Madeline Does Justice to Mental Illness Representation | Celeste || Inspiration Adoration
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- čas přidán 18. 03. 2022
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This episode features Scanlan from the web series Critical Role.
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Music by Lena Raine from the game Celeste, all rights go to their respective owners.
Track used: Reflection
#Madeline #Celeste - Hry
Celeste helped me learn not to run and to accept that part of me
That’s lame your lame
However it did tell me to hyper dash into grave danger :D
@@onemurderyboiNYOOOOOM
Madeline made me learn to double jump
Celeste helped me learn that if you do not run from that part of the protagonist, i would die /j
That sorry strawberry pie...
THE PIE WITH THE ONE STRAWBERRY LOL
The sorry pie- A strawberry pie with nothing more than a single ripe strawberry on the top. The strawberry isn’t even centred…
You think that's bad ? I beat the game with 17 strawberries. I got the pie pie
@@Maber610 the pie pie flavor
@@alexmoon0725hmmm yes i love pie flavored with pie and with just a dash of pie and some pie peppered in
Celeste taught me to not play in the middle of the night or else a terryfing creqture called my dad will come to my room and beat my ass
Celeste is UNQUESTIONABLY one of the best games I've ever played, and I IMPLORE almost anyone who's ever touched a controller to seek it out.
I play on PC and i think it's fine
Really good on pc as well
Celeste really is a wonderful game. The absolutely wonderful music from lena raine, the story, and that's not even mentioning the art style and the just right controls. The community is also very welcoming.
And then there’s b-side and c-side that turn it into a traditional platformer aka H E L L
The normal center map is killing meeee
That's why Celeste is my fav game
Mine too… I seriously wish I played this game before, it could have helped me when I was at my worst… And also maybe, discover myself as well. Though, at that time I didn’t want to accept being trans, and gosh sometimes I am as stubborn as Madeline.
Also hits close to home when you learn that Madeline is transgender, and her döppelganger is also an embodiment of her gender dysphoria directed from many people (including her mother) and herself, it's her own inner dialogue that she's trying to accept so she can be who she is, a woman. Nothing more, and certainly nothing less. (My interpretation being a trans girl myself)
Celeste really is such a lovely game. I wasn't aware that Madeline was confirmed to be trans when I wrote this, I think, but other commenters pointed it out to me, and it fits sooo well. Thanks for the comment, and I hope you're doing as well on your climb as Madeline :)
@@DelusionalPoet thank you so much! That means a lot :)
Yes
Makes me wonder if, perhaps if Maddy (the creator of the game, not the character) knew she was trans at the time, might she have made Badeline a boy?
@@Trashley652 wouldn't have if I were her. It would feel awkward especially with this more being focused on depression than dysphoria. Yes those go hand in hand but depression isn't dysphoria and equating them together isn't the solution to anything.
My depression and my dysphoria feed each other, they are not the same.
Celeste helped me so much with my anxiety, thanks to this game I learned how to love myself ❤
I'm so glad to hear that! It's incredible to see how many people Celeste has helped, it really is such a beautiful game. I hope you'll continue to do better!
goddamn I have to finish it 😢😢😢
...IRONY: MY OCD IS FR STOPPING ME CUZ I DONT LIKE TO FINISH SMTG I ENJOY SO MUCH OR I KNOW IS GONNA BE GOOD ALREADY AHHHHHHHHHHHH, and I "wait for good moments" and growing up faster and faster if I've learned one thing it's; THAT TIME DOES NOT. COME. Do the thing, now.🤷♀️ easier said but still 😎
I’m always thinking “A video game or TV show can’t put my whole life into perspective and give me important life lessons while also having a great story” and then it just does
Me named Celeste me : What?
You are a mountain in a video game now
@@Lillylafrogyes.
Madeline decided to climb on Celeste
Kid named Celeste:😏🥵
@@Lillylafrogfun fact:
Mt. Celeste is actually a real place, and it's in Canada
tbh I wanna climb it for real one day.
@rbo0p675 yeaaa I wanna climb it toooo XP I have it marked on Google maps in like places to go or whatever lol
I love the part in the end credits where the two of them are just having fun bouncing on clouds
Beautiful explanation! I love how Celeste explains that you cannot ourtun your own reflection. -sincerely Uel
I forgot about that line until now, and yet it still hits so hard.
You don't spawn a 5-year trend of every other platformer being a metaphor for anxiety unless you do it right, after all.
This is such a good game. It does actually everything right. Amazing story, top tier gameplay, great message, glorious art design, good amount of play time, accessibility, and has an incredible speedrun.
Edit: oh and lets not forget, the soundtrack is one of the best ive ever heard!
Merg taught me Madeline bad side is badeline that's her name now
Bless the day my eye was caught by Celeste's cover art at GameStop. Bought it cause I'm a sucker for platformers, stayed for the life lesson (and the absolutely godlike platforming, too)
it's also really cool how celeste uses a great role reversal to show how meddy has grown. in chapter 2, maddy is running away from that part of her (who i will be calling Badeline or Baddy), as she chases her down, cloning herself, becoming more overwhelming for maddy. but later in chapter 6, maddy actively chases after baddy, trying to talk to her, even as baddy lashes out to attack maddy. not only is it a wonderful representation of how it actually feels to piece yourself back together from being deep in the hole of mental illness, but it's also just fantastic in general
I think it’s pretty neat how Badeline was unintentionally written as/can be seen as a manifestation of dysphoria; especially the line “You will never be a mountain climber.” It’s SO close to the line “You will never be a woman/man,” which I find neat considering Celeste wasn’t originally wrote with that intention. It’s funny how things work out sometimes, where you can look back and go “Huh, never saw it that way before.”
I may not be articulating my thoughts the best, to be honest, but yeah. Anyways, I definitely love how Celeste portrays mental illness, regardless if it’s anxiety and depression, or dysphoria. It’s something that will never truly go away, but you can learn to live and even *thrive* with it (like how Badeline eventually helps Madeline). You just have to make sure that you don’t let it control you :)
I think it’s also a good reminder for myself, as I work towards finding out who I truly want to be. I can use my self hate to work on improving myself and how I wish to present, but I also shouldn’t let it control me, and twist the reason I started in the first place into something negative. After all, I started this whole journey not to hate my current myself, but to find my ideal self. And I think that distinction is important. Because I didn’t really hate myself, yet I still wanted to improve and be happier, so hating myself is counterproductive and an antithesis to my goals.
It's insane to me how well Celeste's entire narrative works as an allegory for the experiences of transgender people. I love that line you quoted, it's one of those many things in the game that just work so well for a trans interpretation of the game's story. I mean, sure, the creator was probably already questioning at that point, but it's incredibly impressive.
About what you said in your second post...I feel so much of what you said there. However, your thoughts make it seem like you're on a path that will eventually lead you to a happier self, at least that's how I see it. I've figured so many things out about myself in the past year, and it's always nice to see that, just like Madeline, we're never alone on our climb, even if the other people trying their best to be mountain climbers might only be visible to us in CZcams comment section under odd Celeste shorts :P
Good luck on your climb!
Badeline was intentionally written as a manifestation of dysphoria. In addition to tackling the subject of mental health, the entire game is also a metaphor for being trans, with Madeline actually being canonically trans
Y'all make me disappointed.
@@thebrawlinghunter1899 Why, pray tell?
I just finished celeste and wish the whole mental health and story hit me harder. This makes me appreciate it more, thank you!
YOU REALLY THINK YOU CAN BEAT ME BY THINKING ABOUT A FEATHER?!?
Its not about learning how to deleter your problems its learning to live with them and dull their pain. Learning to co exist with this *part of you* that you cant quite get rid of
When Farewell represents even more her situation overall lol
The only mental illness in this game is chapter 6c golden berry.. maybe one day I’ll get it
Re-playing Celeste now that I'm struggling with very deep problems in my life made me feel better and trying to try my hardest everyday
I'm happy that Celeste has brought you some comfort (: I hope you'll continue to feel better!
Celeste is so great, my aunt got it for me and it actually helped me with my mental health a bit. And the game is fun
CELESTE MY BELOVED
Might buy it later look good
Hope you can afford arm prosthetics
One of the reasons I named my daughter after her. Maddy's mum and I suffer from anxiety largely from a genetic component. We've worried she will grow struggling with these feelings, celeste is a great game and a powerful story, I loved her character, and she made me love the name.
That is adorable.
Congrats on the baby, I think she'll learn how to double jump one of these days
One of the many reasons I love celest and I’m so close to 100 percent too!
Yeah i do like Kopqubapras interaction with Evil Celeste
I fucking love it when the character becomes friends with their dark, twisted, fucked up doppelganger. It's my favorite gender.
The point is one : sometimes in life just give up
MADELIEN IS TRANS JUST LIKE THE CREATOR *AND* THE MUSIC ARTIST
True, and that fucking slaps! 🏳️⚧️
This game made me cry as a child
Aaaaaand then you get the to the DLC...
I actually have beaten Celeste just today
And to be honest
I think I am a bit too focused on the game rather than it’s message instinctively
I understood the message while playing it, yet I ended up being mad at only having 79 berries in the end and having 1500 deaths, even though it told me many times strawberries are just for taunting friends and are unnecessary and that every death is a step of learning, however I couldn’t else than getting mad at constantly failing the most simple parts because of missing the C key or not using the Z key because I never had to use it in any other game I played, and I was in full gamer mode forgetting about the Z key even existed.
Instead I constantly needed to remind myself and then accidentally pressed T because of the weird keybindings.
Except from me having enjoyed the game and it’s story, it made me rage for a game in a way I didn’t since years. Don’t worry, no physical destruction was happening, but a bit of angry key spamming, not key smashing. I always reminded myself that the games target was to do else and was to help me fight/be able to live with my mental conditions and illnesses, but I don’t feel like it did much.
I didn’t believe in games did anything bad to me, but this game made me realize how the gamer mode awakened an old version of myself wanting to win for every price, yet giving up on stuff out of frustration. And that even though I only played 6 hours in order to get to the end.
So yeah it kinda helped me understand something, just I did not help me in the way it wanted, it helped me to realize I always want the best way and I want it fast, or in other words:
Speedrun+ItHasToBeTheOriginalKeybinds+AllSecrets+LeastDeaths, which obviously isn’t good for my stresslevel.
I could feel how I forced myself to much.
Just by writing this comment I realized how this game helped me even though it probably wasn’t intended in such a way.
You can change the controls.
I literally use ' for jump and / for dash because that was most comfortable for me XD.
And then wasd for movements/directional dashing.
Dude you gotta fix your mentality before playing any more games. That sounded very unhealthy
I used to have a similar mindset, especially with Kirby games funnily enough. I’m glad you came to this realization :) Although, I would like to say a reminder that helps me, and that is: video games, at their core, are meant to be a fun and an enjoyable experience- don’t let them control you, because once you do, you lose sight of why you’re playing them in the first place.
I know that not everyone necessarily plays video games for fun (some play for completion, like yourself), but still, it works for me. I wish you the best, internet stranger!
I had 23 berries when I finished because I really didn’t care about them. 79 is not bad at all!
Oh and I had around 4000 deaths
shes just like me
I love Celeste
Fifth favorite game of all time
This story is so sad only when you remember that she had such a grat life all along before in and after the game and then reality comes in huh
This is whg I love this game.
Uh that’s my name. (Spelled the same way too)
Just like eda the owl lady
So basically hotline Miami but about a girl
Oh hun. Wait till you play the farewell dlc! ⚧️
@@chloeholmes4641 first time I’ve been called hun in a comment section lol
@luchadorfromthefuture2077 Celeste is such a good ass game with an in depth storyline!
Certainly helped me found out who I truly am! ⚧️
@@chloeholmes4641 alright I’ll give it a look you’ve convinced me
what?
So glad i picked up the game :') i was wondering if it was good or not but i know it should ve amazing:))
now, evwrything you said is correct, and well said.
It IS phenomenal to have mental illness be used in the most brilliant both.gameplay and story wise way I could ever imagine.
on TOP of that, imposter syndrome and dysphoria/morphia are very prominent problems in the trans community. and not only is the character portrayed ALSO supposed to be transgender, the creator is too, and she is an absolute GENIUS and crafted a beautiful game with a couple other geniuses*shout to Kaufman the music on this album is INSANEEEEE❤❤❤❤
(ﾉﾟｰﾟ)ﾉ🔥🔥🤘🤘
Yessss absolutely! I wasn't aware of all the trans themes in this game when I first made this video, and I always feel bad coming back to this video because it feels so integral to her character. Welp, it's only a one-minute short, it's probably fine. Still, good on you for spreading the word!
I forget madeleine is a woman and not a kid
I don’t understand why people say madeleen it’s I sound
Wow and to think OMORI didn't do this
But omori is really more about trauma than depression.
@@Based_indie_enjoyer no I was talking about a *GOOD* boss fight against said manifestation of mental illness
@@eterni561a platformer and an rpg are not even remotely comparable. and both are wildly tackle wildly different things
Cool
Why did so many people in this comment section have a stroke when typing their comments and how do I unlock lvl 8. Do I need to find 4 of the crystal hearts?
yes
@@spootot ok
@@AUTOMATIC_SMART_ANNOUNCEMENT_S :)
"This is it, Madeline. Just breathe."
perfect gd quoute :)
Geometry Dash
Level: Storming Summit by iiiNimbusiii
Every 14 yr old girl:
At least they say the suffer from it…
Why are you talking to 14 year old girls?
@@mrfliptop im 13 dude, do you think I’m sick? 😂
@@CommonPainW nah I just thought it was a little funny, but are you trying to say that Celeste is trying to be edgy?
@@mrfliptop no I’m referencing the fact that 14 yr old girls like to fake mental illness because they think it’s cool. As an autistic person I’m very sad this is happening
Sorry but it's not about mental illness.
I'm sorry, but I don't quite follow. Could you elaborate?
@@DelusionalPoet the hidden theme of Celeste was acceptation, especially acceptation of one's trans-identity. If you want more clues look no further than the creators, compositor and the logo with the transgender flag color.
@@lspoulin While I value Celeste greatly as a trans story and would never want to erase that (I really should've at least mentioned that interpretation in the video), I don't really see why Celeste can't be about both things? I mean, Madeline does deal with panic attacks during the game, so there's definitely overt depictions of mental illness in the narrative, and I think everything I said in the video still holds true. Celeste is really important to me, especially since it was also a big part of me figuring out my stuff, but I think it also has similar significance fort people dealing with mental illness (including myself!) and I don't really see why those two things shouldn't be able to coexist.
@@DelusionalPoet fair. I'm glad it have personal significance to you, that's a sign of great art. For me it had little significance until I found out I trans and then it made much of an impact.
@@lspoulin Celeste's significance, over the years, definitely increased for me as well. I loved the game when I first played it because of its really well-written depiction of mental illness, and now, after I came out as trans myself, I absolutely adore it. I really have to replay it some time soon...
Not really, the story was just boring
opinion
Your loss
Yes it was about mental illness
However if it's boring is up to opinion
I try and respect everyone's opinion. Except yours. Yours sucks