Celeste - Intermediate Contest 2024 - ALTITUDE DOWN - Nyan

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This was a fun little puzzle map. I sometimes wasn't sure if I was finding the designed solution, but it also seemed like that might have been desirable. The indeterminacy of the routing and gradual process of building up a solution gave it some mural skies vibes, but tempered with a lot of smaller sequences where the gameplay was more well-defined - sometimes an entity always had a single specific purpose and there were sometimes sub-tasks with only one reasonable solution (for example there might be only one obvious way of breaking a particular block). It was not totally freeform, but didn't seem fully constrained either. I can see why it might not be considered intermediate - there are definitely some reverse wavedashes a few rooms in.
I'm not sure what was up with the final rooms. It seemed like there was another dash block route in the far left dark room connected to the bottom of the pit left of the theo crystal, but I couldn't seem to access it. Carrying the hidden theo crystal to the ankh only seemed to create a seeker. I'm guessing there were no collectables here and it was just various little secrets and toys.
I had to use F6 to get back up after I went down to make sure right wasn't forward.