Maddy Makes Video games is celebrating Celeste’s sixth anniversary with its most formidable reimagining of the cult favourite platformer but. Celeste 64: Fragments of the Mountain, which you’ll be able to 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 workforce to have a good time 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 unique 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 recreation, marking it as just a little 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 12 months, we referred to as it one “some of the necessary trans video games ever.”
Celeste 64 might be downloaded now on to Home windows PC, with a macOS model coming “quickly.” The sport’s workforce are at the moment addressing bugs and crashes.
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