The New Hardest Celeste Map | The Solar Purgatory [FC] 1ST CLEAR

is THIS, the hardest celeste map? lets find out
Map by ZKB: gamebanana.com/mods/496206
Total: 34:31:12 | 23763 deaths
Enjoyability: 90?/100
also streamed live at / olive__r
I'll get this out of the way. Is this actually a new hardest Celeste map? Very likely yes. I personally think that I'm very good at theo/throwable gameplay, and I got through every other room in this map in around 5-6 hours TOTAL. I'd say the rest of the map is around mid-high 2* difficulty, but Abaddon is when the difficulty just skyrockets. This single room took nearly 30 hours, making it the longest I've spent on a room in Celeste AND clearing a map. Now I did almost manage to clear around 20 hours in, but I still didn't clear it. And even then if I did, I'd have said that this would've been harder than Dashless+ and LXVI. Abaddon is simply brutal in difficulty. But who knows, currently only me and Mei have significant progress on this room, and maybe Issy will just completely obliterate this room in 10 hours idk. But still, it's extremely likely this may be the hardest (at at least one of) room in Modded Celeste.
As for my personal experience, I thought most of the map was pretty fun! For being made in very little time, I personally liked most of the gameplay. Though as usual there were always some random spots in rooms that kinda just sucked (like pre-nerf R9 Sumber start). Definitely my least favorite room was R7 Agony, consisting of the most ANNOYING 1f at the start of the room and at the time of playing, a completely RNG cornerboost ending. For the other rooms, I don't really think there's anything as notable. One tech that I did have to learn was the dream jump hyper (or DHJ or Mickey Mouse). I remember having a really hard time learning this input (especially cause the "tutorial" requires a controlled jump), but believe it or not these do get extremely consistent.
Now Abaddon. I did mention this when talking about difficulty, but yes this is an extremely difficult room. Of the four quarters in this room, I don't really know which one is the hardest anymore, but it's between Q2 and Q3. Q2 used to be really difficult, but eventually got consistent. Q3 when starting out seemed to be not that bad, but I soon realized how easy it was to die not only due to nerves, but because this quarter is generally very awkward in some places and generally easy to die in. Q1 is like 50/50, sometimes you clear it multiple times in a row, sometimes you just get stuck at the beginning bumpers cause they SUCK! And Q4 is definitely the easiest, albeit possibly easiest to die to. Being centered around just speed and dream blocks, it's very die-able. Now I still think I did start to get a little unlucky cause y'know, dying 10 times in the same spot in Q4 isn't exactly normal luck (maybe a skill issue). But despite this, I still think it's the easiest quarter.
My take on "Don't Choke" is this: it's really not that difficult like I'm sorry lol. I can definitely see how people think this part is absolutely horrible to put at the end of the room, but practicing it you realize that it isn't bad at all (at least for me). There's 2 spots that are die-able: The turnaround bumper and the bumper after the fall. Basically everything else in that room was "free." Now I do also agree that this isn't really a "Don't Choke," but basically another (smaller) room. But I think that eventually, this becomes closer to what a "Don't Choke" could feel like, as I only died two (TECHNICALLY ONE) times to it.
I think I'm done yapping. Huge thanks to ZKB for making the map and Freeka for making the awesome music. Especially thanks to Mei for helping me increase my incentive to clear. Shoutout to all the people currently attempting this map, and shoutouts to all my friends who were in VC with me as I cleared this. Thank you!
also hardest celeste level

[@ZKBceleste]

YOU DID IT! Congrats Olive!!

[@gmdFrame]

Who are you?

[@SuspiciousTemmie]

​@@gmdFrameThe person who made the map!

[@gmdFrame]

@@SuspiciousTemmie cool

[@blue_orbe]

Congrats Zoink on beating Tidal Wave ! Glad to see you back Trick !

[@gmdFrame]

Wpopoff is joining the race too!

[@luma8895]

The New Hardest Celeste Map | The Solar Purgatory [FC] VERIFIED

[@natsumikuzuryu4720]

GD Aah Reference

[@sharkbyt8806]

Harder than tower XXII

[@aerialz7175]

@@sharkbyt8806 Harder than the worlds hardest game

[@gmdFrame]

Yes... That's basically the name of the video

[@xxhyphenxx9365]

I wish I could beat this sometimes. Still GG on Bloodbath!

[@bevweb]

Good job on beating the "heart of the storm" good luck on your future ventures!

[@wintermrrow]

congrats on nelumbo

[@OSoverspike]

Finally, sj 100% GG huge clear looks and is completely insane

[@gmdFrame]

Strawberry jam? What?

[@Mitsera]

@@gmdFrame the level is a crossover of Pinball Purgatory and The Solar Express

[@gmdFrame]

@@Mitsera ok

[@breadmilkYT]

Good job Knobbelboy for verifying Bloodlust, massive accomplishment on a new hardest demon

[@Memfyy]

You have mastered the art of Theo

[@djathome2915]

gg Farewell! it's a difficult chapter for sure!

[@moon_berry-wq5rl]

god damn, gg! I remember asking ZKB whether or not any room in this map is harder than pfp f7, and he said: "I dont know, depends on your skillset" 😭

[@Kaleb_22]

Do not spoil this please. GG on ABADDON.

[@gmo298]

KALEB FOUND IN THE WILD LMAO !?????

[@Kaleb_22]

hello genetically modified organism 298. by leaving this comment you have sentenced yourself to completing a map on celeste's hardest map list (HL). wishing you luck on this journey.

[@PAlNNNNNN]

Congrats on beating Forsaken City! Good luck on your harder journeys :SmileHD:

[@corruptional5899]

Congrats on beating Citadel of Infinite Void by bLockerman666 and more! Good luck on your next !

[@esteb7496]

Absolutely insane, gg on first ever sumber clear

[@KaileyTheAlien]

Yeah ofc you already did it 😭 why am I still getting impressed with every achievement in this community. I should've get used to it by now but it surprises me every time

[@imanatid]

Holy shit, congrats on beating Extra Ball Full Version!

[@appel4444]

YOU ARE A KING GG !!!!

[@GigaDragonPlus]

THE DOWN RIGHT OF LEGEND ON VERDICT LETS GOOOO But fr tho G fucking Gs, you’ve been chipping away at this for a long ass time and glad to see you be the first one to take it down

[@juansantos2189]

I am terrified, how this is even possible. Congrats!!

[@meikainakibo403]

i'm so happy you finally did it let's gooooo congrats omg

[@kittenish7116]

gg!!!! this looks absoluitely crazyy

[@almonds7732]

Such a sick map, huge congrats

[@lumi2030]

i'm still relatively new to celeste, going for golden strawberries in vanilla, and seeing people beat this is surreal. i have almost no clue what's going on, but it is impressive to me. GG

[@BossAwesomeSauce]

my deepest condolences

[@Mr.Melancholiia]

GG, would be really cool to see a video explaining how you cleared ABBADON!!

[@chirazen8492]

gg oliver you are amazing !!!

[@jeremyquiros5483]

Yooo congrats on clearing SuddeИDeath MXM 👏 👏 👏

[@drifter2928]

good job aliver!!! 🥳

[@stubbbb]

This is truly the Tower XXII of Celeste maps

[@elji8843]

Congrats on congregation!!!!

[@Korotan_]

Yooo congrats on ABFC Recollect Lines

[@WotCorp]

Gg on pulling Theo (he's such a baddie omg)

[@eddy0777]

congrats! :3

[@auride0]

These are the world's crispiest fries

[@thekylester]

Good stuff man

[@727laser]

congaulations!

[@CelesteClears]

gg congrats ! :3

[@wrenpastel]

gg on sumber fc!

[@litterbox019]

congregations!

[@fesh]

this map exists thanks for beating it

[@FreekaNachuh]

And that’s why he’s the goat 👑

[@petrikhorr]

Congratulations on this Awesome Amazing Bombastic Bewildering Crazy Cool Destroying Epic Fucking Godlike um. clear

[@RBKGames-BogdanRogatyk]

The olive got into purgatory, -photo- video in color.

[@cheezysf]

ongatulations!

[@fruitybasil]

holy shit congrats

[@Evilcattt]

Gg sexinball purgatory

[@olive_r]

that is NOT the name

[@wintermrrow]

@@olive_r ur wrong ??

[@GeorgeStephens-hl8co]

sextra ball

[@blainek5784]

Theo gameplay is wild

[@SuspiciousTemmie]

I don't know anywhere near enough about Theo tech to understand what's going on here, but looking at the input display makes me scared

[@vennewyn]

forever my goat

[@icyorigami]

GG Olive!

[@erierierierierie]

wtf is that indie from celery...

[@Ezreal64]

Ayo congrats

[@CapyGMD]

Gg on chapter 9

[@crisis8v88]

@7:09 The hydrogen bonds are strong with this one.

[@CitadelR]

congrats on beating solar flare! cant wait to see what you do next, maybe tidal wave?

[@TB-fv9il]

And here I was, struggling with 8B….

[@sans_exfiance]

holy shit

[@RoiLapin]

GG’z !!

[@dewdrop6346]

abaddon deez will be missed

[@tiddly5]

literally yesterday i was thinking "dang how has no one beaten anything harder than d+ yet" nice job lmao

[@neuralstrings8015]

congrats on beating clubstep

[@puggyzcool]

I gotta buy ZKB icecream now!!!

[@ZKBceleste]

😏

[@hakeemoluseyi9431]

sumber is now real

[@aTree1]

"YIPPEE!!!! YAAAY!!! MAREWUAOHFOAWVOHAEWOROWFJLJ" - mrekk after setting a 1498 on save me

[@DianeSteele]

gg, finally

[@Felekied]

GG!

[@Dertubiz_]

Gg !

[@pelegkislasi8723]

Nice man!!

[@pintyooka]

Why do i keep noticing Hungarian ppl in youtube comments lmao (current hungarian celeste player count: 4 at least)

[@pelegkislasi8723]

I'm not Hungarian though@@pintyooka

[@pintyooka]

@@pelegkislasi8723 oh, sorry. Seems like I can't read

[@yat_ii]

wtffffffff that's insane

[@beatrixwashere]

THAT’S WHY HE’S THE GOAT!!!!! THE GOATTTT!!!!!!

[@Zocet]

He was sight reading the whole thing btw

[@FrxstBlad3_016]

Nice

[@prootblue]

gg on phobos

[@JustJulias]

Now someone need to break down to me what makes this harder than d+ like the inputs that makes it harder

[@olive_r]

final much longer than 24, wayyyy more margin for error, strat developments for d+ have made the map easier (the map is still super hard)

[@IRules2244]

What is the tech that allows you to dash past the spikes on the dream block? Or is it a custom type of spike?

[@olive_r]

dream spikes, allows only dashing

[@melted_nl]

YEAHHHHH

[@dectoriscool]

omg gg!!!!!!!

[@mxyzptplk]

bro why this map randomly got crystal garden golden in it

[@abet6583]

Sumber W

[@socksygen]

HAMBURGER!!

[@ThePoodle]

never let ZKB cook again.

[@RaghavanRamanujam]

What did ZKB do lmao

[@pejaduos]

gg world first four star hist

[@PotmosHetoimos]

you sumbed

[@sp_1029]

Do not spoil this please. Gl on ABADDON.

[@AquaHeart]

Where is this going on Pointercrate

[@landonnunez2850]

GG express pinball

[@moncefgaming1372]

Bro I want to play this but I'm scared

[@Redjd2098]

how do i use the neon theo skins

[@vvuukk4]

From the thumbnail i thought it was an undertale fan game

[@mateopanza9350]

is this, the hardest celeste map? let's find out *stares*

[@aTree1]

why do all the good celeste players have really crunchy sounding keyboards

[@olive_r]

quite a few top players use either bloody b820r or wooting and i am one of them

[@Nylspider]

there's NO WAY

[@egfloggygoggy]

Why is the top 1 red and black 🤔 gg man idk how or why you are this good at celeste by exok games (2018)

[@pintyooka]

ZKB went geometry dash stile

[@erierierierierie]

wtf it's floggy from hollow knight...

[@meta04]

sumbies

[@pintyooka]

Okay, i actually have to ask you: who do you think the top 3 players are?

[@DracoDominusGD]

Extra ball GG

[@wunjo2166]

GGumber Sumber

[@theredproe6615]

gg map

[@PretzelBS]

I usually like Theo maps but like

[@bluu4444]

gg popoff on beating solar flare