Celeste - Final Goodbye All Golden Strawberries (ft. D-Sides Max%)

Описание: Playlist with all my other D-Side Goldens:    • Celeste D-Sides Golden Strawberries  
Timestamps:
Start~Curiosity - 00:00:00
Dedication - 00:09:34
Memories~Creation - 00:12:39
Exploration - 00:21:19
Depression~Trust - 00:26:04
Serenity - 00:35:33
Revisit - 00:38:12
Black Karma - 00:42:47
Scattered Mirror of the Storm - 00:50:13
Sunrise Running - 01:01:27
Goodbye of the Mountain - 01:07:19
Heart Beating~Realization - 01:16:14
Parting~Plural - 01:23:02
True Love - 01:28:09
Reunification - 01:33:25
AREA_10ellECKP_v_99of the Mu - 01:38:49
Point of no Return~End - 01:50:00


Final Goodbye, often referred to as 9d, is a part of Monika’s D-Sides campaign. The map is so big that doing all of it without dying in a single segment would be an inhumane task, so instead it is divided into 17 distinct segments, each having one golden berry to obtain. Although this map does have a collectible that requires doing all of it deathless which is Platinum Berry, a part of separate mod that isn’t required to play the map itself or collect golden berries.

With these 17 goldens and all the other goldens there are on D-Sides, I have just achieved Monika’s D-Sides Max% and became the 2nd person ever to do so, with first being Parrot Dash.

My entire arc with D-Sides has been going places and I’m very satisfied with it being finally over. Sometimes I felt down, sometimes I felt really demotivated, but I always managed to rise after even the worst fails. This map pack will always hold the special place in my heart as it was the first ever mod I’ve ever played, and it’s currently the only mod I have visited multiple times over my entire playtime in Celeste, as I played it being just a little more experienced than a person who just finished 200 berries (pre-Farewell) and did some vanilla speedruns, to the current amount of deathless experience I’m standing at right now. And additionally, it was the first ever mod I got a custom golden berry on (this being 7e lol).

The level of admiration I have for this masterpiece of a map pack is as immense as it can be. To think that most of this was made and put together by only one person is mindblowing, and I probably don’t have sufficient vocabulary to give all of my respect to Monika for this mod. Although D-Sides also has other contributors like playtesters, coders and musicians who gave a lot of love and passion to this mod and who are also amazing people, they definitely deserve a lot of respect too.

The grind of 9d goldens in particular hasn’t been too hard for me as my deathless experience on other stuff includes much harder challenges and much worse fails. There’s a bunch of mildly awkward spots across all the 17 goldens and even though my experience wasn’t as perfect as it could be, I’m still really happy with how it went overall. The last golden berry, which is Point of no Return ~ End is a very well made deathless challenge that is extremely well paced with nothing but good flow overall. The golden is also a really good ending to the D-Sides Max%, even if it’s not the hardest golden in the mod pack.

PonR ~ End Golden took 16 Final Goodbye checkpoint entries (including the successful run), 2 of them died to dashless poem section and 1 died to 3rd golden room (the one with ice balls)

Raw recording of the session:    • 9d ponr-end raw - 2024 12 28 19 22 36