extremely fun map. final stats: 33h7m54s, 25.9k deaths
per-flag thoughts, + the screenshots i took after each one for timing information:
18 (fractured iridescence, https://p.d2evs.net/1773312678.png): pretty straightforward, lagged a fair bit, especially at the end. didn't take long enough for me to have a lot of opinions. final ultra chain feels kinda janky tho, i never felt like i was really able to get as fast as i should've been
17 (kevintechspam.bin, https://p.d2evs.net/371715458.png): i died like twice to pressing jump before the last jelly gultra lol, idk why
16 (flipside cliffside, https://p.d2evs.net/314870365.png): cornerkick out of dreamjump felt cool, start was neat as well. i did all three of these in one sitting
15 (superluminary, https://p.d2evs.net/2128190065.png): god fucking. i, did not have a good time with this flag. died to the fucking upright at the room because i didn't fucking bother to lab it out and i didn't realize that you could curve the dash towards straight-right, then proceeded to die fourteen fucking times to missing the coin
14 (stellar odyssey, https://p.d2evs.net/3584053734.png): pretty chill, not much else to say. i'm pretty good at this type of gameplay, and i find it reasonably fun but a bit mindless compared to stuff with harder moment-to-moment difficulty
13 (world abyss, https://p.d2evs.net/1668934248.png): should've spent a bit more time stratfinding here, just like i should've spent more time stratfinding world abyss proper. demohyper sucks
12 (cave of the crimson sky, https://p.d2evs.net/1573565433.png): precision is always a bit weird, it gets a lot more consistent than i feel like it has any right to be. liftboost jump off red coin block can get fucked tho
11 (cycle madness b-side, https://p.d2evs.net/2583235425.png): and now we enter the part where i have no clue whether my input history syncs are right lol. there're a few different start frames my inputs work with, i picked the one that looked the most like what i remember my strats being. banger flag
10 (74, https://p.d2evs.net/736090641.png): massive fluke, didn't die past the cornerkick right before the crouch climb. more precision, more weird consistency that i don't understand
9 (drifting deep, https://p.d2evs.net/3836954177.png): cheese lol, also lag. i haven't seen other people skipping that reverse dream hyper bhop, dunno why, my thing is way better. died twice to the final cornerboost lmfao
8 (belly of the beast, https://p.d2evs.net/1461026681.png): fun fact, i actually cleared this flag three times. input history from the actual clear didn't sync and idk why, recleared it but didn't realize that input history doesn't record on the debug save file, then cleared a third time on my actual sj save file, which're the inputs you see here. struggled a bunch with the cornerboost at the end, found this strat for it during third clear
7 (pinball purgatory, https://p.d2evs.net/4240154424.png): only flag i kept track of death count for (a bit under 4k). died four times to malfunction bumpers lol, including one redirect after recovering from a suboptimal hit on the last one, but didn't die at all past there, which i'm really happy about. found lots of cool recovery strats here, enjoyed it a lot more than i was expecting to
6 (nelumbo, https://p.d2evs.net/1069901058.png): ow my hands 😦. died like five times to fucking up the last non-gultra jelly
5 (summit, https://p.d2evs.net/715913994.png): and now we enter the part of the map where all the flags are incredibly fun. died once to final wallbounce, did not care because it meant i got to enjoy this flag for longer
4 (ivory, https://p.d2evs.net/4137045052.png): i really really really love ivory, i deliberately overpracticed everything just so that it would take longer
3 (lava layer, https://p.d2evs.net/1957905541.png): i get that there's not really a better place to put it but this flag really just feels incredibly out of place this late in the level. the troll is funny, tho
2 (solar express, https://p.d2evs.net/2836858594.png): good map, good flag, imo honestly probably harder than pumber
1 (shattersong, https://p.d2evs.net/4110596737.png): fuck. i don't think there's anything i can say that would do justice to just how incredible this flag is. spectacular end to a spectacular mod
this is an inputhistory replay recorded with ldcapture (took forever, you're welcome) cause celeste lags too much on my computer while recording in real time. stitched-together input history for the clear is here https://p.d2evs.net/266635582.txt, full history available if anyone pokes me, i just can't really be bothered
