r/celestegame

So I'm about 2 hours into Psychokinetic and maybe 40% through in terms of number of rooms (based on a quick skim of a clear video). This is assuming I skip the berries, which I probably will. My question is, does it keep getting increasingly harder or is it just more of the same? And does it have one of those stupidly long final rooms like many SJ maps have?

I ask because at the point I'm at I'm already kind of just spamming buttons and hoping I get the timing right. I can't react in the moment because everything is so fast, so I have to rely on muscle memory, but the timing for when to dream jump depends on how wide the dream block is, so it does need to be timed at least a little bit. Also, for some reason taking a two minute break completely erases all of my muscle memory of the room, so that's cool...

what’s everyone’s favorite tech. it could be of any lobby difficulty. mine is probably ultra chaining.

I'm trying to get the last golden berry and I've been grinding a lot, mostly speedrunning (hit sub 25 without the double dash glitch lol) but now I'm trying to get 202 and I did one serious run hitting 21 deaths.

Am I far or not ?

What happens if you miss the final badeline bubble in farewell?

does the feather down there have enough time to respawn?

or do you just die and have to re do the last screen?

I'm currently in my first playthrough, just short of 4 hours in my save file and I just finished chapter 4. First two chapters were not bad, third chapter with Oshiro felt a bit complex navigating the hotel, but the entirety of chapter 4 and fighting with/against the patterns of the wind, as well as much tighter spaces and windows, it started to feel very suffocating. I feel like every game has a "bottleneck" experience where everything starts to feel truly impossible before opening up again once the player gets the flow of things, and I think I just hit my bottleneck as the difficulty of chapter 4 gave me more stress than anything.

I mainly come from combat platformers like metroidvanias (Hollow Knight is my main one) and honestly have a lot more trouble with straight-up platformers (like even old Mario games from NES/SNES) just due to my point of view being to rush through and be precise about movement without messing up. I am far more used to being able to take more time and to base my reactions on enemies/fights, and to learn as you go. I think my main issue is having a completionist urge with strawberries (I may have left 2 that I actually saw, the rest I kept at until I got them) and that this game includes a death counter (like Mario with limited lives) which frustrates me as a player.

I'm not saying these are bad or not necessarily "not for me", but I want to know how universal my frustrations are, and if I can be optimistic about the difficulty curve going forward.

Another small question, because I don't know anything about this game besides what I've played - how linear is the game? I'm not sure how much choice I've had in anything thus far, and wonder if there are many other alternative "paths" or choices that I could do in a future playthrough, once I get very comfortable with how the game feels.

Edit: For whatever it counts for, through the 4 chapters, I've gotten 45 strawberries and 1 cassette, and have had 939 deaths. And I'm frustrated because I feel like I missed out on a million strawberries and I have died what feels like an absurd amount of times.

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