I'm free. - TXCHLXSS Full Clear (Second Victor)

For what it's worth, I'm glad it was you.
‪@Yvelluap‬ Hello! Believe it or not, I was the person who originally found this map on reddit, back when it was in development. You may not be aware of me but it's partly my responsibility this map was cleared at all, as i passionately brought it up and discussed how insane it looked in the discord server at the time. And now I'm finally here. I can say it has gone full circle. And regardless of anything I say regarding this map, this attachment I had towards it is likely what fueled me to finish this grind. I'm glad I did this.
Anyways, let's start.
This map is an experimental set of routing mazes based on precision and extremely low tech usage. All rooms are quite long, generally hovering around a minute with the final room being one of the longest rooms in Celeste history at over 3 minutes.
Most of the map hovers around Yellow GM, with some rooms peaking at the lower end of Red GM. (Room 5 is the hardest of the first ten, felt around high red gm) Most of the execution difficulty comes from difficult timings, tight gaps, turnarounds and the like, which makes objective difficulty judgement complicated.
Its goal in creation was to be a hardlist map that theoretically, given enough time, anyone could beat. Especially with my experiences witnessing rampant elitism in the hardlist community around the time when i cleared Undercity, that goal was something that I saw a really strong connection with.
Unfortunately, I'm not entirely sure if this map succeeded. Not because it wasn't hard enough, far from it. Even after the 1* purge I am VERY CONFIDENT it's still hardlist worthy. It's just that, well...
This map's final room is one of the most painful things ever conceived by human hands.
The first 30 seconds are miserable and Don't Choke is a war crime. the rest of the room is like fine, really good actually when considered in isolation. It's about what you'd expect from a room from this map and the zipper maze is an amazing setpiece. If just one of the start or the ending were removed, I think this map would not be hist, but as it currently stands, I think this room is Yellow +1. But mentally, this room's difficulty is infinite. I cannot express how mentally draining this room was to play.
Oh yeah, as a bonus, add like. the worst luck you could have ever had in anything ever. And you have my experience with that room. lmfao
Anyways, I've talked way too much. Time to list my room clear times and wave goodbye until whatever I do next.
Room 1: 3h42 (Berry - 12min)
Room 2: 2h19
Room 3: 2h47 (Berry - idk 5 min)
Room 4: 2h22 (Berry - 40min)
Room 5: 6h31
Room 6: 2h15 (Berry - 41min)
Room 7: 2h07
Room 8: 2h55
Room 9: 2h26
Room 10: 2h20
Final: 55 hours, 10 minutes
Cassette: 2h32

[@-coba.]

gg!!!!!!!!!!!! you are crazy, can't say it often enough but im super proud of you i cannot wait for our 100 hour venus clears!! :3

[@RedBeanBun13]

gg goat! great job persevering through the mental turmoil that is final. you can't be stopped!

[@Chelito0607]

This is so big for the economy

[@Nylspider]

gg sere :3

[@autumn_mnya]

gg !

[@slashfly]

partyplush

[@adamd9new204]

if this is not hardlist then dashless+ is high 2 star

[@Yvelluap]

it was easier in my head okay 😭 i thought i knew all the ins and outs to the map and this was a slightly puzzly techless map and then thESE TWO PEOPLE DESTROYED IT IN WAYS I COULDN'T IMAGINE it's like seeing somebody put a badass tattoo on your baby. cool but this should be illegal sorry if i'm a bit fried it's almost 3am and i just got the dm that this would be hardlist and my body is both shaking and a brisk blink away from falling asleep

[@Yvelluap]

i just got a dm at 2:30 am saying this map would be put on the hardlist oh my god i'm so fucking excited THANK YOU TWO SO MUCH also can you stop breaking my map it's very fragile

[@Yvelluap]

also the intended route is in my, um, "personal page", youtube don't nuke me. but this run was worse on my poor heart than the redbeanbun one. whole lot of tech fOR A MAP CALLED TECHLESS /lh

[@Yvelluap]

sorry for the thread i'm reading the description "one of the longest rooms"?? but the longest rooms are 10 minutes, no? i was planning for the sequel to have an 11 or so minute room (don't worry that one's for like 2028), that i know is the longest, but three? sheesh

[@Yvelluap]

also room 12 was a total joke. never thought anybody would beat it. then rbb did. then you did. and now other people have to. i was just thinking "this is red gm. you want cracked or beyond. this is not enough" and buffed it to hell, back, and to hell again. again, total experiment. i promise i will get playtesters someday the sequel i just mentioned will in theory be a short campaign of two maps, maybe an epilogue if i'm feeling zesty, and the first map is a superbuffed txchlxss. why? because i didn't think it was hard enough. i may be stupid, but i am stubborn enough not to remove it. damn i suck

[@Yvelluap]

to put a bowtie on this and go to sleep (it is past 3am) thank you for everything, popularizing the map and such, and i'm sorry for breaking the geneva convention. i feel like you went through the same thing as that guy who worked at mr beast and got tortured. i am ashamed. how can i get you back your 55hrs i'm so sorry

[@SereKabii]

@@Yvelluap Hey thanks for your message! 1. i did watch ur gameplay! but i wanted to route the map myself since having this whole sprawling touch switch maze to myself to figure out and solve is like awesome. thats why i enjoyed the first 10 rooms as much as i did! yeah sure it did mean that i broke some stuff along the way but the open-ended design of the map was its biggest strength imo, and i don't think anyone can take that from it. 2. I'm pretty sure there is a single digit number of rooms that are longer than this. And I think this was actually the longest gm+ room in Celeste at the time of the map's release. 3. Honestly that's wild to think about, because most of the room I actually liked. It was mostly just don't choke that truly broke me 😭 4. You don't have to take responsibility for this, lol. I chose to spend 55 hours of my life on YOUR room. As I said in the description, I do have an attachment to this map and what it tried to accomplish. It was something that resonated with me a lot and I love the way you put this map together. Even if the final room ended up being miserable to go through I did, to some degree, know what I was getting into the time I first booted up the map. Also ggs on getting your map on the hardlist :gladstare: thanks for making your map and good luck on your future endeavors !!!