Uploaded July 2024 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Years ago I released a mod with the express purpose of using only vanilla celeste classic mechanics, yet being difficult to beat using tas tools (thus being a sort of puzzle). Over the last couple months penguin and I have been finding strats and completing levels from that mod, and this is the final one to be beaten. This level wasn't supposed to be the hardest in the original challenge, and there's cheese, but there's just a stupid amount of navigating through really tight spike pits. There are 14 inputs in this level that I'm certain are frame perfect, and there's a lot of additional difficult from stuff that technically isn't frame perfect (if you hold right for too long before the walljump to clip at the end you have to adjust your left press timing with basically no time to react to what's happening visually, for example). It's definitely the hardest 1-screen level I've beaten in this game. It was actually much worse, but I'm also a strat finding god which lead to the strat you see at the end where you get some rather precise rem and can just edgejump and updash to the end. Very happy it's over, although I admit it did start to be a bit fun at the end when I really locked in for the last like hour.
This took slightly less time of attempts than all of JANK (the full mod) combined! Of course, it's much much more when you consider the practice and strat finding. I have no idea how much time I've spent on this over the last ~3 days, but it's a ridiculous amount for one level. I really wanted to get this before I go on vacation soon and before penguin gets it, so I've put in way too much time and energy into this despite already being totally burned out/tired. Yesterday I nearly fell asleep while doing practice lmao.
I might do tech soonish although probably after the vacation I mentioned earlier, and I want to do a full playthrough someday which implies I'd have to beat tas only, but I'm also not certain I'm physically capable of mashing fast enough for it regardless of how much time I put in. We'll see? Not too worried about it though, as cool as a full completion would be it's enough for now to see every level beaten in isolation, which is kind of a full completion if me and penguin lived together and passed the computer back and forth and had completed stuff in a different order.
Video is looped so youtube doesn't turn it into a short, and honestly it's just tradition now so I may as well just do it. Also you probably do need to see it 7 times if you think about it.
Years ago I released a mod with the express purpose of using only vanilla celeste classic mechanics, yet being difficult to beat using tas tools (thus being a sort of puzzle). Over the last couple months penguin and I have been finding strats and completing levels from that mod, and this is the final one to be beaten. This level wasn't supposed to be the hardest in the original challenge, and there's cheese, but there's just a stupid amount of navigating through really tight spike pits. There are 14 inputs in this level that I'm certain are frame perfect, and there's a lot of additional difficult from stuff that technically isn't frame perfect (if you hold right for too long before the walljump to clip at the end you have to adjust your left press timing with basically no time to react to what's happening visually, for example). It's definitely the hardest 1-screen level I've beaten in this game. It was actually much worse, but I'm also a strat finding god which lead to the strat you see at the end where you get some rather precise rem and can just edgejump and updash to the end. Very happy it's over, although I admit it did start to be a bit fun at the end when I really locked in for the last like hour.
This took slightly less time of attempts than all of JANK (the full mod) combined! Of course, it's much much more when you consider the practice and strat finding. I have no idea how much time I've spent on this over the last ~3 days, but it's a ridiculous amount for one level. I really wanted to get this before I go on vacation soon and before penguin gets it, so I've put in way too much time and energy into this despite already being totally burned out/tired. Yesterday I nearly fell asleep while doing practice lmao.
I might do tech soonish although probably after the vacation I mentioned earlier, and I want to do a full playthrough someday which implies I'd have to beat tas only, but I'm also not certain I'm physically capable of mashing fast enough for it regardless of how much time I put in. We'll see? Not too worried about it though, as cool as a full completion would be it's enough for now to see every level beaten in isolation, which is kind of a full completion if me and penguin lived together and passed the computer back and forth and had completed stuff in a different order.
Video is looped so youtube doesn't turn it into a short, and honestly it's just tradition now so I may as well just do it. Also you probably do need to see it 7 times if you think about it.
