Celeste Chapter 9 Guide: Moon Berry, Secret Paths & Final Screen 100% Gameplay Walkthrough

A complete walkthrough of Chapter 9: Farewell of indie platformer Celeste from Matt Makes Games. Includes locations of several secrets and how to get the Moon Berry.

TIMECODES
Part 1: Start - 0:09
Part 2: Singular - 1:14
Part 3: Power Source - 3:34
- Locked Doors/Key Maze Area - 5:34
Part 4: Remembered - 9:14
Part 5: Event Horizon - 12:27
- Large Spike Maze w/Falling Blocks - 16:22
Part 6: Determination - 17:25
Part 7: Stubbornness (timed/rhythm blocks) - 21:46
Part 8: Reconciliation - 23:30
Part 9: Farewell - 30:07
- Moon Berry Secret Path - 32:34

NOTES
- Chapter 9 contains only one strawberry, the Moon Berry, which is in a secret location near the end of the chapter. The secret path opens up after hitting the electrical box at the end of the (very long) final screen in the final section of the chapter (32:35). This path involves climbing floating blocks that were previously encased in electricity, and it's a long way to the next checkpoint (found at 34:06).
- Chapter 9 has a Golden Strawberry, if you're brave enough to attempt to complete the entire stage without dying. If you reach the end with the Golden Strawberry, you will encounter an additional challenge room before collecting the strawberry and seeing the end cutscene. (This will not be shown in the video guide.)
- A heart gate blocks the path partway through the chapter. It requires 15 crystal hearts to pass.
- The double dash is unavailable for most of the chapter (due to Badeline abandoning you). However, the chapter introduces pink double diamonds, which provide you with a single-use double dash.
- Electrical fields kill you on contact, but all electricity on a screen will disappear when you destroy an electrical box (achieved by dashing into it twice). This may open up paths that were unavailable before.
- Exploding fish are new in this chapter:
-- Landing on top of a fish will refresh your dash, bounce you upward and knock the fish a short distance downward. Press and hold the jump button while landing on a fish to perform a higher jump.
-- Entering the dotted semicircle beneath the fish will cause the fish to explode, blasting you away at high speed. The direction and distance depends on the angle you are relative to the fish (however, you will always be pushed slightly upward). After exploding, the fish will respawn after a few seconds.
-- Fish can be pushed around by springs and moving platforms, and their explosions will trigger block switches.
- Also new are jellyfish parachutes, which slow your decent and allow you to glide around. Press up to fall slower and down to fall faster. You can wall jump while floating.
-- Releasing the grab button will cause Madeline to throw the jellyfish a short distance. While free-floating, jellyfish will bounce off springs and can trigger block switches and buttons. They can pass through spikes and electricity unharmed, but will be destroyed if they hit an energy barrier.
-- There are two important jellyfish moves that must be mastered in order to complete this chapter:
--- Horizontal Jellyfish Dash: While floating, throw the jellyfish forward, drop a short distance and dash diagonally toward it. This gives you a burst of horizontal speed and a moderate height boost.
--- Vertical Jellyfish Dash: While floating, throw the jellyfish against a wall, drop a short distance and dash upward into the jellyfish as it bounces back toward you. This gives you a significant height boost.
- Wavedashing is a skill that must be mastered in order to complete this chapter. There is a detailed tutorial on how to do it partway through the chapter.

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[TheBridgeStarNL]

Me seeing seeing this video is more than 37 minutes long while every 10 seconds in this video takes me at least half an hour:
👁👄👁

[amirsoleymani]

"oh dang this chapter is pretty hard, I'm making progress though."

*1 third through the video*

[osu_fishy]

It's amazing what muscle memory does to your dexterity. The last room was so intimidating; it took me hours to complete the first time. But after finishing it once, I can usually get it again within 5 attempts.

[WhaleRum]

This is honestly the hardest game I've ever played. The last screen is giving me anxiety. It took me like 5 hours to get to the last screen now I need a break I've died so many times the game gave me a special dialogue on not giving up.

[richelle_png]

hi i'm here in 2024 and playing through this chapter for the first time... by the looks of the comments, i'll be here a while!

thank you for these tutorials though, i've followed your guides for the last 3 chapters & i appreciate it so much <3

[Jaraghan]

Just wanted to say thanks for all the Celeste videos. I played through most of it without help, but some sections I came to your channel to see how it was done. Especially this Chapter lol. Fantastic game

[DDD-bowz]

Another mechanic they never tell you:
you fall slower with jelly fish if you push upward

[juanhedderich]

Every time I finish one of this sections I finish irl.

[ttttillermand]

When i played through the core i was like "ok, this is way more challenging than the previous levels, this is clearly an optional hard mode for the game", and then this level showed up.
I haven't entirely finished yet, so i can't say for sure which is more difficult, but this level is definitely way longer.

EDIT: I just made it to 11:30, this level is definitely way harder.

[pinkdoor]

Thank you so much in your help with all the levels! I just finished farewell (and got the moon berry) with 32:08 hours and 6716 deaths, and I couldn't have done it without this guide!!

[luiscabo]

Thanks man I just 100% completed Celeste and your guides were definately a big helping hand. The struggle was worth it, thank you!

[NameNick-rooz]

This is truly a live letter to all hardcore celeste fans. Speedrunners, explorers, those who just like the story, everyone. I wish this game had a sequel, but the Farewell is the perfect way to cap off this amazing game.

[YorshRikho]

I just finished the chapter (not the berry tho, still on it)
And I must say, it is one of the most satisfying games to complete I have ever played.
The thing I love the most is the fact that everything you learn in this chapter is not new, they just show that you could always do it, like the wavedashing, which was pretty Hard for me honestly, it took me almost an hour on the first wavedashing screen, and you can guess how the REST went.
It took me 5777 deaths to complete JUST the chapter.
Thanks for this guides btw, I was truly at a loss in some chapter's berries not knowing where to go look.

[ixkahn]

Oh my god. It took me 15 hours over the course of multiple days, as well as over 5 thousand deaths on this chapter, but I finally managed to beat it. It took me longer than the time it took me to beat all the A sides and B sides _combined_ .
Anyways, I just wanted to say, thank you so much for everything!!

[nikplaysgames]

One thing I love about this chapter is all the different approaches to different rooms. There isn’t one set way. Every time I was a play through, and when I did it myself, I always see slight differences in how people approach certain sections and execute them

[misty]

god level design, probably the best platforming i ever seen in my entire life

[Mafeusoo]

This video helped me out A WHOLE LOT THROUGHOUT CHAPTER 9. If it wasn't for this video my play time amd deaths would be way higher, i'm sure. For those of you that are still going through chapter 9, DON'T GIVE UP. The chapter might be long, but the ending is well worth it. Anyway here are my stats for the ending: 2416 deaths, and 7:53:380 of play time. It was plain suffering, but I managed to get past it.

[paurodriguez]

I think the weird secret area with the strange sound could be something interesting. Like a spectrogram or something and also, Nice Video

[edu]

12:42 Great! I spent almost 7h to pass the level to that part only to find that I need the REST OF THE HEARTS OF THE GAME. Good video btw

Edit: Kind of late, but I have to admit that doing all B sides really helped me to complete this chapter, so I can understand the reason for the heart gate

[PhilDM]

Thank you so much! 🩵 This game easily belongs to my favourite games of all time and like 2 or 3 weeks ago I just realized how much content I was missing out on. I replayed this from time to time but I never even tried to attempt chapter 8 or all the B-sides. Thanks to your videos I was motivated enough to give all of this another try and I can proudly say, I just got all the strawberries and finished every B-side except for chapter 8. And now I'm reaching the 10 minute mark of this video on chapter 9. I never would have thought to be getting this good at Celeste. Again: thank you so very much for your videos! 🩵