Is It Possible to Beat Celeste Without Touching Grass? 

PINNED COMMENT Hi. Firstly, thanks to y'all for watching and commenting on the video, you are the best :) Secondly, a bunch of you found ways to avoid some of the grass touches in this video, so I will list all of them here: Big thanks to 2deoxyribose, who found how to avoid those three grass touches: - The cutscene grass touch at 5:29, which is avoidable by stacking up speed from the Kevin in the previous room - The cutscene grass touch at 7:06, which is avoidable by skipping the cutscene on the very first frame, which for some reason doesn't teleport the character - The cutscene grass touch at 7:40, which is avoidable by doing a precise extended hyperdash and skipping the cutscene high in the air Here's a video (from 2deoxyribose) showing those skips: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-F4fX9QSnFqA.html 2deoxyribose also found a way to avoid the grass touch in The Summit, using a fancy mechanic called "spinner stun". However, as it requires about 87 frame perfect inputs in a row, I will consider this strat TAS-only and will not consider this grass touch avoidable for a human. Here's a video example from 2deoxyribose's channel: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-m3HbtKwhIZA.html However, it is also possible to do this without a TAS in a different way. As 2deoxyribose and Shade stated, this spinner stun thing can be achieved in another way, by simply waiting for 118 hours, which completely breaks 2/3rds of the spinners. Cosmoe_2 tested this and confirmed it does allow to get past without touching the grass, which would be a human-friendly way to get past this part without touching the grass. (although you do have to wait with the game opened for 118 hours) Also, the grass touch in 4a (at 2:50) is avoidable in two different ways. As RichConnerGMN and Rarebeeph suggested (RichConnerGMN even sent the TAS input file to show how it's done), a double corner boost can skip this grass touch. And as meta04 also mentioned, 4b is possible grassless so we can also just grab the B-Side Cassette in 4a and play 4b instead to completely bypass this grass touch. Also, as Magic_Pickle123 and RichConnerGMN stated, the first cutscene with granny only gets triggered when you're looking towards her, so by jumping and turning away from her before landing, we can avoid this grass touch as well. And as Nico stated, there are two cutscene grass touches I missed in this video, which both happen in Chapter 2, where you spawn on top of a tiny piece of grass in an unskippable cutscene, and that happens twice in the chapter. To recap, this makes 4 cutscene grass touches and 2 character grass touch avoidable, but adds 2 more cutscene grass touches. Which makes the theoretical final grass touching count at 3 cutscene grass touch and 0 character grass touch, resulting in 3 total grass touches, which makes the entire game possible without any character grass touches! Thanks to all of you for your comments and your help, thanks to you we now know how to avoid almost every grass touch! :)

Whoever beat this challenge probably had a lot of practice in real life as well

The first cutscene with granny only gets triggered if you’re facing her while standing on the ground so you can avoid it by turning away from her before landing from a jump

Doing chapter 8 and 9 wouldn't be interesting, because the only pieces of grass are at the beginning.

4:17 they call them kevins because the person who's voice is used in it's sound effect is named kevin

7:45 Badeline putting you through all that pain and suffering just to roast you at the end is so funny

Hey really great video! I speedrun and TAS this game so I thought I could offer a bit of input. It's actually possible to skip all three of the grass touches in chapter 6 though they're pretty tricky and require some kinda obscure mechanics and knowledge. First is that cutscenes don't automatically reset your speed to zero meaning if you can enter a cutscene with enough speed it's possible to skip it and spawn somewhere the game doesn't expect you to spawn. In the room before the grassy corridor before the fight there's a Kevin block and it's possible to build up speed from that Kevin and very carefully keep speed into the cutscene so when you skip it Madeline will fly right into Badeline without touching the grass The second grass touch at 7:07 requires some really niche knowledge about Celeste. Not getting into all the technical details (partly because it's not super important and also because I don't fully understand it) but if you skip this cutscene on the first frame you have control after you enter the room it doesn't teleport you to the ground. Since transitioning screens gives you your dash back you have your dash again to dash to some not grassy ground The last grass touch can be skipped by entering the cutscene high enough and skipping it fast enough that you can just hold right to fall in the water and skip touching the grass and then dash up to the next room. Here's a short video of me doing all the skips described above: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-F4fX9QSnFqA.html 40 minutes later edit: It's also possible to skip the grass in the Summit with tech called spinner stunning which is extremely impossible for humans to do and very, very complicated (I can explain if desired) but if we're looking at what's technically possible to skip here's the grass skipped in the first room of Summit: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-m3HbtKwhIZA.html Great video and I'm looking forward to seeing what else you come up with!

great video. no bull, no intermission, funny edits, straight to the point. good shit m8

hi, celeste "expert" here for the granny cutscene in prologue, you can repeatedly jump to the right and face left before landing. for some reason, this just... doesn't trigger the cutscene. for the grass touch in 4a, i was able to skip it with a double cornerboost. the tas input file will be in the replies to this comment. at 4:38, you conveniently skip the part where you have to touch the grass at the top. though you don't actually have to, because if you stay two pixels away from the wall, you can just climbjump up the wall without touching the grass at 5:31, just do a bhop off the kevin like in speedruns

that first grass touch in 4a seems like it might be avoidable with something like a corner boost, like how you clear the 6 spikes in 1a dashless

I love this video. I'd love to see you do more on anything that interests you, you've got a really fun style! Also, I only realized just now that there's so much grass in Chapter 4 because it all serves as a cue for the direction and strength of the wind blowing. So it adds to the aesthetic of Golden Ridge, makes a good chunk of this challenge really interesting, and serves a gameplay purpose in the game as it's meant to be played... that's some powerful grass! :D edit: Also really top-notch editing in the second half of the video I love it lol edit 2: gheezus thats a hard question I'm gonna go with samurai potato.

amazing video! seriously underated, i wouldnt have nearly enough patience or sanity to do something like this haha hope you grow as a creator!

Respect for the pain you probably went through to touch as little grass as possible. Any RU-vidr who tries challenges like these which require a lot of time and strategizing to do as little of something as possible (sometimes doing nothing of said thing) deserves a LOT of subscribers. The editing is better than my editing, even if I tried. This was entertaining all the way through, so good job. The extra details you added like the berry touch count (4 touches) appearing for a split second at the end of the video is a nice addition. TL;DR: good video, you suffered, great editing, and also you got a new subscriber.

"I was told to keep off the grass, and I was never told to stop."

I like how it said berry touches in the bottom left corner of the screen at the end

The comedy is absolutely spot on.

I never knew watching someone beat Celeste without touching any grass would be this entertaining

2:58 if you climbhop cancel (climbjump during the hop animation that happens at the top of a corner) you cancel wind effect and its possible to make it

I'd personally like to attempt this myself since there could probably be a few places that cutscene grass touches could be avoided, but tbh it may (or may not I'm not sure) take some black magic acquired after hundreds of hours of playing Celeste. I'll look into it sometime

that "there wasn't any grass" at the end was TOO GOOD also 1,000th like :)

This Needs to become a speedrunning category

The grass in prologue could have a different excuse for not counting, being that they could very well be far away from the plane Madeline is on. We don't know, though.

Good effort, man!!! I don't think I'll ever be that good, but super happy there's peeps like you to aspire to.

8:21 YOOOOOO DOOR SKIP YOU JUST SAVED 11 YEARS WITH THAT

Just need to take a moment to appreciate the editing in your videos. You are amazing! Comedic genius 👌

“Yeah I play League of Legends, how could you tell?”

okay the hello at the start was adorable though

Sick vid, dude ! I loved all the little details, my personal favorite was when badeline's text was replaced by the grass touch count

Love the video! I’m excited to see what you make in the future :)

I discovered you with this video. Your editing is handsome and really funny. Love your work !🔥

Just discovered this channel, but I love the energy and the humor

Holy shit this editing is good. Custom ingame text was a nice touch

Gotta love how his two videos that he's made this year, which are both super high quality, are getting him hundreds of subs now. Well worth it!

"grr i am very anger!! >:(" -Badeline, 2023

This video was really funny ! You've got a sub man

fantastic video! youre really underrated, definitely subscribed!! ❤

I love how the inspiration for the video is basically just a full circle moment lmao

I love how the touch grass touch no grass in games turned into a meme^^

The absolute defeat in your voice at 8:02 was gold

I have watched this video like 3 times at this point I keep coming back it's a good video I like it

great and entertaining video keep it up!

7:11 grr im very anger!! >:( 7:46 cutscene grass touches: FIVE-

I love how this video tries so hard to make it seem like this is a hard challenge when it just really isn't lol. Great video editing and funny challenge though.

They’re called Kevins because they’re named after the sound designer for the game who did the voice for them ^_^

"grr i am very anger!! >:(" -badeline

I'd like to see this as a speedrunning category it would be... Interesting

Great video! Well-edited :)

i love how granny is basicslly the grass god now

Omg Celeste this is so nostalgic thank you (I might play this and dead cells on my RU-vid page as well soon)

I like the song you played at the end of the video :D

They're called Kevins because the grumbling sound was recorded by Kevin Regamey

Amazing Video also: 7:10 text sums up his feelings XD

really entertaining video, much good, did enjoy

Granny going from a nice old lady to an evil jester. She is just waiting here, waiting to laugh at you for failling to do your grass-less run At least badeline isn't trying to make you fail

now someone has to make an edit of reflections where all the grass has spikes on it

You could’ve avoided the grass after talking to granny in the prologue. There’s a thing called a granny skip.

i love your videos sm

Kevin blocks are called that because the voice actor for them is called Kevin

A CHALLENGE VID??? ON MY FAVORITE GAME?? YESSS

Bro you DESERVE A SUB

4:15 We call those Kevins because the person who voiced them is named Kevin :)

I like how it's implied Granny laugh because she's like "I made you touch grass"

that one berry touch will haunt you for the rest of your life

That looked really tricky holy shit, how long is it for you to do this challenge? Hope to see more of this cool challenge! Subbed

oh my god I tried this challenge just a few weeks ago, im very glad somebody else thought of it!!

Hello! Great video, always fun to watch a creative challenge run. Also what is the song/piano part in your outro?

You can avoid grass in some cutscenes by jumping before triggering it and then skipping. Skipping the cutscenes only changes the x-coordinate of Madeline, and y remains the same. This way you can jump or dash over the grass without touching it.

Little fun fact, that block is called a Kevin because it’s named after the guy who made the sound effects, mostly because of the fact that the sounds a Kevin makes are just him going “urrrrrurururur” into the mic lol

jijachad only using demo dash button as the main dash button

amazing channel man good job. (plz give us a video of the full outro song)

the edited badeline dialogue appeals to ME and ME ONLY

Really entertaining video! 4:34 I'm curious, how did you avoid the grass at the top here?

You can do a corner jump to skip the grass touch at 8:51

Madeline is a true gamer

This challenge is a good depiction of how depression feels like

Ninja carrot would win, has both the sword and sharp tip

Entertaining video :D I liked it

Its called a kevin since Kevin made the sounds for it

I feel like ninja carrot is gonna be deft, but samurai potato would have very precise hits, so that's 50/50

hi:) im gonna comment this on every video so i can maybe help boost your channel so yeah im gonna make it as long as possible because maybe it will help more and yeah lol idk why im doing this luv ur content btw

OUTRO SONG IS VERY GOOD. PLS PLAY MORE PIANO (you are very talented yo)

amazing video :)

"The grass came to touch you instead" YEA I WISH

this channel is way too underrated

Step 1. Remove grass from textures Step 2. profit (i'll turn this into an actual pack if you want)

Awesome vid! are you gonna try to do similar challenge vids?

very cool video!

Berry touches: 1

The outro is beautiful omg 🥹 I’m gonna go check ur second channel, and you BETTER upload some of ur playing, otherwise there will be trouble, monsieur 🧍‍♀️

8:00 not to nitpick but *hyperdash

i already did that edit: oh you mean in game ps: jokes aside, this is very nice video👍

It's easy to miss but in chapter 2, you actually appear on top of grass. That's another cutscene grass touch. Edit: You also touch it again after waking up. It's not possible to skip by playing 2B since it also has grass at the start. Very inconvenient little piece of grass right there.

celeste: gamer mode

4B might be possible grassless...

The second I clicked into this vid I got scared, this is going to be a hard challenge

omg that was amazing... i can't even pass chapter 1....

with this game being loved by transfems, this feels comically accurate for the lengths I go to avoid touching grass. - a transfem.

An almost 9 minute video just to say "No". Celeste is one of those games that takes over you, you become the game, you become the dash, you become the geometry, you are Celeste. Celeste is you. Someone should Always be with you, for this game can be Viciously Enduring with every passing Moment, you clutch to Every ounce of your santity

Celeste game our beloved

beat celeste as a celeste player -someone who plays celeste