Farewell Golden Strawberry strategy guide: Difference between revisions

The term "Purgatory" was first coined by [[Community:DJTom3|DJTom3]] in early 2020, referring to different berry counts that a ''Celeste'' player could be stuck at for a long time. This same person also maintains a [[List_of_Celeste_players_with_the_Farewell_Golden_Berry|list of players whom have managed to claim the Farewell Golden Strawberry]].

Since Farewell is a tough chapter, your first run will usually have a fairly large death count, often above 3,000. Finishing the chapter multiple times will show your general progress and give you a view on what rooms you have to improve on, or what's your current choke point. Once you get to a really low total death count (20 or less), these runs become rather obsolete, however it's useful to do at least one of them to see what checkpoints you need more practice on.

A lot of deaths in golden runs are caused by doing overly difficult strategies a player isn't consistent with, or done for the sake of going faster. If you're not comfortable with speedrunning or fast strats, don't go for them as they will waste a lot of your attempts. If you get far into a run, try to avoid as many unnecessary inputs as possible. A lot of players for example avoid doing Jellyvators far into a run, as with nerves it's easy to accidentally fail the neutral drop. Another example is to wait for the [[Crystal Heart Gate]] to open, instead of using the speedrun strategy to bypass it.