So I Tried Ultrakill, It's Pretty Good 

13:06 in my first playthrough like a year or two ago, when i first fought this boss, and saw the challenge "Parry a punch" my reactions were "YOU CAN PARRY THE PUNCH?!!!" ever since that day, i have parried everything, even my mom's shoes

Massive respect for somehow going through the game not parrying yet finding the infamously tough bosses easy

I personally adore that you can "skip" the 1-4 puzzle, since that in of itself is a puzzle. However, its a puzzle that the game doesn't explicitly tell you about until after you've beaten the level once, under the subtlety of the Challenge. And even then, it rewards you for thinking outside the box, by going beyond the drone-like thinking of "The things, go get them.", & looking at where you can apply what you have in your toolkit to achieve a myriad of results.

To answer some of your questions. The first area is considered world zero because you aren’t actually in hell yet. So the game starts at 0-1. Parrying is very important as it heals you to max, and is very lenient. It’s often easier to parry attacks than it is to dodge them. Most notably the bosses. You do know you got a secondary melee attack right? Right after the first V2 fight? It might be more fun than the base one if you don’t like to parry The whiplash doesn’t build up damage unless you grapple to enemies. Also, it doesn’t happen when underwater, so if you only used it in that level, you wouldn’t feel any effects of it.

Reading the terminal gives a bunch of strategy information about enemies

when shooting the shotgun you can parry the bullets that you have just shot if you punch almost instantly after shooting, parrying makes things explosive and so the shotgun is pretty good at mid range if you 'projectile boost'

i find it funny when you said something about good strategies for killing bosses and i thought of the V2 coin punching strat

Tips for the game: you can punch you own shotgun bullets to pasically have a grenade gun Parrying is NECESSARY it fully heals you can one shot enemies and it works as a defense mechanism The sharpshooter gun's right click attack can shoot enemy projectiles to create big explosions If you wanna go for P ranks (get all S ranks without dying) you can press tab twice to see your ranks The coins are the most op weapon in the game, and can be shot with the electric or malicious railcanon to deal massive damage

14:44 I'm pretty sure you got lucky with rng, depending on what v-2 decides to do, that fight can either be a cake walk or actual physical pain

punch the shotgun shells and it turns from a shot gun to a shotcanon

Its likely that V2 can't rocket ride as it's armor is far THICCer and therefore heavier.

Will you do another video to get p-ranks And/or prime sanctums?

Benjamin Benjamin BENJAMIN!

Violence layer when?

Btw in this game you can parry with fist, just want to tell you that 🙂👍, and also great content, video, and edit keep it up man 😁😁

At 2 4, there are 4 hidden skulls

Pretty please try and get P ranks on every level. It’s essentially just an S rank but without dying for the whole level

UK is more like quake the 2nd swordsmachine fight isn't a repeat the hideous mass bossfight is easy on purpose to lure you into a false sense of security for v2

I hope you get to play the game more and discover the game’s true potential! :) well- if it isnt too much to ask

this hurts

Putting music over the title drop and not letting the original music play should be illegal

Blud was playing "ultrakill" while better players play "ULTRAKILL".

I've got to admit standard lets you get away with a lot most of what you considered easy is a nightmare in violent(except lethiathan he's just easy) also PARRY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and pls go back and enjoy more

nice to see someone else getting into the game Just be careful of the fanbase and egregious backseaters.

Now P Rank everything and fight minos prime

Minos: "You know how to parry... Don't you?" V1: "Uh... Maybe." Minos: Haha. *Time to Learn.*

9:25 There actually are blue skulls scattered around the level, you just accidentally found the secret path to skip the puzzle.

7:50 the levels are broken up into layers, the notation being layer-level. So level 1-2 is the second level of layer 1. The first 4 levels are the prelude, and are considered layer 0.

I've heard more people refer to it as a DOOM-like, but it's more akin to Quake with its movement mechanics. 15:34 the mechanic is called hard damage. While you can heal from blood from nearby enemies, to prevent you from being able to just facetank everything a part of that damage is so-called "hard damage" which greys out your health bar. You cannot recover health in the hard damage range. Hard damage disappears after a short time (4 seconds of not being hit IIRC) and the higher your score is, the shorter that duration is, with it being entirely non-existent on the highest style rank. Using the grappling hook does not damage you, but will inflict hard damage if you're missing health, as to prevent you from easily healing by hooking in a small enemy. I have a hunch that you didn't read a bunch of the terminals, they actually give you great tips on enemies and bosses. Such as how it's better to conserve stamina against Gabriel 2 by using sliding to dodge his tripple attack rather than dashing.

The reason you struggled with Gabriel 2 so much is because that's very much a battle of parries. If you learn the timings, his healthbar can MELT.

Cool video. I will say that ultrakill indeed is a game that hides alot of content for those willing to go beyond "the meat" as you put it. Id wholeheartingly recommend just exploring some of the levels very slowly and just look for secrets. Or you can look up a tutorial for the secret weapons and levels, i wont blame ya

I hope you do the p-ranks and the levels they unlocks. . . Also the secret levels. Ultrakill has a lot of contents packed into it, and its always a joy to subject people to it :)

Tip for the coin, it inherits your momentum, so as long as you don’t move in a different direction after it is thrown, hitting coins is just muscle memory. Also you can punch it to have it target the nearest enemy, then bounce into the air so you can hit it again. Plus if you shoot the coin when it flashes it splits and hits two enemies. Additionally the coin can be activated by any hitscan attack. That includes the railcannon. You can actually hit a boss with the railcannon multiple times with this technique, but it increases your damage either way.

Fun fact: you can parry your own shotgun pellets

I know everyone is saying this but its for a reason, this is great gaming content. I dont know why your so unknown. Trust me, one of your videos will hit the algorithm and you'll blow up.

to clear you up on the level thing, everything before limbo was the prelude and not a part of hell, so it doesn't have a level transition telling you what part of hell you are going to. (at least to my memory) edit: after watching the full video i can say that yes, parrying is a big part of the game but i don't blame you for not trying to do it as the timing can be a bit finicky at times, but the high damage and full healing of parrying cant be undermined. For the secret bosses you heard of, i recommend trying to reach them because they are.. very fun.

Ultrakill made me a completionist cause I enjoyed the game so much. I never hunt for secrets or top scores in any games but in ultrakill I got em all. :)

The dev hakita described the game as devilmayquake

Why the shotgun is my favourite weapon: -Parrying your shotgun causes an explosion, which makes the shotgun good at close and far range. -when you switch between the 2 different shotgun types and immediently shoot, you can shoot with the shotgun every 0.2 seconds -the green variant of the shotgun can instakill virtues and mindflayers if you do it right (It's easier to do with the grappler). -when you shoot the grenade of the shotgun with a malicious railcannon shot, you can create a f*cking nuke. btw. the statues are called cerberus beacause every enemy is being named by V1 ( the Robot you play as) and the 2 cerberi protect the door to hell just like the 3 headed dog. Also the fact you only used the nailgun for V2 hurts me.

16:26 But the double gun first appeared in 4-2 or 4-1, did you miss it there?

commenting this before finishing the video you can punch the shotgun bullets (+PROJECTILE BOOST) by punching and shooting at the same time you can dodge the overpump explosion (and any attack thats dodgeable) with dash because it gives you i frames for a second or two there are switches all throughout the limbo layer, after activating all of them go to 1-4 and you'll get the alternate variant of the pistols, i'd say which one is the best but you should mess around with the alt variants instead and find which one suits you the best the knuckleblaster's shockwave can instakill a group of filths shotgun + KB is a good combo for dealing damage at melee range, M1 + F + E + M1 + F and then repeat quickswapping between the shotgun variants lets you skip the cooldown you can punch the coins after the violence update, parries have become easier after getting the whiplash and beating 4-4, go back to the level and near the start there will be a door which is open just a little bit with a blue skull in it, use the whiplash to grab the skull and then the door will open. after that fire the electric railcannon at the water and a another door thats nearby will open which contains the nailgun's alt variation the sawblade you can use the nailgun to deal with maurice (aka malicious face) or whiplash to it and then use the shotgun + kb combo sorry if some things i said dont make sense, my grammar just sucks lol

to answer some questions you had (and some tips): the first 5 levels were prelude, basically 0-1, 0-2, ... 0-5. the gameplay tutorial after the real tutorial. they're not part of hell yet, so they don't appear on the "layers of hell" screen at the start of each level. you can use the two shotguns for shotgun swapping: fire the shotgun, very fast afterwards switch to the other variant, and it fires faster that if you only used one. repeat as long as you like for basically double the fire rate. shotguns can parry, shoot when you would punch to parry. does not work for certain attacks, mainly any projectiles. if you punch immediately after firing a shotgun, you do a projectile boost, one pellet will fly faster and explode on impact. this was originally a bug, but the dev, Hakita, decided it was a feature and kept it in. the flamethrower enemy has a flammable tank on their back, shoot it to instakill them. this is very easy if you throw a coin behind them and shoot it. speaking of the coin, yes, it increases damage for the shot you fire at it. it also does a little sparkle after it's been thrown. shoot it at that moment to split the coin and hit two enemies at once. it's a very amazing feeling of getting two instakills on two street cleaners (flamethrower guys) with one coin. coins can also be shot with the railcannon and any other hitscan from enemies like malicous face or sentry (sniper robot) to get a chargeback. this instakills malicious faces and deals a lot of damage if it hits anything else. the grappling hook "whiplash" (and taking damage in general) builds up hard damage (grey color at the end of your health bar). if you've lost health, hard damage builds up and you can't heal hard damage until it disappears after a few seconds, OR if you rank up in style seen on the right side of the screen. also ranks S through SSS lessen the hard damage buildup, and ULTRAKILL rank completely negates it all together. HOWEVER: whiplash does not build up hard damage under water OR when hooking onto grappling points, so they are a "free" method of using the whiplash. to get better style, use different weapons, the weapons become "stale" after some use and will result in less style now a few hints for secrets, not spoiling any of course ;) first, the gameplay changing ones: in 1-4, you saw a button with roman number 4 on in, you were playing the 4th level, I wonder where the rest of the buttons are... in 4-3, there's a certain room in the dark halls, leave the torch at the end and come back for a surprise here's just fun secrets: in 3-1, there's a peculiar little bridge in the wacky stairs room, perfect act 1 and you'll find something very interesting in 6-2 there's a little hole near the door before Gabe, perfect act 2 for a similar surprise (do the first one first tho) every layer (excluding 3 and 6) has a secret level, they change the genre of ULTRAKILL for that level. 0-2, you need to vent like the sus impostor in the hit game among us 1-1, if you throw a coin into a [REDACTED] and make a wish, you might just find a secret 2-3, like previously in the layer, there are electrical boxes. attack the powergrid and explore 4-2, there is a button on the outside with a face on it, that opens a wall with said face on it, within is a relic, bring it high up, then follow the brightest star south. 5-1, you need to vent like the sus imp- oh wait, I made the joke already uhh.. enjoy ULTRAKILL ;) hope my wall of text didn't bother too bad :p

I highly suggest reading about enemies on the consoles at the beginning of a level, it tells you about their weaknesses. ULTRAKILL is a very experimental game so I suggest switching weapons and trying different weapon combinations, you'll be fascinated once you find out what you can do with the coins

Ok so. No hate at all. But there IS a puzzle with blue skulls in 1-4 CLAIR DE LUNE. You found the secret challenge way of getting to the V2 boss fight. The skull locations are... through the paintibg of gabriel in the main room, under the floor boards in the dining room, and in the room where that numbered slab is theres a window above the door that you can either go through or destroy (i forget which.) So no the developer is not mean you just didnt know where to look ♡ (and sorry if this isnt the first time youve seen a comment like this)

as someone who 100% this game on the hardest difficulty, this video was absolute fire. shame he didnt play layer 7.

Great video! You should definitely get good at parrying though, parrying is sometimes required for beating an enemy as it can stagger them to open you up for free damage. Parrying also gives you a free full heal

I'm glad to see you enjoying the game!! One note though: parrying becomes VERY important later on, including parrying your own shotgun :)

Great review! I hope you come back to it soon, it just got updated with 4 new levels with new enemies and a spectacular boss, plus made parrying a little more lenient. Once you get the hang of weapon swapping, grappling, and parrying, the game steps up to a whole new level of fun where you just whip around arenas and blast apart enemies while weaving through their fire, and really makes you feel like the unstoppable force V1 is. I'd also recommend checking out the lore! The terminal entries for all the enemies contain tons of juicy things, and I found myself excited to read up on new enemies whenever they appeared. There's also books scattered about in certain levels that foreshadow bosses, give hints for puzzles, and recontextualize certain events and fights

Watched through the whole video without feeling bored one bit, this is some S-tier content that deserves more attention!

the game would be way better (and somewhat easier) if you engaged with it's mechanics more by *reading* things like item descriptions or tutorial text

Love your casual content bro! I skimmed through your other videos and loved them too. I've seen too many playthroughs of these games with knowledge going into them (not that it's a bad thing) but yours is a fully blind one, which I love! Earned a sub from me!

2:40 Don't worry, you're the first person I've seen who actually used the knowledge they just learned. Every other first timer completely forgets that glass is breakable.

6:21 the terminal estry for the cerberus says "Although they do not resemble the mythological three-headed dog, this name was chosen due to their nature as protectors of Hell. However, it’s not yet known why some stay dormant despite provocation"

You can read lore for enemies from the terminals at the start of each level the terminals also give you enemies weaknesses you could also get more information about your guns just go to info below any gun that you select in the terminal loved the video.

5:58 yeah without the other shotgun mod it doesn't have much value, however you can parry your own bullets as you fire (known as projectile boosting or p-boosting for short) from it which causes an explosion way faster than the core eject, this can let it have better mid-range value and extreme crowd control if you get good at it. As far as heavy damage goes, if you get the green shotgun mod you can quickly swap between the blue and green and shoot, holding shoot and pressing your mod swap button. This shoots far faster than usual and results in insane close range damage, good for high health targets that aren't a major threat at close range, or if you just want to tank them for a bit since you'll get all your health back from them (excluding hard damage). 12:58 fun fact dashing actually gives you I-frames if done correctly so dashing is a completely viable way to avoid an attack instead of parrying 15:26 basically to summarize, when out of water grappling an enemy will replace your lost health with hard damage, hard damage heals over time and heals faster with a higher style meter 17:28 issue with gabe's rematch is it kinda assumes you've learned how to parry and manage your stamina really well by this point in the game, with just dashing you can't evade him very well since you'll run out of stamina too fast so sliding or parrying is supposed to be the replacement which can be much harder but rewarding This game has a lot of tech to learn if you really want to push it to the limits and discover the secrets of how to be a true killing machine, hope to see you get better over time and get better at murdering :D EDIT: Gonna actually put a TLDR of tech I feel is important to learn early on. Slide Hopping - Slide, jump, slide when you land, jump, repeat, this will keep building you momentum and let you go hella fast, scales with fall height as well as momentum. P-Boosting - Hit your own bullets as you shoot the shotgun for a quick explosion with no gravity or range limit. Shotgun Swapping - Shoot with blue mod, keep holding shoot, press swap button, repeat. Extreme close range damage. Slam Jump - If you ground pound then jump you can jump extra high, this scales with how long you've been falling. Rail Coining - When a high health enemy is stationary or taunting or whatever, throw a coin into/behind it, shoot your railgun through it to hit it, then throw the rest of your coins to get 4x the damage of one railgun shot. There's a lot more than that but that's what I feel is the most important to know.

Bosses like the leviathan and king Minos are more like spectacle battles which is why they seem much easier :)

watching someone new come into ultrakill and enjoy it is always my favorite thing. oh and yeah, there is a strategy to make v2 a pushover. just as a hint, you can punch your coins when they flash.

5:40 if you shoot the explosive shot it will make something happen we like to call a "Nuke"

18:06 yeah you kinda just ignored a core gameplay mechanic

good job [I clicked on this video and subbed cause I saw ultrakill, I haven't finished the video yet]

I love your videos, I would like to see later 7, and maybe p ranks of the levels for ultrakill, it’s a great game :)

5:50 *Tip:* If you punch WHILE shooting the shotgun, it makes bullets go faster, and explode on impact, also with the core eject, if you eject the core, and shoot it with a malicious railcannon, it creates an explosion that deals massive dammage, also you can swap between shotguns on each shot, which can help gun down enemies faster, pair this with the whiplash and the shotgun becomes much more useful! *Edit:* If you use pumpcharge on full, and shoot mid-dash you don't take the damage from the explosion

Glad you had fun with the game! The style community can be a bit overwhelming but even as a casual there’s thing you can try that are absolutely fun Just remember to read the weapons descriptions, if you read something like “this weapon shoots X and that can react with Y” and you read another weapon that says “this shoots Y” they totally work together TL;DR, if you ever stop to think “wouldn’t be cool if” about something in ultrakill there’s a good 90% chance that it is possible

It pains me to see him not having a seizure with his weapons

Parry. -200 hours ultrakill

Can you please play BroForce?

the entire comment section trying to help the game journalist

im making this comment as im watching the video every level before limbo is the prelude and dose not have a screen telling you where in hell you are in you can shoot multiple coins and even shoot the railgun at the coins if you punch at the same time you fire the shotgun you can parry the bullets and make a explosion also the game got updated and added one of the 3 new layers in ACT III the Cerberus enemy can do the ground slam attack outside of his first encounter in the first V2 fight you can find 3 blue skulls hidden in the map it isnt a troll all though yes Gabriel act 2 is stronger if you slide everywhere the boss is a joke. Do not counter Gabriel just dodge by sliding that door in the level with V2 in ACT I, if you find all the hidden buttons in each level of limbo ( I, II, III, IV) and go back to the door it will open and give you a new weapon

Enemy tips and/or fun facts: Okay so the Swordsmachine boss has 2 phases If you skip the first encounter (by already having the shotgun) you have to fight both phases back to back on a single checkpoint As for the streetcleaners (flamethrower guys) you can instakill them by shooting the tank on their back (easiest to do by throwing a coin and shooting it when it's behind them) V2 can take damage during his intro animation in Limbo. Exclusively from coins (shooting with revolver or punching them) Angels, just like Jesus Christ, take extra damage from nails The P-bosses WILL compress your pp

Enemy tips and/or fun facts: Okay so the Swordsmachine boss has 2 phases If you skip the first encounter (by already having the shotgun) you have to fight both phases back to back on a single checkpoint As for the streetcleaners (flamethrower guys) you can instakill them by shooting the tank on their back (easiest to do by throwing a coin and shooting it when it's behind them) V2 can take damage during his intro animation in Limbo. Exclusively from coins (shooting with revolver or punching them) Angels, just like Jesus Christ, take extra damage from nails The P-bosses WILL compress your pp, and teach your limbs how to file restraining orders against you

A few tips for this game (SPOILER WARNING) 1.) LEARN PARRYING AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. The reward is either a full heal (up to hard damage limit) and regeneration of stamina, or an extremely gratifying damage and rewarding punish that whittles their health an extreme amount. In harder levels (P-1, P-2, 6-2), parrying will be absolutely nesessary. You were also correct, the reason why you didnt enjoy the gabriel rematch was because you didnt utilize parrying. 2.) You can punch your shotgun shells with the feedbacker. Try it, trust me, just dont get too close to an enemy. 3.) Coins are powerful. Like, really, really powerful. You know that railcannon you picked up in 2-2? The blue variant? That can ricochet off of coins and can 1, guaruntee a shot, and 2, amplify the damage of the attack. You can also punch the coin after the sparkle by walking back, throwing the coin, wait for the sparkle, walk forward, and then punch it with a bit of finesse. You can also jump, throw it under you, wait for the sparkle, then punch it. You dont even need to aim it. If you wanna learn more, watch this video. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-p7j8ekOaI0M.html (its 18 minutes long lmao) 4.) (ADVANCED TECH) Deadcoining can be used to absolutely annihilate bosses. The way it works is simple; transfer the storage of that coin into the next coin, while also giving it an additional ricochet count. First, you ricochet a coin. At around the same time, throw another coin. You have a 0.1 second time window, so dont mess that up, or the entire setup is ruined. Pulled off successfully, punch the coin, and the reward will be worth it. 5.) If you've ever played doom, you probably know about shotgun swapping. This is prevelant here too, and is one of, if not, the most consistent way of dealing high dps. Info (major spoilers) 1.) This game is wild, absurd even. Ill let you laugh at the secrets of the game yourself, 2-S is gonna be a wild ride 2.) (major spoiler) Minos prime has a secret. When he says "Die!", this is a nod that he will kill you. This is most prevelent in VIOLENT difficulty. 3.) Sisyphus prime also has a secret. When he says "DESTROY!", this is a nod that you will be destroyed. This is also most prevelent in VIOLENT difficulty. 4.) P-2 is a pain to P-rank, it contains the most excruciating gauntlet in the entire game and i'm sure hakita was laughing maniacally at his pc when made it. 5.) Some of the enemies have been given names by the community, one of them is even in the game (+MAURICED) Malicious Face - Maurice (canon btw) Cerberus - Andre Gabriel - (jokingly) pissbaby Minos Prime - Pinos Sisyphus prime - Pissyphus/(jokingly) Sussyphus/(jokingly) Pissysus Cen-1000 "Earthmover" - Benjamin V1/V2 - Nikon/GoPro Gutterman - Dave Guttertank - Mike Mannequin - Johnifer Leviathan - Lucas Gabriel, Apostate of hate - (jokingly) Gabriel, Prostate of hate

LeBron James Reportedly Forgot To Parry During His ULTRAKILL Playthrough

!!!START OF ACT THREE IS OUT!!!!!! Also: doomlikes are called arena shooters! It's the whole game genre with Doom, Quake, Duke Nukem and Unreal Tournament. It's one of the genres that popularized LAN parties! Last addition to the comment: yeag, I feel like you've lost a big part of the game not putting effort into parrying because it's such a core mechanic of it. I also barely used the shotgun until I finally learned how to projectile boost (which, in turn, taught me how to parry, YES, I learnt how to projectile boost BEFORE learning how to parry and YES, I *did* learn how to parry and projectile boost in WRATH of all places. This is my first arena shooter, please don't murder me), which made me love that gun. I did try to parry Minos' corpse though (and I did, just not as effectively as I would now), it was fun.

I, personaly consider VIOLENT the normal difficulty for this game, because on the lower ones get rid of some enemies's mechanics (enemies's?), maybe you should consider rebeating the game on VIOLENT if you're done with STANDART

I hope you play the full act 3 once it comes out...

I'm gonna drop a bunch of hints for cool stuff you can do without explaining exactly what any of it is. 1. "You can punch non-hitscan projectiles to parry them and it will cause an explosion." (Hint: I didn't say 'enemy projectiles.') 2. "Coins seem to ricochet anything hitscan. Wait, how many things is that again?" 3. "The core eject shotgun causes an explosion, but its kinda small ngl. I wonder if there's anything to give the grenade some more firepower." 4. "Nails are attracted to magnets, but is that the only thing attracted to them?" 5. "You can catch up to rockets pretty easily while they're frozen. They even seem to have collisions as well. Might wanna test that though by standing on it."

8:10 The first few levels were the prelude, aka the tutorial area. The level names go layer - level, i.e. limbo is layer 1 so 1 - and then 1,2,3,4 for each of the four levels in limbo (if i recall prelude is layer 0, hence you moved on from 0-4 to 1-1). 9:40 In 1-4 (first V2 fight) you can find the three blue skulls in the rooms and will infact get a sneak peak at the boss as he stylishly slides away from you, I think it's meant to build tension. 14:40 The insurectionist kinda relies on you being able to parry at this point IMO, those flashes of light exist to tell you: "hey, bet you can't parry this!" so that you can then go and parry it. 15:30 The "health penalty" is "hard damage" (damage you cannot heal with blood, you have to wait for the gray bar to go away) is only for grappling onto enemies, when you have missing health, and you're not underwater. Its quite severe if you spam the grapple in violent but from what I've seen hard damage hardly accumulates on standard so it makes sense that you wouldn't really feel it. 18:00 You can parry a lot of grabriel's attacks, parrying is a key mechanic and, given that you've gotten this far without it, suggests to me that you should consider playing on a harder difficulty (and also learn parrying :)).

I love most of your videos but I’m so used to playing Ultrakill with 100 hours of experience to a point where watching a new player is painful lmao. I hope you enjoy the game

From Weapon Terminal > Shotgun > Info button > Advanced Strategy > "The slowness of the condensed heat projectiles may seem like a detriment at first, but this means that a well timed punch with the Feedbacker arm can hit them, parrying one's own shot for far greater accuracy, speed and damage."

7:40 Prelude is 0-1 through 0-5 Then its limbo which is 1-1 then 1-2 etc so the 6 levels were 0-1, 0-2, etc, then 0-5, then 1-1 it just doesn't show prelude in the level transition in act 1, counts them as different acts.

It's quite funny how you played the game so wrong you practically played a whole new game. The shotgun is actually one of the most useful weapons with a LOT of potential so the fact you didn't use it was quite shocking to me. I wont spoil any of the mechanics you missed (too many to count) but I recommend experimenting with all the weapons and their combos in sandbox mode. Great video!

v2''s first fight is actually mega broken, punching a coin deals damage to him even before he spawns.

I really enjoyed your video. I hope you return to it and "git gud" and unlock all weapons and levels. The main content is practically only half of the whole game. If you think it's a 9/10 now, you will be blown away

Ok so, the first 5 levels were the prologue, on Claire de Lune, there are skulls, and you can parry most projectile attacks (coins, shotgun pellets, rocket launcher cannonballs mainly) and can use coins to "chargeback" enemy hitscan attacks (though very hard to time right)

Here are some tips for the shotgun, as its actually very good. 1. While it is bad at range, and most useful point blank, this means that it is very good for doing lots of damage and getting lots of health with the same button click, very useful against tanky enemies. 2. It pierces weak enemies, it will mince crowds of filth. 3. The core eject is a grenade, not just primary fire that explodes.

This is a great game, glad you played it :). It has a lot of secrets that usually reveal new weapons or bosses, but sometimes lore, and since I mentioned it, ULTRAKILL does have a pretty good story. Of course it's not biblically accurate but it doesn't need to be, it has it's own twists and interpretations on existing figures. You can also mess around in sandbox to figure out a lot of really interesting and unique interactions between weapons (and enemies) and it's something I really appreciate. It's a top 10 game for me and I love getting better at it since the combat is so fun and fast.

You're telling me you didn't find ~any~ of the actual skulls in 1-4 as hinted at by the book? That's just a funny story; glad the game has the stained glass window secret to help out though. :)

The game doesn’t give you experience with those funny numbers next to each level. Those numbers represent what level your on. For example, the first level in hell proper is 1-1. The first number represents what layer your on, in this case Limbo. The second number represents what level of the layer your on, from 1-4 on most and 1-2 on the last two of each act. The prelude (or tutorial) is a separate act entirely and all levels in it are christened with 0. Hope this helped!

This review is quite good. I’m glad you didn’t get back seating and spoiled of mechanics because this game is has a BUNCH of tech. One thing of note is that your parrying with the blue fist not only hurts others but also heals you up to the grey in your hp bar. The second Gabriel fight a point of minor frustration for you is heaps easier if you get down when to parry and when to dodge. Overall you did pretty good when it comes to actually playing and making a solid review.

For parrying enemy attacks you get a full heal and stamina, stamina being essentially your dashes. I have honestly no idea why the game doesn't teach this essential mechanic about parries as soon as they introduce them. Also you can take a look at enemies in the terminal for strategies that might tell you a few game mechanics every now and then The grappling hook only affects hard damage(greyed out part of the health bar), it's health you cannot recover from blood for a while it's just there to counter you face tanking every enemy, it goes away faster the higher your style, on ULTRAKILL style meter you cannot get hard dmg but you also lose some style if you get hit so you can't face tank much even with a lot of combo going on. Essentially it makes it so you can use the grappling hook just fine at full health due to the hard dmg only affecting your missing health pool, but if youre missing hp it will deal hard dmg up to 50, also you only get hard dmg from grappling enemies, not the grapple points.

Congratulations, you have now been typecast as ultrakill guy 3:24 Maurice my beloved 7:45 the answer is that prelude (the first 5 levels) is its own act, and are 0-?

tip, the feedbacker is your friend. You love the feedbacker, marry the feedbacker. It will let you parry everything. and I mean everything.

Ultrakill is retro, but it's really nothing like Doom at all; the retro shooter it's calling back to is more *Quake* than anything, but the whole style points system is derived more from Devil May Cry.

Mankind is dead Blood is fuel Hell is full V1 is you. This comment is a reference to a different game…

Neat! Although you should learn some of the Tech. and try Practicing till you can P-rank the levels.

15:30 btw, the downside is that it sorta rapidly reduces max hp down to your current hp using a mechanic called "hard damage" i cant explain it well enough myself, so i reccomend checking the wiki if you're interested! also you can rapidly swap between shotguns to cancel their reload animation :P

Btw there are lore reasons why certain things aren't biblically accurate. For example the lore entry for cerberus says that even though it doesn't resemble the three headed dog, the name was chosen due to its nature as a protector of hell. Another example you brought up is Gabriel being judge of hell. He got that position after killing the previous judge of hell who attempted a peaceful revolution against heaven

Really hope you p-rank the levels. Bc if you do, you will know why ultrakill players have ptsd from simple words like “die” or “thy end is now” or “destroy”

13:35 This is part pf the in-game lore, the game is inspired by the dante's inferno, and Minos is the judge of hell, bit if you saw in the lust layer boss health bar, ypu could tell that Minos isn't exactly alive to do that job anymore, who got killed by gabriel and took it's place

Hearing this man say that the shotgun wasn’t useful and was his least favorite gun physically hurt me, on top of that he never discovered projectule boosting😭😭😭