Some clarifications because some people of the Celeste community seem upset about this but: -Evil Madeline is often referred to as Badeline -I am very much a beginner speedrunner in Celeste and wanted to document and share what I found fascinating, I don't claim to be a pro

I'm not a good gamer. I just recently bought a gaming laptop, and got into gaming. I suck at games. My first Celeste run (all strawberries) took 61 hours. After that, I wanted the under hour time, I learned skips, mechanics (still can't neutral jump though), and practiced a lot. And I just couldn't make it under hour. Dozens of attempts ending at 1H 2-4M. And just a few days ago, I really got into the zone, and finished a run in 0:56:28. I am so proud of my journey, from July to December, from 61 hours to 56 minutes.

Very nice video, covers pretty much all the basics and important things for people starting out with speedrunning this game aswell, also just a really well written and cleanly edited video, explained everything pretty well and in an entertaining way, always love to see more good video resources for Celeste

0:18 "abusing the speed limit" you mean abusing the lack of a speed limit lmao

i personally call the blue circle things in chapter 6 bumpers, no idea if the wider community uses that or something else but i prefer bumpers (not a super big fan of them as a mechanic though, pretty annoyed they were brought back for core)

24:40 thats actually a reverse super. good video with alot of the basics for new runners. would've liked to see you go into more detail about corner boosts, hyper bhops and ultras because all very important but i still enjoyed. gl running the game :)

1:48 "This chapter is obviously not too difficult" I died 648 times trying to beat chapter 1

16:04 why you gotta do me like that lol jokes aside really good video, you kept it nice and simple and the vid is very well researched. great job :)

You know Celeste is an insane game to speedrun when you make a 30 minute tutorial covering different techniques and people in the comments list all the stuff you missed. Think this is the one of the 2 best speedrunning games ever made (Mario64 being the other).

I always found it weird that people don't like wind. I found it interesting -- especially the super strong wind -- because it changes your options, so you get these little screen-sized puzzles about how to progress with your new movement options.

Lovely video for a lovely game! Thanks for making this, I thoroughly enjoyed watching it from start to finish

Loving the uploads here. BGs is great but awesome to see you making awesome content here too. Thank you Ben!

Really cool video, the documentation was well done and the fact that yourself tried running the game out also for the purpose of the video is pretty nice, as the commentary section pointed it out there's just a few things that weren't 100% accurate but to be fair they're not really important when the video is not mainly destined to the most experienced runners so yeah keep going you're doing a great job !! Also i really like the fact that you said those were walljumps and not jumps off of spikes' hitbox because many tutorials and stuff don't explain that although it's actually important

What an extremely well put together video! As someone who is far from a speedrunner but has been in the Celeste community since the game first game out, you hit every mark. It was fun to see how we basically had the same learning process. I learned most of these tricks just from others in the community showing them off or teaching me with hard maps, and I learned most of them in the same exact order! And yeah same, despite having it explained to me twice I still have no idea how ultra jumps work. xD I'm so glad that Celeste's engine is this expansive. The amount of thought put into the movement of this 2D platform, with the uncapped speed and crazy opportunity for momentum usage with weird dash jumps and crazy use of mechanics, is amazing. Even from the Pico-8 version of the game (yup that's right, for anyone who didn't know the original demo of this game was a "small" Pico-8 version that maxed out the amount of sprites that could be used, and was made for a competition which it of course won), it's been clear that EXOK games loves speedrunning. Making the rooms so open and leaving so many strategies in that they could've patched out, and even adding features like the demo dash button to assist speedrunners is such a great change of pace! Plus a ton of little secrets routes you can take, like 26:42! Hell, the Farewell DLC even has tons of intentional, harder to perform but faster skips! Celeste is _the_ speedrunning game, and I'm so glad it got the love it deserves. P.S. Door skip saves a thousand years.

i love how he says spike jump at the beginning and the video shows a normal ass wall jump

celeste content!! good and fun video, great job!

Amazing video for your subs and views! You deserve way more dude

great video on a great game!

Really good video!

Awesome video! Thank you for your art

nice job, keep it up!

Oooh a Celeste video *like* well done. Very fun and interesting, well explained and edited.

Nice video!

Celeste devs be like : "Hey, there are a few bugs involving movement." "Yeah? Do they break the game?" "No."" "Ok, leave them in." "Why?" "Oh yeah, also keybind them" "WHY?" "Because." *leaves room*

27:05 actually, this saves 7 years and any run not performing it is invalid

Idk why but as soon as I saw the stuff in the celestial resort I called it malice

I’m so surprised by how good you are. I played modded for 200 hours and I’m just getting into speed running, and you’re pulling off very optimal skips and rooms in a fraction of the time, like depths cornerboost is crazy!

You probably already know, but there are many other youtubers besides that both speedrun the game and make guides. The speedrunners all help to make an amazing community- they are all extremely helpful with questions and the like. Their videos are great for learning new strategies, easy and hard, simple or advanced. Or they're a great place to just relax. All of them are a part of a great community. There are guides less advanced than Programmatic's- Benteezy's old guide- and more advanced guides from multiple speedrunners for various different runs. (All Hearts, any%, 100%, all Bsides, bny%, farewell, etc. Great community for a magnificent game.

Celeste speedruns: where spikes become suggestions and physics is ignored

cool video man

"we meet, evil Madeline" come on, you had one job.. you can ask anyone who play Celeste and they will tell you, her name is Badeline

6:14 UMMMMM Ackshuwallie these floating spikes are called SPINNERS

Yoo Ben covering Celeste? Excellent news

oh a celeste speedrun video

wind is not the most annoying mechanic.... snow balls are WAY worse

The introduction of every chapter with detail I feel wasn't the best decision, as a person clicking this video probably already knows the game. It felt more like a summarized playthrough. Other than that, this was a very good video! (Well edited) Subbed!

1:07 you can also use a reverse wavedash same thing as reverse hyper, but with a wavedash

Oh my god this video needs more views

I just blinked once and Madeleine flies what feels like 20 meters right before my eyes. What those speedrunners do is completely incomprehensible to me

I didn't realise the video just came out, good video

The things that bump you in the air (in the Kevin area) are called bumpers.

hitboxes are actually really generous now that i think about it

good vid

For the room you wavedash skip: you don't need to wave dash I have used an extended hyper to skip that room. Idk if it's faster or slower, but I just wanted to mention it. :)

All Hail Badeline, our better half.

I'm just starting my journey to speedrun celeste ❤️

holy shit this dude is underraited

YoU FORGoT tO MENTIoN ThE SPIKeS TURNInG BLuE iN CHAPTeR SEVeN!!

We got Sub 26 minutes in Celeste! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/oMijZc59mLyqdnU.html

The entire first half of the video I was internally screaming because of the names you were butchering 10/10

Dust bunnies? No, they’re MEATBALLS

Dash Tricks 8:51 Wall Bounce 9:20 Extended Super/Hyper Dash 9:35 Reverse Hyper 10:42

Just started running Celeste a little over a week ago, and just got a ~1h25min!

Just beating this game normally is a challenge for 80% of the population. I beat it my first try with only 62 deaths. People doing it deathless is absolutely insane.

The fact that people call Part Of Me "evil Madeline" or "badeline" kinda makes me sad considering the story the game tells you.

My current best beating chapter two is 3:38 and I’m still trying to improve lol Time to beat, not timestamp

Ch 3 took me over an hour to finish lol

I feel like absolutely no one knows that the dash refreshers also refresh your stamina

Wow so pro

I am a person who plattined (202 strawberry’s and all hearts) two times

The fact that resort only took you 40 minutes, & ridge took you 43 minutes first time is insane to me.. I speedrun this game now cuz it's fun, and the mods are fun too generally speaking, but first time literally took me like 32 hours prolly to reach Epilogue.. with 7 berries. 1m 33s chapter 1a on day 1 is crazy 19:00 - I didn't know that one! :O -- then again i also basically trial and errored my routes instead of following a guide... but still 19:40 - never have I ever seen those strats .. I normally do a hyper -> bhop -> cpop -> corner kick 20:20 - ah yes, first and second blockless. I always go first blockless, and *have* been able to do 2nd blockless as well. But it's too inconsistent for me to use in an actual run xD 27:35 - I still don't know how people get a sub 8 minute chapter 7a .. that's the time it takes me to reach 3000m xD 29:39 - great video!

My man just completely glossed over 6B like it wasn’t that bad

IT’S BEN

If Celeste had trophys for goldens if would be the crypt of platformers

0:40 woah woah woah where u going with that🥴

Fun fact: Celeste mountain is a real place

am i the only one who immediately rebound the dash button to a shoulder button?

people are good at this game

cool

batelin... not evil madline

Great video which explained very well how it works. A question to you though if you don't mind: do you use dpad, the joystick on the controller or do you use a keyboard? I did run through Celeste using almost only the joystick (thumb-stick or what you call it on Xbox controller playing on PC) but I struggled a lot to get Madelein to move precisely. I am not so used to a controller and the d-pad is a little awkward to reach so I assumed the entire game is best using the stick. But many seem to suggest the dpad is better (other than the feathers) and to my surprise quiet a few people even suggested keyboard to a platformer. Which controlling scheme is best in your opinion (or among speed runners or better seasoned players in general)?

"the last chapter"

Vid starts at 8:00

i like this vidio

5:57 “I hour and 60 minutes”

it took me 4 hours to finish chapter 3

i reccomend the mods thats ir

Ain't no way bro said evil Madeline and not Badeline

11:53

Get tru

when you said spike jumps, you didn't show a spike jump.

how do you only have 2k subs

All of this is true, I can confirm

i havent completed the game so ill watch this some day but i just wanted to say i think i accidentally did whats on the thumbnail (and died shortly after cuz i wasnt going anywhere with that)

when you extend a super or hyper, you still get the dash back on the ground. Misleading explanation

Petition to change Evil Magdalene's name into ItsBen123

0:40 Wdym with "Cute Girl" ._.?

Celeste is like Super Meat Boy, but a lot easier.

If you’re not gonna call her Badeline, at least call her _Part of You_

How do you just brush over beating all the b-sides, c-sides, and farewell, as if they're nothing? Overall though good video

Badeline isn't evil >:(

Evil madelin is also known as badeline ;)

>video about speedrunning >Look inside >Game summary Bit clickbaity dont you think?

Btw, canonically she’s called Badeline, which is by far the funniest name and had me laughing for about an hour.

Actually first

I find feathers to be MUCH worse than wind lol

To think I know nearly all of the tech, but still absolutely slow

5:57 I’m sorry 1 hour and 60 minutes? Is that a joke, cause that’s 2 hours :/

I share your dislike for the stupid wind 💨

*half life sfx*