The Golden Rooms of Celeste Mods

Celeste is a challenging indie platformer, with the world record speedruns breaking the game. But many people instead go for golden berries, a collectable that requires you to beat an entire map deathless.
The hardest in the vanilla game is the Farewell golden berry, but this golden has a special secret at the end: a golden room
This video discusses how these golden rooms are used in harder and easier mods (such as Strawberry Jam, D-sides) and the many types of them + my opinions too!
Video created by Seaze (seazeiscool), most music is from the maps themself or paino background music from D-Sides ost, footage mostly my own except sometimes like Parrot Dash, Clantis, etc.
Also Strawberry Jam Grandmaster Heartside (Passionfruit Pantheon) spoilers at 16:40, skip 15 seconds ahead !!
0:00 Intro
1:16 Part 1 - Readable Golden Rooms
7:06 Part 2 - Unreadable Golden Room
12:03 Part 3 - "Congratulations" Golden Rooms
15:40 Part 4 - Opinions?
Discord: seazeiscool
Twitter: SeazeCool
Celeste Modded Golden List Spreadsheet: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...
Maps shown include: Solaris, Farewell, Summit D-Side, Waterbear Mountain, Final Goodbye, MOCE // LXVI, etc.
#celestegame #celeste

[@seazeiscool]

please comment any feedback you have about this video !! it's helpful and also algorithm lol also a few very tiny "corrections": 3:25 - wrong update screenshot i think? 5:42 - "a few months after" more like multiple Years after the first 7dg

[@lirachonyr]

I’m happy that we’re finally getting modded Celeste video essays, the community is so talented and deserves it.

[@laceylopp7039]

fr, we just need more youtube content imo. I’ve honestly been thinking of making like tutorials and stuff for tech or maybe hard rooms but i lack video editing skills and time/energy lol

[@EvilMC10]

3:33 donker.. DONKER.. YOU CANT DO THIS TO ME

[@donker19]

Classic

[@avena7506]

Imagine if Farewell didn't have a golden room and the final room was just gold tinted. That would have been arguably more stressful.

[@DianeSteele]

just tint the whole map. our eyes must suffer for our hubris

[@pigchefer]

you're golden in my room seaze 💜

[@DidYouForgetSomething]

11:08 "How many references can you put in the map's golden room?" "yes."

[@yumiaou]

That singing video of Markass is LITTERALLY bonus. "Mark that's bonus, that's bonus Mark that's bonus"

[@SSuser-go7jm]

I just love your Celeste content! You’re such a great creator!

[@Cookiedude06]

fun fact, I toyed with the idea of a golden room in cosmic column c-side, but ultimately ended up scrapping it because the ending was already pretty climactic and there wasn't really a good reason why there should be a golden room. While messing with ideas, I did make a very silly room that still exists in the debug map though (which was definitely too harsh for a golden room but I decided it was funny so kept it)

[@aaron3440]

8:17 also worth mentioning that the plat rooms also have callbacks to the e-sides! (Which can be found in the museum campaign within the D-Sides mod)

[@seazeiscool]

not rly tbh

[@DarkLeviathan8]

Damn you really did your research lmao. Great watch. So many golden rooms I didnt know about, and I definitely did not expect to see rush+ golden room on there.

[@superlan1177]

7:05 NO WAY I’M FAMOUS! Jokes aside, this was a good video. I’m also curious how golden rooms would be different if Farewell hadn’t introduced them. As for Open Sea, it gives you a bino at the start of the silver room so you can analyze the room when you get there, but the room does feel a bit difficult to execute on a first attempt. Since the map is so short though, it’s a nice additional challenge and is funny.

[@marster772]

I feel at least partially called out by some of these points, somehow i have managed to create all three types of gooms, Move Swap temple (You Can Say This One Is Unsightreadable but i recently changed it to be, not awful), Glitch (a golden room for the sake of a golden room, i made this one because i wanted to give my viewers watching me do the golden a heart attack, its a pretty bad room but i'm really happy with how it ends) Predator Pineway (This map hasnt released yet but it has a congratulations golden room) oh yeah how could i forget [REDACTED] has [REDACTED] But yeah great video am gonna sub because you make good celeste modding documentries and stuff also btw pretty sure solaris does do something non goom if you have the golden, dont all the cutscenes dissapear, but also the "is that fire" dialog becomes ... right?

[@seazeiscool]

oh yeah i completely forgot about those solaris changes, i shouldve included but it didnt feel relevant enough also ty

[@marster772]

@@seazeiscoolalso one other golden thing is the whole farewell double collect stuff

[@seazeiscool]

@@marster772 not very relevant but yea ig

[@FreddieStarWars]

get called out noob

[@arbodox]

"gooms" oh ffs i hate this, this community drives me insane sometimes lmao

[@Psycho0Noob]

14:07 OMG CFM MENTIONED GRAAAH PEAK GM MAP ‼‼

[@dry4smash946]

Real

[@Aktimoose]

great vid! didn't even know golden rooms were a thing so its cool to learn about them. i really enjoyed this (and the crystal garden one too) video! good video :33 Damn you really did your research lmao. Great two watches. I’m happy that we’re finally getting modded Celeste video essays, the community is so talented and deserves it.

[@Aktimoose]

plunderphonics in a youtube comment

[@ciberbull44]

paid commenter

[@Aktimoose]

@@ciberbull44 paid in exposure

[@awesomeguy_2323]

14:19 the best golden room of all time fr

[@I-did-September-11th]

Nah, 3:08 is...

[@sputnikt]

Ohhh great video 👍👍👍👍

[@jacksonmabry9589]

Finally bro I would’ve watched it the day it came out but I was on vacation

[@soapie0413]

15:31 9D actually technically has this in its platinum run. After reuni, there is usually a mandatory death-warp to start PONR (the start of the map’s recon section) but when you have a platinum there’s a block placed that allows you to skip it, pretty neat

[@seazeiscool]

yea i forgot about that, pretty epic

[@Aques_Aquir]

I LOVE CELESTE CONTENT

[@wrecxx]

i really enjoyed this (and the crystal garden one too) video! i really hope youll make more edited celeste content like this cause its awesome

[@funcat3560]

I've only made one map, but I like to make a hard room behind the start of the map that holds the golden berry; So you have to do a challenge room before starting attempts. (It gives a re-spawn, so you only have to clear the gold room once, for any number of concurrent attempts.) It has some drawbacks, but is also a great way to implement a room that would otherwise be a bit to hard for a normal strawberry.

[@safgsafj2685]

great vid! didn't even know golden rooms were a thing so its cool to learn about them

[@Orion_1]

Your content is one of a kind, thanks for making it!

[@guitarsonmars]

love seeing more celeste content, especially modded stuff! this was very interesting, lovely video! also i appreciate the captions :)

[@aaron3440]

Loved this video!

[@touhoe]

awesome video! love to see thoughtful & informative videos on modded celeste

[@seazeiscool]

touhoe

[@henkspreeuw]

Love this video!

[@aronwhar]

I love your long celeste modded videos

[@CelestialStrawberriesYT]

I haven’t even golded Farewell yet but seeing the golden room awakes a sense of deep anxiety 😅 Great video btw! In my eyes, this is the perfect type of content: entertaining, engaging, but not constantly needing to throw stuff in your face to do that. Great job hitting the sweet spot! You’ve earned a subscribe

[@pogewoge]

yooo the goat is BACK dropping heat once again 🔥 i really enjoyed this video, i also didnt know much about golden rooms other than the fact that they exist and farewell started the trend, so i would say the video served its purpose well! this video to me was better than the last, which is super cool to see the improvement already! really good video once again and cant wait to see the next once it drops, well done man 👍 (p.s. i got celeste because of the CG video and im doing 7B golden rn :D)

[@Memfyy]

I love these types of videos

[@olive_r]

good vid seaze

[@TheCursedJudge]

Enjoyable video

[@seazeiscool]

just wanted to say your videos are awesome and cool and awesome and cool and awesome and i love them and was mildly inspired by them specifcally for this video lmao thanks

[@CVZen]

@@seazeiscool

[@J_ey]

IF i make a map wIth a gold room, im going to make it optional, and have a three path way thing, one for credits, one for the heart, and one for the gold room (and yes im going to label them)

[@npexception]

I remember Arphimigon's 6D forcing you through the badeline fight sequence if you have the golden, which is otherwise a part that's entirely optional. When Arphi added that forced route, the wall blocking you from the easy path was skippable though, making that golden much easier than it was supposed to be. It was quickly patched though :D

[@seazeiscool]

actually just goldens in arphis d sides are cursed especially 3d lmao

[@pejaduos]

this video is the most informative video about celeste goldens i ever seen

[@esteb7496]

This video is so cool and it really shows everything the modded deathless comunity has done and is doing, i already thought cg video was good but that’s on another level

[@icyorigami]

this was a great video, you cooked with this one

[@supernova-everlasting]

thanks for the subtitles ! super helpful

[@bandana5595]

golden room that just says “f*** you” and forces you to gamble

[@goose.exclamationpoint]

banger video! super fecta loves you

[@guacodile2528]

Ik im really late, but that was an amazing video :) I think it would be fun If you made a video about about final room syndrome, considering it happens in so many maps nowadays.

[@seazeiscool]

thanks, dont think final room syndrome would make for an interesting video probably i dont have enough to talk about on it

[@dexivela]

good video!!

[@OSoverspike]

Cant believe you transcribed celecte modded done deathless into a video (it is a really cool showcase of how goldens are often treated in maps though, good job!) Also while we're on the subject when are you going to explore the golden room in farewell with the funny berry

[@seazeiscool]

wdym by that last sentence, im not doing that golden its boring

[@Manahina1]

I never even knew golden rooms were a thing, and the fact that there's one in the base game.

[@snolls105]

I wonder how many joke golden rooms are built off the premise of "no one would be dumb enough to golden this map."

[@xomvoid_akaluchiru_987]

There's a golden of tower lxvi, every map maker knows that shit is getting golden if the map is good enough.

[@snolls105]

@@xomvoid_akaluchiru_987 you say that but i've made maps under the assumption that no one would golden them. atm i have a wip map where death warping is part of the intended pathway. so.. that one's not getting goldened lmao.

[@xomvoid_akaluchiru_987]

@@snolls105 death warping is part of double moon berry golden, it doesn't lose the golden strawberry. I haven't done any level editing but I'm sure you can ask someone how to add it :)

[@snolls105]

@@xomvoid_akaluchiru_987 nah, the map has other shit going on that also breaks goldens that would also be too much of an issue. alongside that, plus the death warping is, like, very frequent. like roughly once every other room has something going on that would cause technical difficulties for golden berry. so, not really worth the effort for a map where only a handful of people would be insane enough to consider attempting if even. (shrugs)

[@valkyxiart]

good video :33 keep cooking!!!

[@aTree1]

i thought this would be a mid video then i saw avian ascension hella based

[@CVZen]

I both love and hate to death the fcg rooms in stellaris

[@Skaether]

cfm golden room my beloved

[@BGDMusic]

i wasn't gonna add a golden room to my map but i will now actually because i want to make it a pretty cool room if i can make it work, if not i'll see what i can do to make it good, but yknow

[@aTree1]

Wow! You seem to really want to give people heart attacks!

[@imdartt]

i think it would have been really funny if golden rooms werent a thing yet and someone just had the idea. like someone spends 20 hours on a golden and then theres just a nother room theyve never seen before

[@VickyyTheFox]

I can't believe arphi murdered Core of the Sun...

[@adarshk7484]

15:38 there are platinum blocks in 9d to avoid the forced death in recon

[@seazeiscool]

yes i believe (or a detach trigger idk i didnt check)

[@dry4smash946]

6:16 to be fair, that golden room was just a joke without an intent of someone getting there with a golden berry (feel free to correct me though)

[@Pwngin]

I honestly love these kinds of videos, keep up the amazing work ❤

[@bevweb]

15:27 madeline goes to space!!!!! (Executed SO badly)

[@bevweb]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/oYLMiYOem85mnMU :3

[@Magnapinna4096]

oh hell yea this makes me want to make celeste map one day (i suck at the game though)

[@Magnapinna4096]

though i made a couple absolute banger terraria parkour maps (according to my own standards) so who knows i finish a celeste map one day

[@dry4smash946]

Go for it, i am a person who had a lot of time with mm2’s editor and celeste lonn is kinda that actually

[@souwurfe]

so a map i made has 2 rooms. one is an hour long, the other is 30 minutes long. someone died in essentially the final few seconds of the golden run *and then asked me to add a 30 minute golden room* 😭 so now that map has a 30 minute golden room too. bless. kzbin.info/www/bejne/onzHh2Wln9qZg6M is the video of that 💀

[@seazeiscool]

without even clicking the video i know the map

[@A_LEXlI]

WAIT- WHY AT 1:02 IS THE MUSIC WORLDS END VALENTINE FROM OMORI LOLLL

[@seazeiscool]

jash is literally a character from omori lol

[@A_LEXlI]

@@seazeiscool i know

[@AstralightSky]

i'm keeping the shatter site golden room lmao

[@Fahimlol]

Amazing presencetation, very unferrated!

[@toricon8070]

it'd be really funny to have a golden room that just straight-up wasn't possible. "oh you want a golden berry? *no.* " (disclaimer: please do not do this)

[@TrubGMD]

Why did you unlist your gd videos? They were actually good

[@seazeiscool]

nope

[@sj_lezaH]

hi cool person :)

[@lincolnlaw4469]

MAC FOOTAGE?

[@seazeiscool]

as in the footage is recorded on macOS? yea

[@jackatjack2886]

Jash omori

[@seazeiscool]

jash omori