewhere hidden. The cozyness of seeing both the sky and the dirt in the background, knowing you're free even while jumping precise jumps. This was interesting, and I wasn't expecting to find this feeling again, especially in celeste.
I love Celeste, it's by far my favorite game of all time. After seeing your video on it, I've actually recently been playing through the Spring 2020 Collab (About halfway done with the intermediate worlds). That being said... I could literally never finish this map, I don't think. Not only do I not have the motivation or time I would need to memorize the layout and movements necessary, I just don't have enough dexterity in my paws to do the actions necessary :( Still loved watching you beat it, though!
@@Patricia_Taxxon Noted, will do :> As an aside, I've had your music on in the background while I play through this, thought that may make you happy to know
i remember you mentioning Celeste wayyyyyy back in the getting over it video and how different the vibes are in each one. well it seems that if in aesthetic at least Celeste is coming closer, especially with those evil wall jumps and ultras. TBF that is also relying on the assumption I've made that the pits in each screen just take you to the screen below lol
That was probably the most natural feeling I've seen the things that take those high difficulty movement techs. Like it really feels like a lot of the lower intensity areas in vanilla just instead of regular jumps and dashes you have to do reverse supers and hypers. Really cool design and well done!
This mod and your quiet playthrough of it was very... desolate and lonely, I felt cold from that sheer feeling at the end honestly, and went to go hug my cat after watching, great gameplay too ^-^
GG! I remember playing this map 3 months ago and it was super fun all the way until I reached the hard rooms lol The only reason this map is gm+1 is because of water room and final room imo
I’m on the final room rn and watching this video back somehow gives me nostalgia, despite only having 6 hrs in the level over 2 days. It’s a testament to the atmosphere and the intensity I felt when clearing any room in this. Amazing map, but I’m not done and my paws hurt as well, 0/10
This truly is something else of a map The few spikes that exist are placed incredibly intentionally, and they're not meant to be death hazards. The only way to die is to fall, and there's something very.. real about that? Like, this isn't a level in a video game made by a creator, this is a rock formation in the side of a cliff that's nearly impossible for a human to traverse without the proper equipment and knowhow. A space without the intent to be platformed on, a rock that didn't choose to be climbed
Ok, consider how difficult to play 8-bit games were in say 1982, just imagine what it would be like watching someone author them in real time video clips
you might as well be bounding from mountain top to mountain top you have reached a point in skill where you can just super jump over any obstacle. Thats how high level Celeste makes me feel some times
I'm bad at platforming. Is this stage considered to be more difficult than ordinary Celeste? I'm a bit lost here. Lovely video btw. I like how she showed all the dead ends.
you did some good work on this one, ma'am. personally, i still genuinely struggle with doing neutral walljumps. those things are the bane of me, but it's more towards a matter of practice and finding ways around having to do them if i can.
If youd like to try a heavily nonlinearity-focused map, I made one but it allows you to get properly lost so some people understandably didnt enjoy that aspect of it (it also has only ambience in most rooms cuz Idk why but I love that) but I really made the map with this very thing being the focus for me so If it sounds enjoyable (I love getting lost lol) maybe give it a try some day 😳👉👈
dear lord. how long does it take to get to this level? i'm just starting out in the celeste modding scene and have beaten a few of the advanced levels so far, but i could never imagine attempting this.
i'm around mid advanced in skill level but i've beaten ultra skool and was able to reach 1-7 (2:22) in not *too* long, i've heard it gets much much harder later on though
i barely even managed to clear Summit what in the world is this hm, well i guess Summit was made a easier by the double-dash, but it was still super hard
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im not getting the strawberry i need to maintain my paws for piano playing
I think you’re cool
Love your content and it really helped me in bad times, thank you.
What the dog doin
what da dog doin
Strawberries are expensive.
this map feels desolate, in an eerie sort of way. like there's not just something wrong, but something _missing._ like you're not supposed to be here, but nobody's around to stop you. unsettling.
Looks like somebody added collisions to a skybox
@@Fail-harold that's a really cool way to look at it
To me it seems playful and serene, like a park maybe. It's the friendly little green patches guiding you along. They make it seem like you have a friend here
Edit: just from watching, to be clear. I haven't played it
The music contributes greatly. I think Postcard from Celeste Mountain is one of the most underappreciated on the soundtrack imo
Like you've broken the bounds of the play area.
watching this video was a whole bunch of "THEY WANT YOU DO TO WHAT????"s for me
words cannot express how much joy Madeline's lil bouncy crouch spam after every hard room in celeste videos give me 🥰
Honestly! I was about to write a comment saying basically the same thing lmao
The Celeste squish is a blessed move
i read that as "crotch spam" at first D: but then re-read it and went "oh yeah no i agree"
@@LoverOfMuch with how asleep i was when i typed that honestly i would've believed you for a moment if you told me i had haha
its like tea bagging but out of joy instead of disrespect. (usually)
I like how everything in this video is so much harder than it looks to an outsider.
funny seeing you here lol
Between the atmosphere and the extreme lack of spikes (or any other special elements), this looks like a super easy level that's more of an interactive cutscene, like a story break between actual levels.
Instead it's a super precise gauntlet made for people that are 3 levels above anything the game ever throws at you.
Celeste is fun
@Nodrance Nodrance funny thing is that this is actually *above* three levels anything the base game throws at you 😭
I've never played this game, but this still seems almost impossible to me
as an outsider, i can say that patty's previous video on celeste mods does give me a much better idea of how much harder than it looks this is
This map feels good.
Vibe wise, I mean.
Im so used to seeing horrifyingly tense looking gameplay, and while this map is undoubtedly hard, theres something I really enjoyed about Madeline's chill little hike.
Yknow what I mean ?
Felt nice, is all Im sayin.
Yes, at a certain level of competence the intense action hackervision music just doesn't get you in the right headspace.
“Chill little hike” huh
if i had only five words to describe the vibe of this mod, it would be "everything is gone but you", which is why I think the flower at the end is so heart warming
It's amazing how this level manages to look like decorative natural terrain in an irrelevant section, when it actually is carefully designed to be really precise and difficult but definetly possible.
It did a good job.
Yea, the clear layout makes it much clearer to see what's happening, feels like what a climbing instructor would use to demonstrate advanced techniques in a real environment. Not that i know any of that
Deceptively calming.
This map disturbed me the first time I saw it, and still does. Like, sure, it's calm and peaceful and whatever, but personally I think that's a load of bullshit and I think the creator(s) probably know that. There's a story here, but one that you're not being told. The formula for every room is repetitive- challenging, ramping up in difficulty somewhat, but really never changing. It's eerily quiet. There isn't even the sound of birdsong. The only sign of life besides Madeline is some patches of grass- and at the end of the chapter, you reach a point where even that is dead. Black specks of... *something* drift on the wind in the background- ash, maybe? You can see a city overlooked by whatever mountain you're climbing. That's a sign of human life, right? But the windows are dark and empty, and you keep coming across the ruined pylons of long-collapsed structures. The music is shallow and forlorn and reused from the entrance to the core where literally nothing happened and it was only there as a sort of filler because it was just meant to drive anticipation except in this chapter it never progresses and never changes and the chapter ends in a dead rocky hole in the ground with nothing in it but a single flower and *why is Madeline the only sign of actual human life*
id recommend looking at the underpass trailer, its a map being worked on by the same creator and it kinda expands on the style of mauve
This feels like a playable cutscene gone long and gone wrong, I keep expecting to hear the music progress, or something to happen, or someone to talk to Madeline, and it just never does
It's not hostile, it's not really friendly, it just is
It's after the end of the world
That was calming, no weird obstacles floating around, just jumping and minimalistic music 🌸🍃
this map feels so vast. it's like a collection of tiny, cramped islands in the sky and the massive space between them. it never felt like there was anything beyond those gaps and there always was
this level has such an impenetrable aura about it. it's like meticulously designed to be hostile while not losing its sense of forthrightness and naturality. great stuff
It's horrifying and honestly dejecting. I could see myself playing it if I mained this game, but no. Never
The camera cuts are so subtle yet genius in a way I can't describe. In your video about the "Kunst saga" the way you this clutter of visuals clashing for screen space combined with the unsettling ambient music makes this really unsettling atmosphere, but then the images resolve their war and the hellish chords stop being played, replaced by the calm empty field of black and the almost heavenly chorus begins as the video comes to its resolve.
What I'm trying to say is that you're the only person I've ever seen that can really tap into the *video* in video essay. You're an amazing artist.
The Best, in my opinion.
This map's vibe is interesting. There's absolutely nothing about the city in the background that gives the idea that it is empty, but everything about the level makes it _feel_ that way. There is something that once was, and now isn't, and you are there to not see it.
This little sign at 5:45 will remain in my mind for a long time. Someone digged for something. But there are no signs of an excavation anywhere (except maybe the very last room? but that feels like a stretch), that sign is a sign that someone was there, you are not the first one to be here, but whoever was here is gone, and the only proof of their existance is a small unreadable yellow sign, telling us of whatever they were doing there. (Obviously the unreadabilty is an artifact of the fact that it's pixel art, but I like what that adds to the sign). It almost makes me think of Rain World.
I'm captivated by whatever this map is doing, y'all
I love the way the game plays with the very sparse bit of advice it gives, and then very quietly breaks its own setup. Green is the way forward, you have to figure out how to use the green patches of lands to do those insane jumps, some of them you end up not using anyway... and then there are these stretches where there is no green, and then a couple of new features pop in, crystals for a little bit and then they're gone, you just.... gain your double dash out of nowhere. I dunno, I like it, it's very quietly messing with you while it messes with you.
Thanks to your other video, I now (vaguely) understand all of the Ultras you did for this! Good job! :D
While the tech is easy to understand, knowing the tech’s names, setups, and criteria for that tech is the hard part
Also at the final room, there is a delayed ultra which is “easy” to understand
This gives me some of the the same feelings as Getting over it with Bennett Foddy, but without Foddy’s meta narration. Climbing up a mountain that seems devoid of human life with only the sounds of wind. With challenges that comes from the geometry of the mountain and not from a bunch of different game mechanics. It’s just you learning how to use the movement style to climb above unforgiving great voids of open air.
Never head of this game don’t have any interest in playing and I’m assuming this was a mod for it, but I could tell I was witnessing some real skill. I watched start to finish and enjoyed it all. Very little videos like this ever reach me this was a nice switch up
You really need to play it, it's so fun. It's hard, oh God knows it's hard, but when you win it's the Best Feeling Ever to win.
As someone who has 550 hours in Celeste, you should definitely play it
play it its good
The dissonance in this video is very real, atleast from the perspective of someone who's never seen this mod
Like the map has a chill atmosphere owing to it's naturalistic palate/texture choice, lack of overt hazards, and stripped down piano background music.
But then you read the description and Patty says "this is probably the hardest map i'm going to complete" and "FINAL DEATH COUNT: 34610"
i don’t play celeste much but i like when you go really fast midair like weeeeeeeee
I like how the little exploration bits aren’t gm, they’re just sort of worldbuilding for the map ya know?
i love how... unassuming this looks
it really seems like its the introduction to something more intense with spikes everywhere, but nope ! instead you have great difficulty with alsmost no spike at all, and the movvement for the rooms isn't as contrived as other hard maps
You can feel the triumph in every squat.
this is so well edited, amazing how well it holds attention without any voiceover or anything, really well done!!
I absolutely love the editing in this video. The way we see the room and then get a cur to the completion tickles my brain harder than it should.
i wish i had the videogame ability of never needing rest and just explore desolated areas for waaaay too long.
This map reminds me a lot aesthetically like getting over it, with the visual connectivity between levels, the stressful and impossible seeming routes to progress combined with the calming music and random architectural quirks of the map making a seemingly impossible but also strangely comforting evironment
you can tell how difficult each room is by the amount of bounces at the end of each one
Oh man this map got at some feelings I haven't felt in a while. I can't imagine what it was like getting through it.
What a beautiful map. Honestly, the spikes and dash crystals almost felt out of place in it. Just amazing
This mod gives me the same... calm but curiosity filled(?) energy I used to get from a different game (william and sly), that I wasn't expecting to find again. The calm music while you explore, the wooshes as you jump and fall, the trail of hair flowing the same way the fox's tail did in william and sly. Heck, even the way you did those little crouches in celebration reminded me of the way you could just flick around to celebrate getting into somewhere hidden. The cozyness of seeing both the sky and the dirt in the background, knowing you're free even while jumping precise jumps. This was interesting, and I wasn't expecting to find this feeling again, especially in celeste.
I love Celeste, it's by far my favorite game of all time. After seeing your video on it, I've actually recently been playing through the Spring 2020 Collab (About halfway done with the intermediate worlds). That being said... I could literally never finish this map, I don't think.
Not only do I not have the motivation or time I would need to memorize the layout and movements necessary, I just don't have enough dexterity in my paws to do the actions necessary :(
Still loved watching you beat it, though!
you should do strawberry jam. it’s newer and better as of currently
don't do strawberry jam until you hit a difficulty wall in SC and need something new, it's worse
@@Patricia_Taxxon Noted, will do :>
As an aside, I've had your music on in the background while I play through this, thought that may make you happy to know
Shoutout to the random ladder.
i remember you mentioning Celeste wayyyyyy back in the getting over it video and how different the vibes are in each one. well it seems that if in aesthetic at least Celeste is coming closer, especially with those evil wall jumps and ultras. TBF that is also relying on the assumption I've made that the pits in each screen just take you to the screen below lol
Very impressive!
Hard to believe a puppy did that with just her paws ❤
would love to see more of you playing Celeste, this was a treat
That was probably the most natural feeling I've seen the things that take those high difficulty movement techs. Like it really feels like a lot of the lower intensity areas in vanilla just instead of regular jumps and dashes you have to do reverse supers and hypers. Really cool design and well done!
This mod and your quiet playthrough of it was very... desolate and lonely, I felt cold from that sheer feeling at the end honestly, and went to go hug my cat after watching, great gameplay too ^-^
That was incredibly peaceful, almost therapeutic
this is some grade A video game sorcery
You make the most consistently high quality art on TH-cam.
GG! I remember playing this map 3 months ago and it was super fun all the way until I reached the hard rooms lol
The only reason this map is gm+1 is because of water room and final room imo
This map is what convinced me that even celeste mods can be art
Best Quality: Her Bounces
wow! thanks Patty, this inspired me to start my Celeste replay.
techdog or something idk i'm not an animal
I’m on the final room rn and watching this video back somehow gives me nostalgia, despite only having 6 hrs in the level over 2 days. It’s a testament to the atmosphere and the intensity I felt when clearing any room in this. Amazing map, but I’m not done and my paws hurt as well, 0/10
what the that dog is schmoovin
Skilled at music and skilled attention Celeste
I just like the happy bounce dances :)
Truly, video games are beautiful.
Everytime I see the croch spam I just go "awww doggie!!!" and idk why
I've wanted to play this one. It's on the list for if I ever decide to get good
The tent :(
Also madeline feels so sure of herself when you control her
love the sound track
I don't think I understood it but I definitely experienced it
made me a bit sad when it stopped being green
what the absolute fr*ck I will never be this good stop flexing on me!
GGs you're awesome
Local transfem parkour
This is what Madeline does in her spare time
This truly is something else of a map
The few spikes that exist are placed incredibly intentionally, and they're not meant to be death hazards. The only way to die is to fall, and there's something very.. real about that? Like, this isn't a level in a video game made by a creator, this is a rock formation in the side of a cliff that's nearly impossible for a human to traverse without the proper equipment and knowhow. A space without the intent to be platformed on, a rock that didn't choose to be climbed
Prepare for the 200 unoriginal comments to the effect of "Is this Dark Souls", "This is if Dark Souls was a Celeste mod", etc.
they climbin'
Nothing to say, just thought I’d comment for the algorithm.
AHHHHH i'm so exited for underpass(Mauve 2)
The movement of that dash jump reminds me of Towerfall Ascension
damn, them some ultras
Ok, consider how difficult to play 8-bit games were in say 1982, just imagine what it would be like watching someone author them in real time video clips
Wooo gg, you can submit this clear to the hardlist now.
patty when she uhh umm uhhhhh uhhhhhh uhh ummhhh uhh
Damn this is in my top 3 celeste maps that I will never even try
Lookin good
you might as well be bounding from mountain top to mountain top you have reached a point in skill where you can just super jump over any obstacle. Thats how high level Celeste makes me feel some times
Secret vid secret vid
Momentum :o
3:43 Hehe
damn, good job
gg mauve :D
I'm bad at platforming. Is this stage considered to be more difficult than ordinary Celeste? I'm a bit lost here. Lovely video btw. I like how she showed all the dead ends.
i am the 41st person to clear it
you did some good work on this one, ma'am.
personally, i still genuinely struggle with doing neutral walljumps. those things are the bane of me, but it's more towards a matter of practice and finding ways around having to do them if i can.
34610 deaths? sounds about right, i couldn't manage past the first screen
OH WOOOWW
Amazing
good to know
gg
hm. no wonder i couldn't figure this one out
*crouchcrouchcrouchcrouchcrouch*
you should read “17776”, i think you would love it.
omg yes
hey 'taxxon! how you doin :)
i am vibin. i need to add your new music to my "Patricia Taxxon told me to do this" playlist. then listen to it all again
If youd like to try a heavily nonlinearity-focused map, I made one but it allows you to get properly lost so some people understandably didnt enjoy that aspect of it (it also has only ambience in most rooms cuz Idk why but I love that) but I really made the map with this very thing being the focus for me so If it sounds enjoyable (I love getting lost lol) maybe give it a try some day 😳👉👈
god damn
dear lord. how long does it take to get to this level? i'm just starting out in the celeste modding scene and have beaten a few of the advanced levels so far, but i could never imagine attempting this.
total game time at least 1k hours, probably more. in total 41 people have beaten this, and 200 people have beaten something similar in difficulty
i'm around mid advanced in skill level but i've beaten ultra skool and was able to reach 1-7 (2:22) in not *too* long, i've heard it gets much much harder later on though
why is modded celeste gameplay kinda hot?
because people are talented and make very very good maps
strangely enough this reminds me of The End Is Nigh lol
i barely even managed to clear Summit what in the world is this
hm, well i guess Summit was made a easier by the double-dash, but it was still super hard
funny fast map
Nice
gg funny fast map