Monika
[Celeste D-Sides OST] 02: True Love
updated
also edited by layla, and she made the thumbnail.
you can download the level file here!
drive.google.com/file/d/1JeHCi7HJ6hyVLDWcfPsA1PDM2-HxGRi3
girlfriend link:
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credits:
editing + thumbnail work done by Layla:
www.youtube.com/@LaylaMakesThings
slinck
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-reach a score of "googol" from a new tony
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Better than New Super Mario Kart, because you can actually afford it.
credits:
editing + most of thumbnail work done by Layla:
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video made by layla:
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voiceover done by me
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For simplicity's sake, i have only included one clip for each room of what felt like the most "intended" way. However, this does not in any way mean that it's the only intended way, or that you have to do it that way.
Feel free to ask in the comments if you need additional help.
Chapter Checkpoints:
0:00 - Start
1:36 - Halls of Reflection
3:18 - Upper Passage
5:27 - Deep Delve
7:51 - Solution
Corrections:
Solution-09
youtu.be/Rc68Ydz6IBA
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For simplicity's sake, i have only included one clip for each room of what felt like the most "intended" way. However, this does not in any way mean that it's the only intended way, or that you have to do it that way.
Feel free to ask in the comments if you need additional help.
Chapter Checkpoints:
0:00 - Start
1:35 - Overhang
3:38 - Rugged Roof
6:32 - Change of Flow
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YouTube is a platform where you watch videos online.
credits:
editing + most of thumbnail work done by Layla:
www.youtube.com/@LaylaMakesThings
4D remix by BeanJammin:
www.youtube.com/@BeanJamminMusic
www.beanjammin.bandcamp.com
5D remix by iosun:
www.soundcloud.com/ioinsun
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update release date: 02.01.2025
watch premiér in 200p
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30% chance fps
defendaar
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This should not be used as a guide, cause at some point i got really into it and started doing hard jumps and skips and stuff.
Particularly cool runs in this were:
Level 36 (16:25)
Level 43, of course (21:18)
Level 44 (22:01)
Level C (24:30)
absolutely cracked defender run and layla had pretty good stuff too
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credits:
original video edited by layla
this video also edited by layla
cheese hourglass drawing by me
burning greenscreen: youtube.com/watch?v=tngSPKeKqX4
Templestanps:
0:00 - Setup
0:02 - Confrontation
0:03 - Resolution
0:07 - Epilogue
edited by layla
thumbnail edited by me
game not by me or layla
credits wroten by me
Map for Yummer beaten with all berries, 100%, without ever dying, no deaths, no splices, Yummer Boss beaten in under 5 million seconds. Full clear. All hearts, all cassettes. Fully cleared. All titles, no descriptions. Yummy.
Link to map: gamebanana.com/mods/504476
(April Fools)
Pretty fun though, as long as i don't do too many attempts at once.
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My latest death was in the room before Staircase Sweep, because i just entirely forgot how to do the beginning somehow. That was strange.
I also had a late death to the second room of Cellar Cleanup in the same play session where i got this, due to not having a good strat for the third batch of coins. So in this video you can see the new revised strat for that part.
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Anyway, since this run includes Any% Deathless, i probably won't make a seperate video specifically for that one.
I also accidentally went for some berries because i'm way more used to the Full Clear routes :3c
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Category explanation:
-"A-Sides" just means the regular chapters, so the ones that aren't the B-Side or C-Side.
-Chapter 9: Farewell isn't counted here because to me it's not really an A-Side, it's kind of it's own thing.
-Unlike my All B-Sides Deathless run, in this one i do the chapters in order due to it being from a new save file.
Timestamps:
0:00 - Prologue
0:46 - Forsaken City
2:47 - Old Site
5:46 - Celestial Resort
13:48 - Golden Ridge
18:48 - Mirror Temple
28:06 - Reflection
37:39 - The Summit
52:14 - Epilogue
52:24 - (break time)
53:23 - The part where i enter Core, only to realize i need hearts and then i go get them
59:32 - Core
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But yeah, that's my least favorite chapter done.
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This might be the best mainline touhou game for speedrunning cause you can actually optimize it without it just being "stand under the boss for as long as possible". So yeah, this is very fun.
I chose Enoko because she's incredibly strong (and also my favorite character from this game, so that helps), so you can kinda just speed kill every boss with the bear traps. This makes her the most fun for me (i think) even though Suika is an incredibly annoying final boss.
Bombs refill after every stage so i just bomb the hell out of each final boss attack. Though this still sometimes leaves me with a bomb or two to spare and i haven't yet figured out how to work those into the run. The thing is, bombs drain all of your gauge so i don't want to use them before the final attack.
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Next up is Reconciliation+ (aka. Hopelessness), which i imagine will take much longer.
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That fireball room and the conveyor/ice wall room after wind springs are both very hard to get consistent enough. Yet i managed to do it thanks to checkpoint goldens not being so painfully long.
There's another remade room in this one, which i think is really cool :)
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Anyway, this chapter does feature a couple really neat strats i came up with, such as:
1:20 - Weirdly consistent spikejump setup to skip a weird jump around the block
3:10 - This room is just full of setups
4:06 - This room took me so long to find anything for, because there isn't a whole lot you can do here that's actually consistent. The regular way is to go up with the bubbles and drop down, and that does have some kind of setup where you just hold left? However, this just fails sometimes, seemingly randomly. I thought it was only when you held jump while hitting the ceiling and that worked for me when i did this the first time, but since practicing/labbing this again, it failed even when i wasn't holding jump? I don't get it, but either way, I have a funny setup for this now that does (i think) work consistently and just skips all of the bubble falling bs. Oh and, yes, the default strat of just timing the falls is just too tight for me to wanna do it. Especially with the inconsistent way you get out of them.
12:16 - Funny buffer setups for this otherwise dreadful room
16:18 - Turns out you can just do this and it makes the room way easier / less complicated
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That big room with all the blades is scary, and especially in this run the falling section too. I also show off a cool switch gate skip before you go into the well.
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Music by liltommyj: youtube.com/watch?v=qmmSiW97eIg
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I'm also pretty much inactive on twitter because it's an awful website.
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Some time ago i've replaced the single golden with multiple Checkpoint Goldens. Unlike in 9D, there is one for every checkpoint on its own. Though the one for the first checkpoint does include Start.
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Either way, this one was pretty quick.
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For simplicity's sake, i have only included one clip for each room of what felt like the most "intended" way. However, this does not in any way mean that it's the only intended way, or that you have to do it that way.
Feel free to ask in the comments if you need additional help.
Chapter Checkpoints/Segments:
0:00 - Start
2:14 - Unbound
3:46 - Dream Recollection
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For simplicity's sake, i have only included one clip for each room of what felt like the most "intended" way. However, this does not in any way mean that it's the only intended way, or that you have to do it that way.
Feel free to ask in the comments if you need additional help.
Chapter Checkpoints/Segments:
0:00 - Start
1:53 - Dark Alley
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For simplicity's sake, i have only included one clip for each room of what felt like the most "intended" way. However, this does not in any way mean that it's the only intended way, or that you have to do it that way.
Feel free to ask in the comments if you need additional help.
Chapter Checkpoints/Segments:
0:00 - Start
2:19 - Steady Breath
4:43 - Pressure
7:01 - Endurance
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For simplicity's sake, i have only included one clip for each room of what felt like the most "intended" way. However, this does not in any way mean that it's the only intended way, or that you have to do it that way.
Feel free to ask in the comments if you need additional help.
Chapter Checkpoints/Segments:
0:00 - Start
2:59 - Peaceful Solitude
5:15 - Glimpse of Freedom
9:43 - Curiosity
12:45 - Dedication
15:48 - Memories
20:36 - Creation
25:27 - Exploration
31:17 - Depression
38:23 - Trust
42:07 - Serenity
44:58 - Revisit (0M)
47:27 - Revisit (500M)
50:25 - Black Karma (1000M)
54:27 - Black Karma (1500M)
58:57 - Scattered Mirror of the Storm (2000M)
1:05:52 - Scattered Mirror of the Storm (2500M)
1:13:05 - Sunrise Running
1:20:18 - Goodbye of the Mountain
1:30:17 - Heart Beating
1:34:33 - Realization
1:37:47 - Parting
1:39:44 - Plural
1:43:45 - True Love
1:49:20 - Reunification (Collecting the keys)
1:52:00 - Reunification (Activating the button in the middle of the main room)
1:52:54 - Reunification (Activating the upper button in left-middle side room)
1:53:14 - Reunification (Activating the lower button in left-middle side room)
1:54:44 - Reunification (Collecting the Pink Dash Refill in left-middle side room + returning to main room)
1:55:36 - Reunification (Top-left area)
1:56:35 - Reunification (Final climb to the top of the main room)
1:57:04 - Reunification (Opening the 1 + 4 doors and leaving)
1:57:51 - How to start the "Point of No Return" Checkpoint and begin the endgame
1:58:22 - Point of No Return
2:01:30 - (Almost) Absolute Certainty
2:07:11 - Bottomless
2:10:42 - Endless
2:14:08 - Final Goodbye
2:23:09 - Final Goodbye (Ending Section)
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This run is without continues, meaning no Game Overs. Marisa with the Winter Sub-Season. The Winter one allows only using one Season Release (is that what it's called?) at a time as opposed to using all of the charges at once. You can see this charge in the bottom-left, by the way.
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Rough overview of the game's mechanics:
Power: You can have up to 4.00 Power and you increase it by collecting the little red P items.
Lives: Represented by the hearts on the UI. If you get hit, you die and lose one. In this game specifically, earning enough score will increase your lives (see the number below the life count).
Bombs: Represented by green stars on the UI. Pressing the bomb button unleashes a big attack that makes you briefly invincible and gets rid of all the bullets on screen.
They're also technically called Spell Cards, but when people mention Spell Cards, they're most likely talking about the enemy ones.
Graze: When you're very close to a bullet, you get a graze point. Probably gives you some score but more importantly drops a season pellet in this game.
Score: You can gain score by collecting the little blue score items, season pellets, and by capturing Spell Cards (beating them without dying or bombing). You can also increase how much score the blue items give you somehow but i don't actually know how that works.
For simplicity's sake, i have only included one clip for each room of what felt like the most "intended" way. However, this does not in any way mean that it's the only intended way, or that you have to do it that way.
Feel free to ask for help in the comments.
Chapter Checkpoints:
0:00 - Start
1:54 - 500M (Forsaken City)
3:38 - 1000M (Old Site)
6:05 - 1500M (Celestial Resort)
8:39 - 2000M (Golden Ridge)
11:39 - 2500M (Mirror Temple)
15:33 - 3000M (Downdraft)
16:54 - 3000M (Updraft)
19:43 - 3000M (Finale)
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Also, weirdly enough, the golden collects before i get the last berry though i didn't notice that in my playthrough. Confusing!
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