Uploaded March 2023 | Updated September 2026, 8 hours ago
uhhhhhhhh
Positives: First 5 rooms are incredibly consistent, I like the visuals, and the music is a contender of my favorite track in the collab
Negatives: The last 3 rooms are kinda horrible tbh. Room 6 starts off with an extremely inconsistent and seemingly variable wounce off kevin where sometimes I just die because oops I guess so. Room 7 has a slightly annoying start with the moving blocks, sometimes I just wouldn't get any speed off them which also sucks. But then the gultra from the bird throw is possibly the worst thing off all time (at least for me). I think you're supposed to use the moving block's momentum to actually get the speed to beat the kevin, but for some reason maybe 25% the cycle would actually line up. If you don't make the moving block cycle you can backboost with the jelly, but it's still a backboost which is quite easy to mess up. ALSO, you may not even have enough speed because the moving block might start going back which would just kill all your speed. Lastly the final room has this horrible jelly throw which is also inconsistent as there's practically real set-up for it, and I died to that twice. I also died at the last last part but that was just me being stupid lol.
tldr; 1st half is great but 2nd half brought this silver so much lower for me, back to solar grind i guess
Enjoyability: 60/100
Total: ~3 hours
uhhhhhhhh
Positives: First 5 rooms are incredibly consistent, I like the visuals, and the music is a contender of my favorite track in the collab
Negatives: The last 3 rooms are kinda horrible tbh. Room 6 starts off with an extremely inconsistent and seemingly variable wounce off kevin where sometimes I just die because oops I guess so. Room 7 has a slightly annoying start with the moving blocks, sometimes I just wouldn't get any speed off them which also sucks. But then the gultra from the bird throw is possibly the worst thing off all time (at least for me). I think you're supposed to use the moving block's momentum to actually get the speed to beat the kevin, but for some reason maybe 25% the cycle would actually line up. If you don't make the moving block cycle you can backboost with the jelly, but it's still a backboost which is quite easy to mess up. ALSO, you may not even have enough speed because the moving block might start going back which would just kill all your speed. Lastly the final room has this horrible jelly throw which is also inconsistent as there's practically real set-up for it, and I died to that twice. I also died at the last last part but that was just me being stupid lol.
tldr; 1st half is great but 2nd half brought this silver so much lower for me, back to solar grind i guess
Enjoyability: 60/100
Total: ~3 hours
![The Former Hardest Celeste Map | The Solar Purgatory [FC] 1ST CLEAR](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/PgY8oUsI7kw/mqdefault.jpg "The Former Hardest Celeste Map | The Solar Purgatory [FC] 1ST CLEAR
is THIS, the hardest celeste map? lets find out
Map by ZKB: https://gamebanana.com/mods/496206
Total: 34:31:12 | 23763 deaths
Enjoyability: 90?/100
also streamed live at https://www.twitch.tv/olive r
Ill get this out of the way. Is this actually a new hardest Celeste map? Very likely yes. I personally think that Im very good at theo/throwable gameplay, and I got through every other room in this map in around 5-6 hours TOTAL. Id say the rest of the map is around mid-high 2* difficulty, but Abaddon is when the difficulty just skyrockets. This single room took nearly 30 hours, making it the longest Ive spent on a room in Celeste AND clearing a map. Now I did *almost* manage to clear around 20 hours in, but I still didnt clear it. And even then if I did, Id have said that this wouldve been harder than Dashless+ and LXVI. Abaddon is simply brutal in difficulty. But who knows, currently only me and Mei have significant progress on this room, and maybe Issy will just completely obliterate this room in 10 hours idk. But still, its extremely likely this may be the hardest (at at least one of) room in Modded Celeste.
As for my personal experience, I thought most of the map was pretty fun! For being made in very little time, I personally liked most of the gameplay. Though as usual there were always some random spots in rooms that kinda just sucked (like pre-nerf R9 Sumber start). Definitely my least favorite room was R7 Agony, consisting of the most ANNOYING 1f at the start of the room and at the time of playing, a completely RNG cornerboost ending. For the other rooms, I dont really think theres anything as notable. One tech that I did have to learn was the dream jump hyper (or DHJ or Mickey Mouse). I remember having a really hard time learning this input (especially cause the tutorial requires a controlled jump), but believe it or not these do get extremely consistent.
Now Abaddon. I did mention this when talking about difficulty, but yes this is an extremely difficult room. Of the four quarters in this room, I dont really know which one is the hardest anymore, but its between Q2 and Q3. Q2 used to be really difficult, but eventually got consistent. Q3 when starting out *seemed* to be not that bad, but I soon realized how easy it was to die not only due to nerves, but because this quarter is generally very awkward in some places and generally easy to die in. Q1 is like 50/50, sometimes you clear it multiple times in a row, sometimes you just get stuck at the beginning bumpers cause they SUCK! And Q4 is definitely the easiest, albeit possibly easiest to die to. Being centered around just speed and dream blocks, its very die-able. Now I still think I did start to get a little unlucky cause yknow, dying 10 times in the same spot in Q4 isnt exactly normal luck (maybe a skill issue). But despite this, I still think its the easiest quarter.
My take on Dont Choke is this: its really not that difficult like Im sorry lol. I can definitely see how people think this part is absolutely horrible to put at the end of the room, but practicing it you realize that it isnt bad at all (at least for me). Theres 2 spots that are die-able: The turnaround bumper and the bumper after the fall. Basically everything else in that room was free. Now I do also agree that this isnt really a Dont Choke, but basically another (smaller) room. But I think that *eventually,* this becomes closer to what a Dont Choke could feel like, as I only died two (TECHNICALLY ONE) times to it.
I think Im done yapping. Huge thanks to ZKB for making the map and Freeka for making the awesome music. Especially thanks to Mei for helping me increase my incentive to clear. Shoutout to all the people currently attempting this map, and shoutouts to all my friends who were in VC with me as I cleared this. Thank you!
also hardest celeste level")
![[SDVX] Xronièr (MXM) Clear](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Pyf93P0715E/mqdefault.jpg "[SDVX] Xronièr (MXM) Clear
forgot to upload. absolute chads in the bg
7/18 20s")
![Legally Distinct Secret Santa Collab [FC] (All Maps + Berries) | Celeste Mods](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/R8_ZD8KP4Kk/mqdefault.jpg "Legally Distinct Secret Santa Collab [FC] (All Maps + Berries) | Celeste Mods
like... dunno... say something...
Mod: https://gamebanana.com/mods/611577 (BadTie, LuukasM, Rat, sp1029, Giga, Iosun, UKiran, Freeka, Chelito, more)
Total: 16:08:06 hours | 14158 deaths
Enjoyability: 84/100
(stats do include chontest maps)
this technically still counts as a beginner to grandmaster collab
pretty fun collab would definitely recommend a few of these maps
its very inaccessible if you dont have gm experience though lol
https://twitch.tv/olive r
Enjoyability List:
Pongma: 93/100
Lunar Memories [FC]: 75/100
The Chontest [FC]: 91/100
Crazy Colorful Core: 87/100
Evil Electric Castle [FC]: 90/100
Broken Wacky Warehouse: 96/100
The Mad Lads: 94/100
Watercolor [FC]: 79/100
Lets Try This Again: 84/100
Dont Leave Me Alone Here [FC]: 97/100
Anomaly [FC]: 70/100
Heart Heist [FC]: 94/100
Timestamps:
Pongma - 0:00
Lunar Memories [FC] - 5:46
The Chontest [FC] - 12:53
Crazy Colorful Core - 13:17
Evil Electric Castle [FC] - 14:50
Broken Wacky Warehouse - 16:31
The Mad Lads - 18:41
Watercolor [FC] - 25:34
Lets Try This Again - 30:59
Dont Leave Me Alone Here [FC] - 44:22
Anomaly [FC] - 48:25
Heart Heist [FC] - 55:13
Heart + Journal - 1:01:56")
