Tbf the reason we're getting so much revamped visuals and the Encores is because of how long the code rewrite is taking. If that wasn't as long as it was, the update probably wouldn't be as big
So, 0-E theme is melancholic, but still has some amount of "battle theme" in it. 1-E is straight up "Welcome to The Nightmare" and I can't even tell whose nightmare it is.
@@memor22 if you speed it to 2x speed it sounds even more like the world looks white, and also i think it's going to be a guts/glory situation because it sounds fire speed up
@WilliamBlake07 .... The sun and moon cycle goes 1000x faster? Im not gonna be that guy Im not gonna be that guy Im not gonna be that guy Im not gonna be that guy
Ya know… I think I figured it out guys. Remember how Limbo’s walls in the first and second levels don’t seem to be the actual walls, but more projections on screens? What do you think is *behind* those projector screens? That’s part of what we’ll see in 1-E, I bet my ricoshot on it.
@ true but I doubt that if we get to see behind the monitors it won’t just be nothing, that secret was put there way before encore levels were probably even an idea
fr this quote should be said by v1 when u go to the secret level Kinda like (There is an absence of light in this image.) for like the Secret level like the limbo puzzles
The howling winds as a symbol of cold, Limbo's very nature of being lost and directionless, the second part being a complete panic attack as if you're lucid dreaming inside of a nightmare. Oh, we are soooooo NOT getting out of Hell, that's for sure.
THATS WHAT I SAID TOO.. and then when the enemies appear (just like a screamer) the lights turns on and start flashing and buggin, the outsides of limbo were a lie... Only a black and bottomless void is our reality
My interpretation is that, because Limbo has been destroyed by the streetcleaners as seen in 1-2, the Encore is going to either be how limbo actually looked like (as the ilussion has been broken), or just an empty void (hence the video having no image)
@@hi_hello10 I think its going to be V1 going all the way back after beating 9-2. 0-E seems to be frozen just like Treachery, and if it happens after the events of the game then maybe something will happen in Layer 9 that will make it “infect” the rest of hell in some way. Imo this could be foreshadowing for the ending of the game
@@BennickBlue I highly doubt layer 9 will infect the other layers, I think it's much more likely the encore levels are just the eerie aftermath of the robots' descent.
@@BennickBluethe earthmovers pretty much caused what is called a nuclear winter by blocking the sun with a cloud of ashes and smoke, therefore freezing earth and since 0-E is on the layer before hell it's frozen
The combat variant is reminds of his redherring stuff. I love the melancholic horror that Ultrakill’s been going for. Hakita never fails to deliver, my GOAT.
Honestly I'd really like to see a video breaking down the process of making songs for Ultrakill. Showcasing things like arrangement, mixing, coming up with ideas ETC...
"A small update between Violence and Fraud", they said. -> FULL ARSENAL UPDATE SEPERATELY -> ENCORE LEVELS -> EARLY LEVEL REDESIGNS -> PROBABLY MORE HOLY FUCK THIS SONG RULES THOUGH
This is no mere stasis, this is nothing for an eternity. The world is slowed to a crippling stagnation. Torment continues its infernal march while eons race by. There is no happy ending, no tragic conclusion, it simply continues… A melody without direction, a loss of all senses, stuck in a loop of screaming agony beneath singing samples of avians that’ve been playing since the first bird sung. It is all mere remains, but remains that are permanent. Like dust stuck in an ashtray, no force daring to disturb it. It is a dying, sickening poison. It leaves a message, spoken over ten thousand million years, until the mind forgets the beginning and hears again. An absence of finality.
i thought the black screen was something that u need to brighten up to see a secret image or something like in those old ARGs, so i spent a good while fucking around with the video frame only to find nothing. thanks hakita for this wonderful experience!!
No, not for all of them. In Hakita’s words: “The Encore levels, unlocked after beating the game (or 7-4 for now), remix rooms from earlier levels.” Notice how he specifically mentions earlier.
@ in that case, I’d predict prelude along with all of act 1. And knowing hakita, he’ll finish the game, get bored with nothing to do, and expand the encore levels to all layers.
You know, recently in Silksong community something happened, ifykyk And I am honestly quite happy that at least in ultrakill community, devs are really open and I shouldn't take this treatment for granted Thank you Hakita
@@Te0strathbasically there's a cool game called "Hollow Knight" and when the "Hollow Knight Silksong" trailer dropped in 2019(I think), the community was exctatic, but there was no release date or updates to the development for a long time. Another trailer to Silksong was in 2022 and it was promised on Twitter by an XBOX employee that it would release in a year. It didn't. Here one of the devs(probably) decided to change his pfp to a cake(which upon reverse image search leads to a website with a date of April 2nd(the switch 2 trailer)) and tweeted that something is gonna happen tomorrow. Nothing happened. So the Skong community is stuck in a stasis of waiting, getting excited and getting that excitement crushed.
The shattered illusion became more than a lie, it became reality. It was a false reality, a false life that brought memories of living, memories of how everything really was. The only thing left behind this realm, is nothing but Flames and Ashes, a once false land, to now, a burning world.
You know i really like this song It doesnt sounds like something you would hear in ultrakill and thats why it makes it so unique I wonder how 1-E will look like Maybe all the screens become just static and are super broken with a bunch of cracks in them? Who knows, but it would be really cool Man this update is gonna be awesome
@@Saxjona bit debatable but other than this track I doubt think you will be having that trouble with any of the other new tracks, don’t quote me on this though.
I think the new update could be the remaking of the levels and the encore levels, plus maybe some more quality of life stuff then they move to act 3 otherwise yes itll take like 1.5 years for the update to come out
@@AfungusI don’t think hakita will work on the encore levels after E-1, since they still have to add the fraud enemies. If they were to do enemy placements that just date up to violence and then fraud comes out, they would have to rework most of the encore level’s enemy placements or even room layouts. So it might be sooner, I could be wrong
@@MrSluFa a clearly fake (but still disturbingly lifeless) husk of V2 being dragged around an arena via strings, shooting balls of hell energy unlike the real V2 who only uses actual weapons
This sounds like the quiet before the nightmare. This track is really cool and unique, once again Hakita cooked. This also confirms that we'll also be getting 1-E on the next update, we're eating good yall. Assuming that these encore levels are going to be opposites of their respective layer, I wonder if this level is gonna lean on the industrial and grey/metallic type of aesthetic.
I wonder what they might do for the other layers, and if climax layers like gluttony and heresy will get their own encore levels. But for my own speculations of lust's encore, I think it will probably have an abandoned, decaying and maybe even overgrown aesthetic.
2:36 Gives me a sense of false hope that nothing will be okay even if you are the "Unstoppable Force." The lower notes conveys a feeling of dread, something that you never really felt when you were killing and blasting past through demons. The entire song is like looking at all the worst events possible coming together. Since the player caused all of this, it is only reasonable to assume you are the reason why hell is desperate to survive. The song is well put together in displaying the agony and anguish the V model has caused. It's like setting a kid loose in a candy shop. In this case, hell is the candy shop. What makes it worse, is that the machines don't only kill demons, they try to harm you as well. They see you as the bigger picture, and want to destroy that higher-up feeling to finally reign their own chaos. 3:43 shifting into almost melancholy chords can signify that Limbo is weeping again, almost if it's asking why you're back for more, even though you mangled all the living things there.
This song feels like the very concept of Limbo - eternity, an infinity of nothingness - reaching a singularity point where everything, past, present, future, all turns into one. It's horrifying and I love it.
Imagine if it’s like 7-3 where there’s no enemies at first and you’re just alone in this pitch-dark maze until you finally find a hidden room where you can turn on the emergency power and activate the screens And then you walk back into the main room and all the enemies crash through the screens at once
@@halfmettlealchemist8076 Or maybe the only source of light are burning panels, and the fake greenery burning from the Streetcleaner’s rampage through Limbo
Limbo, Lust, all gone. With Gluttony soon to follow. Your kind know nothing but hunger. Purged all life on the upper layers and yet they remain unsatiated.
this song feels like you arrived at a frozen wasteland and the 1rst thing you see is a bunch of V models out of fuel and completely frozen alongside other non working machines also frozen and as you progress you start seeing more and more unsettling things. I honestly don’t expect the encore levels to have any cannonical lore implication but if it does I imagine we are another V1 model looking for fuel in a way WAYYY later date,0-E is completely frozen and this song also feels like another frozen place. you know what frozen too ? unironically the bottom of hell is, my guess is that we awakened something within our first journey that permanently changed/damaged hell as a whole for the sake of surviving ourselve.
If i remember correctly though, V1 was made as a prototype that never made it out of that stage, so only one V1 was made, i just wanted to point that discrepancy
@@randomlittleidot "as far as we know" just like you said I was already aware of that i just assumed that since this was happening in a far future maybe someone decided to create more of them, from what i know human may be extinct but they aren’t the only one capable of creating bloodthirty machine technically speaking. then again all of what i said is just hypothesis.
Hakita: "All right, the soundtrack for my new level sounds good so far, but it's kinda missing something" The mischevious imp on his shoulder: "make it real spooky" Hakita: "Say no more fam" 1:19 Edit: JESUS CHRIST THEY *REALLY* MADE THAT SHIT SPOOKY 3:46 Edit #2: _THE VERSUS MOTIF????????????_
Imagine if the 1-E will start with the screens being shattered, turned off or glitching, the structures are just broken. This would make Limbo look abandoned, but when we get to the battle sections, all the screens suddenly turn red and you just feel like you are in hell. Imo it would be pretty cool, especially with that song.
Instead of red, i think in the parts with fight the light turns on and the screens begin to glich (just like the one we saw on the remake of limbo) I think thats way more scary than just simple red (i mean.. its a common color in this game XD)
2:29 I can only imagine the limbo screens being all turned off and when this hits immediately show either the same landscape but glitched or the cities of mankind destroyed with the skies completely red.
I'd like to imagine 1-E being the ruins of the burning world of 1-2. The fire is gone, and what remains is nothing but ruins of once was a perfect false paradise.
The encore levels and vibes give me the same feeling that OFF gave me when you go back to areas that you've cleansed. Where everything is dead, empty, devoid of life, but there's still some horrors left behind that are even more terrifying than you could ever imagine.
The Prelude is a man made facility of some kind,made to exploit the seeminly infinite resources of the mouth of hell,with the introduction being Into The Fire,and Prelude Encore is quite literally the opposite. Everything is frozen and i mean everything,and the track for the level is A Heart Of Cold. Considering that ice represents stillness,Prelude Encore is probably a representation of humanity as a whole. They hated each other,made blood fueled machines,and nearly had those machines kill the entire planet,and when they didn't,they attempted to exploit hell,but even after the realisation that Hell was coming for them,they died. Humanity,a heart of cold,built by a foolish creator. Limbo Encore will probably do something similar to Prelude Encore. Limbo is suppost to be a "Fake Heaven" for the sinners here,not to torture you,but to tease you of what you could have witnessed,but with the title of the track being An Absence,i have a feeling that when we enter Limbo Encore,we will likely see an abscene of the delusion,the fake walls breaking and the level on fire due to The Streetcleaners,wanting to purge the world in order to purify it of it's mistakes,and that even in death,even in hell,you cannot run away from your sins. Another thing that may come up is going past the fake walls to enter the other levels such as 1-4 or 1-3. Even in a fake paradise,even in a real paradise,you will suffer the consequences of your actions,wether or not you deserve your position.
@ron9174 >Prelude Encore is probably a representation of humanity as a whole. Pretty sure one line sums it up FAR better: "The Fire is Gone". You and the Machines have done an unbelievably staggering amount of damage to hell itself. Hell is no longer Full, quite possibly it could even be "Dying"...
Here's what I think might be going on in 1-E. An absence of light. Past 1-4, without a moon or stars. The stone buildings are left barren and the simulation around you is crumbling. The only illumination being the dull fire of the streetcleaners who burned 1-2. The glitchy sounds are like 1-2's theme, but less piercing. Like the destruction has already happened.
i theorise that the encore levels' visual themes are gonna be in reverse order to the layers, so maybe this one is blank as to not spoil what fraud is gonna look like? edit: holy shit this is abrasive, much more painful than a complete and utter destruction of the senses
I also thought they’d be in reverse order, but if your theory about the black screen is correct, why would he show off 0-E? Doesn’t that give away Treachery? Or maybe ice was a lot more expected than whatever he’s planning for Fraud. Though 1-E would spoil Fraud if it releases before Act III anyway. I guess we’ll just have to see what he’s got planned…
@@DOG_EATER_1887 what does the prelude encore level have to do with treachery (which will almost definitely be ice themed)? these levels probably aren't canon but idk i'm just speculating
@@DOG_EATER_1887 0-E is icy, thus paralleling treachery, so next down the line by this theory would be limbo paralleling fraud, lust and violence, so on and so forth yk
@@randomcat1224 “The Encore levels, unlocked after beating the game (or 7-4 for now), remix rooms from earlier levels.” Just told you. The video where Hakita played through 0-E
I can imagine after beating the Limbo layer, you're in this half reality half allusion area, reality and illusion blending together, platforms that seem to be there aren't, enemies that seem like are there aren't, all while exploring, trying to find your way out as panic crawls under your skin, this sounds so chilling and panic inducing yet so amazing all at once, whenever this game is fully completed, it will for sure be the game of the year, keep on cooking hakita and every ultrakill dev, keep on making the best game of all time ❤
My interpretation of this level is this: You start out in a normal room in limbo, but the lights are out the walls of limbo are damaged heavily, ash from all the street-cleaners, natural looking light comes from cracked ceilings, electrical wires hang from them as well. Then as you continue there’s a jumpscare as the music does the beat drop and the wires from the ceiling start flailing while the seemingly off panels start glitching and turning on again, (only when enemy’s spawn) it’s like an absence of life, but only the flailing reflexes of the dying body, in this case limbo. then as you make it down a couple halls you start to hear the ground shake and the entire hall falls apart and you get revealed to an aperture science esque view of all the mechanical halls of limbo slowly detach from another and fall into a big pit then I imagine some part where you get on top of one of the halls and there’s a elevator kinda system that moves them to place to place, if there’s a new enemy I hope it’s some kind of gunship, since there’s only a couple of flying enemys and all of them are small, this gunship could be a heavily modified drone enemy type and I imagine it shooting some kinda concussion rounds that will misplace you and also I imagine it revving up and charging at you. Another reason why a gunship would be a good enemy for this level is because it would be sick for it to do ambushes and crash through limbo halls to catch you off guard, and it could drop off streetcleaners for lore stuff because these gunships could be the ones making holes for the streetcleaners to go through limbo. (like 1-2 where you could see the hole where the streetcleaners came from) I don’t know it’s just something I thought would be cool.👌
Imagine that the entire level is just an obstacle course with no other enemy but a single idol on the last part, and just when you reach the idol and break it, you are greeted by 2 radiant and sanded hideous masses waiting for you below.
The absence is the absence of leitmotifs after the batshit insane comments last time, banger theme tho and excited about the prospect of Encore levels!
people complain a lot about how this update is taking forever and blah blah blah im just happy that they communicate with us (unlike some other team) and will be happy to wait till 2026 for it to come out because i know it will be peak
"a small update between layers" he said
Hakita adding a """"""small"""""" update and it ends up adding more content than most paid DLC lol
@@ebluegamer5397maybe because the game isn't finished but what would I know
He and The Pitr both share this trait.
They do lotsa shit and name it for so little.
Tbf the reason we're getting so much revamped visuals and the Encores is because of how long the code rewrite is taking. If that wasn't as long as it was, the update probably wouldn't be as big
Remaking ULTRAKILL before it's even out.
"Hey guys, we will do a simple redesign, nothing special"
2 months later
"Fuck it, add new levels!"
Hell yeah blue prologue with ice!!!
everytime, without fail
it feels like its been way longer than 2 months is it just me
@@baselbaiatra7241 same here
average indie development process
Hakita is so lucky he gets to listen to his own music early.
I don't know man. There's a thing called listener fatigue. I can imagine Hakita is actually pretty exhausted listening to his tracks.
is that bong bong
@@TimHawk.hakita just walks around with 10 different break beat loops in his head
@CarlinJacks yes lolang that's the level V agent
@CarlinJacks Is that hamhampangpang man?
So, 0-E theme is melancholic, but still has some amount of "battle theme" in it.
1-E is straight up "Welcome to The Nightmare" and I can't even tell whose nightmare it is.
It’s straight up the world looks white/red but even more dramatic, which says something since the world looks white/red is already dramatic
@@memor22fr tho, it shares a bunch of notes but it turns em around a lot so you think you know where the song’ll go just for it to take a 180
It's not "Welcome to the Nightmare" it's "Welcome to Hell"
@@memor22 if you speed it to 2x speed it sounds even more like the world looks white, and also i think it's going to be a guts/glory situation because it sounds fire speed up
@@slayersymbol Yeah, the percussion sounds a LOT like Guts
"released next update"
Release Date: *when its done*
What are you waiting for? Are we gods? Let's see the future and give a date. Are you stupid or idiots?
My favorite release date
so much spaghetti
letting the release dates for updates to be flexible is what will make this game more spectacular than it is
@MozzarellaWizard so glad its not a silksong situation :3
Limbo but the angels forgot to turn on the false sky, noises, and lights
Or the simulation is breaking and that means the day night cycle is going like 1000x times faster
@WilliamBlake07 If that's happening, hakita would have to put a second terminal with a epilepsy warning inside
mfw. lazy ah ah angels.
@WilliamBlake07 .... The sun and moon cycle goes 1000x faster? Im not gonna be that guy Im not gonna be that guy Im not gonna be that guy Im not gonna be that guy
@WilliamBlake07 made in heaven...
AINT NO WAY WE GETTING THE SOMETHING WICKED BOSSFIGHT
Something Wicked this way brawls
@@Thatoneguyfrom Something Wicked this way balls
Something Wicked Prime
Radiant too
@@halfmettlealchemist8076 Baller
Something Wicked this way squares up
A Thousand Greetings
A Shattered Illusion
A Complete and Utter Destruction of the Senses
An Absence
The first AAAA game is real!
castle vein jumpscare
versus jumpscare
@@notkyoze that will be a soldier demon with the remains of v2 added to it's body
Sanctuary in the garden of mind jumpscare
Ya know… I think I figured it out guys. Remember how Limbo’s walls in the first and second levels don’t seem to be the actual walls, but more projections on screens? What do you think is *behind* those projector screens? That’s part of what we’ll see in 1-E, I bet my ricoshot on it.
I bet my four pretty coins and my +chargeback on it
In 1-1 a secret has you go through one of the screens and you see pretty much what the walls were made of in the prelude
@ true but I doubt that if we get to see behind the monitors it won’t just be nothing, that secret was put there way before encore levels were probably even an idea
We fighting Glados with this one
I think backrooms are behind the projector.
if this is a small update i fear what he calls a major update
major update would be adding every layer to heaven. and now you aren't fighting anything you were before
Hakita's idea of a small update is what Valve would call a major update for TF2
All this talk spreads Concerned Ape vibes.
What Hakita calls a small update is what Terraria calls a small update.
Remember guys,hakita wants to make an friken-chiken LEVEL EDITOR.
“None were left to speak your eulogy.”
1:19 specifically
Thanks Maynard
“No final words, no concluding statement, no point, Perfect closure.”
*T H I S IS T H E O N L Y W A Y I T S H O U L D H A V E E N D E D*
excelsior jumpscare
@@kylec4485 was he preaching about the carrots again? goddangit, man!
Every time hakita is about to post, I feel as shift in the wind and a chill crawl up my spine from the sheer amount of aura he has.
THERE IS NO LIMIT TO THE GLAZE...
@superkobster Fr. 🔥
i lowkey agree
Is this God's plan?
Hakita is the God's gift to us. Anything less than praise is unacceptable.
An absence of light in this image.
Correct
Jajajajajajajfrfrfr
fr this quote should be said by v1 when u go to the secret level Kinda like (There is an absence of light in this image.) for like the Secret level like the limbo puzzles
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Something wicked this way comes....
The howling winds as a symbol of cold, Limbo's very nature of being lost and directionless, the second part being a complete panic attack as if you're lucid dreaming inside of a nightmare.
Oh, we are soooooo NOT getting out of Hell, that's for sure.
peak comment.
never have i ever been so hyped by a black screen with songs in the background
Theory; the screens in the Limbo Encore will initially be turned off, and will turn on once the first combat begins or only when there's combat
THATS WHAT I SAID TOO.. and then when the enemies appear (just like a screamer) the lights turns on and start flashing and buggin, the outsides of limbo were a lie... Only a black and bottomless void is our reality
What if we go out of the boxed area with the screens we’re in, like portal 2 style
Or they flicker with the technology malfunctioning everywhere
@@simp4games553 ... I have to get this game.
So basically reverse 7-1
we’re getting ultrakill bonus content before ultrakill’s main content’s done
layer 7 remake before layer 8
@MozzarellaWizardthey might actually remake Layer 7 but all I know it will be one asset
The secret levels in the room:
8-E before fraud
@WilliamBlake07 imagine that one asset is the entire model of the earthmovers
"waiter, there's a game in my update!"
This is actually real on such a level
My interpretation is that, because Limbo has been destroyed by the streetcleaners as seen in 1-2, the Encore is going to either be how limbo actually looked like (as the ilussion has been broken), or just an empty void (hence the video having no image)
the -E levels are probably after that events that made Gabriel say "Limbo, Lust, all gone. With Gluttony soon too follow."
@@hi_hello10 I think its going to be V1 going all the way back after beating 9-2. 0-E seems to be frozen just like Treachery, and if it happens after the events of the game then maybe something will happen in Layer 9 that will make it “infect” the rest of hell in some way. Imo this could be foreshadowing for the ending of the game
@@BennickBlue I highly doubt layer 9 will infect the other layers, I think it's much more likely the encore levels are just the eerie aftermath of the robots' descent.
@isaactoniolo3856 That theory was based on the fact that 0-E was frozen, but seeing how 1-E will most likely be now I don’t think it will happen
@@BennickBluethe earthmovers pretty much caused what is called a nuclear winter by blocking the sun with a cloud of ashes and smoke, therefore freezing earth and since 0-E is on the layer before hell it's frozen
The combat variant is reminds of his redherring stuff.
I love the melancholic horror that Ultrakill’s been going for.
Hakita never fails to deliver, my GOAT.
Honestly I'd really like to see a video breaking down the process of making songs for Ultrakill. Showcasing things like arrangement, mixing, coming up with ideas ETC...
I second this.
I third this.
I fourth this.
I feel like that about a lot of stuff
That’d be so cool
"Thank you Hakita" we say in unison
Thank you Hakita!
Thank you Hakita!
Thank you Hakita!
Thank you Hakita!
Thank you Hakita!
At this point I'm thanking PITR and Heckteck for taking so long on the enemy rework, because it means we'll get stuff like this
What's the source of your pfp?
oh hi zero td
honestly the same thing here.
"A small update between Violence and Fraud", they said.
-> FULL ARSENAL UPDATE SEPERATELY
-> ENCORE LEVELS
-> EARLY LEVEL REDESIGNS
-> PROBABLY MORE
HOLY FUCK THIS SONG RULES THOUGH
engine rewrites took so long they made the "small update" into a major update
This is no mere stasis, this is nothing for an eternity. The world is slowed to a crippling stagnation. Torment continues its infernal march while eons race by. There is no happy ending, no tragic conclusion, it simply continues…
A melody without direction, a loss of all senses, stuck in a loop of screaming agony beneath singing samples of avians that’ve been playing since the first bird sung. It is all mere remains, but remains that are permanent. Like dust stuck in an ashtray, no force daring to disturb it. It is a dying, sickening poison.
It leaves a message, spoken over ten thousand million years, until the mind forgets the beginning and hears again.
An absence of finality.
this feels so empty, so barren, completely overrun by machines... perfectly fitting Limbo's Encore.
Yharim spotted
@ crap, I’ve been found!
YOU’LL HAVE TO KEEP WAITING, TERRARIAN, YOU WILL HAVE TO WAIT FOR ME LONGER THAN PEOPLE HAVE WAITED FOR SILKSONG!
Yo yharim, where’s your Dragon?
@EMan-xj5cz being reborn after you slaughtered him, Terrarian.
He’s the dragon of rebirth, and people tend to forget that
Yharim is too busy playing ultrakill to fight us
There really is nothing left, mankind is truly dead, hell is almost empty, yet blood still is and always will be...fuel
absolute cinema
And then he ultrakilled all over the place
and they all stand together, bow down and say “this was truly our Ultrakill”
@@Ph0b1calzI WAS GOING TO SAY THIS
@@lyc_ant lol
Hakita is the only person I have notifications on for, because I must be there to witness peak as soon as it drops.
based
same, all my discord servers are muted except for the ultrakill server, so if he posts anything in updates i will see it almost instantly
i thought the black screen was something that u need to brighten up to see a secret image or something like in those old ARGs, so i spent a good while fucking around with the video frame only to find nothing. thanks hakita for this wonderful experience!!
I was just wondering if thats the case
Hakita said there was one but it got destroyed by TH-cam compression. It's just a silly doodle of Hakita smiling with "hi" written next to him
PEAK DEPARTMENT??? HELLO?? YES ITS HIM AGAIN
The streetcleaners cooked with this one so hard, Limbo became more desolate than 0-E
Just imagining street cleaners making a song in a Hoot style animation makes me giggle
Describes the “Limbo…” in Gabriel’s speech perfectly.
Awesome, mr.Hakita! Thank you for the new OST!
LIMBO ENCORE LEVEL TOO?!?!? Hakita you are amazing!!!!
Oh noes
There’s gonna be an encore level for every layer :)
@plazmaZap77 Oh god more lvls.... more P ranks...
No, not for all of them. In Hakita’s words: “The Encore levels, unlocked after beating the game (or 7-4 for now), remix rooms from earlier levels.”
Notice how he specifically mentions earlier.
@ in that case, I’d predict prelude along with all of act 1. And knowing hakita, he’ll finish the game, get bored with nothing to do, and expand the encore levels to all layers.
You know, recently in Silksong community something happened, ifykyk
And I am honestly quite happy that at least in ultrakill community, devs are really open and I shouldn't take this treatment for granted
Thank you Hakita
The cake really was a lie...
I agree, its nice to have a developer that actually gives us frequent updates instead of leaving us in radio silence for 4 fucking years
@@milezw if you thought it wasn't you either haven't been paying attention or you're on that good copium
Dare I even ask for context?
@@Te0strathbasically there's a cool game called "Hollow Knight" and when the "Hollow Knight Silksong" trailer dropped in 2019(I think), the community was exctatic, but there was no release date or updates to the development for a long time. Another trailer to Silksong was in 2022 and it was promised on Twitter by an XBOX employee that it would release in a year. It didn't. Here one of the devs(probably) decided to change his pfp to a cake(which upon reverse image search leads to a website with a date of April 2nd(the switch 2 trailer)) and tweeted that something is gonna happen tomorrow. Nothing happened. So the Skong community is stuck in a stasis of waiting, getting excited and getting that excitement crushed.
2:24 runaway
That's what I thought lmao
Kayne west motif
I immediately thoight of that when I heard that part but couldn't remember the name.
@cutestcreeper569 runaway
getting "the world looks white" vibes from this and also cold vibes, makes me think that encore is gonna be hell frozen over lmao
yeah I'm only halfway through but the theme at the very beginning is the world looks white, just a lot slower
I think this is what Gabriel was referring to when he said that Limbo and Lust were “all gone”
@@piggy743 not exactly, there's a couple different notes
Is going to make sense with Dante’s inferno
mfs hear a slow piano and go "omg twlw"
The shattered illusion became more than a lie, it became reality.
It was a false reality, a false life that brought memories of living, memories of how everything really was.
The only thing left behind this realm, is nothing but Flames and Ashes, a once false land, to now, a burning world.
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No, the illusion was rendered broken.
@YassineFarah2423 yea
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Peak?
[Will answer when i finish listening to this]
Answer: PEAKKKKK PEAKKKKKKKKKKK
not a circus clown, who’s more sick than he funny
IS THAT YOU
NO
IM THE PMLY SPAMTON
a lovable salesman ,who give me free money
@crunchyfreezebased
I like to rad "PEAKKK PEAKKKKKK" in the NEO laughing voice
I love how you can hear v2's leitmotif in the background when music starts, amazing detail!!
Oh, and as always don't rush the updates! It looks amazing so far!
bro is chasing phantoms
Delusions are a sign of schizophrenia
@HiroshiOmega Ultrakill fans when they hear a leitmotif (there is no leitmotif)
gamers don't say anymore "this sounds like _____"
they say "this sounds like a leitmotif of _____"
You know i really like this song
It doesnt sounds like something you would hear in ultrakill and thats why it makes it so unique
I wonder how 1-E will look like
Maybe all the screens become just static and are super broken with a bunch of cracks in them?
Who knows, but it would be really cool
Man this update is gonna be awesome
yeah, i'm thinking it'll be like that with most of the level being dark too
My guess is that it’s all turned to ashes.
2:29 jesus christ hakita, are you okay, shit scared me more than 0-S
Versus Motif Jumpscare
I got scared too
i thought the beginning part was quiet so i turned my volume up really high like 10 seconds before this part
I gotta be honest, I don't enjoy having to find the melody behind all that fart bass
@@Saxjona bit debatable but other than this track I doubt think you will be having that trouble with any of the other new tracks, don’t quote me on this though.
The fact It's not a WIP gives me genuine chills
Can't wait for the full update to come out! Keep up the good work hakita!!
its not going to be soon
@@jacjac7608 who said it was going to be soon? they just said they cant wait
@@jacjac7608 who cares, it'll be FUCKING AWSOME
I think the new update could be the remaking of the levels and the encore levels, plus maybe some more quality of life stuff
then they move to act 3
otherwise yes itll take like 1.5 years for the update to come out
@@AfungusI don’t think hakita will work on the encore levels after E-1, since they still have to add the fraud enemies. If they were to do enemy placements that just date up to violence and then fraud comes out, they would have to rework most of the encore level’s enemy placements or even room layouts. So it might be sooner, I could be wrong
I've learned patience ever since hakita has continually been adding the rest of the game to "the next update"
2:35 the versus motif is playing faintly in the background....
*i think it has in fact been reconstructed.*
puppeted v2 real?
all the 3 bits of flesh (real)
@@MrSluFa a clearly fake (but still disturbingly lifeless) husk of V2 being dragged around an arena via strings, shooting balls of hell energy unlike the real V2 who only uses actual weapons
you are delusional
So...
*there was something left, after all.*
Holy shit 1-E confirmed?
Next update is gonna be AWESOME
@@siggevidstige8019 nope. Encore levels will release in the next update, and this can be seen in the description for 0-E
@@siggevidstige8019 Check the description of this video.
@@siggevidstige8019no its confirmed that atleast 0 and 1 E are coming in the update
@@siggevidstige8019"Song from the Limbo Encore level, which is currently still in development but will be coming in the next update."
@@siggevidstige8019 "Song from the Limbo Encore level, which is currently still in development but will be coming in the next update."
This sounds like the quiet before the nightmare. This track is really cool and unique, once again Hakita cooked. This also confirms that we'll also be getting 1-E on the next update, we're eating good yall.
Assuming that these encore levels are going to be opposites of their respective layer, I wonder if this level is gonna lean on the industrial and grey/metallic type of aesthetic.
Probably the illusion of a heaven-like environment is falling apart and the real nature of it is visible
I thought they were supposed to be the layer after the machines had passed through
@@superslime16th That'd be very cool as well! Gosh Im excited for this.
I wonder what they might do for the other layers, and if climax layers like gluttony and heresy will get their own encore levels. But for my own speculations of lust's encore, I think it will probably have an abandoned, decaying and maybe even overgrown aesthetic.
The name of this track suggests that the Limbo that is full of life is now absent of everything
2:36 Gives me a sense of false hope that nothing will be okay even if you are the "Unstoppable Force." The lower notes conveys a feeling of dread, something that you never really felt when you were killing and blasting past through demons. The entire song is like looking at all the worst events possible coming together. Since the player caused all of this, it is only reasonable to assume you are the reason why hell is desperate to survive. The song is well put together in displaying the agony and anguish the V model has caused. It's like setting a kid loose in a candy shop. In this case, hell is the candy shop. What makes it worse, is that the machines don't only kill demons, they try to harm you as well. They see you as the bigger picture, and want to destroy that higher-up feeling to finally reign their own chaos. 3:43 shifting into almost melancholy chords can signify that Limbo is weeping again, almost if it's asking why you're back for more, even though you mangled all the living things there.
You have your blood! Just leave me be!
Peak writing tbh
Life, death, none of it matters when nothing is left to live or die. There is no beginning, nor an end, just the absence of it all.
This song feels like the very concept of Limbo - eternity, an infinity of nothingness - reaching a singularity point where everything, past, present, future, all turns into one. It's horrifying and I love it.
if all the walls in limbo were monitors, this makes me think that they might be shut off now, leaving an absence of light and scenery in their place
Imagine if it’s like 7-3 where there’s no enemies at first and you’re just alone in this pitch-dark maze until you finally find a hidden room where you can turn on the emergency power and activate the screens
And then you walk back into the main room and all the enemies crash through the screens at once
@@halfmettlealchemist8076 Or maybe the only source of light are burning panels, and the fake greenery burning from the Streetcleaner’s rampage through Limbo
@@halfmettlealchemist8076 Good idea for level, bro/sis
Limbo, Lust, all gone. With Gluttony soon to follow. Your kind know nothing but hunger. Purged all life on the upper layers and yet they remain unsatiated.
...As do you. You've taken everything from me, machine. And now all that remains is perfect *hatred.*
I await you down below. COME TO ME!
this song feels like you arrived at a frozen wasteland and the 1rst thing you see is a bunch of V models out of fuel and completely frozen alongside other non working machines also frozen and as you progress you start seeing more and more unsettling things.
I honestly don’t expect the encore levels to have any cannonical lore implication but if it does I imagine we are another V1 model looking for fuel in a way WAYYY later date,0-E is completely frozen and this song also feels like another frozen place.
you know what frozen too ? unironically the bottom of hell is, my guess is that we awakened something within our first journey that permanently changed/damaged hell as a whole for the sake of surviving ourselve.
If i remember correctly though, V1 was made as a prototype that never made it out of that stage, so only one V1 was made, i just wanted to point that discrepancy
@@frex102 so true frex102
wait until this guy hears that as far as we know only 2 v models exist
@@randomlittleidot "as far as we know" just like you said I was already aware of that i just assumed that since this was happening in a far future maybe someone decided to create more of them, from what i know human may be extinct but they aren’t the only one capable of creating bloodthirty machine technically speaking.
then again all of what i said is just hypothesis.
Hakita: "All right, the soundtrack for my new level sounds good so far, but it's kinda missing something"
The mischevious imp on his shoulder: "make it real spooky"
Hakita: "Say no more fam" 1:19
Edit: JESUS CHRIST THEY *REALLY* MADE THAT SHIT SPOOKY 3:46
Edit #2: _THE VERSUS MOTIF????????????_
Where do people hear the versus motif??
@ 2:36
Can't wait for 8-E to release before Fraud
Can't wait for Treachery redesign before Fraud.
I’m so excited for this game to be complete it’s honestly the best FPS of all time. Take your time though Hakita I love everything you make!
Hyped as F*CK for the next update. And with these videos becoming more frequent, that hype is increasing!!
As the name suggests, there is most certainly an absence.
Imagine if the 1-E will start with the screens being shattered, turned off or glitching, the structures are just broken. This would make Limbo look abandoned, but when we get to the battle sections, all the screens suddenly turn red and you just feel like you are in hell. Imo it would be pretty cool, especially with that song.
Instead of red, i think in the parts with fight the light turns on and the screens begin to glich (just like the one we saw on the remake of limbo)
I think thats way more scary than just simple red (i mean.. its a common color in this game XD)
2:29
I can only imagine the limbo screens being all turned off and when this hits immediately show either the same landscape but glitched or the cities of mankind destroyed with the skies completely red.
ITS SO OMINOUS AND THE BEAT DROP....UGH.... SO FIRE...
"man, who turned off the lights?"
atmosphere is brutal, and I love this drop @3:45
the gliding picolo (or whatever that is) gives this such a Halloween feel too
"ultrakillers beware, you're in for a scare!" ahhh beat drop 💀💀
@@halfmettlealchemist8076 LMAO
@@halfmettlealchemist8076 lmfao 😭
Same that's also my favorite part
I'd like to imagine 1-E being the ruins of the burning world of 1-2. The fire is gone, and what remains is nothing but ruins of once was a perfect false paradise.
The encore levels and vibes give me the same feeling that OFF gave me when you go back to areas that you've cleansed. Where everything is dead, empty, devoid of life, but there's still some horrors left behind that are even more terrifying than you could ever imagine.
I was JUST thinking earlier that it felt like an upload was coming soon. Holy shit.
the artistic direction in this game is incredible so im stoked to see what limbo encore has
Given what happens in the original levels I'd imagine everything is burned to ash, screens possibly cracked and malfunctioning
The Prelude is a man made facility of some kind,made to exploit the seeminly infinite resources of the mouth of hell,with the introduction being Into The Fire,and Prelude Encore is quite literally the opposite. Everything is frozen and i mean everything,and the track for the level is A Heart Of Cold. Considering that ice represents stillness,Prelude Encore is probably a representation of humanity as a whole. They hated each other,made blood fueled machines,and nearly had those machines kill the entire planet,and when they didn't,they attempted to exploit hell,but even after the realisation that Hell was coming for them,they died. Humanity,a heart of cold,built by a foolish creator.
Limbo Encore will probably do something similar to Prelude Encore. Limbo is suppost to be a "Fake Heaven" for the sinners here,not to torture you,but to tease you of what you could have witnessed,but with the title of the track being An Absence,i have a feeling that when we enter Limbo Encore,we will likely see an abscene of the delusion,the fake walls breaking and the level on fire due to The Streetcleaners,wanting to purge the world in order to purify it of it's mistakes,and that even in death,even in hell,you cannot run away from your sins. Another thing that may come up is going past the fake walls to enter the other levels such as 1-4 or 1-3. Even in a fake paradise,even in a real paradise,you will suffer the consequences of your actions,wether or not you deserve your position.
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@ron9174 >Prelude Encore is probably a representation of humanity as a whole.
Pretty sure one line sums it up FAR better:
"The Fire is Gone".
You and the Machines have done an unbelievably staggering amount of damage to hell itself. Hell is no longer Full, quite possibly it could even be "Dying"...
Here's what I think might be going on in 1-E.
An absence of light. Past 1-4, without a moon or stars. The stone buildings are left barren and the simulation around you is crumbling. The only illumination being the dull fire of the streetcleaners who burned 1-2. The glitchy sounds are like 1-2's theme, but less piercing. Like the destruction has already happened.
hakita single-handedly making every addiction to the game better than the last:
no that wasn’t a spelling mistake
The Damned cried out a thousand apologies, but there was none left to listen.
i theorise that the encore levels' visual themes are gonna be in reverse order to the layers, so maybe this one is blank as to not spoil what fraud is gonna look like?
edit: holy shit this is abrasive, much more painful than a complete and utter destruction of the senses
I also thought they’d be in reverse order, but if your theory about the black screen is correct, why would he show off 0-E? Doesn’t that give away Treachery? Or maybe ice was a lot more expected than whatever he’s planning for Fraud. Though 1-E would spoil Fraud if it releases before Act III anyway.
I guess we’ll just have to see what he’s got planned…
No they probably haven't developed enough to show, also wtf would the limbo encore level have to do with fraud
@@DOG_EATER_1887 what does the prelude encore level have to do with treachery (which will almost definitely be ice themed)? these levels probably aren't canon but idk i'm just speculating
@@DOG_EATER_1887 0-E is icy, thus paralleling treachery, so next down the line by this theory would be limbo paralleling fraud, lust and violence, so on and so forth yk
The beginning and end of hell
Peak
youre a fraud
bruh its not even been 1 minute
Amazing, perfect, beautiful, words can not express how amazing this ost is
2:30 right here the song turns into something straight out of DUSK and I love it!
this is like an antithesis to limbo
instead of being a mockery of heaven it is instead a mockery of hell
really portrays emptiness
>yooo new hakita upload
>wait wtf is "1-E"
E is for the upcoming encore levels, one for each layer.
@ thanks, also love the Bridget pfp
0-E teaser’s description implies that these are only for Act 1.
@ZackagonXM where does it imply this
@@randomcat1224
“The Encore levels, unlocked after beating the game (or 7-4 for now), remix rooms from earlier levels.”
Just told you. The video where Hakita played through 0-E
Bro I love the animation for this
I can imagine after beating the Limbo layer, you're in this half reality half allusion area, reality and illusion blending together, platforms that seem to be there aren't, enemies that seem like are there aren't, all while exploring, trying to find your way out as panic crawls under your skin, this sounds so chilling and panic inducing yet so amazing all at once, whenever this game is fully completed, it will for sure be the game of the year, keep on cooking hakita and every ultrakill dev, keep on making the best game of all time ❤
My interpretation of this level is this:
You start out in a normal room in limbo, but the lights are out the walls of limbo are damaged heavily, ash from all the street-cleaners, natural looking light comes from cracked ceilings, electrical wires hang from them as well. Then as you continue there’s a jumpscare as the music does the beat drop and the wires from the ceiling start flailing while the seemingly off panels start glitching and turning on again, (only when enemy’s spawn) it’s like an absence of life, but only the flailing reflexes of the dying body, in this case limbo. then as you make it down a couple halls you start to hear the ground shake and the entire hall falls apart and you get revealed to an aperture science esque view of all the mechanical halls of limbo slowly detach from another and fall into a big pit then I imagine some part where you get on top of one of the halls and there’s a elevator kinda system that moves them to place to place, if there’s a new enemy I hope it’s some kind of gunship, since there’s only a couple of flying enemys and all of them are small, this gunship could be a heavily modified drone enemy type and I imagine it shooting some kinda concussion rounds that will misplace you and also I imagine it revving up and charging at you. Another reason why a gunship would be a good enemy for this level is because it would be sick for it to do ambushes and crash through limbo halls to catch you off guard, and it could drop off streetcleaners for lore stuff because these gunships could be the ones making holes for the streetcleaners to go through limbo. (like 1-2 where you could see the hole where the streetcleaners came from)
I don’t know it’s just something I thought would be cool.👌
Waittt this peak ngl
Really brings to mind a vast empty void that you can't get out of. Excellent work!
i made an inhuman screech as soon as i saw the notification
i came
ULTRAKILL JUST DROPPED
Babe wake up ULTRAKILL posted
2:10 runaway???
thats what thought aswell :D
Beat me to it
Damn that's a scary track, can not wait for more tracks from hakita
Imagine that the entire level is just an obstacle course with no other enemy but a single idol on the last part, and just when you reach the idol and break it, you are greeted by 2 radiant and sanded hideous masses waiting for you below.
A surprise-drop that can rival the Switch 2 itself.
TH-cam is mean to not notify me about this video before it even uploaded
Encore for limbo next update? Holy moly, next update will be beyond peak.
Man whoever made the art really outdid themselves on this one!
the part at like 3:08 Does things to my brain
The absence is the absence of leitmotifs after the batshit insane comments last time, banger theme tho and excited about the prospect of Encore levels!
fr everyone was schizo thinking there was a murder drones motif???? only motif was the into the fire riff
Bro cooked as always 🔥 This is some foreboding evil shit right here
i feel you have to go through this level while something wicked keeps approaching.
thank you hakitr for the creepy pasta soundtrack
people complain a lot about how this update is taking forever and blah blah blah
im just happy that they communicate with us (unlike some other team) and will be happy to wait till 2026 for it to come out because i know it will be peak
hmmm THE CAKE WAS A LIE RTATGEDGHRW (silksong??)
You stare into the void, and the void stares back.
I FEEL THE ABSCENCE OF LIMBO, THIS IS SO FIRE HOLY THIS OST MAY GUIDE ME IN MY LIFE
Okay we are either very close to an update or hes gonna remaster bridge burner another 3 times before we get another update, no in-between.
Fire album cover
Actually more cold with this level
The fire is gone
@@SHALLGLISTENBEFORETHETEMPLESOFnah man the light is gone and i can’t see nothin
Really hope we get to see what is behind the illusion screens of limbo
I woke up several hours earlier than I'm used to and this perfectly describes that feeling