The Entire Lore of Ultrakill 

Another note about Prime Souls is that there form is based off there ideals and how they died Minos from the looks was blind and was of course the honest Judge of Hell that saw all as equal, so his body was a bluish white and his face has a giant hole in it, and the snakes he once controlled now wrap his arms. Meanwhile Sysiphus is vastly diffrent as since he was the King of Greed, his body is golden. He was known for extreme violence so his limbs are colored red to resemble blood stains. And he died via decapitation so his head is a ball of light as a Prime Soul. Prime Souls in general are my favorite part of Ultrakill Lore because of this

"They say the reason Gabriel killed king minos was because he spent all of the lust layers funding on bisexual lighting"

Minos is my favorite character in this game. He was a great king. He turned his layer into a beautiful and prosperous city. He was prepared to defend his people. When Gabriel came to crush skulls, Minos tried to reason. But Gabriel put him in a box after killing him. Now Minos Prime exits the prison ready to not just kill gabe, but now he wants to avenge his species. He is the last king of mankind

I think the ARG confirmed that the husks spawning, doors locking and other teleportation shenanigans is Hell’s doing, as in the entirety of Hell is a sort of sentient being doing everything for entertainment, just like the terminals do with the Cybergrind.

I get the impression that the final war ended bc the machines turned on the humans killing them all hence "mankind is dead" and why V2 doesn't need blood. It also would explain why Minos feels the need to pass judgment on the machines for what they did to humanity

imagine if the ending of the game says "hell is empty"

2:43 if i'm right, this place is actually a blood factory, maybe they used the husks to make a shitton of blood for the machines instead of using other humans.

Rip Minos. He just wanted the Sex Update in Ultrakill

It’s important to note that in the Dante’s inferno series limbo is place you’re only stuck in if you’re unwilling to repent for your misdeeds, and if you do repent you’ll be let into the lower levels of heaven.

I like to think that the something wicked thing is actually the Minotaur, since it is trapped within a labyrinth, and the labyrinth is close to Minos’ reformed layer of hell.

One little correction if I may, V1 wasn't special because it refuels from blood, that was in fact a pretty common tech by that point. What made V1 special is that it can almost instantaneously repair itself when coming into contact with fresh blood.

I’m a bit surprised knowing before the vid that Gabriel is a fan fav in the community and then finally learning some lore in your video. My first impression of him isn’t exactly high after what he did to monos and ending the lust Renaissance. Maybe it’s more gameplay of his boss fight and love for the voice actor that lead him to be popular by fans then the actual lore of Gabriel. Then again I should be fair and see all the rest of the lore first and not judge with half the info. Maybe I’m incorrectly thinking monos being a swell guy. Interesting all around!

4:41 you should've said "while being chased by Something Wicked." Since that's the whole point of it's name, it's an unknown creature that is wicked.

Probably have to rewatch the vid since I had to leave mid vid a few times in the premiere. The game is going for religious themes mixed in this sci fi setting. The Divine Comedy definitely being an influence. It’s interesting as a fan of the divine comedy and I wait for part 2.☺️

The intro to the dating sim level is an ankme reference to the trope of anime protagonists being lost on their way to school usually "biting down on the last of their rations" (their breakfast being toast or something) and how now matter how hard they try, they're lost looking for their school and are late (the gates of hell closing). And it leads into the level itself being you humping into Mirage

3:41 according to Hakita's dev stream this lava is melted minerals from hell excavation project.

You can actually kill Something Wicked. It’s just difficult when you only have the piercer revolver since it’s fast and can instantly kill you.

Dude, I have been playing ULTRAKILL since Act 2 released and have been watching you since your first spooky month lore video (not long, but whatever.) and I have been WAITING for you to make an ULTRAKILL related video, I am SO glad you have made this and despite writing this comment in school I’ll be sure to watch it later and either clarify some stuff or not.

Ultrakill lore literally said: God went to buy milk

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I'm pretty confident in saying that the text in the beginning of 2-S (the visual novel) is a joke. The character you play as is late to school and is running there. There are lines such as "the bell tolls for me" that imply that the text is just Hakita is making it seem like the level is serious, just to surprise us with the whole visual novel thing. The text is an overcomplication of the character running to school, the bell ringing and the gates of the school closing while they're eating their "last rations" (breakfast to-go). I found it funny that you actually thought it was supposed to be from the perspective of a husk lol. I understand that the joke was hard to figure out tho, Hakita was really playing 4-D chess with this one.

I don’t think it’s too much of a stretch to assume that doom was at least partly an inspiration for ultrakill and it’s really cool to see what may have stemmed from it

Thank you for putting captions! It’s so hard to find gaming and lore videos like this with captions on them

What I love about Ultrakill, is the lore maybe dark and depressing, but the gameplay is like a rollercoaster joyride. Where you felt the adrenaline rushing through your veins as you also having fun.

Minor Order of Operations correction: I think it's assumed that Gabriel is designated as the Judge of Hell *prior* to the Judgment of King Minos for creating the Lust Renaissance, because well, he's making a judgment unto Minos

dude this video is awesome, i love how you added more to the lore your interpretations are awesome there are things i never realised, it's great good work, earned a sub

My theory for the meat grinder beneath the floor was because if a horde demons tried to pass and the machines or anykne failed to stop them they could just shoot the floor.

Gonna study the whole lore of this game lmao my boyfriend loves it and cant stop talking about it and i want to show him I care. Thanks for the video

3:41 that, my friend, is called lava. Hakita said this area was used to smelt ores and whatnot into usable materials. Hakita also stated that the prelude was built by humans to gather resources, like a mine.

imagine in act 3 you fight moses, adam, eve, and other biblical figures and mythological character as bosses

While I can't help and give Minos a well-deserved pat on the back for the Lust Renaissance and helping those who didn't do anything wrong, I can't help but think about all the...less than virtuous souls in that layer. Truly depraved and disgusting people who absolutely deserve eternal damnation...when you put it like that it's no wonder why Gabriel killed first and asked questions later.

18:21 i love how instinct it is between gamers to try to fuck with NPC's in a scripted event granting player movement.

the first three sentences remind me of how that could possibly be a reality and to me the most scariest thing in ultrakill

Very well done and informative, thought I knew all of this but some things surprised me. 👍👍

Awesome video! Even with 40hours on ultrakill i didnt know half of this

Cancerous rodent is a reference to the RU-vidr Civvie11, where the area it is found in is reminiscent of the opening crawl of Civvie’s Dungeon

The Cerberuses all are alive, some just choose not to fight

In my headcanon, Ultrakill is set after the Profane Sabbath incident ending in Faith 3

The lore in P-2 end terminal tells that the terminals are also blood-powered robots. So it seems humans actually used hell as an energy source and this also explains 0-2 The Meatgrinder and the flows of blood, it's used to turn deamons and husks into blood to power the teleporters and terminals.

“After the death of humanity, there were no humans left on Earth.”

In the final part of limbo you can actually break the glass above the door with the 3 skulls and move on

waiting for part 2.... i love this video so much it really cleared things up for me

16:25 "punishment" lmao

People need to like these videos more, this was a great video tbh i hope your channel grows from it:]

8:40 on the gameplay, i don't know if you know this or not, in limbo, there are other secret buttons across every map. when you press all of those buttons (including the IV you pressed) you can unlock an alternate of the pistol, which does a lot more damage but has a slower cooldown. You can also get an alternate for the nailgun in greed, but in a different way.

One must imagine V1 happy.

Nice video it hasn't released yet but I sure it will be great!

Hey, a little correction on the opening monologue of 2-S, it’s literally just a dramatic explanation of a anime running to school with bread on mouth scenario

notable to mention in the lust layer there is a level that has 2 skeletons laid ontop of eachother as a sort of a reference to intercourse which means minos didn't punish or didn't really care about humans having lust even being sentenced to hell for that

King Minos' corpse is controlled by parasites, as it was controlled by minos himself he watches in grief and sadness seeing what he made to the lust layer be destroyed by angels. After God left King Minos decides that such punishment is unfair especially to the lust layer as he did belive that it was only meant to show such love and affection and what others wished to do when togheter atleast what Minos knew that at this point hell is out of control, therefore he builds cities and makes lust a new layer, with such reform and greatness has remade lust to a new layer, what God would like after realising that such cruel punishment made by his own hands was a wrongdoing because of what he does is meant to be only good and sending his son to that place has made him weep realising that eternal tormet was the worst act God has ever done wich is create hell. After the new council of heaven realises what minos had done they destroy the place to shreds, Gabriel was the main peosecutor in that battle, the council tought that he was doing such act that god would not like, Minos tried to peace with Gabriel but he was stabbed in the neck by Gabriel's blade and he responded with i think was... "No." And then he sliced Minos' head off showing it to the entirety of lust layer, it was mayhem, Minos' soul was trapped into a supreme being made out of angelic and demonic angels what i like to call a Supreme Hybrid, who was called "Flesh Prison.", it was meant to imprison Minos' soul, but his soul was filled with such grief, determination, strenght, and anger, he became something with such rarity called a "Prime Soul", therefore after V1 beats Flesh Prison wich was meant to guard it from anything, Minos' soul releases and he takes physical form with a new name, "Minos Prime.", he knew the acts of V1 and what happened to Gabriel after V1 defeated him, Minos would leave V1 alone but he knew the massacre and genocide he had done, and as to settle a punishment will kill him, but unfortunately, he underestimated the power of the robot, with his vengeance away and revenge gone, he is in grief as his people in lust layer needs help, but unfortunaly, Minos dies, settling an end for King Minos.

The story of Minos is very sad :(,but i really like his story

this lore almost made me cry

one small note: gabriel was piloting minos not the parasites

I feel like v1 and Minos prime could have teamed up since they have a common enemy (Gabriel)

Great video

There is a lot of information I find a little inaccurate. Let's start from the beginning. V1 is created during the Final War and goes obsolete because of New Peace. V2 is created for patrol during the New Peace. Since the machines ran off blood, no war means no blood, so the machines took matters into their own hands and started slaughtering everyone. Hell may have been involved in some way, but it is never mentioned. Once the slaughter was done, the machines went to hell using the terminals, teleportation machines conveniently built by the humans during the New Peace. V1 goes on a rampage, speedrunning the first 6 layers in as little as 25 hours, seeing as Gabriel hadn't died by the time we got there. Likely sometime during the Great Peace, God disappeared, causing a scramble for power, and thus came about the council. During the power struggle, Minos and Sisypus led revolutions, with both ending up dead. God likley left to somewhere beyond even Heaven. My theory is that God inpired man to build V1 in order to eventually destroy Hell. God said in a secret mission that he didn't have the ability to destroy Hell. V1 alone managed to destroy 6 layers of Hell in less than a day. What better way to destroy something you can't yourself than by building the perfect killing machine? It is likely this will ultimately end up with Hell destroyed completely and God remaking the universe, with God likely giving V1 some sort of reward, maybe an infinite amount of blood or something. Edit: Just thought of this, what if Gabriel is the last prime soul? You see his will strengthen after a second defeat, maybe his soul becomes strong enough to form a prime soul after he dies by being cut off from God's light.

Good video I liked it ❤❤❤❤❤

So I just beat the whole game in one day and looked for lore stuff and now I’m hooked. When part 2?????

I feel bad for killing Minos now :(

Wow your great keep going

I can't wait for WildCard to make Act 2 lore video

The info on "the great peace" sounds really sinister to me. It says stuff like, "war was no longer relevant". Not gone, or over, but irrelevant.

Since i got it on halloween all enemies have a pumpkin head and I didn't think it was just an event. Even in the dating sim mirage had a pumpkin head. XD

Awesome

3:43 I'm pretty sure that's just Lava, sir.

Really fascinating stuff! It's interesting to see a fanfiction (Dante's inferno) turned into a low poly high intensity action game and some of the dev's ideas on directions things could have gone in that circumstance. It's funny how as humanity, we can't fathom God having the patience, mercy and grace to put up with humanity.

So, in short, our boy V1 was hungry and went to hell to eat some snacks

It does seem that humanity both used blood and Hell energy before machines turned on them (as it's not just V1 who uses blood to power itself, practically all the robots bleed) Humans basically has made more or less a "species" that can and needs to feed

All V’s that I know of V1, V2, V (murder drones) Wait V1 and V2 and V all have to drink some kind of blood to not die

"Oh my god sir you are finally in the event" "What event" "Weiner compression day"

I dont remember watching this, surprisingly... Idk why so Imma rewatch

11:53 I see what you did there with the word "bizarre" in THAT level

Note about street cleaners: the one sentence, They don't fire flame through an "Unkown source" they use flamethrowers, which can kill you in near seconds.

“You have uno!!”

Please make a part 2 i subbed

awesome.

Minos prime was incredibly unreasonable..

Before you enter hell, V1 journey through an ore excavation site with the grinder used for grinding ore and the golden stream is the ore that is running through the level

"after the death of humanity, there were no more humans" Truly the biggest lore drop in this video

The Cancerous Mouse bossfight is a nod to Civvie 11 and Cancer Mouse

14:00 did "Sleep is Just Death Being Shy" inspire you for this part? It uses the same music as it talks about the same topic

I wish I could play ultrakill. Sadly with such a high pace and such low processing speed (autism) I cannot process anything fast enough to play it

Nice

20:58 That or V1 just cleared out all the blood sources and needs to go deeper for more (the terminals are still definitely sentient tho).

The doom slayer lost his gopro

IT'S SPELLED MINOS AND PRONOUNCED ME-NOS

Fun fact: the bodies that were burnt in the limbo level were the old models of the husks.

mfw after killing a guy who just wanted hope for the remains of humanity

I remember a video where a guy made something it looked like ultra kill and it was for his presentation in school

my theory for the meatgrinder is the humans used the blood it generated to fuel/repair machines like V1 while they were not in service

I'm just waiting for part 2 bro because I want to know more.

Wow I didn't think the Lore was this simple

I have never played or watche anyone play this game and yet I'm watching this

"I think your cells are a bit too far apart, how 'bout I fix that for you."

based gabriel

Ultrakill lore but short: War machine decended down to hell for fuel and ends up murdering everything he sees

Btw yall did the puzzle for the door? Just shoot the glass above it with revolver beam

Fun fact those 3 lines in the start after that theres a line called machine is king

I wanna mention that the begging of the lust secret level is a parody on a trope in i think anime(this part could be wrong but it is a parody).

God: i was gone for 15 minutes guys