Celeste - The White Hole Clear

im freeeeeeeeeeeee
been trapped in here for a while since i didn't want to have too many hardlist clears going on at once but this takes an eternity to complete. thoughts on the map itself: while the early parts were generally fun and i like the concept im not a big fan unfortunately :( main criticisms:
- it's kinda frustrating that the map puts so much effort into trying to help you (hints tab for a vague idea of what to do, explanations for a really in depth explanation of how the mechanic works) but both of those tabs completely miss the most important part, which is the information you actually need to do the tech. it's cool that i know the inner workings of why it works i guess but i still have no idea what i'm doing wrong when i fail or what inputs i should try and shift - to me this should be the primary focus of a map meant to teach a bunch of tech and it kinda just doesn't do this, leading to a lot of frustrating rooms where you're not given the tools to properly understand the mechanics and as a result it just feels like luck, which is very unfortunate.
- i think a big part of the appeal of theo gameplay is the ability to create difficult gameplay through complex inputs rather than relying on really tight timings you have to bash your head against the wall until you get. unfortunately this map kind of ignores that and instead has a lot of bashing your head against the wall until you hit the random 1fs the map wants you want to get. these screens were generally not fun at all (main shoutouts were screen 64 and the cpop screens but there were a few) and i wish there was more emphasis on just getting good at the tech itself rather than this
- tartarus as a final screen im not a big fan of unfortunately, feels like an unnecessarily large difficulty spike with not much prep beforehand. theo ladders in general it feels quite hard to know what im doing wrong when i die which is quite frustrating and led to me just bashing my head against the wall for 2 hours along the way until it clicked, with a lot of incorrect assumptions made across that 2 hours because the map doesn't really teach you how they work and i had to guess. sad!
i typed way more than i expected to uhhhhh hopefully future hardlist clears will have more positive descriptions! other things in the video: cheesed 98 completely because i just wanted to get to tartarus, check any other vid for intended there. no music for 97 and 99 because i had metronomes on in the background and ingame music was distracting. i also forgot input display for one session early on so a few screens don't have that. next is sbww maybe (or i finally finish up cpvl i've been on perfection for a decade now without actually starting it)
gamebanana.com... the map in question

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