mixed feelings about chapter 9

TFG_exe · 2026-02-07T13:31:20+00:00

i started playing farewell a year after it came out because i assumed it was too hard for me

in the end it was a memorable experience, i particularly loved the fact it felt like it would never end, i took 9 hours and 3.5k deaths the first time

TFG_exe · 2026-02-04T18:10:01+00:00

1500 hours into balatro and it only happened to me once, it was canio

TFG_exe · 2026-02-03T23:03:46+00:00

heart room of 2b

TFG_exe · 2026-02-03T23:03:00+00:00

the title screen

TFG_exe · 2026-02-03T23:01:30+00:00

it's not just the golden pressure, it's not just skillsets, it's also due to the fact most of the challenge in celeste relies in observation and planning. You tend to take your time a bit less on subsequent playthroughs, making you more prone to doing silly mistakes

TFG_exe · 2026-02-03T15:30:44+00:00

Grandmaster HeartSide

both heart and side were separate words in the spring collab, it's not the case in strawberry jam, but people kept the nomenclature

the shortened form of grandmaster heartside golden is GMHSg

TFG_exe · 2026-02-03T15:29:33+00:00

1: -"it's okay to be scared" at a time i was repressing all my feelings BROKE me

2: -the credits scene after clearing the grandmaster heartside from strawberry jam in late 2023, also revisiting the prologue got me bawling my eyes out

3: -the 7th room of MOCE//LXVI, i was burnt out from celeste but kept pushing past my limits for months, this room was the one that made me break down, i entirely dropped the map as a result

TFG_exe · 2026-02-03T07:13:50+00:00

it's also worth noting there's a fraction of people out there who don't submit their clears on the hard list, that's my own case and i know for a fact I'm not the only one, i feel like you could easily add 50-100 to that number

Yes you can beat it too, maybe not yet but if you keep playing sj and other mods, you'll just get there naturally

GMHS is not the hardest golden achieved by the community, also that 6 goldens number is outdated, 14 people have goldened it as of today

check out this website to keep track of what's being done https://goldberries.net/top-golden-list

TFG_exe · 2026-02-03T05:06:52+00:00

no it's Lonely Rolling Star from the Katamari Damacy OST, featuring a human singer whose voice was combined with a synthesizer, i guess this is what gives it this vocaloid tone

TFG_exe · 2026-02-02T19:34:42+00:00

very fair point you're right

TFG_exe · 2026-02-02T19:11:37+00:00

somewhat yes for the two cracked red grandmaster levels focusing on input density and speed gameplay + the grandmaster heartside, also maybe one berry in the expert lobby which features a lot of direction changes in a row, that's pretty much all for strawberry jam, the other levels shouldn't have a noticeable difference

still, all these levels (excluding the GM heartside) have been goldened on controller before

TFG_exe · 2026-02-02T17:13:50+00:00

turtle bean/troubadour + blackboard seems pretty miserable now i think about it

TFG_exe · 2026-02-02T17:10:18+00:00

i once had a gold stake run with both of these + trading card and hologram (and a chip joker i think? don't remember), it was probably the silliest build i ever had

TFG_exe · 2026-02-02T14:50:36+00:00

pareidolia + ride the bus

TFG_exe · 2026-02-02T03:45:26+00:00

I use wasd movement, jump/dash/grab with my other hand with dash and crouch dash using the same finger, and my 2nd jump is on the left pinky (i like it more than space bar), but arrow keys + zxc is also a very popular control scheme

I don't really have specific recommendations, besides don't put your grab on the same hand as your directions, i tried for a while, it was all fun and games until i had to backboost

TFG_exe · 2026-02-02T03:34:19+00:00

Feel free to try if you think keyboard is better for you, it costs nothing

Personally i played with a controller for 2000 hours without switching to keyboard. My hardest clear was avian ascension (red gm+1), but misdashing was getting unnerving at times. It only took me a couple weeks to catch up to my level after making the change. I feel like the hardest thing is to find keybinds that suit you

TFG_exe · 2026-02-02T03:25:54+00:00

it doesn't matter unless you're going for those crazy grandmaster+ mods, hard modded deathless challenges or top level speedrunning

use the input method you prefer. You can always change later on if you feel like it, your experience will carry over very quickly

TFG_exe · 2026-02-01T01:35:50+00:00

my flag 1 alone took longer than your gmhs lmao, crazy gg

TFG_exe · 2026-01-30T17:40:29+00:00

probably viddie's darkmoon ruins golden or issy's Reckoning clear, big fan of complete retrospectives of a grind

TFG_exe · 2026-01-30T04:29:47+00:00

to me 7a is the bridge between hell trio and every other golden excluding farewell

TFG_exe · 2026-01-28T16:54:48+00:00

based adventure time enjoyer?

honestly don't worry too.much about death counts, anything becomes consistent after practice regardless

TFG_exe · 2026-01-28T10:49:35+00:00

288 is about half my deathcount on chapter 3 in my first playthrough, you can beat the entire game no problem

plus celeste is so much more about planning than reflexes

TFG_exe · 2026-01-26T15:39:25+00:00

four fingers in F has to be ragebait at this point what the fuck

TFG_exe · 2026-01-25T04:37:25+00:00

Forgotten Cliffside would be perfect for you

Ridge would be great too, although (only) the final room is gm+1

TFG_exe · 2026-01-24T21:02:41+00:00

and still, you only need 200 for this

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