Celeste Playthrough with Chaos Part 8: Escaping the Dark Temple
10Thank goodness Theo is such a good weapon.
Celeste is a platforming video game by Matt Thorson and Noel Berry. The game was originally created as a prototype in four days during a game jam, and later expanded into a full release. Celeste was released in January 2018 on Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Mac, and Linux.
Celeste is presented as a series of challenging platforming levels as the player guides the character up a mountain. The player can move, jump, and dash the character across platforms, but the player can only perform a dash once before touching ground again. The character's hair changes color from red to blue to signify when the dash ability has been depleted. The character can pass through a green crystal to replenish her dash mid-air. Collectible strawberries scattered throughout the levels add a score-based competition to the game.
Celeste follows a young woman named Madeline as she attempts to climb the titular Celeste Mountain, a fictional mountain in western Canada that possesses the supernatural power to manifest one's inner turmoil and "true self" into reality. As she climbs the mountain she encounters several other characters including Theo, an aspiring photographer from Seattle who came to the mountain to take pictures, Granny, an old woman who lives on the mountain, Mr. Oshiro, the ghost of the concierge of an abandoned hotel on the mountain, and a hostile, long-suppressed "Part of Her" that has been given form by the mountain. Madeline suffers from depression and panic attacks, and as she climbs the mountain, she is forced to face and overcome her inner demons in addition to the trials that the mountain provides.