Three years ago (already), Matt Thorson and his small team delivered Celeste, a highly anticipated platform game, given the success of Towerfall a few years earlier. To celebrate the third anniversary of its release, the brilliant game designer didn’t just rack his brain a bit.
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If Madeline’s breathtaking adventure has reached much more than the summit of the mountain of the same name, the platformer of a specific challenge first appeared in the form of a Pico-8 game, Celeste Classic. As a bonus in the game we know to play.
Strawberry Mountains forever
No doubt happy to return to his first love Thorson actually offers us “Celeste Classic 2”, the sequel to the original ::
To celebrate Celeste’s 3-year anniversary, we made a sequel to Celeste Classic for PICO-8: D. You can now play Celeste Classic 2 on the web or on Pico-8! https://t.co/EHp7dTgGlE
– Maddy Thorson (@MaddyThorson) January 25, 2021
This episode, subtitled Lani’s Trek, puts us in command of a new protagonisttaking advantage of a very useful struggle to hope to reach the top and maybe find yourself. Of course, while a little brief, the adventure leaves the hairy platformer from 2018 a few nods.
Completely free and accessible this addressCeleste Classic 2 was developed in just three daysIn addition to the mysterious “EXOK-1”, the first game in its new structure “Extrem OK Games”, you should be busy for at least an hour to pick strawberries again. Yes, even in the middle of winter. Which class right?
