#ultrakill layer 6

[starheart-artwork]

Gabriel, The Apostate of Hate

After 26+ hours and 3 CANVASES, I finished the big piece of Gabriel. Game’s cool

[l1lac-nights]

finally got round to finishing off Act II 🙏

I’d already done the bosses, 4-1 and 6-1 beforehand, took me a while to find the energy to do the rest lol

of the ones I had leftover somehow 4-2 gave me the most trouble? I expected to struggle the most on the Wrath levels or 4-3 but they weren’t as bad

the Wrath levels actually only took me like. 2 or 3 tries each. which was even more surprising because I have NO muscle memory for Wrath, I vaguely remembered some parts of 5-2 but i’d almost completely forgotten 5-1 and 5-3

I’ll try P-2 soon I need a break first though 🫡

[kaiserouo]

(prev...?)

fork bomb

[mipexch]

TOMORROW

[sweetmapple]

Didn't mean to moan like that my bad

( 01100010 01110101 01111001 00100000 01101101 01100101 00100000 01100100 01101001 01101110 01101110 01100101 01110010 00100000 01100110 01101001 01110010 01110011 01110100 ) (<-V1's binary but im gonna have to have you translate it, cant make my shitty jokes too easy)

[freak-motion]

i can't believe ultrakill layer 8 is the backrooms

[knuckleblaster]

reminder to tag #ultrakill spoilers when you're posting about unreleased game content

[coconut530]

Bump in the Night Day 5: Blood

[luetta]

also i forgot to post this but, i p ranked ultrakill's main story !!

im pretty much done with the game now, i might come fight sisyphus prime someday, and eventually try for wave 50 in cybergrind, but i think mostly im happy with where i'm at 💛 this was such a fun game, easily top 5 for me. so excited for act 3 !!

[devotedlystrangewizard]

sigh. back to beating 3-2 with parries only to remember how to ultrakill

[peridots-pixiwolf]

[Start IDs. Two ULTRAKILL screenshots from levels P-1: SOUL SURVIVOR and 6-1: CRY FOR THE WEEPER, respectively. Both are viewed from behind a death screen, as OP was killed by one of Minos' shockwaves in the first and then a Hideous Mass' explosives in the second. However, the health bars of both bosses are at 0, and the stats on the right indicate that both levels were technically completed right before death, with an S in time, kills, and style; otherwise a perfect P-Rank. End IDs]

TORMENT. SUFFERING EVEN.

[bittycmd]

Ultrakill - ACT II

(art i did in 2022 when act II's layer's 5 & 6 released and posted only on twitter previously)

[mqnill]

I'm gonna rank all the enemies of Ultrakill cuz I'm bored.

Btw I am a noob and played only on harmless

Filth - 10/10

Nice goobers, basically walking french fries. I can never get mad at them, because how could I be mad at my best healers in this game? They are really cute and are pretty nice. I give them big hug after they take a bite of me! :3 (One punch them for fuel because damn that mouth might've as well ate me as a whole)

Stray -8/10

A bit annoying, considering they get to stand and shoot fireballs at me and move their asses from time to time. Luckily, they're too slow and suck at aiming unless I stand in one place. Great fuel and quite noticeable throughout the game (Until 7 layer, these babies are so similar looking to these fuck ass mannequins)

Schism - 6/10

Strays but upgrade I guess. Too much attitude backed up with unnecessary annyoing ability to live after charged blue shot. Hard to swallow pill. Although they have a noticeable for some reason butt. Idk why but okay?

Soldier - 5/10

That fucking bird that I hate. Would be a nice food, if it wouldn't kick me across the country. Ew.

Stalker - 7/10

Literally don't care about this.

Sisyphean Inssurectionist - 8/10

A tad bit irritating creature, always pushing me on the hot burning sand but it is fun to jump around. Reminded me of an old game on my playground where you stand on edges of sandbox and in the middle of it there is a "Shark" (kid that lost in rock, paper, scissors). This creature is a shark and well, no wonder it lost. I would too if I would only pick rock! Lol loser

Ferryman - 7/10

He was lightning, before the thunder. Confusing bone martial art master that goes up on some building, trying to strike me down with lightning. The dissaperance trick was fun, until I jumped out in the water, thinking he was hiding from me there. I died. Not cool killing me like that, dude. Be fair. Play nice.

Malicious Face - 8/10

Again, this flying fuck pisses me off, but it's a great healing thingy that needs only 100 nails (usually) to fall dead. Although, it is a shame it has to spit in me with fire. Nasty. I'm not into that kind of thing.

Cerberus - 5/10

I'm pretty sure Cerberus is a dog with three heads from Greek myhtology, so no idea why this overgrown football player has that name. This NFL fanatic throws his stupid ball at me and takis his big boy steps to get me, but I'm faster, this is when he stomps angrily instead of communicating his issues with me. Smartest man-looking creature that enjoys any games with ball. Fun to disrespect, not fun when he throws me away like he'd throw a deodorant if someone would offer him that.

Hideous Mass - 8/10

Perhaps hideous, but gives great piggy rides. Nice lobster, but I don't like seafood. Nothing more.

Idol - 5/10

Doesn't even hurt me, but god did you really have to put my food in zipper plastic bags so I couldn't eat them? (Puts some protection spell on other enemies, most often Virtue) Low blow.

Mannequin - 0/10

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU!!!! FUCK AHHGHGHHGHGGH I HOPE YOU AND ALL YOUR SPECIES DIE OUT LIKE A PATHETIC COCKROACH IMMITATORS YOU ARE!!!!! Scary, creepy, hard, fast? That is supposed to me. I am the war machine that sends horror in souls and their non-existent hearts. You fucking fucks, stayed out till 7th layer to make my life difficult. I better not see your asses anymore!!!! You all will be executed on the spot. I hope you know that you are an unwanted creatures, a poor imitation of anything and you deserve nothing but to rot behind closed doors, posed in worst yoga posses you can imagine. DIE!!!!

Swordsmachine - 10/10

It may be hard to beat, but idc. I love it. So pretty, so beautiful, so fashionate. Oh wow. I missedyou, sweetheart, missed this robot from the 1st layer, been thinking about their glorious attacks and cute rushing to hit me with their arm. Had to pause a game because they were just so... so... mwah.

Drone - 7/10

One eyed poor Shockwave parody. Go boom and kill all your brothers around you, loser. Doesn't even heal and explodes.

Streetcleaner - 9/10

Just one point away because they set me on fire and that's not really nice. But overall great bots, really sweet and they sound soooo cuteee. WAHHHHHH I WANNA KISS AND HUG THEM SO BAD!!! They deserve a big hug you people!!! (Swordsmachine got some competition)

Mindflayer - 7,5/10

Pesky cyan plastic-metal woman. Okay, you teleport, okay, you shoot blue faces that haunt me until they hit the wall (why would you inspirate mannequins like that), we got it. But dying with exploding yourself after I hit you twice with taser? A bit dramatic. Somehow slay, and somehow go fuck yourself, no need to be such a hard target, just stay still, will you?

Sentry - 5/10

I don't like them, but I don't hate them.

Gutterman - 2/10

Fat ass metal discord mod harassing my innocent poor soul. Kicks me across the galaxy, doesn't heal, have a stupid shield (okay cap america enjoyer) but it won't protect you from me. I will still fry these assholes with my taser. Womp womp, die faster.

Guttertank 0/10

Annoying stupid fucking huge discord mod's brother that got mad. CRY ME A RIVER (full of blood so I could use it as a fuel) AND DIE!!!

Virtue - 9/10

Nice healing thingy that explodes, thanks man, but stop trying to destroy me with holy light. It's not difficult to dodge, I'm just lazy and would prefer if I didn't have to do much with beating common enemies.

V2 - 10/10

I love this guy. So silly. So goofy. Hard to fight because that's a literal copycat of me, but hey!!! They're fun and that is all that matters (get coin in the face goofball). Got me a good arm to deal with Discord mods and another good arm to swing around like Spiderman.. But I miss the guy, they died because of me and it's so sad that I won't see them again 💔

The Corpse of King Minos - 10/10

Dapped up this guy so hard he died and healed my scoliosis. Hope he heals his brainworms wizards with fireballs that popped out of his eyes. I don't want that much eye contact buddy.

Gabriel - 10/10

Aside of his obvious attractiveness, a really fun guy!! I beat his ass, he got fired by upper angels and was supposed to die in 24hr unless he kills me (deadline is for real DEADline here), we fight again, I win, he has a moment of realisation, goes and kills his epmloyers, all upper angels, that stupid Council and then shows the beheaded to the public. Awesome. THE GOAT (greatest of them all) fr fr. We love you Gabriel

Leviathan - 5/10

I don't like sea food, I don't like baby faces. But fight wasn't that hard.

Minotaur - 3/10

Why the hell is he chasing me on my train?! Go touch some grass or smth idk

1000-THR Defense System - 7/10

Fun, easy, but confusing. Yet not exciting.

1000-THR Earthmover - 1/10

It was sickening and depressing to fight this Evangelion boss. So many parkour, stupid pests, scary heights I had to go through, no, jump through. But the last cry of this metal creature? Healed me better than anything.

Flesh Prison ?-10

has goofy ahh loking mouth (im not feeding you) no pic doesnt deserve it

Minos Prime - 3/10

Not gonna fight this guy cuz I no no wanna. Besides, this isn't transformers, you are not a prime, you look like a long lost father of The Spot from spiderverse, unserious and unneeded use of "thy" (ok medieval grandpa), bet you are no fun.

Flesh Panopticon - 0/10

what are you. why are you.

SIsyphus Prime - 4/10

Agai, this is not transphormers, but he has a fun voiceline so I'll allow his existence I guess

[middy-the-kitty]

I genuinely think we don't need more layers.

I fear loss, I want to keep its love. What will be left if you so carelessly destroy what you've worked to hard on; only created to be put up and then turned just to scrap. What will be left of your game if you throw away a character meant to live, meant to comfort, meant to be the star?

Oh for I plead, keep my dearest Gabriel alive. If its gone, then where is the fun in the game? If its gone, where is the community? If its gone, then we might as well just refund the game - there is NO point in ULTRAKILL without that angel. I've grown so attached. I forgot about how much I truly need it or something like so until I beat 6-2 and saw the story once more. Everyone loves that angel. Its gone through so much and done so much more than you could ever realize.

I call it the comfort angel for a reason - its how I get through my days. If somethings so tough I can just imagine its comfort, "It'll be okay, my little angel. I'm proud of how far you've gone and believe in you."

Spare my dear angel. Not just for me, as one person isn't enough to change the game.

Consider the community. Consider how you've changed us. Consider the impact on the sales and love for the game.

Consider Gabriel.

[deepfy11952]

i love how it was never about v1 we just happen to play as v1

almost all lore found in campaign levels (so books and the act-end cutscenes, not terminals) is about my babygirl gabriel ultrakill. gabriel undergoes a character arc throughout the game (i will at some point explain why i think it's a trans metaphor), big events in the game are advanced by gabriel (killing of king minos/sisyphus leading to p-1/2, 6-2 boss fight, eventual last gabriel ultrakill boss fight, fall of council of heaven) even if they are triggered by v1

v1 is an amoral antagonist, it's a machine, it needs blood to survive and as far as we know has no other reason to be killing. terminals are the ones inserting the style points system out of boredom for killing enemies more crazy silly style so they can be considered a "bad entity" for encouraging the killing for no reason other than teehee

ok but anyways (as if this made any sense to begin with) v1 isn't doing this for any reason other than to get blood to live. however, the consequences of it's actions uis the eventual fall of hell. gabriel in 6-2 said limbo and lust were all gone with gluttony soon to follow so v1 killing everything obviously does something to those layers, like they just die after it leaves eventually

hell is not infinite, it can't just spawn things forever for v1 to kill forever, and it will die, because as proven in 7-4, it's a living thing and we have to assume that the layers disappearing hurts it somehow. ultrakill will end with the death of everything; of hell, of all enemies, of gabriel, and of v1, when it runs out of enemies to get blood from

reminds me of hell itself in 7-4; "THIS IS THE ONLY WAY IT COULD HAVE ENDED. THIS IS THE ONLY WAY IT SHOULD HAVE ENDED."

given the fire is gone ties the very beginning of the game to the act 2 climax i wouldn't be surprised if hell itself ties itself to the act 3 climax in which case i would begin crying tears of happiness and excitement and banging my fist on the table and then also my head (in a positive way)

i love how this game is a tragedy in 3 acts im gonna start sobbing hysterical style

[microraptorreactor]

Spire analyzes actual ultrakill canon.

So this is a rant post, but I feel like getting my thoughts about the actual canon story of Ultrakill out.

So lets start with V1's character ark, or lack of one. V1 isn't really a character, V1 is a literal camera with a gun. We have a total of two (maybe three, if you count the Earthmover book) lines of dialogue from V1, mostly just serving to point the player in the right direction. But what's fascinating about V1 is that it is a narrative tool, despite being a non-character.

V1 represents violence. It is the embodiment of the war that made it, and it serves as the stand-in for the never-ending cycle of bloodshed that is caused by war. It is made to destroy, and it knows no other purpose. That is the roll V1 plays in the story of Ultrakill. I think, as a metaphor for war, V1's 'character ark' has probably ended in 7-4. It finally found its purpose, and the circle has closed.

But this game isn't about V1. Its about Gabriel. Or Gabriel is the closest to a main character that this game has. People have talked about his first defeat a million times and done it better then I could, but the main point there is his loss to V1 shook his worldview, but didn't actually change him in any significant way. In 6-2 he's defeated, but he likes it. He sees this little blue ball of malice and violence and (let's be honest here) it turns him on. He doesn't know what to do with the fact that he's attracted to something he thought (and was repeatedly told) was horrid. That shakes him. So what does he do?

Gabriel joins it. He murders the council and returns to hell. He finally realizes that through all the hurt he caused (to Sisiphus, Minos, ect) he's no better then the machine. So he marches right back down, to lay side-by-side with the enemy in the casket he built himself. He knows he will die. We know he will die.

And V1? Also going to die! Because what happens when hell is empty? The robots have wiped out the top layers, we can't go back. And unless machines suddenly take up sustainable hunting practices the rest of hell is going to be soon to follow. Think about the enemies we see in the later levels, there's been fewer and fewer husks as the game goes on. Most enemies are demons or machines. Sure it's because of game design, but machines wiping out the weaker sinners is a great explanation for it. Either V1 is going to starve down there or something else is going to kill it. To be honest, I think V1 is going to curl up and die in a corner like a wounded animal. I don't think its going to get a big showy death, this world is far to cruel for that.

There's also the tragedy of V2, but that's a whole other rant + I have an entire fucking fanfiction series about that. Basically I think poor guy was never going to get far. It's just another victim of V1's random violence, murdered without a second thought and looted for parts. V2 dying horribly and never being brought up again was kind of the point of its character, to establish how little this world cares. To V1, V2 wasn't anything special. It was just another source of blood.