Ultrakill is a game where an insane finnish person keeps thinking to himself "I wonder if that would be cool" and being right every single time.

Here's why every gun in Ultrakill is a Zoner

One of the reasons I love Ultrakill is because when I die I don't feel like "this game is stupid that was unfair" I feel more like "I was this close to beating it all I have to do is kill in this order".

very rarely does a game come along that's so special, players find a game breaking glitched movement tech (slam storage) and instead of patching it out, the devs add support to make it more consistent, and even build challenges around it

For me, the biggest strength to ultrakill is that it tries its absolute best not to contradict itself. The game says you can parry projectiles and while most games would leave it at enemy ones, Ultrakill includes your own like the coins, shotgun pellets and drillbit. The game declares that the coin is triggered by hitscan attacks and then you realise that means any hitscan attacks including the railguns or your opponent's. I love game's that establish rules and ideas and then never contradict them.

Cool underrated thing about V1's design, their wings are actually where they store their weapons when not in use

Game is so good I have 1.1k hours in it. I really love a game that let's the player control a lot of the pace of the combat and that's one of ULTRAKILL's strengths like you pointed out. The freedom one has in combat and the synergy between many of the weapons just opens up a world of possibilities on how you can clear out a room. I fucking love this game so much.

He (finally) did it. He made a video of it after months of praising the game.

Started playing this game recently, and it’s incredibly well designed. Some people call it a retro shooter, but ultrakill is its own thing, it’s not held back by any era of shooter design.

I've said this about ULTRAKILL before and I'll say it again. The adrenaline rush you get from playing this game is like snorting a line of crack cocaine dyed red with blood. And it's GREAT.

The timing could not be more perfect - literally just had a session of Guilty Gear followed by Ultrakill before hopping on KZfaq and seeing this.

Every time I think I've learned all there is to know about Ultrakill I find out about 3 more strats I never heard of before and that's magical

Ultrakill is such a fun game. Every time a new act comes out and I'm playing it for the first time I'm like "how the hell am I gonna perfect this level?" and then a week later I'm punching the glowing PP door waiting for more new content in between visits to the cyber grind on a near daily basis.

I love the "movement shooter" subgenre because it's so fluid, there's no stopping, it's full speed at all times. It's like dancing with your opponents, dancing with high caliber guns

I love how the game doesn't _really_ babysit you. It's _fair_ to the player, gives the player a lot of agency in what they wanna do when presented with a problem, all while not yelling at a player that they should do _this and that._

honestly as someone who already has the game, i admire the self-control necessary to _not_ gush about it for hours on end while spoiling literally the entire plot and every mechanic. like i don't mean that in a sarcastic way or anything, Game Is Good and i would find it hard to prevent myself from doing ^ all that if i had made something like this

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I love both Ultrakill and Doom Eternal. Two of the best games I've played. Comparing these two as in "Ultrakill is better" is an understatement however, because while yes, both are extremely fast paced boomer shooters with dashing, both games' gameplay loop are extremely different. DE has more of a focus on resource management and enemy prioritisation, while Ultrakill leans more towards player expression. Eternal is more "restrictive" with its gameplay, while Ultrakill has more freedom and is a lot more fast paced. I tend to like Eternal more but in the end its up to personal preference.

I liked the part where V1 yelled "ITS SSSHITSTORM TIME"and ultrakilled all the bad guys.

ultrakill is incredible, even as someone who’s incredibly messy at it. truly a unique game that just really lets you experiment with everything

I love Ultrakill too. It's just not afraid to be like "i bet this mechanic would be cool" and then put it in the game. it also does that thing that's really hard to achieve where you give the player a ton of tools and make it so that when the player asks "hmmm i wonder if I can do this" the answer is always yes". Because every weapon can interact with every other weapon in a billion intuitive ways, and a billion more unintuitive ones. Definitely the best single player fps I've ever played. but if we're counting multiplayer games too then team fortress 2 steals Ultrakill's top spot ://

I don’t usually like games like this, and I don’t even know what motivated me, but I got this game a little bit ago and my god does it SLAP

I was one of the players that started the demo, saw that I couldn't shoot that well and dropped it at the first boss fight (before the shotgun). I felt bad that I didn't love this game that everyone was praising and I put it down for a month; then I saw a video of parrying your own shotgun shot and decided to give it a go to at least try that cool looking tech. Now I'm addicted

I love Ultrakill, its my second favourite game of all time (After +R of course) and one thing I really love about it is how it basically has an answer for everything in the game. Q: Why does the graphics/Levels look so simple? A: V1 was designed to render the environment as simple as possible for faster processing. Q: Why does the song play in the terminal? A: It was just a test to transfer data between terminals and only [part of it was uploaded so that's why it loops. Q: Why does Minos Prime call you useless after you respawn A: Its basically him telling you Skill issue I fucking love this game, I played the demo so much I had 32 Million P lmfao I did buy the full game during this year's summer sale and Im really enjoying it Good Game, has Neuron Activation. Cant recommend enough.

Ultrakill is one of the games ever made, but many ̶H̶e̶r̶e̶t̶i̶c̶s̶ people complain about the lack of a very important feature. Robot sex.

Ultrakill is the only game I’ve seen with this much heart and soul put into it since Minecraft

I love how hard you went on trying to say all the things you loved about the game without spoiling anything. I played the game after I saw the Funke video on it, and while that video is also very good I feel like it takes away from the discovery of a lot of the cool shit. The way you focused in on a few of the mechanical touches while having a lot of clips that would make you go "Woah, how'd he do that?" in the background is really incredible way of handling it. I may or may not be reinstalling the game right now to play the new content after ignoring it for however many weeks, great vid.

I've been playing Ultrakill for months but I've only been able to get my hands on the demo, despite that it's still insanely good and feels amazing to play even though I've been playing the same 6 levels for ages. It feels like tuning a skill and after a while it forms a super tight loop that feels fantastic to execute perfectly. Edit: got a cracked copy a while ago and damn the full game is good, trying to build up that loop I was talking about in the rest of the levels now lol

Good video! Got some issues with it though, mostly around your stuff about Doom Eternal. I think its kind of weird to compare the two games beyond surface level appeal. I think Ultrakill and Doom Eternal want to accomplish very different things. Ultrakill is a lot more about freedom of combat and all that as you said in the video, but Doom Eternal's combat is not about "resources". It's about challenge. Enemies are far harder to take out in Doom Eternal than Ultrakill. Many of the enemies in Ultrakill have weakpoints that instantly kill them, whereas the weakpoints of Doom Eternal debilitate enemies or remove their strongest ability. Combat is more strategic, weighing ammo and weapons against foes and enemy combinations. Ultrakill has one major resource to manage that is extremely easy to get back (health), almost to the point of removing all challenge if you're good enough, while even the toughest of Doom Eternal masters can sweat if their armor or ammo drops too low. If Ultrakill is freeform jazz, Doom Eternal is rapid-fire number crunching. I don't think they set out to accomplish the same thing, and both are fun for different reasons. This is most easily viewable with the community around both games. Ultrakill's fanbase are all about that sick tech, Doom Eternal are all about Nightmare and Ultra Nightmare runs. One is about the flow and freedom the combat gives, the other is about accomplishing a challenge. Ultrakill has a lot more in common with DMC then it does Doom Eternal imo.

ah yes, the 20-billionth video about how you should play ultrakill. Liked and subscribed

Just after I watched this video, I jumped on the demo. Took me about an hour to finish. I never had a shooter experience that thrilling. Thanks so much for this amazing video and for making me discover that game. Can't wait to buy the "full" game :)

So before I watch the video I gotta say, Ultrakill is still fun even if you're a casual. You don't need to shotgun boost or slam storage or even be good at shooting coins. Core eject exists, screwdriver exists, Malicious Rail cannon is awesome. Yeah, 1-4's boss will kick your ass, but you will still have a great time.

Fun = Choices divided by time In, Ultrakill a thousand choices a second = Fun

I sill can't fight Gabriel without laughing at his voice lines. Then the fucker starts dashing with blue afterimages and spiral swords?! I love the devs so much.

I love how ULTRAKILL both has a story that’s sort of interesting and also does not give a shit if you care about the story or not, it knows you’re only there for the high impact Gabriel violence.

I’ve been arched many people gush about ultrakill, but this review took such a unique take on it that it had me seeing things about why the game was good I hadn’t seen before, despite having enough hours to have p-ranked the prelude and act 1 entirely. A wonderful review.

i've seen a ton of ultrakill reviews, but this one was by far the best. Excellent job.

YES HE’S BACKKKK (first

All my favorite youtubers are making ultrakill reviews and Im here for it

KZfaq finally works cause I am not subbed to you or have watched any of your content before but they recommend this video to me and after a quick breeze of your channel Im glad I found this 👏👏

You did a good job . I want to play ultrakill now

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as a ultrakill player you need to play ultrakill and remember "Mankind Is Dead, Blood Is Fuel, Hell Is Full"

I love how you keep the spoiers to a degree where people who have played will understand

The video's so well made, if I haven't been playing this game for as long as I have this probably would've got me hooked. Well done! also the speedruns are very cool must watch!! the game hides so many secrets the amount of movement options is enormous and confuses me to this day!

I was playing it, and after I blind-ran into using the coin I thought to myself "I wonder if I can punch it." and I did. It worked, and I laughed, and I have been in love with the game ever since. Can you imagine how I felt when I killed Maurice with his own laser using the coin? Or when I parried King Minos by pure accident? It's been since it basically started on early access that I began playing. Hakita, the developer of the game, is a frequent user of a forum I love, a place where old Gmod users hang out. So, when the guy posted a game that he was making, I'm like "huh. this looks cool." The rest is history. I agree with Leon, this might be the best FPS I've ever played.

Ultrakill really feels like the devil may cry of fps games. Wild experimentation with the goal of the player feeling cool

I love finding channels that just found out about ultrakill and talk about what they like about it. Good vid man. Also Hot DAM, this is well done content. +1sub

This has honestly been the best Ultrakill analysis video I've seen yet, and I've seen a good deal of them. The way you break down the gameplay loop and how it differentiates itself from games like Doom Eternal is spot on and highlights what makes this such a monumental step forward in first person shooters. I've recommended Ultrakill to just about everyone I know that plays video games because I think it is currently making history. Amazing video, subscribed

Oh man contrarians are gonna hate this game so much because of how praised it is getting.

I’ve been waiting for a video like this. I just played through the game and I’m in love

3:05 This particular edit was smooth as all god damn. This is already shapin' up to be a fantastic video.

This is the best review of Ultrakill I've seen. It explains all the nuance that makes the game so enjoyable that most people won't even realize, and those that do like myself find it hard to put it into words.

You know why you like the Coin Gun? Cause you're a Venom main. You like throwing something out and hitting the thing with another thing and making funny things happen by making two things hit each other

I've been waiting for this video for so long. Ultrakill is the only game I can truly call 10/10 for me.

Great video that I can recommend to people who haven't played ultrakill yet.

I would love a spoiler video followup to this. I really want to see your in depth look into the game so far. Specially with the last major update dropping a few weeks ago (I still have to play it). Honestly, this is what every game should be: an idea pushed and reiterated over and over to keep it fresh and fun all the way through. Repetition is what kills games imo, and a lot of triple As today base their content too much on that

Okay, a few tangents here. First of all, this is easily the best review of ULTRAKILL i've seen in a while, and it perfectly captures my feelings on a lot of the game. I'll add some of my notes to it though. SPOILERS AHEAD. I feel like a severely underrated part of ULTRAKILL's design is how unique its world is. Yes, its set in hell, but like you said its not "Hell" as in what you think hell is. Its wonderfully subversive, and ULTRAKILL perfectly lands its world openers every single time (except for gluttony that was kinda boring). Hell, even in the first minute of the game, you get blasted with that ULTRAKILL Intro.m4a and you KNOW this is a game for the ages. I love how it completely breaks the user's expectations as to what everything will REALLY be in the game, it honestly gives some of the same vibes as meta-games, without a lot of the pacing issues. For me, personally, it really made me confront the expectations and tropes I have for every game, made me question WHY it has to be that way, why can't it be more unique, more fun? Also, ULTRAKILL is a gay awakening game and you can't silence me

Been waiting for this video a long time. Didn't disappoint.

Oh, didnt know you had an ultrakill video. My favorite game period.

i thought this game was a visual novel????

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every time i watch an ultrakill video, i audibly say "wow i never even thought about that" and this is no different, good work sir

the explanation of the sing gimmick on the coin is what sold me

Ultrakill is a game where I repeatedly went "wait, does this work" and the answer was *always* yes. The moment I figured out I could *punch my shotgun bullets to make them explode* is one I genuinely smile at when I remember it because that was *so fucking cool* and started me off on trying to figure out what other cool shit the game has for me to find.

leon you said doom eternal was too high amp for you and now you make an ultrakill video have some consistency smh

I like how you cleared that one bit of Limbo-1 with the drones, like, four times throughout the video. And each time was different.

Picked this game up not to long ago, and I really love it. I feel like I'm getting better every time I pick it up, but knowing I'm no where near the top. It has an infinite skill ceiling, and I love it.

I love both Ultrakill and Doom Eternal a lot, not sure why everyone pits them against each other so much. I do miss the score multiplier from Doom 2016’s arcade mode though, which was EFFECTIVELY a style meter and felt super great. It encouraged taking on every level as fast as possible while doing it in style. Wish Eternal had a mode like that.

i hate the ultrakill versus doom thing, yea ultrakill is better but i dont want ultrakill vs doom being a normal thing

I hadn’t heard much about the game and then randomly stumbled on a meme on my Twitter timeline that had the 6-1 music. That alone had me interested, anything with that soundtrack is worth looking up. I have no experience on single player FPS but as soon as I saw the gameplay I knew I’d have to eventually check it out. I may just need to do that soon.

Very articulate explanation as to why i love this game i already have hundreds of hours in Thank you for putting how cool this game is into words that are more descriptive than "ADHD THE GAME"

Everyone play Titanfall 2 pls

Sounds like you need your shooters to be complicated, with a lot of mechanics and whatnot, in order to feel gratified. I personally prefer my shooters to have a real life day or so of build up and quiet time, and then like twenty minutes of balls to the walls action.

I haven't gotten around to the video quite yet, but I agree with the title. It's another gem of the indie game scene, and is worth every cent.

The dopamine rush when successfully pulling off a Rail-Punch-Coin and instantly vaporizing the enemy is just… *chef kiss*

"parrying and chargeshots don`t have a place when you get deeper into the game" says a guy who hasn`t found out about gabriel 2 and slabs

I honestly don't understand why everyone that praises ultrakill has to shit all over doom eternal in the process. Even if i vastly prefer ultrakill over doom, i still think doom eternal is a great game that does some things even beter than ultrakill. I get that people compare them because they are very similar games but i'm kind of tired of people shitting all over doom for no reason.

It took me way to long to realize, “Hey! That’s the fighting game guy!”

Hey, just wanted to come back to this video and like. Thank you. I literally never enjoy FPS games, for all the reasons you described. But I love your content and respect your opinions ("Projectile Manipulation" got me to start playing Venom in Rev2), so I decided to try this game. Now it's 12 hours later and I can finally say I truly love One (1) FPS game :p

i can’t wait for the game to fully come out and triple a devs start complaining about it on twitter

Doom Eternal is an FPS dipping it's little toe into a little character-action genre. Ultrakill blurs the line between FPS and Character action so well it's DevilMayQuake tagline is well deserved. Also that Act 2 ending AAAAHHHHHHHH

As someone not good at shooters and who bounced off Devil May Cry and similar style-driven action games, Ultrakill is the most fun I've ever had with either of those types of games. Learning how to absolutely style on groups of enemies to see the good number (or letter in this case) get big and go up is easy, but not trivial. The tech skill (railcoining, coin adding, slam storage etc) that adds to quick movement, quick big enemies kills, big AOE damage, or all of the above isn't the most difficult on an execution level, but rewarding to pull off in the heat of a clusterfuck like when a cybergrind wave decides to spawn 2 Hideous Masses or idols AND a mindflayer. Despite the pastiche of difficulty in trying to maintain total style, not die, and be fast, the main difficulty isn't in exectuion, but in situational awareness, hell the two easiest ways to build style, nuking a core eject and using coins, are pretty much just skeet shooting a mostly predictable target. In reality the hardest part of playing ultrakill well, especially on higher difficulties is staying alive, which is maintained pretty well with style-ramping aggressive gameplay, but harder to do with safer strats like just nuking a bunch of enemies if you're too low to do that safely AND heal, or just hanging back and throwing coins to safely snipe. If you haven't played Ultrakill do it, and if you haven't fallen in love with ultrakill, watch a guide on how to do cool shit and then just give it a go and you probably will.

I’ve had the demo forever just never knew if I wanted the full game. Now I do

Thank you for informing me of the demo so I can see if my laptop will actually run the game you're the best.

That paragraph on doom eternal was so eye opening. it helped verbalize my only gripe on the game, those damn resources. It really does fuck the whole flow of combat

i love how you edit your videos, keep it up!

You sold me. Im buying when i get home. I to overlooked this as another fast pace fps

cant wait for every single weapon variation to come out and see what other interactions the marksman will have

Damn this is so good. Thanks for the video finally bought it and its a blast indeed.

Ok i dont have the time to finish this video at the moment but 3 minutes in you have earned a sub from me good sir

I tried the free demo out of curiosity. Ended up with around 25h in the same few rooms. Bought it not so long ago, it's a blast.

Channeling your inner Sterling with that 6/10 with Vanquish on the screen. Always glad to see appreciation for ULTRAKILL though. Its goddamn masterpiece already.

Thank you for making this video, this game is amazing.

You earned yourself a sub as soon as you put Trans Revolver on my screen. Good thing too, the rest of your video is damn excellent I'm still trying to break myself into the real meat-and-potatoes of the execution-heavy stuff and I still need to P-rank most of Act 1, but I feel confident in saying Ultrakill is one of the best first-person shooters on Steam and it's only two-thirds complete.

Yelling excitedly at the brief appearance of Shady Knight, that thing's so goddman cool...

Cool, you're also using these new style of animations. Also yes ULTRAKILL is awesome.

the mystery dungeon music in the background was a nice surprise

My favourite part is the fact that no weapon becomes obsolete. The weapons at the beginning of the game are still useful at the end.

i love having dumped hours into this game and still watching videos on why someone should play it