Thoughts on Celeste Chapter 9
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I seriously considered avoiding spoilers for this chapter after release until I could play it myself, but I can't try it until I either finish or give up on 7-C. If I quit 7-C back to the map I'll have to replay the first two rooms, and I Do Not Want to do that. After some reflection, I decided to watch IGN's "first eight minutes" video, and from that I concluded that I should definitely finish the C-Sides first, just to get more practice with Extremely Difficult, Precise Movement.
But I was desperate to know what happened in it, story-wise, so naturally I watched a Twitch stream instead.
With the title "Farewell", the teaser screenshots and this instagram post by Theo I somehow became convinced it was about Madeline deciding to ascend into space and leave this world forever or something and I was really worried about it.
Turns out it's about the old lady who lives on the mountain dying and Madeline struggling to cope with that, which on reflection makes a lot more sense. But I was so relieved that I wasn't even sad about it when I found it. RIP Granny, I'm so sorry.
- I've never lost anyone I was close to to death, so this was less directly relatable to me than the crushing self-doubt from the original game, but it still felt realistic to me.
- Funny to see Badeline playing the role of the rational one here, although I suppose "we shouldn't be doing this, we should go home" is her thing.
- And it's nice how this serves as an explanation for the decision to only give Madeline one dash by default!
- "It was all a dream" is, of course, such a cliche, but it makes sense here. It explains all the elements borrowed from different chapters of the main game, as well as the general weirdness (and, arguably, the brutal difficulty of it).
- Jellyfish! ♥ ♥ ♥
- This tweet highlights some elements in the final cutscene that could imply Madeline is trans, which is delightful. (Seeing people talk about this on Twitch showed me how many people don't know how to talk about trans people though, yikes.)
- The photograph of young!Granny and Theo's grandfather with the comment "they were friends, like us" was just a little twee. But very cute.
- Theo calls Madeline "Strawberry" 🍓! Interesting that he's so patient and understanding with Madeline but wasn't with Mr Oshiro back on the mountain.
- On that note, no update on Mr Oshiro. I hope he's okay!
- All in all I'm... not exactly looking forward to playing this, because it looks really hard. But it seems like a nice addition to the canon!
--
The post about my Celeste playing experience is still waiting for me to hit a wall in my progress through the game. Since my progress has slowed considerably, but not stopped, I imagine it will still be a while.
In non-gaming news, I have a book/movie post in the pipeline, but it's slow going. (For an indication: the filename is "Book and Movie update July 2019.txt".)
I seriously considered avoiding spoilers for this chapter after release until I could play it myself, but I can't try it until I either finish or give up on 7-C. If I quit 7-C back to the map I'll have to replay the first two rooms, and I Do Not Want to do that. After some reflection, I decided to watch IGN's "first eight minutes" video, and from that I concluded that I should definitely finish the C-Sides first, just to get more practice with Extremely Difficult, Precise Movement.
But I was desperate to know what happened in it, story-wise, so naturally I watched a Twitch stream instead.
With the title "Farewell", the teaser screenshots and this instagram post by Theo I somehow became convinced it was about Madeline deciding to ascend into space and leave this world forever or something and I was really worried about it.
Turns out it's about the old lady who lives on the mountain dying and Madeline struggling to cope with that, which on reflection makes a lot more sense. But I was so relieved that I wasn't even sad about it when I found it. RIP Granny, I'm so sorry.
- I've never lost anyone I was close to to death, so this was less directly relatable to me than the crushing self-doubt from the original game, but it still felt realistic to me.
- Funny to see Badeline playing the role of the rational one here, although I suppose "we shouldn't be doing this, we should go home" is her thing.
- And it's nice how this serves as an explanation for the decision to only give Madeline one dash by default!
- "It was all a dream" is, of course, such a cliche, but it makes sense here. It explains all the elements borrowed from different chapters of the main game, as well as the general weirdness (and, arguably, the brutal difficulty of it).
- Jellyfish! ♥ ♥ ♥
- This tweet highlights some elements in the final cutscene that could imply Madeline is trans, which is delightful. (Seeing people talk about this on Twitch showed me how many people don't know how to talk about trans people though, yikes.)
- The photograph of young!Granny and Theo's grandfather with the comment "they were friends, like us" was just a little twee. But very cute.
- Theo calls Madeline "Strawberry" 🍓! Interesting that he's so patient and understanding with Madeline but wasn't with Mr Oshiro back on the mountain.
- On that note, no update on Mr Oshiro. I hope he's okay!
- All in all I'm... not exactly looking forward to playing this, because it looks really hard. But it seems like a nice addition to the canon!
--
The post about my Celeste playing experience is still waiting for me to hit a wall in my progress through the game. Since my progress has slowed considerably, but not stopped, I imagine it will still be a while.
In non-gaming news, I have a book/movie post in the pipeline, but it's slow going. (For an indication: the filename is "Book and Movie update July 2019.txt".)
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Date: 2019-09-11 10:57 pm (UTC)