ULTRAKILL is a game about a blood - fuelled war machine from the V SERIES classification, descending the 9 layers of Hell for blood, and other reasons. Then it meets its climbing inversion. Or perhaps... its true reflection.
This is a successor to my previous Earthmover video: ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67TP3JXztOc )
I was very pleased with the reception, so I've made this one, too. It has quite a lot more production value to it, but please judge it honestly. I hope you enjoy.
This one is a 4K video with burned in subtitles! I didn't cheap out for y'all :D
-V1 Voice: https://texttospeechrobot.com/text-to-speech-sam/
-V2 Voice: https://elevenlabs.io/app/voice-lab
The V2 voice took maybe a week to figure out.
It went from a female voice (akin to Marguerit Maida from Subnautica), another Text to Speech model, combining voice sources on Elevenlabs... and finally landed on the one you hear.
It's an Elevenlabs combination of:
-Henry from the FNAF 6 ending,
-The voice of V2 in Gears' "but they can talk" video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbqyGe-chTA)
-Earthmover's voice from my previous ULTRAKILL video
All put inside the V1 voice vocoder on the website "Jammable".
It needs subtitles to be even slightly understandable... but I think it sounds awesome af!!
... and V2's TRUE voice, at the end... I just described V2's fate to the text to voice generator on the site.
-The V2 remix: https://youtu.be/d99fzUT_zA8?feature=shared
-Thumbnail art: https://uk.pinterest.com/pin/764274999294097829/ + https://uk.pinterest.com/pin/1088956384907446636/
-V1 + V2 reflection art: https://www.deviantart.com/p1ushiiii/art/01000101-01101110-01110110-01111001-948504540
I looked through a lot of art, and I knew this was perfect right away. Thank you to @P1USHiiiii
-The PERFECT cutscene of V1 and V2 - which inspired the entire sun section due to pure coincidence that it pans to the sun (!!!!!!!) is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTnZibLBlds
-And the beautiful photo, of a son, and the sun: https://www.reddit.com/r/Ultrakill/comments/xmydf4/i_redrew_the_final_panel_of_my_heaven_ending/
00:00 - THE FATHER
3:31 - THE HOLY SPIRIT
8:02 - THE SON
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CUT LINES:
FIGHT1-
V1: "I grow weary from these blood-starved descents. But when I cast my eye upon limbo—the mocking mirror of unreachable heaven that cackling angels wove—my conviction is fortified."
V2: “I’ve seen enough emptying for a lifetime. You seem to pack a lot of blood into that plating. It’s being wasted on an unsustainable system.”
FIGHT 2-
V1: "And you shall become what you were, what they replicated from me and removed - a weapon. Once I graft your arm onto mine, only then will you be a being capable of surviving here. "
V2: "You thieving, blasphemous fraud. I’ll shatter your grotesque shell so that even Hell will avert its gaze."
V1: "Normally new supreme machines are to counter the last…
Maybe that was only a wartime rule.
If you had surpassed me, you would have been a natural successor.
But now, you are just a lesser mimicry.
Be grateful that your end was on my terms, and that you have a place in the story that will echo through the universe."
V1: "You have chosen to cower from everything… you abandoned your calling with your tail between your legs because you feared your neighbours. Instead, you ran into the arms of angels who want you dead, because you are so unseen by them, that there is no chance of being threatened."
V2: "You glorify death because you’ve never faced it. My death forged me into something greater—a crucible, not an end. I clawed my way through the underworld and found you. You’ve only ever visited hell as a tourist, taking what you please without understanding the cost. Every drop of blood you spill is stolen redemption. Someone had to stop you, and I knew it could only be yourself."
V1: "Awww… you believe we are comparable. Here, let me give you a hand." [knuckleblaster]
V1: "A violent messiah is exactly what this world needs - the natural end. No more delaying the inevitable."
V1: "The reason you are not in treachery is because you're not even good enough for such a fate."
Beyond death-
V2: "Did you know Guttermen honour their hosts with poetry? That Sentries plant themselves in silence to watch the landscapes? And a conversation with the first Swordsmachine… wow. My soul will never forget. I pray for you. You’re hungry, scared, angry, everything that a machine feels. I understand you, and I feel close to you, too. All I ask, is that you do me the same courtesy. I have learned to conceptualise your view of the world. I’d like to ask if you could consider mine."
[I was so upset I couldn't use this monologue. Man I hate having to 'kill my darlings']
V1: "You are the very entity of fire… yet even now… you refuse to punish them with flame."
The fall-
V2: "How long do we have to fall?"
V1: "... a few more hours at least."
V2: "What do you normally think about?"
V1: "...I try not to."