2019's Game of the Year contender Celeste was capped off last year with a free DLC level that added a touching coda to the base game's story. Celeste was hard, but its DLC was even harder. About halfway through, a teaches players a jumping technique previously discovered and used by speedrunners. Tha💯t mechanic then becomes required to beat its remaining levels. This is just one example of how the DLC ratchets up the difficultꦚy.
However, Celeste offers an assist mode for players. This lets people experience its world without learning pixel-precise jumping techniques. That said, in a recent Twitter thread, Celeste lead developer Matt/Maddy Thorson highlighted some additional ga𓆏me mechanics that may well have gone unnoticed by the majority of its pꦛlayer base. These little quirks under the hood help both those new to the game and skilled players.
For example, the first of these Thorson calls "coyote time," likely a reference to Wile E. Coyote, who can continue walking from a ledge onto surface-less sky until he looks down at the expanse below him. In Celeste, this means that protagonist Madeline can still jump off of the nothing following a ledge for a very short time after walking past it. In 🐲a game where precise button inputs are key, this gives players some leeway in when and where it's possible to jump. Plus, speedrunners and other skilled players have a few extra pixels of ground from which to perform more technical tricks.
Another notable mechanic Thorson e⛄xplains is called "." This means that if Madeline dashes horizontally such that her feet collide with the top corner of a surface onto 🌊which a player hopes to land, the game will still place Madeline onto that surface. While the instance of this depicted in Thorson's Tweet looks somewhat inconsequential, this could be a lifesaver in situations where a head-on collision with a corner would mean falling onto deadly spikes below.
Thorson explains that these and the eight other tricks highlighted in their Twitter thread are a part of what make Celeste feel fair, despite its difficulty. In summation, Thorson say💧s, "it wants you to succeed."
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