i was never a huge fan of the repetitive nature of the original game, but i remember playing this level all those years ago and falling in love with the ambiance and design. Absolutely brilliant....lost monastery in the middle of a dead sea. Food for the imagination ;)
Ironic you call Painkiller repetitive when it has the most unique and varying levels level to level in any game. Almost no enemy is ever repeated and each level is traversed differently and feels different. The only repetitive thing is the guns since you can only have so many.
+blueshit199 Yes...I also liked the idea that this monastery was once holy, but corrupted by some evil force that has its sanctuary below the monastery in the cliffs where the unholy altar was...and now it lies on the portal to Hell...
I liked to clear this level and then take a slow walk through it, as if exploring. Even the small church that seemed strangely complex and big on the inside than it seemed on the outside. If some designer of this level just happened to take a peek at this video - thanks :)
this is the most beautiful level in the game. the decaying ruins of a catholic monastery, probably after being ransacked by vikings in the early medieval times, the feeling of entropy, a reminder that time will consume everything. the music lamenting past glory of this place, now standing atop the entryway to Hell itself, guarded by former men of God who had long since lost their faith, much like Daniel did
Not ransacked by Vikings but by evil force that spread from Hell portal beneath monastery, it corupted a few first inhabitants whom then began to worship this evil force in a secret altar near the portal...
No one is to say what became of this place. One thing is for sure: this monastery is not holy anymore. Some evil force, or someone, corrupted it. Goes to show no matter how holy you can be, you’re still a mere human. Damn I love this game.
Sadly given the plot and place in the game. Every level is most likely just a manifestation symbolizing the actual thing. Like nightmares shaped after your past trauma. They say in the cutscenes these are all demons. So the locations and beings most likely have just taken this shape. Still correct though. Nothing truly is holy. So nothing is guaranteed to protect your form what you are.
this monastery is so isolated, trapped on a tiny rock in the middle of the sea, who's to say this place wasn't used as a dumping ground for plague victims, or people who simply weren't wanted anymore? who's to say the isolation didn't cause the monks to betray their vows and take up a darker path?
If you played this level, at the end of it, there is a secret shrine with altar under the cliffs, exit pentagram is nearby, I think, that from this place the evil spreads and corrupts the minds, bodies and souls of the once holy order of the monks as the monastery was build as the seal upon the gate to Hell to contain its evil... best level of the game and one of the best of all levels from games I have played.
I heard this song when I was... 14? 15? I'm 26 now. This song still bring me to tears, this is still the song I want played at the end of my age, hopefully thousands of years from now. But even if not so, even if I will suffer a ordinary age... This song... This melody, I know it would put my tired, tortured and bitter fucking soul to rest. I wish I knew who composed this. I'd shake his/her hand, with tears in my eyes.
We need an actual high quality sequel, an Painkiller 2 . The guys that made the new shadow warrior games , are former people can fly, i think so they made Painkiler , if they can get the ip they should make it . The original with its expansion and Overdose at most are the best , the others are so fan made , with reused assets and bugs , they are not kinda proper Pk games , not in quality thats for sure , kinda semi-canon at least in my mind even if that but i did enjoyed the ones i played .
@@venomx93 Really ? that is cool , wonder what was their next project after shadow warrior 2 , since they appear they went silent . Wonder if they take more inspiration from Painkiler , with witches i assume and gohtic , supernatural etc .
Earlier this year, I don't know if you saw but a new company (not new but different, it is Saber Interactive) has taken on the task of continuing the story somehow and has a new installment in the Painkiller franchise in development. I am unsure if anyone from People Can Fly are involved and no news as to plot or anything really has been revealed yet. But it is in the works!
@@MSE7EN Really now ? that is great news hopefully. Hope they can bring the composer on board as well , i know of Saber , i think Tim Wilits of ID went there , so they should get the gameplay mechanics and such right , since is like Quake .
He turned of the weapons and the hud. Then he put the music over the ambient sounds from the game. He also turned off the music so he does not mess up during the editing.
Самый неинтересный уровень в игре, при этом имеющий самый классный эмбиент и боевую музыку. Выглядит так будто фантазия закончилась. Кривой перекопаный ландшафт, прыжки над пропастью, ну такое. Как в третьей части. Зато звучит этот уровень просто великолепно. Включите сейчас monastery fight. Да это же просто бомба.
@@easiesteevee2532 the cave which contains sealed gates of hell is fashioned like a grinning face with stalagmites and stalactites shaped like teeth, also one bigger stalactite just in front of the mouth-shaped cave looks like a hooked nose
@@blueshit199 Yeah, it is intentional as it is literaly a mouth of Hell...this level keep me fascinated no matter how many times I play it, briliant...
I know its a little late but.... Those pentagrams work like checkpoints, but without saving. They probably lock and unlock some doors. Thats what I heard a few days ago , when I played my childhood game 😊
either this place was abandoned and left to rot, symbolizing how humanity abandoned their faith in God, or as I said in another comment, this was one of the coastal monasteries in the Northern Sea which fell under viking attacks in early middle ages, the earliest times of christianity in Europe
![PainKiller [Music] - Monastery](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/n0GSi8b4lu4/mqdefault.jpg)
This level is different. In this one you wanted to stay after you killed all and everything.
thats EXACTLY what I was thinking
unfortunately after killing all enemies there is no way up from the dungeons ;)
Damn i am playing it rn and this is exactly what i was thinking.
@@SupScarBro You don’t have to go all the way down. You can kill them all with the rocket launcher or grenade launcher. That way you can go back up.
yeah lol because the next level is H E L L
i was never a huge fan of the repetitive nature of the original game, but i remember playing this level all those years ago and falling in love with the ambiance and design. Absolutely brilliant....lost monastery in the middle of a dead sea. Food for the imagination ;)
Yea those games have a repetitive nature but the envirorments and their music make up for that greatly .
Ironic you call Painkiller repetitive when it has the most unique and varying levels level to level in any game. Almost no enemy is ever repeated and each level is traversed differently and feels different.
The only repetitive thing is the guns since you can only have so many.
The most beautiful level in game. Right before you enter the gates of hell >;)
+blueshit199 Yes...I also liked the idea that this monastery was once holy, but corrupted by some evil force that has its sanctuary below the monastery in the cliffs where the unholy altar was...and now it lies on the portal to Hell...
Yeah, it shows how the people supposed to serve God can be so much corrupted.
15 years later and only now I just realized that you can hear a baby crying if you stand close to the fount.
Pure visually wise , i would say the Grand Cathedral , the architecture is breathtaking there imo .
I liked to clear this level and then take a slow walk through it, as if exploring. Even the small church that seemed strangely complex and big on the inside than it seemed on the outside. If some designer of this level just happened to take a peek at this video - thanks :)
this is the most beautiful level in the game. the decaying ruins of a catholic monastery, probably after being ransacked by vikings in the early medieval times, the feeling of entropy, a reminder that time will consume everything. the music lamenting past glory of this place, now standing atop the entryway to Hell itself, guarded by former men of God who had long since lost their faith, much like Daniel did
Not ransacked by Vikings but by evil force that spread from Hell portal beneath monastery, it corupted a few first inhabitants whom then began to worship this evil force in a secret altar near the portal...
COME HOME, DEAR PAINKILLER.
@@TheCakeIsNotLie - Queen Eve calling Daniel to come to her in Eden
No one is to say what became of this place. One thing is for sure: this monastery is not holy anymore. Some evil force, or someone, corrupted it. Goes to show no matter how holy you can be, you’re still a mere human. Damn I love this game.
Sadly given the plot and place in the game. Every level is most likely just a manifestation symbolizing the actual thing. Like nightmares shaped after your past trauma.
They say in the cutscenes these are all demons. So the locations and beings most likely have just taken this shape.
Still correct though. Nothing truly is holy. So nothing is guaranteed to protect your form what you are.
The music does have that "what have you done" vibe to it. The old monastery contains the gates of hell.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions
This level is the cause of my many dreams (and nightmares) when I was a child.
That bell...
r u alive?
Yes
this monastery is so isolated, trapped on a tiny rock in the middle of the sea, who's to say this place wasn't used as a dumping ground for plague victims, or people who simply weren't wanted anymore? who's to say the isolation didn't cause the monks to betray their vows and take up a darker path?
If you played this level, at the end of it, there is a secret shrine with altar under the cliffs, exit pentagram is nearby, I think, that from this place the evil spreads and corrupts the minds, bodies and souls of the once holy order of the monks as the monastery was build as the seal upon the gate to Hell to contain its evil... best level of the game and one of the best of all levels from games I have played.
I always believed this was once a great civilization that was struck by a flood as divine punishment, and this small island is all that remains
I am orthodox and i love this song...and this game...(this one is a catholic song)
makes me think of the past, the palaces and the grandeur, of great kings and queens who once ruled, of a bygone era..
Niesamowity klimat i poziom❤ Czuję tutaj zmęczenie, zażenowanie, pogardę ale i spokój...
I heard this song when I was... 14? 15?
I'm 26 now. This song still bring me to tears, this is still the song I want played at the end of my age, hopefully thousands of years from now. But even if not so, even if I will suffer a ordinary age... This song... This melody, I know it would put my tired, tortured and bitter fucking soul to rest.
I wish I knew who composed this. I'd shake his/her hand, with tears in my eyes.
All musicians titled at the end of each video)
+Krehlmar I'm 100 % agree with you
ned18k do you know who made intro second track? i cant even find the track itself
no need to shake my hand and great to hear someone really liked my music ! cheers
marcin czartynski I love the ambience of Painkiller, probably the best game ever made.
this one is the Best next to train station
Relaxing music. Thanks
painkiller is a masterpiece
indeed!!! And the only game that install the ingam,e music as a mp3!!!
That bell was and still is very haunting....sounds in this game in general are next lvl....true sounds of damnation and purgatory
Stary Kasztor
We need an actual high quality sequel, an Painkiller 2 . The guys that made the new shadow warrior games , are former people can fly, i think so they made Painkiler , if they can get the ip they should make it . The original with its expansion and Overdose at most are the best , the others are so fan made , with reused assets and bugs , they are not kinda proper Pk games , not in quality thats for sure , kinda semi-canon at least in my mind even if that but i did enjoyed the ones i played .
The former People Can Fly guys are making gothic FPS shooter Witchfire, maybe we can see Painkiller 2 some day....
@@venomx93 Really ? that is cool , wonder what was their next project after shadow warrior 2 , since they appear they went silent . Wonder if they take more inspiration from Painkiler , with witches i assume and gohtic , supernatural etc .
@@venomx93 looks interesting , hope it will have the variety of Painkiller and quality of music , maybe the same composer even .
Earlier this year, I don't know if you saw but a new company (not new but different, it is Saber Interactive) has taken on the task of continuing the story somehow and has a new installment in the Painkiller franchise in development. I am unsure if anyone from People Can Fly are involved and no news as to plot or anything really has been revealed yet. But it is in the works!
@@MSE7EN Really now ? that is great news hopefully. Hope they can bring the composer on board as well , i know of Saber , i think Tim Wilits of ID went there , so they should get the gameplay mechanics and such right , since is like Quake .
Nice work, ned18k. Thank you!
Beautiful and scary at the same time ! 😵
Many years will pass, but this level and soundtrack will be always my favorite
BTW how did you record these maps for video? I wanna know.
He turned of the weapons and the hud. Then he put the music over the ambient sounds from the game. He also turned off the music so he does not mess up during the editing.
If only it could be expanded to 8 hours
great game, the remaster looks even better but feels exactly the same as the original :)
3:36 what?
Has you (kurdir - what ever...) Painkiller - "Answer of a fallen angel - real Demon -was added to the audio, often heard in occult games.
Самый неинтересный уровень в игре, при этом имеющий самый классный эмбиент и боевую музыку. Выглядит так будто фантазия закончилась. Кривой перекопаный ландшафт, прыжки над пропастью, ну такое. Как в третьей части. Зато звучит этот уровень просто великолепно. Включите сейчас monastery fight. Да это же просто бомба.
Эстетика чистилища...
*3:18** a devil face*
where?
@@easiesteevee2532 the cave which contains sealed gates of hell is fashioned like a grinning face with stalagmites and stalactites shaped like teeth, also one bigger stalactite just in front of the mouth-shaped cave looks like a hooked nose
@@blueshit199 Yeah, it is intentional as it is literaly a mouth of Hell...this level keep me fascinated no matter how many times I play it, briliant...
@@venomx93 me too, it has been years since I noticed that detail, it's really cool
Уровень с открытым миром 😳
Is this a real song??
I was a little child back than when i play this game. But since still intersted; what those pentagrams meaning in the last level?
I know its a little late but....
Those pentagrams work like checkpoints, but without saving.
They probably lock and unlock some doors.
Thats what I heard a few days ago , when I played my childhood game 😊
tell me something similar in sound??????
mission killer, satanic Corp. 03:40
wonder what happened here?
either this place was abandoned and left to rot, symbolizing how humanity abandoned their faith in God, or as I said in another comment, this was one of the coastal monasteries in the Northern Sea which fell under viking attacks in early middle ages, the earliest times of christianity in Europe
@@blueshit199 god, honestly painkiller had some really cool time travel levels that really makes one think. So metal lol.
i think this monastery was built to contain the gates of Hell with Holy energy to begin with - but it wasn't enough
Metroid Prime anyone?