{"id":729346,"date":"2025-11-21T03:39:38","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T03:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/JpJZGuUfSjrSSZbo6nffGc"},"modified":"2025-11-21T03:39:38","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T03:39:38","slug":"2018s-best-platformer-now-has-an-adorable-mario-64-style-tribute-made-by-the-games-original-dev-team-for-its-6th-anniversary-and-its-completely-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/2018s-best-platformer-now-has-an-adorable-mario-64-style-tribute-made-by-the-games-original-dev-team-for-its-6th-anniversary-and-its-completely-free\/","title":{"rendered":"2018’s best platformer now has an adorable Mario 64-style tribute made by the game’s original dev team for its 6th anniversary\u2014and it’s completely free"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Celeste is one of the best platformers in the past decade\u2014it's a game with a heartfelt, deeply affecting narrative that's also just really damn good at what it does: Complex 2D platforming with a skill ceiling so high it's nudging the moon. Now you can play it in 3D, kinda.<\/p>\n

Celeste 64: Fragments of the Mountain<\/a> is a short romp through a 3D version of the original game's first chapter, the Forsaken City. There's about 30 strawberries to collect, both scattered around the level and in Mario Sunshine-style jumping puzzles, complete with their own finger-snapping remix.<\/p>\n

It was made in a week by the game's original devs, and while that does show in controls which are occasionally a li'l stiff and a camera that's hard to wrangle, it's otherwise just as charming as you'd expect.<\/p>\n

What's interesting to me is that this is a solid proof of concept. Celeste's core moveset, surprisingly nobody, translates super well into a 3D collectathon-style game. I had a grand old time scurrying around these snowy ruins looking for berries, even if I'm super rusty when it comes to landing on anything resembling a platform. Here's some gameplay.<\/p>\n

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