Celeste Strawberry Jam Collab: Beginner Lobby Red Levels
0With the Beginner Lobby's green and yellow levels done and all berries accounted for, it's finally time to turn our attention to the hardest levels in the lobby. What challenges await?
00:00 - Intro
03:00 - Switchtube Vista
47:02 - A Gift From the Stars
2:03:45 - Strawberry Orchard
2:26:01 - Strawberry Orchard cleanup
2:32:27 - Soap
3:42:46 - Coresaken City
4:05:00 - Dropzle
6:39:04 - Dropzle cleanup
7:26:02 - A Gift From the Stars cleanup
9:11:47 - Soap cleanup
9:31:07 - Coresaken City cleanup
10:06:37 - Dropzle, again, for one final bit of redemption
As it turns out, I was prepared enough for the technical challenges among these levels, but completely unprepared for the mental challenges in two puzzle-heavy levels in particular, which were immensely time-consuming purely in terms of figuring things out.
Fortunately, I was ultimately able to figure out every room in Dropzle without help - although I cheesed a few rooms (usually by accident) and then arrived at their solutions after the fact (or in one ridiculous case, solved it without realizing it).
The final required puzzle in A Gift From the Stars flummoxed me for a good 90 minutes until I resorted to looking up the answer, and I maintain that that particular room is too clever for where it is in the map - as I said on stream, it's like jumping directly from third-grade multiplication to 12th-grade AP calculus. It might've helped to have a couple more rooms to build up the player's ability to connect the dots first. The good news is that understanding the answer to that room adequately prepared me for figuring out the other optional rooms I had skipped, which felt really satisfying to figure out myself. (I did need to look up one secret room transition though, which seemed to have zero conveyance whatsoever.)
The other three levels had really cool technical challenges (especially Soap) - and what Coresaken City did for its berries is one of the coolest things I've seen so far.
These levels are amazing, but they certainly required far more time and effort than anything else so far. I attempted to cut out as much dead/redundant time as possible in this video while still leaving most of the notable thinking-out-loud bits. (I also cut some unimportant bits during cleanup revisits.)
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