This can be as simple as holding jump to keep yourself in the air longer or as complex dashing just next to a wall then quickly jumping off of it with precise timing to get you significantly more height. Subtle changes in how long you hold each button, the angle of your jump, or the timing of your next dash can vastly change where you end up. You can jump, dash once through the air in one of eight directions, and cling to walls and climb up or down for a limited time, but the nuance in how you use these easy-to-learn moves is extremely deep. For more than 20 hours of gameplay, Celeste has surprised me with consistently creative and fun platforming challenges and secrets that found unexpected depth from its relatively simple mechanics.Ĭeleste’s controls are extremely simple, just three buttons and a joystick, D-pad, or arrow keys.
All of that character is wrapped around one of the most blissfully fluid, responsive, and fun platformers I’ve played since Super Meat Boy. Little touches - like Madeline’s red hair turning blue when she’s spent her dash charge and then back again when it’s restored by touching the ground or touching a power-up, or that dash causing lanterns in the background to sway when she zips by them - make everything feel alive and dynamic.īut Celeste doesn’t succeed on charm alone – it also nails the fundamentals of its genre. Smartly written dialogue is accompanied by silly, synthesized gibberish voices and animated character portraits that strikingly clash with the otherwise-pixelated art style, giving each character a distinct personality of their own.
Its handful of characters are delightful and expressive, and the world they live in is teeming with small details. That’s the bigger picture, but every corner of Celeste is overflowing with charm.
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