Celeste

Video games are a powerful medium. Not only can they entertain us, alleviate boredom, and provide countless hours of joy and amazing stories, but they can also creatively and insightfully explore complex topics such as mental health and illness. Everyone experiences anxiety and melancholy at some point in their lives…

The Sun and the Moon Never touch the Earth either But without her warm light of love Holding me in place I’d be alone Endlessly spinning Through the cold infinite dark

Celeste was one of those games that i almost immediately connected with. I’m not especially prone to panic attacks, i don’t consider myself depressed or self-loathing or bipolar. I don’t really consider myself having many big mental issues at all, but it wasn’t always that way. Back when i was…

Celeste is 4 years old today, if we’re going by its public release date. Where has the time gone? Oh right, it was largely swallowed by this pandemic that we’re still living through. Dang. …

Maybe I’m not a real writer. Yesterday, I didn’t write. The day before, I didn’t write. I once valued my weekends as the two-day crucible in which I forged stories, poems, essays. With a busy life and career, I carved hours out of my days dedicated to practicing this craft…

In a manner that continues to feel frighteningly familiar, the summer of 2018 was a muddled time in my life, a chapter that lacked direction. Yet, it was also during those listless weeks, when I was sweating the days away in a small apartment above a shopping mall in the…

However you like to enjoy your games, Celeste has you covered — If you asked me to summarize Celeste — the 2018 game by then-studio Matt Makes Games — in just one scene, I’d choose the end of chapter four. …

Celeste is a beloved platformer about a girl climbing a mountain to make sense of her life. We can instantly relate to this, because we’ve been there. She doesn’t know what answers she’ll find, she doesn’t even know exactly what she’s working through, but the mountain represents a tangible goal…

I first became aware of the game Celeste via a promotional announcement video on the Google Stadia YouTube Channel, and prior to that announcement, I had never heard of the game Celeste. Which kind of baffled me, because later on, after playing…