I Regret 100% Celeste

Celeste has 30 achievements for a thousand gamer score and is one of the most difficult games I've ever beaten but despite that according to trueachievements.com it only takes eight to ten hours to 100 percent that's true and also a shame because beating this game should be the crowning Jewel on someone's 100 list and if you do it legitimately it will be as you can guess I didn't do that but I'm getting ahead of myself to 100 this game I'll need to get to the top of the mountain which is just beating the game collect every strawberry which are either hidden or at the end of Highly difficult platforming segments collect every crystal heart which are in every chapter but are well hidden n beat the B and C sides of each chapter which are basically challenge levels foreign my journey February 7th 2018. I made my way through the first chapter for The Forsaken achievement I found my first cassette in Chapter 2 which unlocks the B side for that chapter and another achievement after that I grabbed a few more strawberries for my 30th and the strawberry badge achievements then I escaped goth Madeline and finished the second chapter which was another achievement on the board up next with chapter 2's B-side which like I said is basically a challenge level this was brutal and took me over a thousand tries to get through but I got through it and after that it was off to chapter three chapter three is where the game starts to get harder and this is where the mound humbled me I found the arcade machine and took on the arcade version of Celeste which is basically another B-side but much longer after 518 deaths I eventually reached the summit for the real gamer achievements but after back-to-back challenge Maps I was wiped I've died thousands of times at this point not just in the challenge Maps but in the chapter as well that's without even going for the strawberries I got frustrated if I'm dying this much in chapter 3 how am I gonna complete the rest of this game then it dawned on me I was never going to 100 this game just going through the regular chapters was hard never mind everything else on top of that this wasn't gonna happen so I walked away from the game then almost a year later I came back I wanted to see this through I decided if I could 100 this game I could at least beat it this time I was just trying to get through and I had a much better time I was avoiding most of the strawberries and because of that I knocked out chapter four and five in one day unlocking two achievements the next day I beat chapter six for the reflection achievement but just because this was easier doesn't mean it was easy just going through the main game still caused me to die thousands of times but every screen I cleared I got a little bit better and brought me closer and closer to the peak when I finally hit the peak of the mountain it was beyond satisfying I had accomplished something it meant something I left Celeste for years Let's help I was going through my back catalog just after 100 re4 looking for my next game to complete and then I stumbled onto Celeste I was pumped after all what a great idea for another video if I climb the mountain why couldn't I do the rest of it how hard could it be I was so naive so I loaded up the chapter 3 B-side and couldn't get past the third room this would take me months if not years to do and then it dawned on me again I will never 100 this game how many people have even a hundred percent of this game I wonder so I loaded up true achievements and saw that the average completion was only 8 to 10 hours how could that be it took me longer than that to even climb the mountain never mind the rest of it then I remembered assist mode I hadn't used assist mode to beat the game so honestly I forgot it was there I clicked on it and got a message from the developers basically saying don't do it that the whole point of Celeste is that it's hard and the satisfaction you get from clearing a difficult section is what makes the game so rewarding but I was curious to see if this is actually how people 100 of this game so I clicked yes and my save file was immediately branded with the assisted tag which I thought was permanent at the time I felt like it was me admitting I couldn't do this and it kind of was but I had already been branded from what I thought was forever so I used the sys mode I set it so I had infinite dashes and was invincible removing all of the Challenge from the game which basically meant I could just hurl myself through levels and I did that I I looked up all the Collectibles and just systematically worked my way through I got all the crystal Hearts which earned me into achievement each knocked out all the b-sides which also netted me in achievement inch and after that went back for the seasides which was another achievement the only achievement that was even remotely difficult was the one where I had to collect six strawberries without stopping which honestly I don't know how you even do without assist mode but after about a dozen or so runs on the first level I got it normally I'd be stoked to get 18 achievements in three days but the further I got the worse I felt all of these were meant to be individual tests of my skill and how far I've come as a player and I cheated on almost all of them all I had left were the strawberries which took me another two days and unlocked the impress your friend's achievement after I completed the level I loaded the cutscene where Madeleine bakes the cake and everyone basically congratulates Madeline on her job well done all I could feel was disappointment in myself the achievement was literally called impress your friends it's supposed to be one of those achievements you tell everybody about and even though I had a thousand points even though I completed this game I felt awful this wasn't a victory this wasn't an accomplishment this wasn't an achievement [Music] this isn't how I wanted to leave this game so I loaded up a new safe and kept assist mode off and started to climb the mountain again I wanted to prove to myself that I could still beat this game even if I couldn't 100 it I made it through the ancient city with only 13 deaths the old site was 15 my least favorite chapter the celestial resort with only 101 deaths the Golden Ridge with 142 but that was mostly due to the block section the mirror temple with the 95 reflection with 198 and the summit with over half of my deaths at 529 with most of those coming from the last section that left me with 1093 deaths and just over five hours of play time and even though they didn't like the pie I still felt that Rush of accomplishment for climbing the mountain again I shouldn't have been able to 100 Celeste I didn't earn it honestly and if Matt is watching add an achievement at bars assist mode and take it away or make the assist take permanent so everyone can see who actually earned it not everybody can 100 this game I know I can't this should be like Super Meat Boy where there are no shortcuts where everybody who's earned this has a badge of honor and there are no fakers like me central theme of this game is that you can do this if you work hard and pick yourself up death after death after death you can accomplish this you can do hard things that every death you're learning and getting better so you can accomplish what you thought was impossible to me achievements are the reward of seeing something through of doing the hard thing in the game that not everybody can do but by making them easy they devalue them for the people who actually put in the hard work so while this is my 43rd 100 I take no pride in it because I didn't earn it if you're gonna 100 Celeste don't use assist mode dig down deep fail fail and fail again because when you succeed the feeling of satisfaction you get from doing it will be well worth the struggle this was a bit of a different video but I hoped you liked it if you did subscribe like and share the video until next time I'm Sergeant Dutch and I 100 games

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Length: 9min 29sec (569 seconds)

Published: Thu Jun 01 2023