Game:

Celeste (2018)

Duration: 19:52

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II can't believe I'm actually writing this description, this golden felt like a pipe dream for so long. So many things went right in this run, I pulled off an absolutely ridiculous 20+ minute long save in flag 4 without ever practicing it before, and it all happened on New Year's Day?! What a way to start 2024. (I took 2 days to edit this video)
This map has one of the weirdest difficulty spreads in any golden, especially for a high tier golden. Flags 15, 12, 10, 7, 2, and to a lesser extent 6, were the bane of my existence, with flag 7 being by far the hardest. On the other hand, flags 17, 11, 8, and 3 were nearly free. All of the free/not free flags were spread mostly evenly throughout the map, which makes this golden a very unique experience.

And of course, here are the stats:

Time: 138:13:59.555 in my post-release save file, but I had a bunch of extra time during development as well. I think my save file was around 100 hours, but it was lost multiple times so I don't know the exact number. It's complicated further because I think a lot of that time was because Celeste was open in the background while I was mapmaking, so that shouldn't count toward my playing time.
Deaths: 17683, but again this is only counting my post-release file. I had over 10k in my dev file.
Total golden attempts: 1665 (only counting after I started using consistency tracker)
Death breakdown past the first third:
Flag 2: 2 deaths
Flag 4: 2 deaths
Flag 5: 1 death
Flag 6: 4 deaths
Flag 7: 47 deaths
Flag 8: 2 deaths
Flag 9: 18 deaths
Flag 10: 59 deaths
Flag 11: 6 deaths
Flag 12: 117 deaths (5 of which were before I started using consistency tracker)

Music in this video:
Intro & Outro: "Impeded" by Aidan Gold
Lobby music: "Passionfruit Pantheon" by BeanJammin
Level music: "Passionfruit Pantheon - Apotheosis Mix" by BeanJammin
Flag 1: "Shatter the Pantheon!" by Aidan Gold

Unedited version of the run: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLhy4xqgK1Q

Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
1:43 The run
11:00 Flag 4 limbo
13:20 Passing flag 4
17:27 Golden collect
19:00 Stats check
19:32 Outro

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