The Summit C-Side

**The Summit C-Side** is the C-Side of Chapter 7: The Summit in Celeste. This C-Side features some vertical wind rooms along with one of the longest and toughest rooms in the game at the end. At the end, before making it to the Crystal Heart to complete the level, the Old Woman can be seen and the player can talk to her.

## **Gameplay**

Only the summit of the mountain is featured in the C-Side and the vertically blowing wind makes a return in it, though in a different order than seen before. The first room has wind blowing upward to simulate low gravity and tasks the player with doing many wall bounces in a row to get up. The second room has wind blowing downward to simulate high gravity and is a small area where springs must be aimed at to advance. The final room is an iconic and difficult room spanning a very long horizontal distance, making the player do extremely precise maneuvers the entire way through to dodge crystals and hit every spring.

### **Strategies**

Room 1

This room has some skull binoculars available to preview the room, if needed. Above the player is a long corridor with crystals on both sides and just some small bits coming off the walls to utilize. Jump to the right and dash straight up to wall bounce, then with the low gravity you'll be able to make it up to the next point you need to wall bounce off of on the left side, followed by collecting a dash crystal. Do another wall bounce on the left side and go right to get past some crystals. Dash straight right into the next dash crystal, then dash straight up to do another wall bounce. Do another wall bounce off the area above to collect another dash crystal, then another one, and one more to reach another dash crystal. If you miss any of these, you can relatively safely fall down to the lower section and try again with the dash crystals below. After doing these four wall bounces, you'll then just need to fall to the right and dash twice straight right through the obvious gaps in the crystals to reach the purple orb that will take you to the next room.

Room 2

The wind will now blow you down and limit the height you can get, so to make it up to the spring above just dash straight up twice in a row. After being bounced to the right, keep going right and dash diagonally up-right onto another spring which is on a falling platform. Keep going right after this bounce and dash straight right, then straight up to hit a spring on the right side of another falling platform. Fall for a bit, then move left and dash up-left into the key token and the falling platform's spring at the same time. After this, you can dash up-right and straight up to start climbing the key-activated platform which descends on the right side and after standing on it just jump and dash right twice to make it to the purple orb which will take you to the last room.

Room 3

This room has some skull binoculars available to preview the room, if needed. For this entire room, you'll need to be very focused and precise to do the tight platforming that is to come. Begin by jumping to the right and dashing to the first pink cloud. Do a bounce up from this, then dash straight right and fall into the area below carefully. Dash straight left into the first spring, then before you're bounced into the crystals to the right you should dash straight up and move to the right, then fall a bit before dashing up-right and moving further right to make it to another spring. Bounce to the right on this next spring, then just before you collide with the tall set of crystals, dash straight up twice and move to the right. Carefully move to the right during the fall and then bounce off of the next spring below. Dash up-left shortly after the bounce, then straight up to bounce right off another spring. Fall through the crystals below with light movement to the right and left, then after getting below you can dash straight right and straight up into another spring. From this spring bounce, dash up-right and then up-left to hit another spring and be bounced further right. Fall through the designated gap in the crystals below, then dash straight right once and then again after falling a bit further to land on a pink cloud, which you should immediately jump off of to the right. After jumping right, dash straight up twice to bounce on another spring. Keep moving right after the bounce, then dash straight right at a point where you can then dash straight up and wall bounce off of the tiny platform and collect a dash crystal after doing so. Dash straight right twice after this to land on a pink cloud, which you should bounce on while moving right a bit, then move left a bit after the bounce starts to avoid crystals above. Dash straight up, then up-right and move to the right so that you can hit another spring and be bounced further right. This last stretch will be a corridor of constant dashing and refreshing in multiple directions. Dash straight right to get in, then fall and dash straight right to claim a dash crystal. Dash straight right, then straight up, then straight up again and straight right again. Start moving back left as you fall into another dash crystal, then dash straight right followed by dashing up-right. Keep going right, then dash straight right and up-right again. Dash up-right again, then you can either dash up-left or be safer by dashing straight up and moving a bit left to collect the last dash crystal. Dash up-right, fall a bit, then dash straight right to get to the end, but not before grabbing the falling platform on the left edge and jumping up it to get to real safety. From here, just go to the right and you'll see the Old Woman there, who you should talk to for a bit of motivation as well as to remove her dialogue trigger which cancels your ability to jump so that you can then go jump to the right and dash up-right twice to collect the Crystal Heart and complete the level.