Speedrunner beats Celeste using a steering wheel

The tough-as-nails platformer, Celeste is tough sufficient to play with a daily controller. The Mario-like sidescroller is a veritable frenzy of challenges — from boss fights that require dodging a barrage of lasers to ranges with partitions and flooring lined with spikes, it’s identified for being troublesome to beat. And on Jan. 7, streamer MissedAWP beat the whole lot of the sport utilizing a steering wheel and a gear shift.

The spectacular run solely took round three days to plan and end. Ultimately, it took her roughly 2 hours and 14 minutes to beat the sport, and she or he died 499 instances in the course of the run. Earlier than her try to do that, the streamer would recurrently speedrun the sport on her Twitch channel. MissedAWP instructed Polygon through Twitter that she was impressed to undertake the troublesome run as a result of she thought it could be “humorous to do.” She accomplished the run on the Home windows PC model of the sport and did “any%” which suggests she might break or glitch the sport.

To do it, MissedAWP used a steering wheel and six-speed shifter. She used the wheel to regulate Madeline’s actions from left to proper and used the again shift paddles for leaping and dashing. She put the sprint on the left shift so she might nonetheless sprint whereas shifting up and down. (Her six-speed shifter may be moved to the left and proper, along with up and down.) “This meant you would do lots whereas utilizing each arms,” she stated. You possibly can view the stream beneath on her Twitch channel.

She instructed Polygon that the toughest part to compete was the feather part — which permits Madeline to type of float by way of the air, giving gamers the power to maneuver her extra freely in eight instructions. “That is actually cool if you’re doing it on a joystick, not if you’re panicking and screaming attempting to do it with one hand on the wheel, and one hand on the shifter.”

When requested the way it felt to drag off the run, she instructed Polygon, “I felt so proud. It’s wild to have the ability to say, ‘Hey, I’m that woman that beat Celeste on a steering wheel!’ However right here we’re!”