Maddy Makes Games celebrates Celeste’s 6th anniversary with the most ambitious reimagining of the cult-favorite platformer to date. Celeste 64: Mountain Fragment. Play now on itch.ioimagines a fully 3D version of the cult-favorite N64 platformer, with chunky polygonal graphics and unique traversal challenges.
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Celeste 64: Fragments of the Mountain is here and you can play it below. @Ichio.
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The game’s description reads, “Relive the magic of Celeste Mountain with Madeline in this small, heartfelt 3D platformer. Created in one week by the Celeste team to celebrate the game’s 6th anniversary. I did.” is written.
IGN reached out to Maddy Makes Games for more background on Celeste 64’s development. However, this isn’t the first time Celeste has been reimagined by its original developer. To celebrate its third anniversary, Maddy Makes Games has released a charming semi-sequel to Pico-8, a virtual machine that mimics the functionality of his 1980s 8-bit PC.
Despite being developed in a short period of time, Celeste 64 packs in a surprising amount of content, including a bonus stage with music reminiscent of Super Mario Sunshine. It also includes conversations that take place after the original game, and is depicted as a bit of a sequel.
The original Celeste was released in 2018 and received critical acclaim for its sharp controls and memorable music. In a retrospective published last year, we called it “one of his most important trans games to date.”
Celeste 64 is Download now to your Windows PC, a macOS version is coming “soon.” The game’s team is currently working on bugs and crashes.
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