Recently replayed Celeste

There's a few occasions where I've got through a tough brain time by burying myself in deeply good computer game Celeste. And, well, tough brain times lately, so I went through and replayed it. And it's SO good to just like take all my whatever my brain is worrying about and instead go "nope, focus on this, focus on getting through this level and playing this game". After finishing the main story bit, like the summit and the like, I was thinking "do I wanna go through the core and such again" but instead I decided to go back to my initial save, where I'd done ALMOST all the B-sides, and tackle that. I think I'd quit out midway through the Core B-side, but I sat down and figured it out and looked at a few youtube videos for the bit I was stuck on, and like I did it. I beat all the B-sides. And now I'm tackling Farewell, the final chapter that was patched in post-launch. Do I think I'll tap out partway? Well, so far I have no intention of doing so. Historically I've had a bit of a "oh, games are Too Hard and I'm Not Good at them" attitude which led to like "oh I'll just play on easy" but like I think with Celeste and also VVVVVV the very frictionless retry makes it easy for me to go "ok keep trying" instead of "oh no I died, ragequit" of other games. Like even if there's a bit I'm "stuck" on it's just "keep trying and maybe you'll get it next time" instead of "oh maybe you did the wrong thing earlier and need to idk what" of other games. It is, like, nice feeling. Even if it feels insurmountable I just need to tell myself it isn't, this is a thing people can and have done and I can do it too.

There is a reason it is one of my favourite games, I think.

I hope to one day be excitedly posting about how I beat Farewell!