ULTRAKILL: The Fall of Mankind 

Very cool. The presentation and writing are excellent. I really liked the visuals, especially impressive with how little you had to work with. In terms of accuracy it's quite loose, even in the white subtitle segments with some odd leaps of faith taken for granted, but it's a very neat story in its own terms. Only thing I'd really criticize is that making "ULTRATECH" responsible for basically everything makes the world feel a lot smaller. That's one of the reasons I avoid talking about any specific companies or persons (Tom is a rare exception), since it would either lead to a small world where only a few names matter or a big name-salad world that would be incomprehensible to piece together. The machines and weapons are designed to imply they came from different sources (ie. compare the smooth roundness of Drones and Sentries to the bare boxiness of the Swordsmachine and Mindflayers, or the simple utilitarian design of the Revolver and Shotgun to the colorfulness and attention to presentation of the Railcannon and Rocket Launcher [which also have differences in design focus to put them apart but I digress]), but without having to explicitly name a bunch of sources since that would end up as unnecessary white noise that would distract people from what's actually important. Unless of course the intent was to make ULTRATECH somewhat of a Weyland-Yutani situation where a single megacorporation has control over most industry as a sort of dystopian satire, but that wasn't really the feeling I got from this. Just my two cents. Some would prefer that smallness where the world revolves around a few key names, you're free to disagree. I'm interested to find out how your version leads to the total eradication of all life on Earth, since the Earth as we see it in the Act 2 intermission is completely barren, which isn't something that would happen from just machines killing people.

As terrifying as the Hell Is Alive message is, I love the implication that Hell communicates through what is effectively just a Zoom call

im angry they dont canonically call them "hellivators"

It all started when humanity decided to use blood as fucking fuel

Imagine finding out Hell is alive And that it's basically a bratty kid who can't get bored for more then 3 seconds without throwing a temper tantrum

It is now my headcanon that UltraKill is named Ultrakill simply because the company that made the machines is named UltraTech. And they made an Ultra-Woopsie-daisy

Imagine how funny it would be if the entire ultrakill lore was just a fanfic story written by mirage

i didnt know V1 was gonna be in Sonic 3

Seeing this video, I have come uo with a new theory, bare with me: V1 was repurposed to destroy hell. One of the engineer that survived the inicial onslaugh due to pure luck, realises to every clue of the massacre that it was hell own tapering with the machines he along with his now dead colleges had build, and plans for revenge againt's hell, managing to just barely survive the metalic hore he makes his was to the empty headquarters of the comoany he once worked at, by sheer stealth, grit and luck he manages to find the v1 prototype and reprogramms the last machine with one directive: To cleans hell of life. As the metalic angel beggings to boot on for the first time in years he hears the heavy steeps of street cleaners aproach, he knows his end is soon to come, so just before they find him, he writes 9 words, 9 words that would be the avenging cause of humanity: Mankind is dead. Blood is Fuel. Hell is Full. Edit: Let it be tom that did the reprogaming idk

Well Act 3 layer 7 just threw your starting theory out the window. War stopped because it became entirely dependent on a specific machine type, the earthmover, which stopped working after the Long night came and then when humanity was forced to go back to older stages of the Final War it realized it couldn't sustain the model anymore. The EarthMover, which could level cities by itself and anything thrown at it, became the front of the war and people were living on them because the fauna was completely screwed and couldn't grow back anymore during the war due to the conditions. They mentioned the fact that after the world was bathed in fire the long night came and the sun could not be seen anymore, so the movers could not function anymore...This would mean something similar to a nuclear exchange happened...Also pretty interesting to find out the Final war was 2 centuries long and ended due to both sides being too affected in their production and capability to fight without a specific machine...A war that started with static trench lines like WW1 and got thrown for a loop when the Gutterman appeared and served the purpose of a trench raider.

29:15 Seeing a V model appear out of nowhere is now one of my biggest fears

being able to turn ultrakill into analog horror flawlessly is a different type of talent

Honestly i never thought an ultrakill lore video would exist but here we are

It kinda makes sense how swordsmachine and other kind of bosses return even after you defeat them, hell just puts them back together altough the original has died. Hell has seen enough, enough to put everything back together.

10/10 - Captivating history - Clear distinction of cannon and theory - Great storytelling - Accurate depictions of lore - Generally entertaining - 30 minutes of content - Even the theories make sense and are greatly interesting I wouldn't be surprised if Hakita made this video or something similar the actual story of the fall of mankind, since it actually does make sense and is some of the most fun videos of ULTRAKILL lore out there. The editing was on point, the recordings/videos were fantastic, great background footage and, overall, just a really good video. Keep up the good work, man!

To be honest, the silliness of the game means that the lore can be thrown out of the window and can be explained by: funny robot need fuel. Robot get fuel. Robot has fuel. Robot want more.

3:54 i like to think that V1 is just a perfectly normal robot in the first act,and becomes stronger and smarter as he feeds in the blood of stronger demonds (and angels) something like how gut´s dragon slayer was just a normal sword that got cursed after bathing in the blood of many demons and apostols and now it can kill even ghosts,every time v1 suffer damages and reconstruct himself using demon/angel blood,he starts to become something else,that is my theory as to why sometimes he seems to show emotions,this also aplying to many other blood fueled machines,but mostly to v1 since he has that self reconstruction capability

Moral of the story: The day when there will be an inter-universe war against cyborg robots with the IQ of Einstein straight from hell invade us, turn off your devices.

i like watching these videos with the ultrakill lore, this game is already a masterpiece and there's also an incredible story? the amazingness just never ends does it?

I love how this lore was presented, although my only gripe was that I wish the sentry turret was used for the home invasion, The dread of a sentry turret having a perfect line on you while you are clueless as to what is about to happen to you sounds scary as fuck! Also the fact that v2 may be a little bright for that...

crazy idea: the marksman revolver, like some of the other weapons, was actually made for human use during the brief time humans willingly entered and explored hell after the discovery of ferrymen. Carrying coins around to move between layers took too much space and the machines usually had enough firepower to handle threats on their own, so a specialized version of the sidearm explorers would use was developed that would enable the generation of viable coins for ferrymen to use automatically. A revolver that can fire coins wouldn't really make much sense otherwise since the revolvers were made for human use. It's not like humans were flicking coins in the air and ricocheting bullets off of them, the only things reliably capable of that were most likely the V models.

bruh who let eggman be in ultrakill

I love how ultrakill's landscape isnt just the burning hell that the christians had imagined, but is instead an immersive implication and visualisation of dante's inferno, with the 9 layers of hell, an angel by the name of gabriel trying to stop the protagonist from going further down the spiral of hell.

i like how this felt more like a full fledged documentary than just a lore analysis, great job, it was an enjoyable watch!

"Who have I been praying to all this time?" - Mark Heatcliff

An ultrakill found footage would actually slap super hard

no matter if it's 100% accurate or not, it's so atmospheric and well executed. awesome work

Basically it was like this: Scientist: "Stop starting wars! You are killing people and you will go to Hell!" Politician: "Yea yea whatever. Nothing is going to change my mind. I'm not gonna be scared of your words." Scientist: "No, sir, you will _literally_ go to Hell. We have irrefutable proof that bad people go to Hell, as in an actual PLACE opposite of Heaven. Look: *shows live feed of V1 in Hell.* " Politicians: "😳" Scientist: "Yea, I know. You are literally going to get assfucked for eternity if you don't--" Politician: *runs to General to declare cease fire*

(Spoilers for P-1 and P-2) One thing that I've been wondering for a bit is... is V1 also controlled by hell? If so, what pushes them to keep moving forwards? They are shown to show mercy against foes (Gabriel, Ferryman) while being merciless against its fellow machines (V2 and all the others that attempt to murder the machine) and its unusually strong, as it has been able to destroy two prime souls and have the willpower to find them in the first place. There's something going on with V1... and im not sure what it could be.

Just realized the story of ultrakill would make a terrifying analog horror seires a story about how machines that have been taken over by hell itself are killing everyone humans not being able to even step outside without being burned to a crisp or having their face blown off by a sentry or the v modles and think about all of the people who had personal mindflayers or what (im guessing swords machine was) a contruction bot crushing your buddy with a concret slab right beside you or hearing a machine looking for you especialy streat cleaners the terrifying noises they make when speaking

Holt shit this was simply incredible! The speculative bits fit so so perfectly. The colored caption were basically the only thing keeping them apart from canon. I don't know if you plan a follow-up about Minos and Sisyphus' failed revolutions, but seeing this, I'm sure it would be just as blast of a watch. Keep the bangers up. :D

An Ultrakill analog horror would go so hard

That ending skit was awesome, really love how it portrayed the takeover. Even if the pinned comment confirms this as only loosely canon, I think the fact you got so close in the first place and created such a cohesive and terrifying story about Hell through pulling all these pieces together, and _hell_ even writing a lot of your own part that fit the tone perfectly, is an awesome achievement. Great job on this video!

I saw the intro, immediately thought there was a new update and rushed to open steam, only to find there was not, in fact, an update. Good work

This is a video which deserves at least one million views.

that last clip with v2 walking around and then blasting you with a core nuke is so funny for some reason

Goh: the father spoke one last phrase The ad: SuperCell *Clash of clans noises*

The research effort put into this is insane man. Thank u so much for your narration man. Get urself some Coffee or whatever beverage keeps ya going!

A highly detailed lore video on my current favorite game, with Ghor's own theories as well. Got to be one of the best videos I've watched in the past year or so, the production and editing are phenomenal. After this video dropped, not only am I excited for the release of ACT III for the gameplay, but also the lore to follow, and as someone who usually isn't very interested in lore in videogames, that's a sign of a quality video. Thanks Ghor for this amazing video!

it wouldve been funny as hell if hell just said ‘i am sinisterrrrr” right after it’s speech at ch2

i was expecting a lore video and not a mini analog horror series at the end i love it

The best Ultrakill lore video by far! simply heavenly. Everything from the narration to the cinematic shots is sublime

29:11 V2 attempts to jumpscare Human: WHAT THE- V1: *beats the living shit out of it and literally the next time*

THIS FEELS LIKE A WHOLE GODDAMN ANALOG HORROR SERIES AND I LOVE IT ultrakill is just everything i ever liked about media combined

ULTRAKILL Gameplay: haha homosexual vampire robot go brrrrr ULTRAKILL Lore:

Man, I’m pretty sure this is far from what Hakita is thinking about the ULTRAKILL lore but DAMN this is good stuff

Ever since P-2 came out and the community found the hidden pieces of lore that the backstory of Ultrakill was shaping up to be pretty bloody but never once thought hell might had become so intelligent to make those events happen. Now I really just hope that when Ultrakill is finally complete and P-3 comes out that we can finally piece together everything. This was a fantastic video and am now even more excited for what the future of this game might hold.

I hope you make a new video similar to this with the new stuff that was introduced with the Layer 7 Update. The lore of the Guttermen and other new enemies is very very interesting and gives us more insight as to what actually happened to the humans, which I think is neat.

if you couldn't tell what the thing was in the frame where the unnamed person was killed somehow, it was actually V2

bro thinks hes him with that thumbnail

Well done mate you clearly worked hard on this checking out your other stuff.

super underrated, the storytelling and video production are top tier

My personal theory: A bunch of vampiric robots powered by blood, destroy humanity on earth for blood, and then enter hell for more blood.

I am quite sure powering machines by blood wasn't a choice, in ULTRAKILL lore blood = anima, every single machine was always powered by blood, including pre-war street cleaners and purple camera drones I believe

This video was the coolest thing of the last 6 months. I hope to see more content like this about this beautiful games. Keep up the good work

not the fucking found footage analog horror part LMAOOOOOOOOOO

The ultra kill lore is amazing and so are the videos explaining it, I’m exited for act 3 to add more info to this.(nice job btw)

When the Gohr is Dahn :)

this is one of the most high quality video about ultrakill that i have server seen. keep up the good work :)

One idea I think could be fun is that for a while those exploring further down from Limbo ended up in the court of Minos (alive and still with his old job), who was largely amicable. They then went on from there

This video deserves explode in popularity you have made an an extremely well edited interesting video especially for such a small channel.

That is probably the best lore video I have seen really excited to know more about this lore when full game is released

Amazing! The love and effort put into this is insane. Keep it up! +1 sub

The best Ultrakill lore video ive ever watched! Waiting for part 2!

i think that ur unique interpretation on the storyline of ULTRAKILL is a unique twist and the editing is really eye-catching. some parts scare the hell outta me as well! great job, and i cant wait for the update on the full release of Imperfect Hatred and some parts of Godfist Suicide as they release crucial parts of the Final War and the New Peace. bravo on my end 👏

This was Masterfully delivered! i hope this will be a serie about the ultrakill lore

this is so awesome please make more! i could watch this all day

Best upload this month so far 🔥🔥🔥

This is some "Diffrent" type of lore compared to any other video ive seen, and god damn i gotta admit your editing is fire.

Good stuff as always Gohrdahn, keep it up bro :)

This is the best and closest thing we've got to an Ultrakill documentary, a banger as always Gohr! One of the downsides and upsides of the lore as of now is that it is very sparse (as of now, anyways), which means you can fill in the gaps imaginatively or have to piece together a puzzle with many pieces missing, and I think you did an amazing job making things work!

Ultrakill is the story of when a gmod rp server mod just got bored and left

I would believe there is at least a few humans alive that either made a deal with hell or befriended it and helps repair / build machines

genuinely good video that explains the lore. absolutely well done, mate

3:47 Now that layer 7 has arrived we know that Humans were outclassed far before the v models and machines had already taken over in war. V models were created to defeat the fortresses that were earthmovers, the pinnacle of machines with a shied generator that rendered them nearly indestructible all exterior threats, including themselves, making way for a new subset small highly nimble machines like the v models to destroy them within

Nah what the hell that looks like Engineer from TF2 with hair and no helmet.

God i love the Ultrakill lore

i was expecting the end to just have faint breakcore coming our way like.. pshkashikapshkashika

when the amen break kicked in at the end i thought that was V1 approaching

Hell: oh a new thing perfect V1: im i a joke to you? “Kills everything and will try to kill hell” Hell:😫 PLS NO V1 DONT DO THIS😭 V1: I NEED BLOOD Hell: AHHHHH😭😭😭

This is a very well made video dude!!! I enjoyed it very much!. Thanks for making this, this is very cool

i cant be the only one who found it hilarious that at the end it goes from V2 killing a person in hiding to the most up-beat outro music ever

holy snicker doodle... i though ultrakill was a funny robot dating sim...

13:40 I always thought the community already knew hell was alive before they found this message in the ultrakill arg

So I’m pretty much thinking that Hell is just a bigger, way bigger form of a panopticon that’s keeping Lucifer inside.

Very good lore video, nice job man

Holy hell, incredibly well made lore analysis wew

Amazing video, my only complain is the God part and his reason of leaving because in my opinion the testament IV shows that God feels more regret and sadness than rage and frustration towards humanity, he doomed them all and it was a matter of time before storm instead in the video you made it seem like he just bounced off slightly angered and frustrated (And also no mention of Lucifer) Oh and also the theory of Hell manipulating ALL of machines i dont agree with, because i personally believe machines are their own thing and hell is just making use of them as entertaiment but not directly controlling them

Good shit bro. The story telling was immaculate. The video footage was pristine. Good shit

Holy shit how did it take me this long to find this video! Great work even if I think some parts of the timeline are a bit out of order, such as God leaving during the time that machines had already entered Hell and started killing for its entertainment, considering the story of King Minos and Lust had to happen within that time. But I really enjoyed the parts you added and would love to see another take of this after what we learned in the Violence update or even whatever will come in the final layers.

One thing I don't understand is how certain machines, particularly V2, can feel emotions that wouldn't make sense for it to have if it were controlled entirely by Hell, primarily during its second duel with V1 where it can become enraged instantly when struck with its own arm, or Mindflayers becoming enraged when their desired body is damaged (which occurs on Violent difficulty and above)... as for V2 enraging when you stay away from it for long enough, this makes sense under the theory that Hell controls _all_ the machines.

Amazing video, I can’t wait to see what you do next

ULTRAKILL gameplay: hee hee coin go bingg ULTRAKILL lore:

Now that Layer 7 is out, the biggest difference between this and canon is that the world turned into Mortal Engines for a while between the Final War and New Peace.

Dude, more of this kinda stuff for whatever you're interested in would be so sick.

Thus, once they killed humanity, the machines turned to hell as there was no more blood to be found in our world. I bet that isn't something hell anticipated.

The father seems like a really pathetic character here, being unable to undo his mistakes nor fix/prevent anything in any meaningful way. Choosing to go out with their tail between their legs, fleeing and essentially being that father who went to buy milk but never came back meme incarnate.

That was amazing! I cant wait for more!

Great work, sounds like a perfect theory to me.

This video so freaking good man