Cruelty Squad Lore 

This is why I consider Cruelty Squad to be peak story telling. Instead of using conventional methods to tell a bizarre story, the creator made an absolutely insane world, made the game uncomfortable to play, all the "normal" concessions were in some way twisted WHILE taking into account why they exist (meaning, all the changes weren't random) and THEN he used all that to tell the most memorable story about a dystopian world that mocks our own.

@@ivanmarquez2218 This. None of my friends could understand why I was obsessed with this ugly, grating piece of shit until I broke down the story. For ONCE in a dystopian fps game, the visuals and mechanics actually, truly represent the message.

Its dialogue that the targets tell you on House

@@IAmLeMonke “This game is ugly!” “I prefer the term ‘aggressive’.”

it's barely storytelling @@ivanmarquez2218

I think landlord called the cops as well and CS and the police are just after the same target. But there's no way MT would know that it literally is his first thought to off his landlord

​@@namedidii justifiable

Yeah the landlord's dialogue directly state that he called the cop on John cause rent is due, so that may alerted CS too. And since the landlord is not given any info on like a usual assassination target, that means John himself literally marks the guy as a target

I thought the player was called MT Foxtrot thats what ive always heard this is the first time ive heard someone call him John Cruelty

I just assumed that he’d already decided that upon realizing he wouldn’t be able to make rent he’d just kill his landlord lmao

So true!

This is just like Gorbino's Quest.

This is the Gorbino's Quest of comments.

​@@doctordirckman i would kill for gorbinos quest

@@amongus561 Isn't that the world's only videogame?

This is just like Gorbino’s Quest. This is the Gorbino’s Quest of life.

I always saw the death of john's friends as him giving them a mercy killing, like, finally letting them rest from the endless meaningless life cycle just like the HE target of pharmacokinetics that looks like the power in misery guy from the flesh door, when you kill him he is thankful and apparently john has the power of permakilling people after reaching HE as seen by this guy's dialogue and the fact that the limit chancellor and the cruelty squad CEO canonically die forever.

Man, it feels like there's some kind of meaning to my playthrough even if I don't get it. I ended up getting the cursed torch before I ever ended up going to HQ. So I ended up sacrificing friends before ever meeting them. I suppose that's the CEO mindset.

but only barely

And how! Such joy!

Thank you, that's extremely nice of you to say haha

What about pyros vid?

@@yaya_is_real A short one, his is HELLA deep, and thus its 4 hours.

pyros vid is a gameplay tierlist @@yaya_is_real

hello ultrakill lore guy

Thank you for the kind words. My goal is definitely to tell everything possible with as much detail as is necessary without diluting the content itself. It's a precarious balancing act but I'm happy to hear you thought it was done successfully here at least.

Pyro is a spazoid

​@@doctordirckyou succeed at this with flying colors!

hence why the game is Cruelty Squad instead of just Death Squad. you can't actually kill anyone above a certain net worth, but you can inflict pain for pain's sake, i.e. cruelty. and without death to induce disparity, the value of life is zero and all events in time are functionally coterminous, as they have no beginning or end to be compared against. Georges Bataille, the main inspiration for the game's setting, believed the purpose of life was to waste the excess energy of the sun on unproductive "luxurious" activities that didn't further the organic tendency to reproduce. the events of the game are nominally "productive" insofar as they grow or prune entities both organic and corporate, but these events are without worth and therefore without "luxury" due to taking place in a closed system wherein energy is merely exchanged rather than truly expended. the economic system has become perfectly efficient, and in wasting nothing, it wastes everything, and can therefore not be called life despite not quite being death. M.T. Foxtrot realizes this upon his throne, and so brings death and excess back to the world by peeling it apart.

The best shitposts are the ones that come from the soul.

I'm glad you enjoyed it. It was a lot of fun to make and I'm glad people like you are enjoying it so much!

I don't disagree, I think the driving force behind putting the bonus missions well after their accessibility was the fact that telling those stories didn't fit well into the narrative I was painting with Cruelty Squad's (The Organization) power grabs, but I did still want to tell all of the stories in all of the missions. Like you say though it really doesn't matter all that much because none of the bonus missions besides one or two are particularly important to the story. Thank you for the kind words and constructive criticism.

Thank you. You're really too nice

I 100% agree, what I was thinking

or alternatively, MT Foxtrot

no john “cruel” squad is his official name

I can't afford :< but I did play the free weekend last month. Thank you for the kind words

Thank you for all the compliments, your comment was evidently thought out, kind, and earnest. I have no plans of stopping anytime soon; trying to get into a consistent release schedule to temper my Let's Plays with my Lore videos a little better. Got some good stuff coming soon. Thank you again.

I'm glad you enjoyed it! Thank you for the kind words.

no

Thank you All Might. Your anime is pretty good

Thank you I'm very very glad you enjoyed this video.

Both our universe and cruelty squad contain atleast one Elon musk

The difference is that we don’t have a Pure Optics to help us get out of this rut.

Why am I going to die then?

​​@@howdoyoudo5949Will you though? Do you know what happens after you shut off your optic sensors for the last time?

@@howdoyoudo5949because you touch yourself at night

It was really my pleasure, thank you for appreciating it.

That's very sweet of you, thank you for enjoying!

That's very flattering of you, thank you for the compliment!

@@doctordirck No problem, you may have convinced me to try out the game. It seems fun,

Thank you, that's very nice of you to say.

@@doctordirck Oh you are welcome my dude, you should consider doing more cruelty squad related content since you clearly have a great comprehension of the game

Thank you! I appreciate that you enjoyed it and let me know!

It's a lot of fun, I bet you would like it!

You're welcome man. Thanks for the kind words

Very good theory!

no....

@@redsentry9785 It's true.

no

@@blockeontheleafeon no it's not

Thank you, I appreciate the kind words hard work definitely pays off. I'm glad you enjoyed it. I haven't done a Cruelty Squad Let's Play yet. At the time I made this video there hadn't yet been a 100% Let's Play and I was worried I wouldn't be able to make a good Let's Play about it, and now I wouldn't want to put out sub-par Cruelty Squad content since I made this Lore video and people like it pretty well. I appreciate what you're saying about looking for a good LP on it. This is a really good game, excited for the next one for sure.

@@doctordirck Thank you for your work. I plan to do a LP of this game in the future and your lore explanation serves to be invaluable. And you mentioned the next one... Is this confirmed?

@@stealth7225 It is sort of. There' another game in the works but it's not a continuation of the story of Cruelty Squad. It's got a lot of the same mechanics and a similar look as Cruelty Squad but it's got a focus on a lot of new mechanics like mechs and stuff. I believe you can find it by look up the Consumer Softproducts twitter.

@@doctordirck Alright cool, I'll take a look. Hopefully it is just as fun as Cruelty squad. Thanks for your time and keep up the good work brother.

Thank you!