celeste
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Why Ice Levels Keep Showing Up In Video Games, Even Though Most Of Them Are Bad
In games as in life, slipping and sliding on ice patches while torrents of snow transform your eyelashes into crystalline daggers can be frustrating, to say the least. And yet, ice and snow levels are a time-honoured trope in video games. On this week’s episode of Kotaku’s Splitscreen podcast, we try to figure out why…
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Farewell Is A Fitting Goodbye To The World Of Celeste
Celeste is a perfect a platformer as has ever been made. Its mixture of charming visuals, fantastic music, and challenging levels added up to one of 2018’s best games. That seemed to be the end of it; the story was over, the mountain was climbed. But a final epilogue chapter, added this week, brings a…
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The Battle To Be The Best At Celeste
Competitions are always more fun when they’re equally matched. The back and forth between speedrunners TGH and Fladervy over who can claim the top time in Celeste is as close an arm wrestle as they come and it doesn’t look like either one will give up soon.
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Speedrunners Destroyed Cuphead And Celeste
At the Summer Games Done Quick, two tricky games were demolished. The runs of Cuphead and Celeste stole the show, giving us all an opportunity to ask, “There’s no way it’s that easy, is it?”