A Key to the Arcade on the corner

Key · 01-03-2019, 12:06 PM

Celeste

The weirdest coincidence happened last night. I was working on a list of games that I wanna talk about in January and Celeste made the list. Now what's funny about that is when I went on Youtube afterwards, a YouTuber was doing a let's play of this game and the first episode went up that same night. So I checked it out. And, although I'm usually a pretty big fan of indie platformers, I may just pass on this one. At this point in my gaming adventure, indie platformers / 2D platformers really have to go the extra mile to make it impressive. Going based solely on what I've seen through videos of the game, it does genuinely look good. I will say that much. The movement seems fluid and the graphics are cool, though again I feel like the pixel graphics art style is getting a bit overused. I can't blame devs for that though especially since Celeste was developed by a small team. A huge achievement no doubt and the game has been fairly well received from what I can tell. It did receive an award at the Game Awards and although that's impressive, I really just don't have very much motivation to get into another platformer regardless of how it was received. Just not my kind of genre these days but I appreciate Celeste for what it brought.

Big props to small devs coming out with these amazing games though. Quite an achievement on its own.

01-03-2019, 12:06 PM	#11 (permalink)
Key . Join Date: Dec 2010 Posts: 13,153	Celeste The weirdest coincidence happened last night. I was working on a list of games that I wanna talk about in January and Celeste made the list. Now what's funny about that is when I went on Youtube afterwards, a YouTuber was doing a let's play of this game and the first episode went up that same night. So I checked it out. And, although I'm usually a pretty big fan of indie platformers, I may just pass on this one. At this point in my gaming adventure, indie platformers / 2D platformers really have to go the extra mile to make it impressive. Going based solely on what I've seen through videos of the game, it does genuinely look good. I will say that much. The movement seems fluid and the graphics are cool, though again I feel like the pixel graphics art style is getting a bit overused. I can't blame devs for that though especially since Celeste was developed by a small team. A huge achievement no doubt and the game has been fairly well received from what I can tell. It did receive an award at the Game Awards and although that's impressive, I really just don't have very much motivation to get into another platformer regardless of how it was received. Just not my kind of genre these days but I appreciate Celeste for what it brought. Big props to small devs coming out with these amazing games though. Quite an achievement on its own.