Celeste Strawberry Jam - Passionfruit Pantheon (The Grandmaster Heartside)

girl literally too angry to die, destroys god and bitrate
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The Grandmaster Heartside serves as the culmination of my Celeste experience. I've been setting up that line for 4 videos now.
The heartside itself, while not the gameplay of the rooms, was almost entirely the project of valkyria. She carried this entire map, and more than that, she put up with my eternal bitching. My relationship with this map is pretty complicated - I playtested a significant portion of it, but still had an absolutely terrible experience when replaying it for this video. I don't think I'm going to be playing Celeste again for a while. The amount of times I choked at the end of a flag totals over 120. At one point, my thumb started to bleed to the point where I needed to play the next couple flags with a band-aid. I recognize the objective quality of the map, regardless of how questionable the philosophy behind it may be, but I can't say I had fun.
Download Strawberry Jam here: gamebanana.com/mods/424541

[@Gamation108]

oh yeah, since i usually give dev history and stuff - here's 3 vids with old versions of the map edited together. there's some pretty cool stuff in them, including an easier flag 7, a completely different flag 17 and flag 1, a harder flag 4, old deco concepts, and more. kzbin.info/www/bejne/nXTQk3WHjblkaZY - 12/30/21 build ("what gmhs would look like if we released in 2021" build) kzbin.info/www/bejne/q4K7dquprtaemKc - 4/20/22 build ("deco is actually happening" build) kzbin.info/www/bejne/sKq9m6admcuqe9k - 5/15/22 build ("gamation puts effort into the video editing" build)

[@ru2763]

“I don’t think I’m going to be playing Celeste for a while” no fore ballsside playtesting despair how could you gamation

[@owenshirrell1150]

maybe the real Icarus was the thumbs we ruptured along the way

[@dan7494]

something I just now realized is that at the end of flag one, when you are going up the tower, each heart crystal is the same color as the ones from each of the lobbies which are the same color as the fruits they are based on. blueberry bay 15:19 raspberry roots 15:21 mango mesa 15:23 starfruit supernova 15:25 passionfruit pantheon 15:30 (the shards after breaking it are purple)

[@aryanravi8164]

The shatter song polyrhythms go crazy

[@ohhaithere2010]

As someone who’s struggling with the red advanced stages, I’m looking at this like “i can’t move my fingers fast enough for this shit”

[@salted_salmon]

bloodfruit blantheon

[@NeoKat75]

I looove all the cinematic transitions in this map

[@berr21able]

I'm getting my butt kicked in advanced, and seeing this does not make me hopeful I'll beat this mod.

[@Gamation108]

hey you got this, the difficulty curve is unironically pretty good

[@tear959]

​@@Gamation108true, I went from Intermediate all the way to GM without playing anything other than SJ

[@meta04]

flag 16 but one jump button

[@Glacial7]

The part of the song that plays on The Solar Express is the most hard-going part of any song ever

[@redtomato4903]

This is a seriously incredible achievement. For both you, and the people who went into making this map happen (also you I guess lol) Hope your thumbs ok lol Edit: that end gave me fucking chills that was so good

[@m1n3c4rt]

the ending gives me chills every single time, which is very rare for something that gives me chills

[@dry4smash946]

The ending made me cry when i was finished the map (it was a blind playthrough)

[@goatmonarch]

The music in this goes hard

[@AstralightSky]

i beat starfruit supernova a while ago but most of gm lobby still scares me too much lmao

[@BUGFlower413]

I'm aware I'm so not getting to the skill levels required to beat any Grandmaster map, but goodness if that entire section after flag 1 completely synced with the music gave me chills 0.0

[@valkyria4337]

no cassoosted fuper, 0/10

[@dry4smash946]

Casooted fuper at the end of shong would be the best timeline ever

[@tiepnguyenlethe8422]

I "know" my skill would be around advanced/expert and currently at advanced heartside, watching this hurts my fingers, eyes and brain even though I don't actually play it lmao (and prob never gonna touch this)

[@eterty8335]

guys, a question for all of you who can beat this stuff On a scale from 1 to 10, how fun do you feel this is to play? I really gotta know if it's worth grinding the hell out of the game to get to this level of skill lol

[@Nip403]

10 for me, most gm+ maps are fun as hell! But only if you find playing celeste fun in the first place ofc

[@drex5242]

This map was a 10 for me, it was a really great culmination of everything I loved about SJ

[@TheOneWhoHasABadName]

if they got to the point where they could beat this, they must have found it at least somewhat enjoyable it’s fun to try and climb the lobbies though, so why not give it a try

[@sp_1029]

Absolutely 10, this is some of the best mapping you can get from this high level of difficulty

[@dry4smash946]

Definitely one of the best celeste experiences i ever had, since i am pretty late uhm, whats ur progress so far? :)

[@incredibrick4749]

Magnificent

[@elpanarichie]

Torturefruit paintheon

[@TobyConger]

that moment when limbo from gd in shattersong from celeste

[@JinGaster]

g fucking g, but please don't injure yourself for funny celeste content :weheline:

[@calmcat5377]

what don't you like about the map?

[@Gamation108]

the philosophy behind a lot of the rooms was "make it as hard as possible" with quality as a second consideration, I recognize the insane polish on everything and the general strengths of the map but I feel that philosophy kind of hurt it overall. In general my bad experience doesn't represent the map, that's the only objective complaint I have

[@calmcat5377]

@@Gamation108 ah, i can see how that could hurt a map. have fun in whatever you do next!

[@MadelynofHell]

as someone currently working my way through the expert lobby, what the fuck!?

[@tear959]

Its all fun and games until flag 2

[@_dan1715]

yooo ggs

[@realNom2mooncow]

Bro what is even happening at 10:03 that’s just crazy Okay also at 11:23 what’s up with that

[@fifsqueak]

nyoom

[@personmchuman3367]

Carpal tunnel 😌

[@TealAubrey]

Speed tactics. Some are very... diverse.. and hard

[@tear959]

Standard Nelumbo and Ivory gameplay

[@dpvqb]

gg, your name is here 18:27 💀

[@шоков]

GG

[@kodo8889]

Iscthe level hard, or are the techs hard to learn ?

[@Gamation108]

it's very hard lol

[@VeNom321GD]

I am your 600th subscriber lol

[@toekanmobeil892]

As pretty new celeste player i will tell you one thing. man wtf is this?

[@Its_MarsBars]

This is Grandmaster Heartside, one of the hardest modded levels, and the final challenge of Strawberry Jam, the largest modded collab. It has an incredible skill curve, and anyone can get to this level, with enough time. If you haven’t already, I highly suggest playing Strawberry Jam. You won’t regret it.

[@toekanmobeil892]

@@Its_MarsBars yeah i know just got to the intermediate lobby and it's so cool.

[@RBKGame]

Heey, where are you???