Myth: Mandalore played the Aztec death whistle for this song Fact: It's the recording of Hakita being asked to add sex/multiplayer to the game for the three hundred seven, six hundred tweny oneth time
@@fishthatwearsahat not sure. But a book in 7-4(which I think is implied to be written by hell) mentions smth about how beautiful death and despair is I think
@@meep3899in april fools this year(or last year idk),hakita posted a joke song by these “Balinese gamelan composers”.turns out he technically leaked this song months before violence’s release
@@Rumit279 The Minotaur entry says that someone carved it and gave it to Minos as a gift trying to form some kind of alliance or smt, and Minos was afraid of the Minotaur so he rejected it.
Hakita put an actual Minotaur in Violence, which makes Ultrakill x10 times better than the actual Dante's Inferno game. I expected a boss fight, not a friggin' statue.
I love the name of this song, I feel like it's referring to the Bull of Heaven of Sumerian mythology (or just the band because this is ULTRAKILL) and honestly the fight had a vibe similar to the Leviathan not overly hard, but super fun to play. Also I knew the end of the level was suspicious, I could feel the end was too far away from the tunnel to let it be it
It's probably also a house of leaves reference, hakita talked about reading it on twitter earlier in the year, and there's a few of references to that book in the boss lore
@@liamhb7656 i like how people asked him so much about House of Leaves, Hakita just said he didn't know what where people talking about, accompanied with a pic of his copy the book.
M̶i̶n̶o̶t̶a̶u̶r̶ was the definition of "Never let 'em know your first move." First he just SMASHES through enemies while you were expecting to fight them. Then he DESTROYS the station when you were expecting him to be dead. And then just so he can piss you off, he has a super saddening story that guilt trips you.
After reading the terminal entry for the -Minotaur- I just can't help but feel sorry for the poor thing. Especially after looking at its death animation. Poor guy just wanted to see the sky after eons of wandering the maze...
I think the saddest part is that even if it did get out, it would never be able to see the sky because of the eternal night that the earth movers created in violence.
@@zacharymorgan4129 That part of violence is not earth, it wouldn't be seeing the sky, that is just a representation of the mad violence that the final war generated
The moment two additional rail tracks appeared I immediately knew a chase sequence was coming up. However I was NOT prepared for the gamelans, much less how hard they went. Bravo Hakita, you're doing us Indonesians proud
Apparently madalore playes the aztec death whistle in this song! He is credited in the musuem which i found very surprising since i didnt know he could play
I think Act 3 speaks for itself on how intense it’ll be that the Minotaur, a boss that would’ve easily been a layer boss in the previous layers, is merely the miniboss of the *First* level in act 3!
It's sad and haunting thag you can hear the Bull roar and scream throughout the level. It really is trying so hard to get out. Poor thing didn’t ask to be born the way it was and it only had one wish and it was such a beautiful one. It was just as tragic as Minos, the two really were kindred spirits.
[REDACTED]: Minos, I made you this cool cow! Minos: Get this thing out of my face right now, what the hell is wrong with you Also nice House of Leaves reference
I mean at the same time considering minos experience with the minotaur it is pretty understandable why he'd see it and hate it ( so basically poseidon asked minos to sacrifice a specific bull but minos tried to sacrifice another bull, so poseidon cursed minos's wife thinking if you like the bull so much them why not marry it, making her fall in love with the bull, in another city daedalus is a very renowned architect/inventor but upon seeing his nephew could surpass him in fear daedalus killed him, he was them exiled along with his son, he them arrived to minos's city where minos's wife asked him to help her with the whole in love with the bull thing, so he proceeded to build a fake bull you could climb into and control and she used this to do a thing and then the minotaur was made )
I don't even play the game but I've been listening to the OST fanatically because it slaps harder than my drunk dad thanks for another banger Hakita Ultrakill UPDATE: finally played it (after months of thinking that I won't enjoy it because it's too hard and not my genre) and IT SLAPS. THANKS FOR THE GOOD GAME HAKITA ULTRAKILL, I haven't had this much fun for a while
@@kiddsawesomechanel Nah, minotaur is DEAD dead. While I'm pretty sure his death is bugged, he's most likely supposed to gib out into pieces, and the only two bosses to escape instead of dying are V2 (first fight) and Gabriel. Unless they somehow don't count for the killcount, there will be no rematch with minotaur's gibbed out blood puddle
The Bull of Heaven reference in the track title is so on-the-nose, I love it (The track is really great too, very chaotic but still perfectly captures the feeling of being chased by a fucking bull in an open field)
@@breadfan9159Theorists believe that the redacted letters in the minotaur's data are some king or "Hell Itself", wich makes sense because the minotaur is a supreme demon after all
@@samthefaustmain4068 you say "theorists" and mention how there's this running theory but I honestly just think it's your theory. I haven't heard it anywhere else. it's not _bad,_ just, I haven't heard anyone else saying it's hell
The fact that the name of whoever made the Minotaur makes us wonder WHO might be the P-3 boss. The hints are 1 word with 4 letters, 1 word with 6 letters, and associations with the characters of Dante’s Inferno. Here are the possible options: 1. KING CAESAR - People have been speculating that Brutus and Cassius might be the P-3 boss, but how about the man they killed? What better candidate for P-3 than the king who the Romans find superior than Jesus (before they converted)? 2. KING AEGEUS - Aegeus might’ve made the Minotaur only for V1 to destroy it, like how Aegeus’ son: Theseus killed the Minotaur in the original myth. Oh, and Minos and Aegeus know each other like in the myth. 3. HELL ITSELF - The red text. The f**king red text. The way how he praises the beauty of the Earthmovers. The way it toys with V1. And the lore confirming to be a sentient world that created the demons we killed. Hell could be a possible candidate for P-3.
remember the prime sanctums are called prime sanctums for a reason; they house prime souls i do think hell itself created the minotaur and will play an increasingly important role in the plot but i dont think it'll be in P-3
@@randomcatdudeagreed, I think people are getting too fixated on that one crossed out name and immediately linking it to P-3, forgetting that there's a whole 2 other layers for the prime boss to be fully introduced
A detail that I've come to REALLY appreciate with this song is how the intro swapping between both ears helps make the listener feel lost and disoriented, just like the -Minotaur- as it runs through the Garden of Forking Paths, great touch.
@@klortikterra4423 Man Im feeling fear without even playing it yet.. the mannequins i can deal with but the big things make me uncomfortable... I really want to play it though!
man, the minotaur's really sad. made as a gift to someone who rejected it, put in a big prison full of depressed people for who knows how long, tried to get out while dying but got killed just before it had the chance. gets hated on by characters in-game and the fandom alike just for existing
Baseless speculation time. *Heavy spoilers for Violence's secrets ahead.* . . . . . Act 3's King: The blanked-out name in the -Minotaur's- terminal entry starts is four letters, a space, then six letters, which makes me think that the figure is Act 3's King / Prime Soul. The terminal entry mentions that the -Minotaur- was intended as a gift specifically to build rapport, which implies that our figure was trying to cement himself in Minos's political sphere. Now, considering the rest of the entry... - Our unnamed King considered death and despair deeply beautiful. He probably wasn't a very good king for his people, but at the same time, he couldn't have been an openly bloodthirsty tyrant, as there is no firsthand mention of him in Violence. - He somehow had the ability to sculpt Demons out of sinners, which only Hell itself has been shown to have the ability to make happen. Angels have built flesh prisons, but they don't possess consciousness and aren't Demons. - He probably didn't support Heaven's authority like the Ferrymen do, as he was willing to attempt to ally with Minos... - ...but one of our two candidate layers is Fraud, so we can't be too sure about the intentions behind his actions. For reasons I'll get into shortly, this King has nearly the same opinions on death and suffering as Hell itself does. This king also somehow sculpted a Demon, which only Hell should be able to do. Minos, Judge of Hell, had a relationship to Hell as a location. But I think that this King had a much deeper relationship to Hell as a living being. I guess start looking for six-letter mythological Greek kings who were kind of deranged. (But don't take a similar personality as an exact match or not-match, because Minos and Sisyphus are somewhat different than their mythological counterparts.) Hell: What I think is very notable is that there is a book in 7-4 that is heavily implied to be written by Hell. (Maybe not written - the book itself is blank but V1 perceives words anyway.) Here, Hell, states its admiration for the Earthmovers, the ultimate machines of war. What is most interesting is that nearly everything Hell professes to love the Earthmovers for also applies to itself. "A MACHINE BUILT TO END WAR IS ALWAYS A MACHINE BUILT TO CONTINUE WAR. YOU WERE BEAUTIFUL, OUTSTRETCHED LIKE ANTENNAS TO HEAVEN. YOU WERE BEYOND YOUR CREATORS. YOU REACHED OUT FOR GOD, AND YOU FELL. NONE WERE LEFT TO SPEAK YOUR EULOGY. NO FINAL WORDS, NO CONCLUDING STATEMENT. NO POINT. PERFECT CLOSURE." Hell, too was created to end a "war": It was created by God out of frustration to end Humanity's "war" against him, for sinning and failing to follow his law. But now that all of mankind is in hell, there has been no true closure, and the husks are still violent and suffering. Hell was beyond God, who himself falls into regret over the creation he cannot unmake. Hell reached toward Heaven and touched it, in a way - the shame it brought upon God caused him to disappear, and Heaven was thrown into chaos and then tyranny. And finally, Hell will likely get its perfect, silent closure too, at the hands of V1, who has already annihilated, directly or indirectly, much of Hell, and will continue to do so until there is nothing left. Heaven will fall too, likely as its angels finally recognize V1 for the threat it is and battle it. I think it also shines a light on Hell's motivations for even allowing Ultrakill to happen in the first place. Hakita mentioned that sinners cannot leave their places of torment because Hell keeps them there, but it is not the same way for V1 and other machines, as Hell's non-literal geometry allows to it keep some in captivity and allow others through. But why let them through? Wouldn't Hell want to keep them contained in order to save itself? I think that Hell wants to die. V1's journey through hell is moving from shaft to shaft, which often lead them directly into conflict. Hell finds death and destruction and despair beautiful, the nothingness that follows even more so - so the most beautiful thing it could do would be to apply those things to itself. Hell applies this on a smaller scale by locking V1 in arenas and teleporting enemies inside, but it also doing this on a scale of its entirety. Hell does not just want to be entertained, it wants to be enlightened. So Hell allows V1 passage through -- not easy passage, but passage regardless. It even allows it to find a relatively straightforward way through 7-1's Labyrinth, which was intended to hopelessly confuse sinners. It does this so that V1 may make the most beautiful, enormous, desperate painting out of nothing but red. THE WORLD IS YOUR CANVAS SO TAKE UP YOUR BRUSH AND PAINT THE WORLD R E D .
this is a really engaging and thorough analysis!! was a great read, hats off to you! (also, just saying, "hell itself" fits into the blank space for minotaur's description... :3)
I had wanted to see a Minotaur enemy in Violence, so this was an absolute delight to see upon my first playthrough! Similar to Leviathan, this boss was not too hard, but interesting none the less. The second phase genuinely caught me off guard, and the acid was a pretty solid threat! I do not like Minos so much anymore after reading the Minotaur's lore entry.
Minos stated that the Minotaur looked tortured and scathed, constantly running around the garden of forking paths crashing into walls, practically blindly. If ■■■■■ gave that to me, I'd either see that as an insult, or freak the heck out. Minos was justified about the Minotaur imo.
@@silversonal9831 In the maze? Probably. That being said: Nothing can be trusted in hell, and the Minotaur itself didn't do it for the sake of just hurting others. It is more or less just a panicked beast.
Love all the music references in layer 7, this name being a reference to Bull of Heaven, and Antennas to Heaven being a GYBE reference. I wwonder if the Earthmover was a HANL reference too. RYM will always remember you as one of their own
I think the Minotaur shows how much Hakita and the rest of the team have improved with the development of the game. This is the 1st level of act 3 and it feels like it’s the boss of the layer. Then the actual boss of the layer is even more insane. Good job, guys.
Terminal says that a person, name is redacted, sculpted it as a gift for minos believing it to be beautiful. Minos obviously was disgusted and threw it into the labyrinth. The redacted name is 2 words, first is 4 syllables so I'd assume "King" I forgot what the 2nd was tho
@@FanFavoriteToastedI thought so too, but after some one pointed it out, "---- ------" has the same amount of characters as "hell itself". It's also stated in the arg that Hell interacts with human technology, which would explain why the minotaur's entry is almost redacted. As if Hell was trying not to get the info out. Hell is also the only entity known to create demons, being the "unknown force" that's referenced multiple times in the lore. Overall, the evidence points to Hell itself.
the minotaur's description and the name of it's creator being censored really makes me suspect the prime boss for act 3 might be daedalus, especially with the notable mention of fire after the secret encounter in 7-1 which happens to be an element he stole from the gods to give to humanity in greek mythology
everything being crossed out is house of leaves BUT i'm thinking it could potentially be icarus? six letters are censored, icarus is daedalus's son and could have connections that way... plus flying too close to heaven would be pretty fitting for a prime boss
What each boss song sounded like until Bull of Hell: V2 (first and second fight): A duel against your upgraded self and a final attempt to defeat you. Gabriel (Judge): The divine hand of heaven has come to smite you down Minos Prime: The righteous anger and lament of a king. Ferryman: A devotion to an angel and their determination. Leviathan: A showdown against a colossal foe. Gabriel (Apostate): Pure and utter hatred. Sisyphus Prime: A never-ending struggle. -Minotaur :GET OUT WHILE YOU STILL CAN RUN RUN RUN RUN-
@@markenzoparungao5373Sure! Earthmover: A ticking clock that’s moments away from detonation. You were made for this fight. (And that’s it cause so far there are no more bosses)
@@caesarseizure1625 that earthmover description is nice buttt theres still: Swordsmachine (Into the Fire) Cerberus (Cerberus) Hideous Mass (Castle Vain) Corpse Minos (In the Presence of a King) Sisyphean Insurectionist (Sands of Tide) (maurice is maurice, gutterman was just a tutorial, red and blue duo bosses dont count, secret bosses are questionable)
@@markenzoparungao5373 Swordsmachine: A duel against your first machine Cerberus: A startling doormat for the horrors that await you Hideous Mass: A descent into hells castle King Minos’ Corpse: A zombified remnant of a bygone era Sisyphean Insurrectionist: An angry lament about the past and a resistance long crushed.
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I feel like the name of the Minotaur being crossed out as well as some parts of its entry is a reference to the book House of Leaves but I might be wrong feel free to correct me.
I never felt that the boss fight was over. Minotaurs are tough as hell…so I was actually paranoid for when it would show up. The silence was way too perfect lmao
i was in hehe giggle excitement when i saw that thing absolutely destroying the walls of said level when it introduced itself, didn't thought there would be one in that game honesty, i love the symbolism and concept of a living abomination created to represent the worst a mortal being can be
Its actually kinda interesting to me how similar the guitar riffs in this are to Fear and Hunger's soundtrack mainly Greater Threats. I think either Hakita knew exactly how to portray a primoridal sense of hellish violence ans rage or he was inspired by funger either way both are banger tracks
