Learning to Say Farewell | Celeste Chapter 9 Overview & Analysis 

Sorry about the glitches around the first 2 minutes. There was nothing I could do about it and this took 5 and a half hours to render, so I wasn't about to render it again. Hope you enjoyed nonetheless and thanks for watching!

I dont cry watching sad movies, but i do when a pixelised game becomes sad. Idk how i shouldd feel about that.

I love how failboat just went through the crystal barrier even without enough hearts. He finished the chapter with 4 hearts because he thought that was how you were supposed to do it.

Ngl, finishing Celeste was the biggest relief of my whole life

I don't typically get emotional when consuming media where the soul purpose is to evoke a certain emotion from the viewer. Farewell is a beautiful exception. Playing the base game, the only level where I had to take a break is level 3-C. But after watching a guide. I completed it with realative ease. So when I played Farewell, the limits of my patience was tested severely. This chapter compelled me to take multiple breaks over the course of 2 weeks. Therefore, what impacted me the most, is during the cassette blocks I felt like I was slogging my way though. I was questioning to myself "is the ending really worth it? I could always search up the ending on youtube.". However, I am glad I was able to stick it out and push forward. Once I beat that section and the song (lovely named) "Farewell" started playing. I was filled with a renewed sense of vigour (even though it was 3:00a.m at the time), no longer I felt like I was slogging though this level. Instead I was determined to see that ending myself. So after 13+ hours and 4151 deaths later, I can proudly say that I have beaten and experienced Farewell. I know my final sentence is cheesy, but I stand by that statement till the day I die, dammit.

2 things: 1) i can’t confirm the accuracy of this statement, but the final room is supposedly longer than some entire chapters, i think 1a, 1b, or 2b (not sure if in physical distance traveled or time) 2) you mentioned that jumping later in a walldash gives you more height. This is true. However, the game never makes this clear, which resulted in me becoming stuck on the spike comb room on my first playthrough. The fact that a required tidbit of knowledge is never passed on by the game is my only complaint about this level

This game left me shattered, not cause of the ending (that i loved holy shit) but cause after finishing it i knew i would NEVER find a game as good

Hit the part with the Wifi Cafe, and hope to clear this over the summer. I'm shocked how much trouble the blast fish gave me, and yeah, doing a room in this feels amazing once it works out.

Kacero: "I bought it in a sale." Me: *Laughs in free games weekly on Epic"

I actually wasn’t expecting you to make this video. This game is really amazing and I’m at a lost of words for the farewell chapter. Good work my guy.

I would watch the video, but I haven’t finished Celeste yet. (I just put this video on my watch later)

I haven't watched a Celeste video in over a week and somehow this popped up! A very well-made video about one of my favorite additions to one of my all-time favorite games. Glitches early on aside. (Honestly, I assumed they were intentional and referencing the way Chapter 9 glitches later in the level.) Thanks to you for making this, and thanks to the algorithm for suddenly recommending you!

At first I skipped the crystal heart door (I learned advanced movement tech myself through experimentation) but once I got past it, the last screen of the tutorial gave me a hard time. I saw this as a sign from the game that I needed to improve my skill in order to progress. So I went back and collected all the crystal hearts and opened the door. I nailed the last screen first try.

On the jellyfish parachute introducement section I did the speedrunner way because I didn’t know I could go down, I assumed it’d be death and now I’m dying inside

I love this chapter for all the reasons you said, but also because it has the perfect difficulty where it never felt unfair yet still challenging. Whenever you complete a difficult room it feels amazing.

This isn’t confirmed anywhere, but it’s my personal head canon that granny is Madeline’s grandmother, and she doesn’t know that but her mother does which is why she feels, less worried about her doing the climb.

1:21 thats the end of 7C btw (the summit c side)

You made me cry hahah. You reminded me why I love Celeste so much. Thank you.

The parachute is a jellyfish

Well said! I've been playing celeste for over a year now, yet I still am playing it every now and then because it's such a fun and well-crafted game.

Holy quality, this is amazing. I watched this whole video, naturally assuming you ran some channel i just hadnt heard of with a few hundred thousand subs, but here you are with 788 at the time im writing this! Im subbing right now, and here's to you hitting 4 digits soon!

Only problem with this video, is you used the second time to 2 dash crystals are used. The first room where they appear in is the true tutorial, because you can’t really complete the room without them. I think the second tutorial is meant for players who didn’t understand the concept fully yet, as well as rewarding players who did already understand. Another thing is I think I’m just too good at gaming, so most of the tutorials and things you showed here weren’t obvious to me. I never learned how to go up with the umbrella fish thing until the game taught me. When I saw it, I treated it like Theo in a crystal, and held down the hold button. Using this knowledge, I also knew you could throw it. For me, I never noticed the path above because I was focused on the main path.

When Monkacero actually makes heartfelt analysis videos 🗿

Celeste is a perfectly crafted game. Its level design matches its story, and the music only amplifies that; pushing you forward and pulling you back. It creates a story that is relateable, and interacts with the player. The game itself suggests that there are extra challenges; strawberries, b- and '-sides, etc that you can complete, but it doesn't require them for completion. The game's assist mode doesn't punish you for playing with it. My praise for Celeste continues for ages, truly. The art style, the mechanics, the themes, the developers, and so much more. Best game of the decade, in my honest opinion.

Thank you for sharing with me the love for this amazing game

40 hours into my play through I just got the moonberry for chapter 9! This is easily one of the best games of all time imo

Wow, amazing thumbnail and amazing video! I gotta finish this gameeeee

Things about berd - It is berd It launches you at like mak 200

farewell my sanity and farewell to the feelings i get from playing this game for the first time

People talk about how hard the final room of farewell is but, I personally had more issues with the moon berry and the final room of summit c side although that one is probably the salt kicking in bc I'm still working on it.

Celeste is the best video game about mental health AND grief out there.

8:13 Unless... *references ultra dashing* you can get to the other side before it falls

What an amazing video!

Speedrunners: I'm gonna speedrun depression!

"Last room took me over an hour amd half" Mfw 4.5k deaths and 15 hours on this level alone: :/

The jellyfish is honestly so fun

Actually, the game did not want to teach you about jellyfish momentum boost in the first room. In subsequent rooms there will be multiple occasions where you need to dash up to grab the jellyfish, and it naturally propels you forward, that is when you learn about the boost. At 3:20 "the speedrun path" actually have more than that, there's a demodash spot (that hole on the right at 3:24) where you have to perform a frame-perfect trick to dash through the spikes. Demodash was a glitch found in base game and it's insane how the devs turned it into a feature in the DLC.

Celeste was a masterpiece from level 1-8 . I played 19 hours the last 3 days and died 6000 without getting angry. 30 min in this level I called It quits , it would have ruined the game experience😅

hehe the jelly brelly' (jellyfish umbrella float thing)

I'm glad that you felt you have conquered the mountain, it is a good feeling(trust me I know), but... GoLdEn StRaWbEeRiEs

One thing I see people neglect to mention, (I could be wrong but,) the starting area for chapter 9 is similar to the end of the summit's c-side.

When you play farewell but then learn how to speed run: I don't have such weaknesses.

i got to the part where the blue gate is, and my brain just went oh no when he said that the game difficulty spikes up when i spent 6 hours and 6000 deaths getting to there

i dunno if you know, but your criminally underrated

My tennager brain didn't understand the sublime messages in my first playtrough

Am I the only one that called the bird, birdaline a few times to myself?

Le new sub has arrived

I mean, you're right... but dammit it event horizon was a pain

The only thing that I don't like about the wavedashing is that it's wrong.

Can you make a video on hollow knight the masterpiece of a game

M E D I A O F F L I N E

Your video quality is too good, if I showed this to someone they would think you have 100k at least. Also I did not this is the actual ending, I need to see more gameplay of this

*Uses basically every music from the game except for anything in Farewell*

I love this video, but PLEASE don't interpolate footage to get more fps. It looks so bad.

I appreciate that you really love Celeste, as do I, but the pacing of the video and the pauses for breath in the middle of a word sort add a clunky, stop-start feeling to the presentation. I am aware that this is now a year and a half late and your style has probably changed, but just thought I could add some criticism.

I love how this guy talks, he keeps spiking up the mic

Lol an hour on the last room is pretty good. I'm like 6 hrs into the last room and I still haven't beaten it

0:11 media offline

You accually lean the wave dash in the core I think

So this is really CELAST chapter is Celeste.... that pun was awful lol. This game is legendary

Why does it sound like you are rapping the whole way through

3:36 many mechanics are nameless (I call them parajellies)

honestly thought this was one big long joke about how you couldn't say your "r"s or something just based on the title

Media offline?

I can’t say farewell to Celeste

14:38 only an hour and a half? And you call yourself bad at the game? lol it took me like 5-6 hours

Uncle markie. Sad

Wait why is there #splatoon2 ?

MEDIA OFFLINE

This was in my recommended. OwO? Might sub if i like the video

The only thing I dont like in the whole chapter is that Madeline is transgender. I mean it can be a cool thing in story, but here it was just like "Hey! Guys! Gays and transgenders! We are good". For me it was not a good plot twist. I do not hate transgenders, but imo it's just not the right time and place for them. They even added this in DLC, not the original game, which means it wasnt intended from the start. And story wasnt needed of that kinda twists.