The Fascinating Shortcuts of Celeste Speedruns 

Some clarifications because some people of the Celeste community seem upset about this but: -Evil Madeline is often referred to as Badeline -I am very much a beginner speedrunner in Celeste and wanted to document and share what I found fascinating, I don't claim to be a pro

Very nice video, covers pretty much all the basics and important things for people starting out with speedrunning this game aswell, also just a really well written and cleanly edited video, explained everything pretty well and in an entertaining way, always love to see more good video resources for Celeste

I'm not a good gamer. I just recently bought a gaming laptop, and got into gaming. I suck at games. My first Celeste run (all strawberries) took 61 hours. After that, I wanted the under hour time, I learned skips, mechanics (still can't neutral jump though), and practiced a lot. And I just couldn't make it under hour. Dozens of attempts ending at 1H 2-4M. And just a few days ago, I really got into the zone, and finished a run in 0:56:28. I am so proud of my journey, from July to December, from 61 hours to 56 minutes.

24:40 thats actually a reverse super. good video with alot of the basics for new runners. would've liked to see you go into more detail about corner boosts, hyper bhops and ultras because all very important but i still enjoyed. gl running the game :)

0:18 "abusing the speed limit" you mean abusing the lack of a speed limit lmao

You know Celeste is an insane game to speedrun when you make a 30 minute tutorial covering different techniques and people in the comments list all the stuff you missed. Think this is the one of the 2 best speedrunning games ever made (Mario64 being the other).

1:48 "This chapter is obviously not too difficult" I died 648 times trying to beat chapter 1

i personally call the blue circle things in chapter 6 bumpers, no idea if the wider community uses that or something else but i prefer bumpers (not a super big fan of them as a mechanic though, pretty annoyed they were brought back for core)

Lovely video for a lovely game! Thanks for making this, I thoroughly enjoyed watching it from start to finish

Really cool video, the documentation was well done and the fact that yourself tried running the game out also for the purpose of the video is pretty nice, as the commentary section pointed it out there's just a few things that weren't 100% accurate but to be fair they're not really important when the video is not mainly destined to the most experienced runners so yeah keep going you're doing a great job !! Also i really like the fact that you said those were walljumps and not jumps off of spikes' hitbox because many tutorials and stuff don't explain that although it's actually important

I always found it weird that people don't like wind. I found it interesting -- especially the super strong wind -- because it changes your options, so you get these little screen-sized puzzles about how to progress with your new movement options.

What an extremely well put together video! As someone who is far from a speedrunner but has been in the Celeste community since the game first game out, you hit every mark. It was fun to see how we basically had the same learning process. I learned most of these tricks just from others in the community showing them off or teaching me with hard maps, and I learned most of them in the same exact order! And yeah same, despite having it explained to me twice I still have no idea how ultra jumps work. xD I'm so glad that Celeste's engine is this expansive. The amount of thought put into the movement of this 2D platform, with the uncapped speed and crazy opportunity for momentum usage with weird dash jumps and crazy use of mechanics, is amazing. Even from the Pico-8 version of the game (yup that's right, for anyone who didn't know the original demo of this game was a "small" Pico-8 version that maxed out the amount of sprites that could be used, and was made for a competition which it of course won), it's been clear that EXOK games loves speedrunning. Making the rooms so open and leaving so many strategies in that they could've patched out, and even adding features like the demo dash button to assist speedrunners is such a great change of pace! Plus a ton of little secrets routes you can take, like 26:42! Hell, the Farewell DLC even has tons of intentional, harder to perform but faster skips! Celeste is _the_ speedrunning game, and I'm so glad it got the love it deserves. P.S. Door skip saves a thousand years.

Loving the uploads here. BGs is great but awesome to see you making awesome content here too. Thank you Ben!

i love how he says spike jump at the beginning and the video shows a normal ass wall jump

16:04 why you gotta do me like that lol jokes aside really good video, you kept it nice and simple and the vid is very well researched. great job :)

Celeste speedruns: where spikes become suggestions and physics is ignored

Idk why but as soon as I saw the stuff in the celestial resort I called it malice

Celeste devs be like : "Hey, there are a few bugs involving movement." "Yeah? Do they break the game?" "No."" "Ok, leave them in." "Why?" "Oh yeah, also keybind them" "WHY?" "Because." *leaves room*

I’m so surprised by how good you are. I played modded for 200 hours and I’m just getting into speed running, and you’re pulling off very optimal skips and rooms in a fraction of the time, like depths cornerboost is crazy!

You probably already know, but there are many other youtubers besides that both speedrun the game and make guides. The speedrunners all help to make an amazing community- they are all extremely helpful with questions and the like. Their videos are great for learning new strategies, easy and hard, simple or advanced. Or they're a great place to just relax. All of them are a part of a great community. There are guides less advanced than Programmatic's- Benteezy's old guide- and more advanced guides from multiple speedrunners for various different runs. (All Hearts, any%, 100%, all Bsides, bny%, farewell, etc. Great community for a magnificent game.

27:05 actually, this saves 7 years and any run not performing it is invalid

The introduction of every chapter with detail I feel wasn't the best decision, as a person clicking this video probably already knows the game. It felt more like a summarized playthrough. Other than that, this was a very good video! (Well edited) Subbed!

hitboxes are actually really generous now that i think about it

"we meet, evil Madeline" come on, you had one job.. you can ask anyone who play Celeste and they will tell you, her name is Badeline

We got Sub 26 minutes in Celeste! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jbs2kL3VFFA.html

Amazing video for your subs and views! You deserve way more dude

wind is not the most annoying mechanic.... snow balls are WAY worse

I just blinked once and Madeleine flies what feels like 20 meters right before my eyes. What those speedrunners do is completely incomprehensible to me

All Hail Badeline, our better half.

Oooh a Celeste video *like* well done. Very fun and interesting, well explained and edited.

great video on a great game!

celeste content!! good and fun video, great job!

6:14 UMMMMM Ackshuwallie these floating spikes are called SPINNERS

The things that bump you in the air (in the Kevin area) are called bumpers.

1:07 you can also use a reverse wavedash same thing as reverse hyper, but with a wavedash

oh a celeste speedrun video

The entire first half of the video I was internally screaming because of the names you were butchering 10/10

Really good video!

The fact that people call Part Of Me "evil Madeline" or "badeline" kinda makes me sad considering the story the game tells you.

Dust bunnies? No, they’re MEATBALLS

Yoo Ben covering Celeste? Excellent news

Just beating this game normally is a challenge for 80% of the population. I beat it my first try with only 62 deaths. People doing it deathless is absolutely insane.

holy shit this dude is underraited

Just started running Celeste a little over a week ago, and just got a ~1h25min!

nice job, keep it up!

YoU FORGoT tO MENTIoN ThE SPIKeS TURNInG BLuE iN CHAPTeR SEVeN!!

Nice video!

Dash Tricks 8:51 Wall Bounce 9:20 Extended Super/Hyper Dash 9:35 Reverse Hyper 10:42

playing Celeste for the first time makes you feel like you're shit at platformers learning Celeste speedrunning tricks makes you feel like you're a platformer God for anyone who wants to learn i HIGHLY suggest getting and playing through the Strawberry Jam mod, it has literally everything you will ever need to learn every single known trick in Celeste, as well as some of the most beautiful and insanely well-made levels i have seen from Celeste modders. it goes from the easiest of easy modes to levels i wouldnt dream of beating in a billion years, it is the greatest labor of love from the Celeste community to its own players

I'm just starting my journey to speedrun celeste ❤️

I am a person who plattined (202 strawberry’s and all hearts) two times

My man just completely glossed over 6B like it wasn’t that bad

Ch 3 took me over an hour to finish lol

My current best beating chapter two is 3:38 and I’m still trying to improve lol Time to beat, not timestamp

cool video man

The fact that resort only took you 40 minutes, & ridge took you 43 minutes first time is insane to me.. I speedrun this game now cuz it's fun, and the mods are fun too generally speaking, but first time literally took me like 32 hours prolly to reach Epilogue.. with 7 berries. 1m 33s chapter 1a on day 1 is crazy 19:00 - I didn't know that one! :O -- then again i also basically trial and errored my routes instead of following a guide... but still 19:40 - never have I ever seen those strats .. I normally do a hyper -> bhop -> cpop -> corner kick 20:20 - ah yes, first and second blockless. I always go first blockless, and *have* been able to do 2nd blockless as well. But it's too inconsistent for me to use in an actual run xD 27:35 - I still don't know how people get a sub 8 minute chapter 7a .. that's the time it takes me to reach 3000m xD 29:39 - great video!

Fun fact: Celeste mountain is a real place

Great video which explained very well how it works. A question to you though if you don't mind: do you use dpad, the joystick on the controller or do you use a keyboard? I did run through Celeste using almost only the joystick (thumb-stick or what you call it on Xbox controller playing on PC) but I struggled a lot to get Madelein to move precisely. I am not so used to a controller and the d-pad is a little awkward to reach so I assumed the entire game is best using the stick. But many seem to suggest the dpad is better (other than the feathers) and to my surprise quiet a few people even suggested keyboard to a platformer. Which controlling scheme is best in your opinion (or among speed runners or better seasoned players in general)?

If Celeste had trophys for goldens if would be the crypt of platformers

0:40 woah woah woah where u going with that🥴

IT’S BEN

I didn't realise the video just came out, good video

"the last chapter"

am i the only one who immediately rebound the dash button to a shoulder button?

good vid

Wow so pro

people are good at this game

Ain't no way bro said evil Madeline and not Badeline

All of this is true, I can confirm

5:57 I’m sorry 1 hour and 60 minutes? Is that a joke, cause that’s 2 hours :/

5:57 “I hour and 60 minutes”

How do you just brush over beating all the b-sides, c-sides, and farewell, as if they're nothing? Overall though good video

Celeste is like Super Meat Boy, but a lot easier.

when you extend a super or hyper, you still get the dash back on the ground. Misleading explanation

Vid starts at 8:00

batelin... not evil madline

when you said spike jumps, you didn't show a spike jump.

If you’re not gonna call her Badeline, at least call her _Part of You_

Who is teeo 4:43

Btw, canonically she’s called Badeline, which is by far the funniest name and had me laughing for about an hour.

i havent completed the game so ill watch this some day but i just wanted to say i think i accidentally did whats on the thumbnail (and died shortly after cuz i wasnt going anywhere with that)

it took me 4 hours to finish chapter 3

You keep saying lounge instead of launch. Are you Dutch?

To think I know nearly all of the tech, but still absolutely slow

Petition to change Evil Magdalene's name into ItsBen123

I find feathers to be MUCH worse than wind lol

I share your dislike for the stupid wind 💨

i reccomend the mods thats ir

i came to this video because i wanted to learn about what was said in the title, you do not need to articulate what all the chapters of the game are like when majority of this videos viewers are people who have played the game before, i do not want to hear about all the mechanics and story of the game, i want to learn about what was advertised in the title and thumbnail

Badeline isn't evil >:(

0:40 Wdym with "Cute Girl" ._.?

Him saying one hour and 60 minute hurts me why not just say two hours? Btw here 5:55

Evil madelin is also known as badeline ;)

"shes this cute girl" Me coming into the comments just to see if anyone disagrees about her being a girl or not (they will get shot) My lawyer advised that i make it clear that this is only a joke. No one should take any offense. And transphobes shouldnt have issues about a game character

22:12 I hate when these videos try to explain things clearly and then come at you with advanced terminology like that

Get tru

how do you only have 2k subs

i like this vidio

*half life sfx*

Actually first