Maddy Makes Video games is celebrating Celeste’s sixth anniversary with its most bold reimagining of the cult favourite platformer but. Celeste 64: Fragments of the Mountain, which you’ll play now on itch.io, imagines a fully-3D model of the cult favourite platformer for the N64, full with squat polygonal graphics and distinctive traversal challenges.
Gear up for the Celeste sixth Anniversary Problem! ?
Celeste 64: Fragments of the Mountain is right here and you’ll play it on @itchio.
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— Celeste (@celeste_game) January 30, 2024
The sport’s description reads, “Relive the magic of Celeste Mountain alongside Madeline on this small, heartfelt 3D platformer. Created in every week(ish) by the Celeste group to rejoice the sport’s sixth anniversary.”
IGN has reached out to Maddy Makes Video games for extra background on the event of Celeste 64. That stated, this is not the primary time that Celeste has been reimagined by its authentic builders. On the event of its third anniversary, Maddy Makes Video games launched an enthralling semi-sequel for Pico-8 – a digital machine that mimics the capabilities of the 8-bit PCs of the Eighties.
Regardless of being developed in a brief period of time, Celeste 64 packs a stunning quantity of content material, together with bonus phases with music harking back to Tremendous Mario Sunshine. It additionally consists of dialogue that takes place after the unique sport, marking it as somewhat little bit of a sequel.
The unique Celeste was launched in 2018, incomes reward for its sharp controls and memorable music. In a retrospective revealed final yr, we known as it one “one of the necessary trans video games ever.”
Celeste 64 will be downloaded now on to Home windows PC, with a macOS model coming “quickly.” The sport’s group are presently addressing bugs and crashes.
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