Celeste Gets Beautiful New Collector's Edition For Fifth Anniversary

Good lord, how has it already been five years? 👵🏽

That cover image… looks kinda bad. More so bad as in compared to the original Celeste artwork which I liked way more, this looks like ‘Madeline- anime edition’ and not much else. I don’t know, that alone pushes me away from buying it, but the other stuffs pretty cool, I guess.

I beat it once and enjoyed it, never again. Gave me a migraine. Good music though.

@CharlieGirl Yeah that kinda hurt to be reminded of.

I don't love the cover art here, but it's way cheaper then what the LRG one is going for these days. And if there were any patches in the last few years then the fangamer one will be the most up to date.

It's in the backlog. Too many games, not enough time to play them.

Finally got around to this recently only to find it was a bit disappointing. The Messenger is probably the best indie retro inspired platformer I have played, would love to see it get the same treatment.

I lost my file with Stadia’s discontinuation. Feels like a worthy reason to pick it up on Switch

Yikes. I love this game but that cover is so God awful that I'm not even tempted to buy a copy. At least it's not an LRG product.

Uhh who's that dude on the cover?! That certainly is not my girl Madeline.

@bluemage1989 I haven't played Messenger but I'm glad to hear it's good - I'm pumped for Sea of Stars from the same team, it looks really good and right up my alley

General question - what's the deal with Collector's Editions? They seem to be packed with non-perishable plastic goods and cost more. Cash grab or investment or to be cherished by the owner?

@theModestMouse You do know Madeline is transgender, right? Those kind of cheap jokes are not okay.

Before this the LRG version was going for over $100, so this is great news. $35 is right on the line of what I'll spend for a physical version of a game I got for $5 digitally - I'll have to think on it.

I still remember dying more than 5000 times. What a great game with a great story. That said, I already purchased the sound track and I never play games twice.

But good for Celeste!

I want this SOOOO BADLY. It's beautiful.

LOVE the game.

Celeste is so great

@bluemage1989 For me The Messenger is good, Celeste is a masterpiece.
They are also very different games, I would characterize The Messenger as more of an action game. Celeste is a pure platformer.

That cover should be different.

Yeah this cover art is a bit strange looking compared to the Madeline we know. Perhaps it was purposefully made to look more transgender.

“Running up that hill…”

Great game, but that’s a weird-lookin cover for the simple reason that the person on the cover is not the same as the person in the game. Like, you can just look at the scrapbook and see those are two wildly-different looking images. Kinda a Mega Man 1 in America situation, where pixel art takes a character in an uncanny direction. Cool for you if you like it tho

If I bought an art book, why would I want generic inspirational quotes all over the art? That's weird.

Honestly, while I've never bought these type of collectors editions (unless you count things like SMT4), Celeste is one of the rare games where I'd at least consider it, just because I love the game so much. Also because I only own it digitally.

One of the best games, period. For anyone who hasn't played it.

I just started this game the other day! It’s amazing! I have no idea how I didn’t play this game yet! Madeline is a gem!

the fact this game's marketing (i.e. here and official twitter) is founded on so many corny platitudes has me doubting the original game's messaging, which is eating at me because it hit hard back at release

The cover is so odd, beyond the hair colour it doesn't remotely resemble the character.

Neat game. Great challenge but I never finished it. Too wordy for a platformer though, I skipped all dialogue and story beats lol

I never beat this game. I got pretty dang far, then got really stuck on the stage where you ride a sliding block across spikey pits. Other games came out, and I never picked it up again. I really liked it a lot, and need to double-down and finish it.

I was thrilled to see this announcement email from ExOK today! I’ve got the LRG edition and OST already, but I’m still tempted to double-dip.

@CANOEberry
Now’s your chance, my friend!

Definitely grabbing this! Figured this was something I’d never physically own because the LRG editions are going for dumb money.

A few more games need this treatment. Like others have said, The Messenger for sure, and perhaps River City Girls and Shantae and the Pirates Curse.

@somebread same for me. I hadn't really paid attention to any of that before this announcement. But it's pretty jarring when the game was so well crafted and this material reads like a series of generic motivational posters.

I'm not one for collector's editions so I won't be buying this but it looks great. A few years ago I bought a Celeste mug from Fangamer. Good stuff. Quality mug.

This looks astounding. I never buy physical and I've never wanted a collector's edition before seeing this. The game means a lot to me and to a lot of other people.

@Polvasti They probably did not know. That easy. Here's a tip, if you just assume that this kind of dumb joke was made with zero malice, life will be a lot easier.

Wow, and I thought the Super Meat Boy box art was disappointing...

@ATHFjman18 : Ooof, yes to Shantae and the Pirate's Curse. There's probably nothing stopping any other publisher from stepping in to make their own print considering that other Shantae games have been issued by other publishers.

And I'm certainly not willing to pay close to AU$1,000 (if not over $1,000) to get my hands on it.

Unfortunately, The Pirate's Curse was released during the bad old days of LRG only producing strictly limited quantities (as opposed to the open pre-orders that they do now).

Ideally, there should be a physical release with all five stinkin' games on a single stinkin' cartridge rather than spacing them all out like this. The fact that original GBC game got a whole freaking Switch cartridge to itself is absolutely ridiculous.

I actually really like the cover.

@Polvasti Pretty sure that wasn’t the case 5 years ago, as it was retroactively confirmed with the DLC. Many of us never got around to that addition years after the first playthrough. I wouldn’t have known, as I only discovered after seeing your comment and researching it a bit. Seems like the creator is self-inserting some, which is their prerogative.

Loved this game! This cover art is so good!

Celeste has a beautiful in-game art style that supports the tiny pixel art perfectly and that cover is not using it in any way. That’s a shame as far as I’m concerned. Oh well.

The most amazing game I’ve ever thrown my controller down in pure rage to!

@theModestMouse

I've seen a lot of your posts lately, and it looks like you're in some kind of far-right, incel territory. Good luck with that.

@Polvasti

It's a lame joke. How they believe this is some form of wit is beyond me.

@a_brave_new_geek … Yeah. I have a couple, but they’re mostly junk plastic that every collector edition owner treats like they’ll be sacred valuables in 20 years. A mini-poster, cd soundtrack, stickers, keychain? Yeahhhh we don’t need these anymore.

Rest in peace to those resellers. This is a must buy for my collection.

@Dragmire Ah ok, I think I will just stick to the digital firesales and the odd Nintend/Atlus game as a physical.

Its best not to awaken that Ogre of Obsession!