Cruelty Squad - All Endings **MAJOR SPOILERS** 

it's the survival of the fittest ending as opposed to the meek shall inherit the earth. I had a thought the other day, we say survival of the fittest holds true but if you leave two rabbits in a field a year later you will have 2000 rabbits due to thier reproduction rate, they breed like rabbits, predators need a huge area such as wolves for a single pack but do they own it, they have to battle other packs and starvation, rabbits are meek yet they produce at such a rate they overtake anything, so which is true, it seems the meek shall inherit the earth holds true and survival of the fittest is false

@@yaroslav7458 but if there is competition you can raise your station in the world at others expense, I believe that is something you can do in game no?

@@yaroslav7458 I was more making the point that the first endings philosophy matches survival of the fittest ethos, and that the endings of this game are more about our world than the game world, as that's at least to my understanding the point of stories, and the stories exist in our world even if the events and characters aren't "real" they do in fact exist

During that ending the protaganist said they feel like they are wasting their time. When they shot the random person it is a metaphor for how much time they really wasted. Some random human being who probably didn't deserve it just getting shot in the face is a metaphor for the poor protaganists entire life from here on out. An endless cycle of mindlessly killing people. Ending one is the worst/bad ending because nothing changed and everything you did was for naught; so might as well take your anger out on some random passer by.

I think that kind of thing is intentional cause it seems to happen in everyone's ending at some point. Personally it reinforces the idea that yes, you got the "good" ending. You're happy and the skies are blue and everything is great. But nothing actually changed. You're still killing people, none of it matters, some guy gets in your way, blow them apart because it's all meaningless anyway. The final ending is completely scripted, nobody can die in that cutscene because finally death is real. The world has meaning again.

so, the third ending is a good ending?

@@left2841 Kind of, the cyberpunk hell with no price for life is gone and the new world has the same laws as our real one.

​@@sasguy228who is malice?

@@V0IDWARE The third triagon, basically an embodiment of the whole evil and disgust this game was made with

@@sasguy228 wasnt the third triagon about money?

and i almost never hear anything about it online

it's just like the gorbino's quest. This is the gorbino's quest of life

Gorbilliomaire mindset

See a therapist.

Lmao. I think most CEOs do see therapists 😅

I don't get it.

The protagonist is black. I know it's hard to tell, because it's very low on polygons, but the body here is shaded like a Caucasian with a sunburn (so it doesn't look like him). Also the dead body doesn't have his shades (glasses) and it doesn't look like a suicide. Moreover, at this point it seems like the protagonist is immortal or close to it, with all the weird modifications he's gone through (besides his motives blablabla). The car you see is the same car used in the second level. It's literally the same model (you can see the same shooting pattern on both cars), with just added in model. The car, which is used is not even yours. It's just some random car you can steal and that's about it. I think the corpse in the car is just some random guy, a """casualty of war"""" to say. Random bystander in the wrong time and wrong place, I guess...? Their world is filled with unnecessary and pointless death (along with "un-death"). It's like in other games, especially FPS or war FPS shooters, where they show you "desolated place" along with some burning objects to convey a certain feeling.

@@Sourusophyexe the car is yours. you find it in your garage in the 'home' level. could've been that he stole it originally, but the car is 100% owned by the MC.

​@@Sourusophyexe No the car guy is definitely the protagonist, its his car, he has pink hair, and his skin is also black (but hard to figure out because his skin is bloody). It's the aftermath of earning his death after the final ending in Trauma Loop. He worked his way in his empty life hoping financial freedom would give meaning to his life (ending 1), eventually he took the position of CEO yet only thing he got was the wall of deadend of his life (ending 2), he then retired but that obviously didn't fill his void, so he eventually decided to end it, which wasn't pleasant considering how it was depicted in Trauma Loop, but so was continuing his empty life (ending 3).

Read your bible! (KJV, preferably) ♥

@@abel6298this game is about corporate dystopia the bible would NOT work there

its crazy to think one guy made the whole game, Ville is incredibly talented in many disciplines

Don't you mean sharp "polygonal" world? But I do agree with what you mean. The biggest difference between the two is that when you tear away all the long words and absurdities, the world of Hylics actually isn't that bad to live in.

@@alfalldoot6715 It can also be argued that in both worlds you play as a agent of death of sorts, using slain foes to advance themselves, to in the end bring change. The moon rises and waynes.

I was wondering the same thing. Maybe you get the green and blue skin after the death procedure..?

Basically you start off with the pink and red suit and after the second ending you get the green and blue one. And once you get the green the blue suit then it replaces your original one in every other ending.

The second ending is CEO/LIFE ending you become john cruelty istead of working for him

bad analysis

@toetruck1589 ong

Just a little hint its off to the right before big bad

Also to max out its dmg, you'll need $1mil invested in stocks

I feel like I remember you from the comment sections of alot of LeatherIceCream videos. Don’t know why I’m saying this

@@scout3752 yep

@@cthulhubot0077 thanks

Tell me someone made a mod of that already

The sun smiles at you with eternal malice

give yourself another medal you just became deepfried and based

You are a high net worth individual, an expanding vortex of pathetic trauma.

I always thought it was a neuron

@@sympleton7439 Thank you for your thoughts. You seem to be the only one that has any. :)

I don't get it.

@@JonJohJamesonskill issue

You have some options:

Invest on the ZKZ rifle on the stock market to make more damage with that weapon

Sleep him with the tranquilicer gun and kill him with the Bolt ACR

Or quit him his gun with the rod fishing and kill him with the Bolt ACR

I'm still learning english. Rate My traduction

Чел тыыыыы... В первой концовке гг убивает главного гностического архонта, который смотрит чтобы человеческие души не сбежали из и тел и бессмысленных страданий. Убивая архонта гг освобождает всё человеческие души из заключения, человечество попадает в рай а гностический демург со злобой смотрит на счастье людей. Во второй концовке гг становится идеальным капиталистом который зарабатывает 300 млрд в наносекунду.

В третьей концовке гг становится бессмертным идеальным плотским Богом, который сначала становится идеалом для всей жизни на Земле, а через тысячи и миллиарды лет, видя что вселенная изнывает в агонии, гг уничтожает всю жизнь, и так начинается золотой век(намёк на то что человек может испортить всё, и что единственная его цель - перестать существовать)

No soy rusa pero lo he leido jodete amigo

lol wtf why is google translate so good at russian?

@@TheHippyProductions rhey arw communist !!!

You need to become „shitmen” trough stealth suit

There is a stealth suit you can get in the store

To put it (my own bullshit interpetation) as simply as possible, Life and Death in Cruelty Squad have no meaning when human life can be reformed cheaply and easily. And with technology advanced in unthinkable and disgusting ways without the moral concern of killing, profit motive is the only thing left, reducing human beings to disposable assets. All deaths and repeats of levels are canon because of this permanent state of undeath. The "Divine Light" that is given to the player is the favor of corporate overlords, who have replaced God, and repeated deaths further sever the player's standing with these new gods. And only when the player has had their Hope Eradicated can they receive the blessing of true Death itself, reintroducing it into the world and ending the nightmare and bring about a new Golden Age. Also Stonks :^)

cruelty squad in general is the depiction of a cyberpunk landscape where death and the cost of human lives means nothing because even the cheapest of people can regenerate. Naturally if the cost of humanity means nothing, life stagnates forever and businessmen desperately try to cling to increasingly insane heights to try to preserve status. Explains all the wacky architecture and overall terrible waste of resources everywhere. Cruelty Squad takes it even further past simple stagnation; life has literally mutated to cancerous tumours and zombies because humanity has lived for so much longer than they wanted to. The Cruelty Squad themselves only exist to mildly inconvenience the targets by killing them over and over. The Protagonist never really speaks but he does have dreams of a better life as shown by the early access trailer. By finishing Archon Grid he supposedly keeps going by learning to forgive himself but not really doing anything to change the system. In LIFE he becomes a major businessman since the easiest way to beat it is using the transactional rifle that scales with his stocks. He has risen to power in a world where power is meaningless. In the Trauma Loop ending he has abandoned hope for the system and finds the Cradle of Life, supposedly the essence of life that has been kept stagnant ever since death was meaningless and proceeds to wipe it out, causing a universal reset. Ultimately it’s a simple theme that life must have meaning if anything of significance is to happen, and the disasterous consequences of a meaningless society is reflected in the hellscape that is the world of cruelty squad.

^Thank you guys sm for explaining^

life no worth, rich man bad

I understand that the last text says that the world is doomed because excess energy (Wealth) without knowing where to go and not being used to better the system means that this system (human society/Life/Earth) will end catastrophically. Meaning that the world is going to end and people will suffer. From everything before I get the idea of humanity is fucked because of trauma. We try to heal trauma with wealth and greed so we fuck up the world even more and hurt other humans in the process which creates more trauma. The protagonist seems to transcend all this because he embraces death transcending human nature and not caring about anything. So he either transcends or kills himself. But before that he had to become the wealthiest being ever. That's my interpretation of it.

@@SuperHperTube ok thank you for that

@Static Data your first paragraph just made me realise why death is necessary, if you were immortal or infinite, you would eventually be every one and everything and therefore no one person or thing, I can only point to you as an entity, because you have a beginning middle and end, if you had no end or beginning I would have nothing to point at, or I could point at anything and say it's you and that would be true, probabky why God is such a nebulous idea to people, and how Christianity can he characterised as Ned Flanders, but also the Spanish inquisition, neither of those is true

First ending you become immortal, but life sucks because living forever is boring Second ending you become the same CEOs you kill for a paycheck. Still pretty shitty Third ending you end global immortality because living forever is boring. Saving the world or something

In a world where nobody can die death has become irrelevant. In cruelty squad, death has become a joke. Resurrection technology is available to literally everybody there for giving no meaning to life OR death. Immortality rains, and through that immortality; Beauty became skewed. The things that would normally be beautiful to us regular humans, became ugly and disgusting. The "humans" in cruelty squad could only derive pleasure from what we would see as utterly repulsive. After the cycle continuing for long enough the " cradle of life" (god of this world) generally stopped caring about anything in general; as it had nothing to do. A constant, infinite, unending loop of boredom. That's why it allowed the world that you see in cruelty squad in such a pitiful state of limbo. It is a distorted shadow of what we would view as a Utopia. It is a Utopia that is so long gone it has become its own dystopia. If you live long enough, eventually you will live to see yourself become the villan. At the end I believe the protagonist strips the world down to its bare minimum and allows it to begin again, as this constant cycle of life without death is traumatizing to society as a whole; in general causes nothing but chaos, as the goal is to accumulate enough wealth to not be "liquidated" (assasinated). The only way for anything to have meaning is to start over, hence why everyone was marching toward a giant "death" healthbar. They had lived so long that they longed for the chance to die. You (the protaganist) become the grim reaper and the god. There was only ever one choice. Tl;dr: Cruelty squad is a perfect depiction of a Utopia turned distopia through neglegence and greed. The protaganist kills everyone to start again. He destroys this world because it is the only logical choice. The third ending is the true (cannon) ending. Hope you enjoyed the read! Just woke up from my depression nap. CEO mindset.

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3, first is the one walking the sunny path, the second is the standing in front of the face, third is walking in a wasteland with crazy text

LOL​@@cthulhubot0077

Crazy God damn game

I mean... The wheel also technically didn't need to be invented.

whoosh

​@@EnderQuartzMC No, not really... Corporations bad, greedy, sucking all our resources and willing to sacrifice way too much for short term gain, and our countries are lead by these morons.. Also mediocrity is more often than not rewarded over honest, good work. So haul yourself over to r/14AndDeep... This is what happens when you make assumptions.

Not CEOpilled

i really enjoy the aesthetic of cruelty squad the chaos puts my brain at ease. Cute cartoony games like animal crossing or breath of the wild look good but lack the satisfying brutal edge this game has but thats just me.

CROIKEY

Pitiful to the point of... So that's why we killbind.

I respect you, at least someone is thinking positive.

businessmen aren't usually greedy, but the game is saying that most successful ones have to be. in my opinion, the first ending shows someone who can't achieve happiness; they have all their friends and "good" values but in reality they feel like a failure while all of the less honourable profit. the second one is someone who embraces the capitalist system, and while they are all powerful, they destroyed everything around them to get there, which was actually to the detriment of society. sure, maybe you personally just want to make the world a better place. but that puts you in the first category. won't you ever feel injustice? how about the way veterans are treated in north america? the game is saying it's impossible to suit both society and the individual unless something about capitalism changes altogether. in fact in the third ending he doesn't just change capitalism, he *destroys* it. that's why the developer doesn't even have anything positive to say, except in the third ending.

this dude is fully programmed holy shit

its undeniable that our current systems are letting the greedy win and drive us further to the world we see in the game

CEO mindset. You have the soul of an emperor.

got u thinkin'