5/5 ★ – Foddlestock's review of Celeste.

Fantastic game with fantastic gameplay that also manages to tell an amazing story. This game is masterfully designed and just all round amazingly put together. Madeline's moveset is pretty simple, but it's used to great effect and had amazing depth. You have a dash, a jump, and a wall climb. That's it. Near the end of the game you get the ability to dash again in midair but for most of the game it's just that moveset, and the Devs do wonders with it. This game isn't as hard as people say, but it IS hard. Like damn. I think it's much easier than games like dark souls or hollow knight because of the extremley forgiving checkpoints, but I still died 3000 times on my first playthrough. The platforming is extremely tight, and it requires precise movement. This also has an amazing story, as I said at the begging. Madeline is climbing a mountain to overcome her fear and anxiety, this is shown through the gameplay in a very literal sense with badeline, who is a physical embodiment of all Madeline's fears and anxieties. At the begging, she chases you down and kills you MANY times, but by the end she is helping you and gives you a second dash ability. 10/10 I literally have no complaints this shit has 0 flaws mastapeece.