The feeling I get from looking through those final binoculars and seeing the summit... completely indescribable.
I adore games which weave storytelling directly into the gameplay, and this is one of the very best at it. The duality of determination and perseverance in the face of oppressive self-doubt is front and center; a game about trial and error and failure portraying the beautiful, wonderful irony of human nature. Celeste continually presents mountains at you and encourages you that it's entirely possible to climb it. You think to yourself, "this next mountain is insurmountable," but the quick restarts, snappy controls, and absolutely killer soundtrack beg you to try just one more; until you finally, somehow, make it to the next screen. In the end, it doesn't matter if I died 1400 times from the Summit C-side. What matters is that I made it. I did it. And I really think that's something special.
Stay safe fellas. Take care of yourselves. You may climb your mountain and find yourself at the base of another, but please keep climbing.
I adore games which weave storytelling directly into the gameplay, and this is one of the very best at it. The duality of determination and perseverance in the face of oppressive self-doubt is front and center; a game about trial and error and failure portraying the beautiful, wonderful irony of human nature. Celeste continually presents mountains at you and encourages you that it's entirely possible to climb it. You think to yourself, "this next mountain is insurmountable," but the quick restarts, snappy controls, and absolutely killer soundtrack beg you to try just one more; until you finally, somehow, make it to the next screen. In the end, it doesn't matter if I died 1400 times from the Summit C-side. What matters is that I made it. I did it. And I really think that's something special.
Stay safe fellas. Take care of yourselves. You may climb your mountain and find yourself at the base of another, but please keep climbing.