Celeste: Vitheckery - Golden Strawberry

meet the new best tier 1 golden!... no i'm serious. oops the tier doesnt exist anymore but uhhhh
this is by far the most enjoyable time i've had with a hard golden; it's shockingly well balanced, and the gameplay never gets old (for obvious reasons). i highly recommend at least clearing the map, and i recommend goldening it if you're a fan of super quirky gameplay

⏱️ 51:39:15 Δ 44:41:05
💀 13055 Δ 8107

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map by vitellary: https://gamebanana.com/mods/540752
my goldberries profile: https://goldberries.net/player/461
my sheet: https://tinyurl.com/slashsheet

current placement: tier 15
difficulty opinion: tier 15 or tier 14

i performed way too well on this to have a clue about its difficulty. the golden only took me 5 cp2 entries, and NONE of which died to screenwrap room or cassette room. i expected cassette room to be a massive roadblock, but i can't imagine how much longer this would have taken me if my experience with the checkpoint was "normal".

tl;dr SOMEONE ELSE PLEASE DO THIS I WILL DEFER TO YOUR OPINION I PROMISE

some random notes:

i didn't use the cheese at 3:19 because intended was too hard, i used it because intended has a badeline refill which breaks a part of my skinmod. don't use this cheese if that doesn't apply to you; the intended gameplay i skip there is fun and pretty much free

the strat to slow down the wind bubble at 4:50 and then smuggle it to gain free flight in the room at 5:09 might be my new favourite strat that i've found on my own. it makes the two feathers afterwards much easier, and they felt like they would have been the two biggest chokepoints in the map if i did all intended strats