Celeste - Strawberry Jam - The Solar Express SILVER BERRY

Описание: the hardest thing i've ever done

my journey with this map started over 2 years ago now, starting the clear in march 2023. my previous hardest clear was 7d and i was not at all prepared for a map of this difficulty but i jumped to it anyway because of how cool the map seemed. the map destroyed me, with most rooms taking multiple hours and needing to take a month break on train 1, but i came out the other side anyway. it instantly became one of my favourite maps and i knew one day i wanted to get this silver no matter how long it took

april 2023 - september 2024 was a lot of just building up harder goldens with the goal of this eventually being possible, with some occasional solar play in the middle. i first began seriously attempting the silver in september 2024 and got my first train entry surprisingly quickly, but the map still seemed so hard i took a break until it felt more possible. this continued to happen for a while, getting 1 train entry a month then dipping because of how mentally intimidating the map still was.

it took until this last week to finally lock in and start seriously grinding this every day with the intent of getting the silver no matter what. somehow only 5 days later i finished it, on a one off session before bed where i just wanted to get 1 run past warren to see what happened. it still feels like such a shock i can't even process it (nor could my body, with my hands remaining completely cramped up for 10 minutes afterwards). this map has constantly been on my mind for 2 years, with recently it being stuck in my head almost all the time: no matter where i was or what i was doing all i could think about was this silver and how i still hadn't gotten it. i had several nights where i lost sleep over it, imagining the worst deaths i could possibly have. it'll be weird to no longer have it looming over me like that. i'm free

time: first clear was ~11:30:00, then full clear playthrough after was 5:03:48 of which ~4 hours were berries. file time from there up until around ~19:00:00 was random playthroughs between then and actually locking in. so dedicated silver practice time according to cct was 19:05:39 but there's ~3.5 hours of extra time you could consider if you want to, i probably will to be fair.

difficulty: tier 10/old tier 3 on goldberries, this is my hardest by 3 tiers so i have no idea how accurate that is. maybe t9 with these strats idk, nothing will change the fact i finally have an old tier 3 to my name :peaceline:

mod link: https://gamebanana.com/mods/424541

Train Deaths: 0:00
Successful Run: 1:38
Stats: 7:22