"Consider this," jan Misali once said regarding Donkey Kong. "is there a way of interpreting the phrase 'overcoming great obstacles' any more literally than a person jumping over a large object that's in their way?"

Celeste comes across to me as a game about climbing a mountain, for people climbing their own mountains.
Maybe its way of representing these themes aren't as completely consistently presented as I would have wished, but I think it's still fairly in line with where I feel I'm at currently, and it's a compelling experience through and through.

I'll make another review once I've seen what Chapters 8 and 9 have in store for me.

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the celeste soundtrack by lena raine
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