Celeste Strawberry Jam - Passionfruit Pantheon

AKA Casual reclaims his Grandmaster title.
There was a time when the only GM map I thought I could beat was the puzzle one in SC2020, and now here we are. Up there with Junko LNN for some of the hardest stuff I've ever done.
This marks the end of my Celeste journey for the foreseeable future. I'm an old ass man now and my wrists are starting to die every time I grind for a little too long. Doubt there's anything of the same magnitude and quality as SJ on the horizon anyway.
To a certain someone calling me out for not doing berries, bitch you ain't even beaten EXPERT yet.
Time: 21:23:29
Deaths: 20.4k
Savestates and walkthrough videos used.
Lobby journal and full GM journal at the end if you give a shit. Come see my 0/x berries.
Ramble time
Difficulty balance in this map is kind of a mess. On one end you have disgusting flags like pumber and solar and on the other you have stuff that's easier than a bunch of Expert heartside flags. Thankfully I didn't get stuck on anything as badly as Train 2, but as expected the solar flag ended up taking me the longest.
Already wrote my favorites of the collab in Expert heartside video so I'll just end it off with some short thoughts on each flag.
18 - cool
17 - yep
16 - okay
15 - pretty disgusting for something this early. I'll never get used to these curvy dashes
14 - long but simple
13 - easy once you learn it - would have been more fun to route out I'm sure but I'm not here to play puzzles I fuckin' did those perfect jumps in Dropzle
12 - quite challenging at first but once the muscle memory sets in it gets a lot better
11 - straight up routed and beaten in like 10 minutes. the only flag I didn't use a walkthrough for. final section looks cool at least
10 - much harder than it looks actually
9 - way too long, way too easy
8 - very simple. cool transition though
7 - supposedly the hardest flag. I'm very proud that I found my own strat for the part after the dashless section that made it like 20 times more consistent. second longest flag at ~3.5h
6 - Nelumbo the map broke my wrists and Nelumbo the flag went and did it again! Third longest flag at ~2.5h
5 - very neat design, a little on the easy side
4 - I fluked a very early clear that didn't have the cool letterboxing effect but my audio didn't work so I did it again and got it. Still I'm very thankful that this flag doesn't require you to hit every possible speed boost
3 - yes the kaizo block got me. no it's not funny
2 - hardest flag for me personally. the vertical dream block section killed me because I couldn't replicate the strats I see in most clear videos since for some reason I don't get enough height so I had to grind out my own. Fluked a clear (only had 2 entries to the final train section) and still took the longest by a good amount (~4.5h)
1 - neat transition of course and very well made in general. I'm not a fan of the cassette boosts though and there's like 10 of them. maybe it's just skill issue but I find them awfully tight to execute. I just kinda zoomed without paying attention to the rhythm at all which is probably why I died to the pink cassoost like 20 times
Special thanks to Gamation for being my go to walkthrough provider for all of GM.
This map can be found at gamebanana.com...