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Celeste 64 Takes The Popular Platformer Back In Time…Or Forward

Celeste 64 Takes The Popular Platformer Back In Time…Or Forward

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The indie hit Celeste turned six this weekend, and as a special birthday present, Extremely OK Games (the makers of the original) have remade the game’s world in a low-poly, low-res fashion reminiscent of the Nintendo 64. However, given that the pixel visuals of the original Celeste are meant to evoke the 8-bit machines of the 1980s (and the game was originally thought up on a facsimile, the Pico-8)…is this actually a leap forward? Celeste 64 once again has you controlling Madeline, and once again tasks the player with climbing Celeste Mountain using Maddie’s handful of skills: jumping, wall-kicking and boosting in midair. However, the third dimension adds a bit of extra challenge, and the game was already hard enough (this reporter could not figure out how to scale the first wall in front of him). It’s too bad Celeste 64 wasn’t built to run on a real N64, but pulling that off would be a lot harder than it looks. Today’s programming languages are completely different from what the

2020 To February 2021 Oscar For Best Original Song: My Thoughts

2020 To February 2021 Oscar For Best Original Song: My Thoughts

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The 93rd Academy Awards, honoring the cinematic achievements of 2020 and the first two months of 2021, will be happening in about two weeks or so, and as I’ve done occasionally over the course of the past few years, I wanted to take a look at this season’s nominees for Best Original Song. I’ll offer my thoughts on each song, and at the end, I’ll predict which song will win and which song I would choose to win if I had the only vote. My predictions haven’t exactly had the best track record, but perhaps this might be a year I get it right. We start off with Husavik (My Hometown), which was featured in 2020’s Eurovision Song Contest: The Story Of Fire Saga. Husavik, written by Rickard Goransson, Fat Max Gsus, and Savan Kotecha, is an interesting song. It’s a sweeping ballad about the movie’s protagonist Sigrit (Rachel McAdams, though the singing was done by My Marianne) expressing love for both her hometown and her singing partner Lars (Will

There’s Now A Celeste Sequel — But We Mean The Original

There’s Now A Celeste Sequel — But We Mean The Original

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In 2015 Lexaloffle Games released the Pico-8, a brand new game console…that doesn’t exist and never did. The Pico-8 is actually a game engine that self-imposes the limits of retro consoles, challenging developers to find the best methods of working around those limitations. There are those that prefer it! If you’ve never heard of the Pico-8, you’ve definitely at least heard of the most popular game to be birthed on the virtual console (at least to date): Celeste. Yes, the original Celeste was a Pico-8 game, released in 2016, and was the product of a four-day game jam. They decided to make a non-Pico-8 version and the rest is history. If you play well on the more popular “modern” version of Celeste, you can unlock the Pico-8 version, but it’s also free to play online. We’re telling you all this because as of now, there’s a sequel to Celeste…but we don’t mean the Celeste everyone knows, we mean the Pico-8 version. It was created by the team at Extremely OK

Celeste Collectors Edition Coming January 1

Celeste Collectors Edition Coming January 1

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As you may have heard, Limited Run Games is publishing the one title gamers have been begging them to publish all year: Celeste. Preorders go live in a few days, and there WILL be a Collectors Edition of the title. Though Limited Run tends to offer Collectors Editions of most of its titles, Celeste is the one game we figure warrants its own report. Within the Celeste Collectors Edition you get: A plushie shaped like a strawberry A 16″ X 20″ poster of Celeste Mountain Sticker Sheet Celeste Mountain Patch Celeste Mountain Postcard Strawberry Pie Recipe Cassette Soundtrack These aren’t halfhearted items — most of them fit within the spirit of the game, especially the fact that the soundtrack is being offered on cassette. It’s the type of eerie synth that’s just begging to be played on an 80s Walkman (assuming you still have one). The Celeste Collectors Edition will also come in this Steelbook case, with custom artwork. The game is being physically published on both Switch and PS4,

New Levels Of Celeste Coming In 2019

New Levels Of Celeste Coming In 2019

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A shipload of indie games were released in 2018….we’ve covered about two hundred or so on Popgeeks this year. If there was one clear winner in such a massive competition, it had to be Celeste, the challenging puzzle platformer with a touching storyline. According to creator Matt Thorson, Celeste sold over 500,000 copies throughout 2018. Now as a way of saying thank you, Thorson is preparing new content for the game. This will be a one-time deal; he’s calling them “farewell levels.” As he tweeted this afternoon: We’re working on some farewell Celeste levels, which should be ready in early 2019. They’re very hard. And we’ll be announcing what’s next for us in the new year as well. See you in 2019 🙂 Considering how tough some of the normal levels are in Celeste, something Thorson considers “very hard” should be rough indeed. And it sounds like he’s working on another game as well. One unanswered question: what this could mean for the recently announced physical version of Celeste, which

The Ten Best-Selling Indie Games On Nintendo Switch

The Ten Best-Selling Indie Games On Nintendo Switch

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The future of video games is finally looking brighter. Some of you might look at the loot boxes and predatory gambling tactics plaguing the AAA industry and argue otherwise. You’re not looking in the right place. The reason I believe games may finally turn around is the Nintendo Switch. Do you know what one of the top-selling games of 2018 is, thanks to that system? It’s not shovelware. It’s not Generic Macho Man Bro Shooter #595. It’s not Awkward Waggle-Control Spectacle and it’s not $60 Game That Costs Another $60 To Play Longer Than Three Minutes. It’s Celeste, an indie title from a tiny studio called “Matt Makes Games.” Celeste isn’t selling because of a multimillion-dollar ad campaign or because Drake was seen with it or because it’s famous for being famous. It’s at the top because it’s GOOD, and for no other reason. Do you know how long it’s been since I could say that? Top 10 Best-Selling Indie Games on Switch Celeste Enter the Gungeon Fast RMX Golf