History NightmareFuel / Celeste

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** [[https://radicaldreamland.bandcamp.com/track/resurrections The music]] for the dream portion of the level [[LastNoteNightmare ends with]] a fade-out, some creepy ambience, and finally, synthesized PsychoStrings.

* Chapter 4 seems pretty routine enough, but at the end, when Madeline and Theo are riding the gondola, Badeline sabotages it in a JumpScare and Madeline goes into a panic attack, represented by an ever-encroaching miasma in the background. Theo has to help her get back to her senses.

** The music isn't distorted, it's backmasked: reversing it reveals that it's the first segment's theme... [[https://youtu.be/rE8diav5I1k?t=1m8s but with the addition of a chilling statement by Madeline]] about her depression and anxiety, which ends with her sobbing hopelessly. [[TearJerker Sad]] ''and'' disturbing.

** Remember how Baddie likes to sometimes [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou lean a little outside of her dialogue portrait]]? Here she ''physically pulls half her body out of the box'' as if to really hit home that there is nothing either Madeline or you can do to get rid of her.

!! For the [[VideoGame/{{Madeline}} video game]]:

** Also worth noting that she ''[[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou physically climbs out of her dialogue portrait]]'' several times during the exchange.

** Also worth noting that she ''[{TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou physically climbs out of her dialogue portrait]]'' several times during the exchange.

** The level is full of these inexplicable {{red and black|AndEvilAllOver}}...''blobs'' that are lethal on contact. Later in the chapter, it’s revealed that they’re living manifestations of Mr. Oshiro’s anxiety, when he becomes particularly worried about what Madeline will think of her stay and they shoot out of his head in droves.

** The music isn't distorted, it's backmasked: reversing it reveals a remix of the first segment's theme... and a chilling statement by Madeline about her depression and anxiety, which ends with her sobbing hopelessly. [[TearJerker Sad]] ''and'' disturbing.

* Chapter 5 is this from start to end. At first, it's a dark, abandoned temple, with Madeline having to pass by unlit torches to light them up. [[NothingIsScarier Spooky, but at least the only lethal things here are non-sentient objects]]. Once she enters the giant mirror...oh boy. The music becomes more oppressive and marks the return of synthesized PsychoStrings, eyeball creatures start trying to attack her actively, many rooms have ''tentacles'' rather than {{spikes|OfDoom}} for environmental hazards, eyes in the walls focus on Madeline's movements, and the whole place turns out to be the manifestation of all the insecurities and other negative things about Madeline and Theo. Finishing the level involves throwing Theo at a giant eyeball that constantly pulsates shockwaves that repel them away; said eyeball ''shrieks'' as it's destroyed.
* Chapter 6 seems like it's off to a happy start, with Theo and Madeline having a long heart-to-heart campfire chat and then Madeline flying high above the ground with the help of golden feathers, witnessing the ''aurora borealis'' and coming face to face with Badline. She happily tells Badeline that she's going to abandon her, that she's not needed anymore; surely this can't go wrong, right? '''Wrong.''' Badeline ''completely'' loses her shit and has an appendage from the bottom of the screen hold Madeline hostage, while trying to use Madeline's very weaknesses and insecurities in a hell of a BreakingSpeech. Madeline tries to use the feather trick from two chapters ago to calm herself down...but Badeline makes a mockery of this technique, slices the feather in half, and sends Madeline flying a looooooooong way down into the mountain depths, where the chapter proper starts.

** Go a little ways back to the memorial plaque that you probably read in Chapter 1. The letters are now scrambled and ever-changing. The effect goes away [[DreamSequence after Madeline wakes up]], thankfully.

* Chapter 5 is this from start to end. At first, it's a dark, abandoned temple, with Madeline having to pass by unlit torches to light them up. [[NothingIsScarier Spooky, but at least the only lethal things here are non-sentient objects]]. Once she enters the giant mirror...oh boy. Eyeball creatures start trying to attack her actively, many rooms have ''tentacles'' rather than {{spikes|OfDoom}} for environmental hazards, eyes in the walls focus on Madeline's movements, and the whole place turns out to be the manifestation of all the insecurities and other negative things about Madeline and Theo. Finishing the level involves throwing Theo at a giant eyeball that constantly pulsates shockwaves that repel them away; said eyeball ''shrieks'' as it's destroyed.

** The phone booth at the end of the dream part of her chapter rings on its own, indicating that it's the person on the other end who made the call, and explicitly to call Madeline no less!

** Go a little ways back to the memorial plaque that you probably read in Chapter 1. The letters are now scrambled and ever-changing.

** At the end, Badeline breaks out of a mirror and trash talks the ghost of Mr. Oshiro until he finally snaps ''hard'' and turns into a menacing entity who [[AdvancingBossOfDoom chases you across the hotel roof]].

** This level introduces Badeline, a malicious manifestation of Madeline's negative thoughts with a PsychoticSmirk and [[RedEyesTakeWarning red eyes]]. She follows your movements and kills you if she manages to touch you.

** On the OST, [[https://radicaldreamland.bandcamp.com/track/resurrections the music]] for the dream portion of the level [[LastNoteNightmare ends with]] a fade-out, some creepy ambience, and finally, synthesized PsychoStrings.

** On the OST, [[https://radicaldreamland.bandcamp.com/track/resurrections the music]] for the dream portion of the level [[LastNoteNightmare ends with]] synthesized PsychoStrings.

** This level introduces [[EnemyWithout Badeline]]. She follows your movements and kills you if she manages to touch you.

* [[EnemyWithout Badeline]]. In the chapter she's introduced in, she follows your movements and kills you if she manages to touch you. In the following chapter, she breaks out of a mirror and trash talks the ghost of Mr. Oshiro until he finally snaps ''hard'' and turns into a menacing entity who [[AdvancingBossOfDoom chases you across the hotel roof]].
* The third chapter is full of these inexplicable {{red and black|AndEvilAllOver}}...''blobs'' that are lethal on contact. Later in the chapter, it’s revealed that they’re living manifestations of Mr. Oshiro’s anxiety, when he becomes particularly worried about what Madeline will think of her stay and they shoot out of his head in droves.