Game designer 1: Let's have a lava level. Game designer 2: No, an ice one! 1: No, we have enough snow already! 2: Why do you want lava so much! 3: Just do both lmao 1, 2: ...
@@Soapia99th oh no, uh... back to fire plz, ice ceiling turns into lava, ok i am lucky it didn't fall but, *lava starts engulfing platforms* NO WAIT!!!
It's kinda funny how you can hear it go from a live piano and the hammers moving around, then suddenly to electronic. Never would have noticed it in-game. Really love your work!
This is all you could want from a final area. You’ve ventured to the peak, but if you want to see the real secret of the mountain, the inner workings, a treasure more valuable than anything else so far, the mountain is going to hold nothing back. Your dash is changed, and random switches transform the entire cave. One second it’s a fiery inferno filled with deadly lava and bouncing magma blocks, all with active music. The next, it’s a calm, fragile icy cave, where everything seems it could snap at any moment, the wind blowing in the background, all the mechanics changed. Now the lava/ice is moving, and you have to be quick. Until it all leads up to what you sought. *_The heart of the mountain._* Edit: So this comment didn’t age well.
I love how at the more intense parts of the song, you can still barely hear the prolouge motif, symbolizing how Madeline is doing completely fine in this crazy environment, showing her growth throughout the game.
Absolutely love how the theme is different depending on whether it’s hot or cold. Really brings out the creativity of this game and the composer of the soundtrack
I agree, but Celeste wasn't the only game that did this. Banjo-Tooie and Mario Galaxy had hot/cold themes where the music changes, plus other games have their own inversion gimmicks with the same formula. The overall concept is creative, but it's easy to assume Celeste got the idea from other sources. But I will say Celeste handles the hot/cold inversion the best with all the tricky platforming puzzles.
The hardest levels generally have pleasant peaceful music that doesn't fit the difficulty at all, I feel that this can keep you calm and another game I've heard did this is dkc 2 in the level "Bramble scramble," apparently this is when the games difficulty kicks up a notch and the music does the same thing as in this level.
This is the furthest from the other chapters for a few reasons. This time, you're not climbing up. This time, you're taking the route to a more, compact space. But that's not why there's less space to move. The place is central to the power of Celeste Mountain, and because of it, you'll need to be careful with your dash tools. The temperature rises and falls with your actions, moving platforms now slip under your grip, as launching blocks now crumble weakly. Flames that would halt your approach become ice steps to guide you through areas not before possible. Now there's Ice and Lava closing in, and you will need to learn to control the nature of this strange place. Discoveries wait inside...
You haven't really beat the game until you have done all the b sides, c sides, and Farewell. Once you finish all of those, you'll feel amazing at finishing the game. Getting all the golden berrys is actually torture, but you gotta beat all the levels for sure.
Artuigi 12 I think that (maybe other than summit) you should try to get the golden berries on all A-sides. B-sides.... yeah idk about that. And c-sides... I mean, if you want to.
My second favourite level right after the mirror temple. the music here really added to the game play. Once the music picked up at the flooding lava section i was like "HOLY SHIT". Really great job at enhancing the danger in the atmosphere.
god i think mirror temple is really underappreciated. Its fs my favourite level, same with the b-side. The layout is amazing, and the portrayal of emotions throughout it is incredible
My favorite level is the hotel, without a doubt. It was kind of a pain to play through, but it also houses one of my favorite characters in video game history. I just got a lot of emotional vibes from that level, and I loved it. Mr oshiro isn’t kind of an a-hole, but you can’t help but feel bad for him.
Idk how this game did it, but i beat the entire game including c-sides and never once felt frustrated, in farewell i think i have over 9000 deaths, but that didin't make me mad, somehow this game made me feel more determined to win every time i died/cleared a room, this game did something literally no other game has ever done for me before
The way the game tallies up deaths - only after each chapter, and in a non-linear approach (from large steps of 100's of deaths down to 1's) - might have something to do with it. There's much more at play here, of course, but that small detail adds up as you progress each chapter.
The ONLY reason I started getting mad and sort of doubting myself is because (first time played first chapter and I got 113 deaths and only a couple strawberries) my friend got all strawberries, b side, and heart (with a little help from me) with only 50 deaths. Then he proceeded to beat b side which I had not done with like 250 deaths I think. When I tried it, I got more deaths than him. Made me feel bad about the death counter knowing that my hard work (and climbing the mountain) didn’t matter.
this song feels like the pervasive weariness of the passage of time. it's that weariness that comes about from realizing all at once that one is older and that the world has changed.
This soundtrack is the one of the most amazing pieces of music I've ever heard. The transitions between the cold, icy and almost space-ish atmosfere to a hot, flaming, eletronic explosion. I love this level (even thought it's frustrating AF) because of this dynamic change between moods. Congratulations Lena! ❤
I absolutely loved the atmosphere and the gameplay of the core. When the heat cycle was on you could see the beautiful heat waves and when then cold cycle was on everything felt frozen and cold. The vibrant art style really made the setting stand out to me. Also I really like how the game just knows how to put you in more difficult situations every step of the game. When I got 2 dashes I finally thought I was unstoppable until the core said, nope those dashes don’t replenish. The music fits the location so well. It feels chill but intense at the same time! Even tho I just got into this game, the core’s music feels really nostalgic to me somehow. Anyways, definitely one of my favorite areas in the whole game
> Also I really like how the game just knows how to put you in more difficult situations every step of the game i think they just went ham with making levels and then sorted them by difficulty (unless you mean by chapter then idk)
You did an absolutely wonderful job with this music. This track is the sole reason this stage is the only fire level I don't hate. Fire levels in games are usually so... well hot, that I can't stand them. But the music for the fire form of the level was so perfectly done it never gave off that hot feeling.
I do get nostalgia from this, because somehow this reminds me of those lava and ice levels in super mario galaxy. Edit: And oh my god this gives me goosebumbs, it's so good.
This song just keeps getting stuck in my head. I love that gentle melody on the piano, and how it translates so well to aggressive synths too. I love all of your music for this game so much, my goodness.
This one is so damn cool! I love how it builds upon itself so seamlessly. Instead of the beat changing, new beats are layered on top of it, and yet it doesn’t sound repetitive! Easily top 5 for my favorite Celeste tracks
What I really love about this track is how it builds up the tension. Starting small, relaxed as the challenge becomes greater to finally end up with a finale, and rewards you with a quiet melody to tell you that you can now relax. All in all, perfect.
This might seem a bit off topic, but one of my favorite 2D platformers when growing up was Donkey Kong Country Returns, specifically the Volcano. The atmosphere and the music there is unlike anything I had seen before in 2D Mario. That world defiantly installed some early childhood fear into me. Few years go by and I get my hands on Tropical Freeze, and seeing what the Snowmads did to DK's island was crazy. So you can imagine how excited I was when I saw that they had not defeated the Volcano... Why do I bring this up? Because that is exactly how I felt when I saw that Celeste Mountain had a flaming heart. When I first entered and saw the fire and lava, I genuinely stood up and started going crazy excited. Just when I thought the glory that was this game was over...It was obvious that it was just getting started... Best Game Ever!!!
the fire part gives you a feeling of being confused, you don't know what's going on, your different part hasn't appeared yet, and the lava gives you an air of fear and imminent danger. while ice. There is a feeling of sadness, loneliness in a cold place, fear is still imminent, but everything is calmer and colder (I hope I managed to explain what these melodies from chapter 8 convey to me) (in case the translation is weird and because the translator I use is kind of weird from time to time.)
This theme and Freezeflame theme share similar things, one being the music that continues, but changing pace, instruments as you change between ice and fire
These notes are two-handed! Those two hands represents ice and lava, which is awesomely made. İf you focus, you will hear one hand at a time(which shows fire or ice used). But these notes are perfectly made, that it gives a moment to focus and chill.
I loved switching back and forth in-game between lava and ice, watching the visual difference and the sudden-yet-smooth change in soundtrack. Blows my mind
Only this game can make such a traumatic experience. It takes the one concrete tool that has always worked the same. It changes element constantly. But you still Keep Moving Forwards
When I think of cores, the first two things I think of is warmth and coldness. And when I saw that I could go to the core of the mountain, knowing that it amplifies normal things into special things (clearly indicated by anything in the mirror temple), I was thinking it would be in which you could switch between lava land, and ice world, both having separate mechanics for each world, and maybe a conveyor belt.
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