Excellent video. Best in class quality. One nit in the improbable case no one has said it: "panacea" is pronounced "panna sea uh". It's an English word so any online dictionary will do it justice if my text hasn't.
Thank you very much! Happy you enjoyed! Yes, it's been mentioned once or twice. Lol. It was a good thing to learn and it's always a good day when you learn something new! I've since learned my lesson and corrected the pronunciation for my subsequent videos on Dead Cells. Thanks for taking the time to share the correct pronunciation with me! Really appreciate it! And thanks for watching!
It still surprises me to this day that the beheaded is actually a king who also happens to be arrogant and controlling...... You expect that after reclaiming his body, he would try to fix his kingdom but no he wants to keep himself entertained by fighting his own physical copy. He is honestly Deadpool crazy yet comedic in a dark way...
Yup! I'm excited for it! Don't think it's going to add too much to the overall story, but will help flesh out and deepen the world further! I'm going to try and make a video about the information that came out with Bad Seed before that DLC comes out too!
@@shin_taps having played both, I can tell you it differs from HK certainly from a gameplay perspective. Undoubtedly less so from a lore perspective, but they are still their own games.
@@justyouraveragehumanbeing7411 I don’t really think he was that much of an asshole. He tried to save his people by trying to contain the disease until a cure was found. But then something out of his control happened and the disease continued to spread and out of desperation he grew paranoid and made laws that were inhumane because in his head that could be the kingdom’s last hope at living through. Well he was wrong and people didn’t really like that and then the rest happened and he got labelled as the villain. Unless i missed a crucial part of the video for being sleepy as hell.
@@xornedge8204 nah you got it. Though like a man once said “the road to hell is paved with good intentions” He may not have started as the villain. But the virus and the events preceding the story pushed the king towards unintentional villainy. So looking at just the game. We do indeed start and end as an asshole.
To be honest if you were king and lived in a devestated world like that, you would eventually also be like fuck this I am out, negligence does not make you evil.
So you’re telling me that in order to fully understand this games story, you have to find every lore room in every biome, beat the game four whole times, then face a secret boss, and then beat the game another two times, which just resets the time loop again. Man this game is immaculate.
It appears to me that, originally,the king meant to help and save his kingdom. But eventually fell to dispair, and thus did the only thing he could. Exercise authority and controll. This obviously lead to his downfall, destroying himself even into a blobby mass. And thats when his journey begins. However,its not a redemption journey. He actually looses more and more of his humanity, begins to see the world literaly as a game for himself to play. Enabled buy the collector and the time guardian's misshaps, he of corse becomes arrogant and uncaring. Andcwhen he finally reclaims his body and the solution to the plague, thus ending the near endless loop hes been living for possabily millenia, he understandably gets bored. And in the end, welcomes back the looping hell he used to go through, ignoring and forgetting about his people,the plague and the world. Cause if youre eternal, all that eventually matters is how to entertain yourself throughout this eternalness.
By the looks of it, it wasn't the first time HE drank the Panacea. As stated earlier, HE became Blob due to the result of an Incomplete Panacea. And as we can see, those side effects were true. Lust for violence, loss of empathy. The Panacea truly came with a great price. After all, what is a human if it isn't _humane_ ?
@@rainedans8684 Nooo. It's heavily implied that the King's current state is a result of the Alchemist/collector using the data/research he got from the Apostates and undying shores to turn him into a homunculus. The implication seems to be that the King was so desperate to save his life after his own infection by the Malaise that he went to the Alchemist for help, and turning him into a homunculus was the only solution he had. The apostates performed their own research on the cells and it's all but stated that the homunculi are the end-result of that research.
I'll be honest. That kind of ending feels incomplete. At some point, something or someone has to step in before this endless loop destroys everything. I mean, if the lighthouse ending means anything, he's probably gonna travel to the rest of the world and begin a new cycle of death and rebirth.
I've always wondered what Dead Cells' Lore was. At the time i didn't have the cash to get it. Well i'm glad that you've decided to make lore videos on these small games, it takes massive dedication and i just want to say, Thanks for making these lore videos.
I had 170 hours clocked in the game when I uploaded the video. Now not ALL of that was gameplay, but there was certainly a ton of time spent on this. Lol. Around the 50-60 hour mark, I thought about giving up, but I had already spent so much time on it that I couldn't just walk away. Glad I stuck with it. Haha. Thanks for watching!
I’m at 30 hours and still haven’t beaten the king so...I mean, I don’t play it seriously, but after watching this video, I realized how serious this game is
@@_inSight__ lmao i only managed to get my first boss cell after 50 hours. Ive got 80 on record now and am STILL struggling to get my 2nd boss cell. Maybe my grandchildren can finish the game for me
@@0TheJigsawKiller0 I’ve put maybe 10 or so more hours into the game and have finally reached the Hand a couple times. I still get swept by the Hand tho, and I bet it will be probably another 10 or so hours before I start putting up a fight.
Perfect timing! Hopefully this helps fill in some of the gaps of the story for you! If you want any tips on gameplay, I'd be happy to offer some help too! Feel free to reach out! Thanks for watching! :)
Idk if i can blame the king. He was only human and he fell into despair. The Giant himself said they looked up to him before. So in my eyes the situation was so dire that the King had little to no options left and was seen as the bad guy. Sure he made a few bad decisions but that only happened because of the pressure which caused his growing paranoia.
The story just makes the game even cooler. Like the fuck: - the beheaded is the king who ruined the place - he regains his body and doesn't change his ways - time travels and the game ends with breaking rule number one of time travel in media I know I would never have been able to see this end by playing for a long time, so thank you for making this amazing video on an amazing game
"flip each other off" yeah that sounds like a Souls player meeting themselves. i would argue that it has Souls difficulty, but i also have better things to do so dont start
@@ahmadMacoofficialchannel Heya, might be a bit late for me to respond to this. Thing is, dead cells builds up difficulty a LOT and dark souls kinda just fucks you over and keeps you around that stage of difficulty, maybe increasing, but definitely not as drastically as dead cells. So what the other guy said it's actually kinda understandable, in dark souls once you get used to it and after tens of hours, probably going into a hundred you'll be able to breeze through the game fairly nicely, all be it still difficult. While in dead cells it will take you easily over 100-150 hours just to get to the most difficult point and dead cells is a LOT more chaotic than dark souls. Thing is, if you can't keep track of every little detail in dead cells you are dead, while in dark souls it's kinda just knowing your timings and the boss attacks, that's where the difficulty debate becomes problematic. Dark souls - few enemies, but difficult Dead cells- hordes of enemies, varying attacks, a bit less difficult for each one. Also keep in mind it's not like you can space out the tons of enemies, they all teleport after you. If you haven't played up to 5BC I'd recommend going to watch someone play it, it's absolute madness. Oh and also, dead cells is more punishing, you basically don't get to heal aside from your starting pots for the entire run, so while individual fights may be easier each mistake costs you a lot more, since you're not resetting the chamber, you're on the edge of resetting an entire run.
What I find very interesting is that the plot of the lore was already there in game; hidden in the background. You just had to work hard to find out what was going on, kind of like Dark Souls or Bloodborne. Great video btw!!!
@@Padre_des_los_penitentesthey might be thinking of seeing the statue in the promenade of the condemned _WHILE_ wearing his Royal armor. He says the same thing he did when he just the beheaded
I would've really liked to experience the story for myself, but God damn, I just don't have enough time on my hands. Either way, we can all agree, the Beheaded's personality is amazing.
I can't but feel it's a light parody of Dark Souls, despite having a similar sounding name the setting is bleak and depressing like a Souls game but instead on drawing attention to the state of the world it often just goofs around with obscene gestures and silly dialogue. Even the trailers of the game reflect this, grim setting but lighthearted fun.
Dead Cells has such an awesome visual design that even its more mundane elements lead us to an f fascinating setting. I once wrote a similar video to this, but sadly never finished it. Some of the ideas I had: - there was an attempt to creat a man/plant hybrid in the kingdom, as seen in High Peak Castle, but don't know why. Maybe the King got greedy and wanted a new army? The dejects of those experiments coupled with the sap resulted in the water's contamination and the Malaise - the Conjuctivius is a pure brethren of the Malaise - the Time Keeper messing with Time is also taking its toll in space, hence the darkness mechanic in the Sepulcher Some unanswered questions: - why has the King's mind been put into an amorphous blob? - who's the spider lady protecting the Sepulcher? If there's a Time Keeper, maybe a Space Keeper? - what happened to the King? The Giant shows quite the resentment for how he turned from a beloved ruler to a royal jerk I stopped playing Dead Cells after 2BC, because the difficulty was just too much for me, but it is quite an amazing game!
@@Willimann game took me 3 times to beat the hand..but oh it’s not over...I love this game I purchased the android version, and I bought and own the $130 prisoners edition on switch...and the new dlc is kicking my ass.
Managed to reach the throne room, but I got decimated by The Kings Right Hand. That man and his f*cking attacks are so overwhelming, coupled with the ice panels above the spike pits and the death banners, its so much that it becomes headache inducing. Still love the game tho.
I touched on Mama Tick in my Bad Seed video, but not sure if I’ll do Conjunctivius. I’ll definitely be doing the new DLC when it comes out in the next few days! Thanks for the suggestion! And thanks for watching!
Honestly I feel bad for the king. He didn’t want to be evil, it he was put in a impossible position. A plaque is destroying your kingdom rapidly, you don’t know what to do. You can only try and slow the infection. He fell down the rabbit hole becoming the evil that damned the kingdom just because he tried to save it.
I’m not going to lie and say that I am subbed or have even ever heard of this channel but I just wanted to say thanks for this. Dead cells is one of my favorite games and I haven’t seen such a thorough timeline anywhere else. Good video. (I’m subbed now)
When I first beat the Hand of the King I was like "Oh, what a nice game it was" then I looked at the achievements, so many more bioms, bosses and also collectable powers/weapons/etc . And now I see this video and know that there is even more to come? I'm ready for this ride! Thanks for the video, it was really well done :)
More would be nice, but I'm happy these reach as many people as they do! I love being able to teach people stuff and if these help some people understand the story of a game they enjoyed or their favorite game, then these accomplished what I wanted! Thanks for watching, man! Happy to hear you enjoyed! :)
This is really well done. Your story telling ability is great. I was looking for a video exactly like this for a long time. Thanks for making this. Keep up the great work.
I was always trying to figure out the story, but I wasn't strong enough to get five boss cells... This was awesome video, I'm blown away. Now I must go and watch lore of the bad seed
It's not like the average player ignored the story, it just that after collecting the Bios Cell Stem the runs becomes goddamn hard to finish the game!😂
@@Mirouku86 like actually bro. Getting 3 is so difficult for me. I usually at least try to make it to Concierge and beat him but it's always after that in Stilt, or High peak where it just seems impossible. Especially without healing.
I just finished the game for the first time and was pretty disappointed to know i had to do it 5 more times with increasing difficulty to actually finish the game and the story, i love the game but im not ready to put 100 hours into it to finish the story. Wish they had a option to finish the game without the blood cells requirement. Anyway thx a lot for the summary!! :) Keep up the good work!!!
You should definitely remake this video including information from the bad seed as well as fatal falls dlcs, even info about the mining in the cavern was left out. Plus, some acknowledgment of conjunctivus, the coffin maker, and more specific lore rooms would be nice
In some lore zones when the beheaded interacts with objects, the text box will have different colors, like red for anger, yellow/orange for reading another’s words or reading a note and etc. so he might have another problem there, either another mental condition or a side effect of his constant deaths.
If you can still have a blast with a game and have a whole different experience when playing after knowing the lore, you know both the game and lore are good
Part of me doesn't want to spoil the cool lore of the game for myself, but another part of my knows I'll never get good enough to see it all. I've been on 1BC for like a year
I do like Dead Cells but I admit that I do suck at the game, the furthest I came was the after the Time Keeper. Anyway, my theory was that the beheaded was the Malaise but he didn't know. This is actually way cooler. I don't regret spoiling it to myself.
Thanks a lot, man! Happy to hear you enjoyed! I was actually surprised there wasn't more stuff out there for this. Just an opportunity for this though, I suppose! Lol.
Thank you for uploading. I cannot get past 2 Red Cells. I have played the game for 7 months. I am getting bored and the story is the only thing keeping me going.
Thanks for watching! Believe me, I know the feeling, but you've made it further than me - I was stuck on 1 Red Cell... Hahaha. If you want some tips, I'd be happy to share some! Feel free to reach out. :)
I dont think is coincidence because happened to me too.its because youtube algorithm propably.science man is amazing.also this game is amazing and the storyxD
Damn, i played this a couple years ago and got to 2 cells before just moving onto something else without realising what the actual story was - Great vid!
One of my coworkers knew that I really loved the soul series and Bloodborne as well as Elden Ring. He also knew that I loved the Castlevania series. So he told me about Dead Cells. I watched this video and that was that I went ahead and bought the game and I loved it. In fact, I have all the DLC for the game. So if it wasn’t for your amazing work on your videos, I don’t think I would’ve tried this game out. So I truly thank you very much❤😊
I am to say, I am, impressed. not just for you piecing together the story, but the game developers themselves. Matpat has gotta piece this together too
there are some runs when you find him dead inside his prison cell, smashed by one of the teleporting coffins, i think. And his prison cell was full of teleporting coffins, so i can only guess that maaaybe he was working on a way to use those to escape, thus resulting in his invention(?) of the teleporting rune? Which we stole. :"D
I enjoyed this game thoroughly. Only managing to defeat the kings hand after 2 years of play. So much left to do, so much left to get good at. Cant wait to return to the grind!
Thank you for this! I have 230h in this game, and I never took the time to piece together its disseminated story (though, to be fair, I'm a long way from reaching the true ending, being only at 2BC after almost three years of owning the game 😅) Edit: NOT STUCK ANYMORE! Just beat the Giant and the Hand one after the other, melting them with a combo of Infantry Bow and Ice Bow, and whenever my Infantry Bow ran out of ammo, I swapped to the Broadsword I had in my backpack. My tail was covered by Ice Armour and Tonic. Probably the coolest thing I've ever done in a video game 😭 now I can sleep. Thanks for the extra inspiration to keep pushing, by the way! I want to beat the story fair and square and experience Motion Twin's work firsthand after seeing how much I was missing out on
I really hope we get a rematch against the time keeper as an alternative to the Collector. A new stage instead of Astrolab and an fight very different from the first time you fight her. Complete with lore rooms and such which explains or atleast hints to why everything changes every time you die. Is there any lore which goes into the nature of the procedural generated stages?
thank you! i was legit wondering who would dislike this video and why.. makes sense.. now we wait for the full lore video with this ending and new info brought to light
I thought about not wanting spoilers, said "fuck it" and watched the video. I am glad now, because damn, its _very_ unlikely I would have played through.
Haha. It's a mixed bag. I think it has a place as a player. Trying to get shots for this was a nightmare though. I played for like 3 hours one night to get a 15 second shot... Thanks for watching!
Been getting my butt kicked by Dead Cells lately, and now I can finally watch these videos! I really like how your quality is consistent; these videos are just as good as the newer ones!
I'm proud of myself for having guessed the story just a few runs in after having made it past the clocktower and seeing the statue with the cheeky critique of the king's helmet!
YES! THANK YOU! After finishing 5bc and unlocking everything in the game, the only thing i was missing was a good summary of the story. Thank you for this video.
I love Dead Cells in it's entirety. I've never gotten to BC5 so... having someone to narrate it is pretty cool. I'm still going to go for the end of course, and what with the new DLC... well it's gonna be a helluva trip. Thanks for the video.
Been playing on mobile and infuriatingly getting nowhere. Thank you so much for unlocking this lore for me, because lord knows I wasn't gonna make it by myself.
Man, at that point the Time Keeper may as well stop rewinding time and just accept their fates, considering there are just a few survivors and the Panacea cannot be used anymore (cause there aren't much people left to cure.) So yeah, that was Dead Cells. Maybe one last dlc or update about the origin of that sap in the slumbering sanctuary and the story of that "Queen" so the history will be sealed. I personally think the true ending would be finishing off the Time Keeper, or her ending the rewind so that the undying finally becomes dying. About the King, he's an ass, but I don't really believe it was all his fault in the demise of the island.
Excellent video. Best in class quality.
One nit in the improbable case no one has said it: "panacea" is pronounced "panna sea uh". It's an English word so any online dictionary will do it justice if my text hasn't.
Thank you very much! Happy you enjoyed!
Yes, it's been mentioned once or twice. Lol. It was a good thing to learn and it's always a good day when you learn something new! I've since learned my lesson and corrected the pronunciation for my subsequent videos on Dead Cells. Thanks for taking the time to share the correct pronunciation with me! Really appreciate it!
And thanks for watching!
It still surprises me to this day that the beheaded is actually a king who also happens to be arrogant and controlling......
You expect that after reclaiming his body, he would try to fix his kingdom but no he wants to keep himself entertained by fighting his own physical copy.
He is honestly Deadpool crazy yet comedic in a dark way...
to be honest. most of the population is dead so whats the point
It's useless anyway since the whole kingdom is literally dead and the survivor don't care about the infection anymore
But didnt the beheaded lose all his memories, so he wouldnt have remembered he was king either way
@@firstnamelastname3173 Once you posess the body of the King, the beheaded refers to it as its "original host".
What could he save? Only 1 other person from the kingdom still lives, the time keeper. All it’s inhabitants are dead or mutated.
I like how no one really cared about this game's lore for the past two years and we get a story summary just now
Better late than never? Lol. Thanks for watching!
Tbh this vid made me immediately buy the game now
And I have to say I don’t regret the purchase
There coming out with another dlc soon
Yup! I'm excited for it! Don't think it's going to add too much to the overall story, but will help flesh out and deepen the world further! I'm going to try and make a video about the information that came out with Bad Seed before that DLC comes out too!
@@studio-cultist9622 I just got it too, and I love it. But this video made me want to complete it all the way!!!
So basically the mixture of Time Warping, Super drugs, A Magic Zombie Virus, and An Irresponsible King, resulted in this game
We only lack the time warping irl for us to live in Dead Cells! Hooray...
Just throw him on the pile of “pretty bad kings that kinda fucked things up” along with nearly every king from dark souls and the pale king.
It’s just hollow knight
@@shin_taps having played both, I can tell you it differs from HK certainly from a gameplay perspective. Undoubtedly less so from a lore perspective, but they are still their own games.
Yup that's it
I just noticed that the last words of the collector were: "Git gud" before having his skull flattened.
The fact you even got to the boss makes me think that there’s no more gudder you can git
It’s random
@@mohammednajl5950 ah
@Maximus torr ...git gud existed way before hollow knight
@Maximus torr I mean, maybe, because there is a HK easter egg in the game, but I can't say for sure
Wow, this game got a million points from me on story.... not often you play as the villain. 10/10
and whenever you do, its always a good ending. Im glad for once its a game where you start as the asshole and end as the asshole
@@justyouraveragehumanbeing7411 I don’t really think he was that much of an asshole. He tried to save his people by trying to contain the disease until a cure was found. But then something out of his control happened and the disease continued to spread and out of desperation he grew paranoid and made laws that were inhumane because in his head that could be the kingdom’s last hope at living through. Well he was wrong and people didn’t really like that and then the rest happened and he got labelled as the villain. Unless i missed a crucial part of the video for being sleepy as hell.
@@xornedge8204 nah you got it. Though like a man once said “the road to hell is paved with good intentions”
He may not have started as the villain. But the virus and the events preceding the story pushed the king towards unintentional villainy.
So looking at just the game. We do indeed start and end as an asshole.
To be honest if you were king and lived in a devestated world like that, you would eventually also be like fuck this I am out, negligence does not make you evil.
you don’t often play as the villain? What bout OMORI?
So you’re telling me that in order to fully understand this games story, you have to find every lore room in every biome, beat the game four whole times, then face a secret boss, and then beat the game another two times, which just resets the time loop again. Man this game is immaculate.
I couldn't even get past bc1, so I figure I've finished about 1/7th of the game 😅
@@TheRealProfwalrus 1/8, after you defeat Collector for the 1st time you will need to defeat him at the 2nd time, still in 5BCs
if i didn't want to be spoiled, I wouldn't have been dressed as the Queen's poodle
Watch on, then! I hope you enjoy! :)
Thanks for watching!
It appears to me that, originally,the king meant to help and save his kingdom.
But eventually fell to dispair, and thus did the only thing he could.
Exercise authority and controll.
This obviously lead to his downfall, destroying himself even into a blobby mass. And thats when his journey begins.
However,its not a redemption journey.
He actually looses more and more of his humanity, begins to see the world literaly as a game for himself to play.
Enabled buy the collector and the time guardian's misshaps, he of corse becomes arrogant and uncaring.
Andcwhen he finally reclaims his body and the solution to the plague, thus ending the near endless loop hes been living for possabily millenia, he understandably gets bored.
And in the end, welcomes back the looping hell he used to go through, ignoring and forgetting about his people,the plague and the world.
Cause if youre eternal, all that eventually matters is how to entertain yourself throughout this eternalness.
The beheaded(king) in the trailer: funni purple fire head guy
The beheaded(king) in the game:
By the looks of it, it wasn't the first time HE drank the Panacea. As stated earlier, HE became Blob due to the result of an Incomplete Panacea. And as we can see, those side effects were true. Lust for violence, loss of empathy. The Panacea truly came with a great price. After all, what is a human if it isn't _humane_ ?
@@rainedans8684 Nooo. It's heavily implied that the King's current state is a result of the Alchemist/collector using the data/research he got from the Apostates and undying shores to turn him into a homunculus. The implication seems to be that the King was so desperate to save his life after his own infection by the Malaise that he went to the Alchemist for help, and turning him into a homunculus was the only solution he had.
The apostates performed their own research on the cells and it's all but stated that the homunculi are the end-result of that research.
Eternity
I'll be honest. That kind of ending feels incomplete. At some point, something or someone has to step in before this endless loop destroys everything. I mean, if the lighthouse ending means anything, he's probably gonna travel to the rest of the world and begin a new cycle of death and rebirth.
I've always wondered what Dead Cells' Lore was. At the time i didn't have the cash to get it. Well i'm glad that you've decided to make lore videos on these small games, it takes massive dedication and i just want to say, Thanks for making these lore videos.
Thanks, man! I worked really hard on this one, so hearing the appreciation means a lot!
Thanks for watching!
Jesus loves us all that's why he died for our sins.
I can’t even imagine how many hours it must take to get to this point
I had 170 hours clocked in the game when I uploaded the video. Now not ALL of that was gameplay, but there was certainly a ton of time spent on this. Lol.
Around the 50-60 hour mark, I thought about giving up, but I had already spent so much time on it that I couldn't just walk away. Glad I stuck with it. Haha. Thanks for watching!
@@SquatchGamingChannel 170 hours is still honestly a very good time to get all of the story by yourself. Good job!
I’m at 30 hours and still haven’t beaten the king so...I mean, I don’t play it seriously, but after watching this video, I realized how serious this game is
@@_inSight__ lmao i only managed to get my first boss cell after 50 hours. Ive got 80 on record now and am STILL struggling to get my 2nd boss cell. Maybe my grandchildren can finish the game for me
@@0TheJigsawKiller0 I’ve put maybe 10 or so more hours into the game and have finally reached the Hand a couple times. I still get swept by the Hand tho, and I bet it will be probably another 10 or so hours before I start putting up a fight.
I just started playing Dead Cells recently, this is the best timing.
Perfect timing! Hopefully this helps fill in some of the gaps of the story for you!
If you want any tips on gameplay, I'd be happy to offer some help too! Feel free to reach out!
Thanks for watching! :)
Omg your right! I just saw this came out a month ago I just started playing lol
Idk if i can blame the king. He was only human and he fell into despair. The Giant himself said they looked up to him before. So in my eyes the situation was so dire that the King had little to no options left and was seen as the bad guy. Sure he made a few bad decisions but that only happened because of the pressure which caused his growing paranoia.
The story just makes the game even cooler. Like the fuck:
- the beheaded is the king who ruined the place
- he regains his body and doesn't change his ways
- time travels and the game ends with breaking rule number one of time travel in media
I know I would never have been able to see this end by playing for a long time, so thank you for making this amazing video on an amazing game
So mattpat was right...
you ARE the king of hallown- whatever the kingdom is called
He got the right theory for the wrong game
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I like how the collector says git good before he died
hollow knight reference 101
shaw
"flip each other off" yeah that sounds like a Souls player meeting themselves. i would argue that it has Souls difficulty, but i also have better things to do so dont start
It's much harder than dark souls.
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@@vegitoblue3613 i disagree,
dead cell give us more advantage to face the enemy than dark souls
@@ahmadMacoofficialchannel Heya, might be a bit late for me to respond to this. Thing is, dead cells builds up difficulty a LOT and dark souls kinda just fucks you over and keeps you around that stage of difficulty, maybe increasing, but definitely not as drastically as dead cells.
So what the other guy said it's actually kinda understandable, in dark souls once you get used to it and after tens of hours, probably going into a hundred you'll be able to breeze through the game fairly nicely, all be it still difficult. While in dead cells it will take you easily over 100-150 hours just to get to the most difficult point and dead cells is a LOT more chaotic than dark souls. Thing is, if you can't keep track of every little detail in dead cells you are dead, while in dark souls it's kinda just knowing your timings and the boss attacks, that's where the difficulty debate becomes problematic.
Dark souls - few enemies, but difficult
Dead cells- hordes of enemies, varying attacks, a bit less difficult for each one.
Also keep in mind it's not like you can space out the tons of enemies, they all teleport after you. If you haven't played up to 5BC I'd recommend going to watch someone play it, it's absolute madness. Oh and also, dead cells is more punishing, you basically don't get to heal aside from your starting pots for the entire run, so while individual fights may be easier each mistake costs you a lot more, since you're not resetting the chamber, you're on the edge of resetting an entire run.
What I find very interesting is that the plot of the lore was already there in game; hidden in the background. You just had to work hard to find out what was going on, kind of like Dark Souls or Bloodborne.
Great video btw!!!
The real question is why the beheaded makes fun of the King’s large crown when he himself IS the king.
Self awareness.
It’s like laughing at your fashion sense from ten years ago.
He didn't know he was the king back then
@@Padre_des_los_penitentesthey might be thinking of seeing the statue in the promenade of the condemned _WHILE_ wearing his Royal armor. He says the same thing he did when he just the beheaded
@@I_am_box the 2 things change when you wearing King outfit is HoTK and The Collector, no more change when you wearing that outfit
I had to rewatch twice. His soothing voice made me fall asleep. Video was amazing.
You could also take this as “his boring voice made me fall asleep”
I would've really liked to experience the story for myself, but God damn, I just don't have enough time on my hands.
Either way, we can all agree, the Beheaded's personality is amazing.
I can't but feel it's a light parody of Dark Souls, despite having a similar sounding name the setting is bleak and depressing like a Souls game but instead on drawing attention to the state of the world it often just goofs around with obscene gestures and silly dialogue. Even the trailers of the game reflect this, grim setting but lighthearted fun.
Dead Cells has such an awesome visual design that even its more mundane elements lead us to an f fascinating setting. I once wrote a similar video to this, but sadly never finished it. Some of the ideas I had:
- there was an attempt to creat a man/plant hybrid in the kingdom, as seen in High Peak Castle, but don't know why. Maybe the King got greedy and wanted a new army? The dejects of those experiments coupled with the sap resulted in the water's contamination and the Malaise
- the Conjuctivius is a pure brethren of the Malaise
- the Time Keeper messing with Time is also taking its toll in space, hence the darkness mechanic in the Sepulcher
Some unanswered questions:
- why has the King's mind been put into an amorphous blob?
- who's the spider lady protecting the Sepulcher? If there's a Time Keeper, maybe a Space Keeper?
- what happened to the King? The Giant shows quite the resentment for how he turned from a beloved ruler to a royal jerk
I stopped playing Dead Cells after 2BC, because the difficulty was just too much for me, but it is quite an amazing game!
Ah yep, now you can minus 1 unanswered question by DLC The Queen and the sea
I've only gotten to the clock tower once....after seeing this I realize i have an insane long ways to go. Depressing.
Ehh not really. The game goes fast once you get past that point
@@godfrey4461 except you die 10 times in the castle or brewery and after that another 10 times at the hotk
Welcome to Dead Cells
@@Willimann game took me 3 times to beat the hand..but oh it’s not over...I love this game I purchased the android version, and I bought and own the $130 prisoners edition on switch...and the new dlc is kicking my ass.
Managed to reach the throne room, but I got decimated by The Kings Right Hand. That man and his f*cking attacks are so overwhelming, coupled with the ice panels above the spike pits and the death banners, its so much that it becomes headache inducing. Still love the game tho.
You could say some words about Conjunctivius and Mama tick, they have nice touch to the story.
I touched on Mama Tick in my Bad Seed video, but not sure if I’ll do Conjunctivius. I’ll definitely be doing the new DLC when it comes out in the next few days!
Thanks for the suggestion! And thanks for watching!
Honestly I feel bad for the king. He didn’t want to be evil, it he was put in a impossible position. A plaque is destroying your kingdom rapidly, you don’t know what to do. You can only try and slow the infection. He fell down the rabbit hole becoming the evil that damned the kingdom just because he tried to save it.
This is what I was thinking. I am glad someone brought this up.
Underrated post for sure
I’m not going to lie and say that I am subbed or have even ever heard of this channel but I just wanted to say thanks for this. Dead cells is one of my favorite games and I haven’t seen such a thorough timeline anywhere else. Good video.
(I’m subbed now)
When I first beat the Hand of the King I was like "Oh, what a nice game it was" then I looked at the achievements, so many more bioms, bosses and also collectable powers/weapons/etc . And now I see this video and know that there is even more to come? I'm ready for this ride! Thanks for the video, it was really well done :)
I've been playing this for a little more than a year or two, and this would have never been an expected ending like this
I literally just picked this game up again after a couple years Xmas night. Just managed to beat the 1st hard mode last night.
Thanks for the lore!
Nice, man! You going to go all the way?
Thanks for watching!
Man, i would defnititly miss on the beaheaded being the king lore if it wasnt this summary video!!!
You need more subs. You put so much effort into making these videos.
More would be nice, but I'm happy these reach as many people as they do! I love being able to teach people stuff and if these help some people understand the story of a game they enjoyed or their favorite game, then these accomplished what I wanted!
Thanks for watching, man! Happy to hear you enjoyed! :)
This is really well done. Your story telling ability is great. I was looking for a video exactly like this for a long time. Thanks for making this. Keep up the great work.
I was always trying to figure out the story, but I wasn't strong enough to get five boss cells... This was awesome video, I'm blown away. Now I must go and watch lore of the bad seed
The key is to just git gud lol
I killed King and I thought it's an end. But there's a lot of things remaining .
This was clearly a labor of love! Thank you for all your hard work to put this together!
Craziest 2d game I've ever played.
.... is been a long ride since super Mario land...
even when this game full of tragic lore, its somehow still feel really silly, i love it
Awesome video, my friend. I enjoyed your rendition of the full story. Well done!
I got chills when the main character said "and I am the Dead Cells." Soooo good
Really loved the part where he says it’s celling time and started to dead all over the place
It's not like the average player ignored the story, it just that after collecting the Bios Cell Stem the runs becomes goddamn hard to finish the game!😂
Exactly xD is waaaay too hard for the average and even a hardcore player to get experience all of this :c
I claimed the 2nd and with 3C I cannot reach The Concierge 😭
@@Mirouku86 like actually bro. Getting 3 is so difficult for me. I usually at least try to make it to Concierge and beat him but it's always after that in Stilt, or High peak where it just seems impossible. Especially without healing.
I've been playing since the beta and have always wondered what the story of this game is, thank you
This game always brings me back to symphony of the night
Lol this comment aged well xD
I knew I was probably never going to get all of the lore, this was nice.
i didnt expect those little lines on the level were gonna explain all the lore, i just thought they were random lines lol
Lol
Nice I just started playing Dead Cells yesterday.
I just finished the game for the first time and was pretty disappointed to know i had to do it 5 more times with increasing difficulty to actually finish the game and the story, i love the game but im not ready to put 100 hours into it to finish the story. Wish they had a option to finish the game without the blood cells requirement. Anyway thx a lot for the summary!! :) Keep up the good work!!!
thats the entire point of the game..... its repetitive and endless just like The Beheaded's deaths
@@Sitaramin I just wanted to know how the story ends tho.
Thank You and since you do the stories better than most youtubers I wonder has there been a hyper light drifted story summery?
Thanks for watching! Happy to hear you enjoyed!
Not one by me, but I’m sure there’s one out there somewhere!
You should definitely remake this video including information from the bad seed as well as fatal falls dlcs, even info about the mining in the cavern was left out. Plus, some acknowledgment of conjunctivus, the coffin maker, and more specific lore rooms would be nice
love the game but didn't know the lore and not good enough to get all of it.
very well done video and a well earned new sub
In some lore zones when the beheaded interacts with objects, the text box will have different colors, like red for anger, yellow/orange for reading another’s words or reading a note and etc. so he might have another problem there, either another mental condition or a side effect of his constant deaths.
I assumed that red was showing the brutality skill, purple for tactics, and green for survival. The skills usually correspond with what the king says
Thank you! Finally a comprehensive video that answered so many questions I had for weeks.
Happy to hear it helped! Let me know if you have any more questions and I can try to answer them for you!
Thanks for watching! :)
If you can still have a blast with a game and have a whole different experience when playing after knowing the lore, you know both the game and lore are good
Man I just beat 0bc, getting through all of this in its entirety is a feat man. Great work
Story line is just soo good that it deserves AAA title !!!! Seriously we need dead cells in AAA version like other games..!!
Part of me doesn't want to spoil the cool lore of the game for myself, but another part of my knows I'll never get good enough to see it all. I've been on 1BC for like a year
That was a very good lore summary of dead cells.
I do like Dead Cells but I admit that I do suck at the game, the furthest I came was the after the Time Keeper. Anyway, my theory was that the beheaded was the Malaise but he didn't know. This is actually way cooler. I don't regret spoiling it to myself.
Greats vid as someone who loves this game great to see some focus on its lore
Thanks a lot, man! Happy to hear you enjoyed!
I was actually surprised there wasn't more stuff out there for this. Just an opportunity for this though, I suppose! Lol.
Hotline Miami and Dead Cells, Squatch never misses
Amazing story and I really liked how you presented it!
Squatch messed up with the lines of "Starting a battle to see which of them is the stronger." quite interesting how it just rings in my ears.
Thank you for uploading. I cannot get past 2 Red Cells. I have played the game for 7 months. I am getting bored and the story is the only thing keeping me going.
Thanks for watching!
Believe me, I know the feeling, but you've made it further than me - I was stuck on 1 Red Cell... Hahaha.
If you want some tips, I'd be happy to share some! Feel free to reach out. :)
Thanks I played through the entire game two years ago and to this day still didn’t know what the fuck it was about
Damn i was playing it yesterday and now this comes out
Uncanny coincidence, huh? Lol. Thanks for watching! Hope it helped!
I dont think is coincidence because happened to me too.its because youtube algorithm propably.science man is amazing.also this game is amazing and the storyxD
Damn, i played this a couple years ago and got to 2 cells before just moving onto something else without realising what the actual story was - Great vid!
This is so, SO well put together ❤
One of my coworkers knew that I really loved the soul series and Bloodborne as well as Elden Ring. He also knew that I loved the Castlevania series. So he told me about Dead Cells. I watched this video and that was that I went ahead and bought the game and I loved it. In fact, I have all the DLC for the game. So if it wasn’t for your amazing work on your videos, I don’t think I would’ve tried this game out. So I truly thank you very much❤😊
watching this video feels like I'm doing a literary homework
I am to say, I am, impressed.
not just for you piecing together the story, but the game developers themselves.
Matpat has gotta piece this together too
I am still curious about the man behind the gate down at sewers. The one we flip off
there are some runs when you find him dead inside his prison cell, smashed by one of the teleporting coffins, i think. And his prison cell was full of teleporting coffins, so i can only guess that maaaybe he was working on a way to use those to escape, thus resulting in his invention(?) of the teleporting rune? Which we stole. :"D
Aint gonna lie, this spoiled it for me. But I really don't think I would have looked into it anyway. such a great game.
Awesome vid man!!
Amazing video. This must have taken ages. Also, very strange pronunciation of Panacea.
Been waiting for a good story summary of this gane
The way he pronounces "panacea" physically hurts me. It's pan-uh-see-ah. Not "pan-aws-ea." Good lord.
Thanks for this, its really helpful for someone like me didn't understand the story of the game
Tbh, I thought you had to get the third cell from The Giant... I've been torturing myself for no reason.
Dont you need like the 2nd cell to even be able to fight the giant?
@@Kampfasiate Made an error in the post, mb
@@Kampfasiate nope
The truest reason why the king is heading his way through the kingdom is to literally kick ass
I can't follow up some of this game story because I'm always in hurry clearing every stage lol for achieving more cells
But damn this game hard asf
I enjoyed this game thoroughly. Only managing to defeat the kings hand after 2 years of play.
So much left to do, so much left to get good at.
Cant wait to return to the grind!
Bold of you to assume that I can reach 5BC hahah
I cant even finish 2 cells
Thank you for this! I have 230h in this game, and I never took the time to piece together its disseminated story (though, to be fair, I'm a long way from reaching the true ending, being only at 2BC after almost three years of owning the game 😅)
Edit: NOT STUCK ANYMORE! Just beat the Giant and the Hand one after the other, melting them with a combo of Infantry Bow and Ice Bow, and whenever my Infantry Bow ran out of ammo, I swapped to the Broadsword I had in my backpack. My tail was covered by Ice Armour and Tonic. Probably the coolest thing I've ever done in a video game 😭 now I can sleep. Thanks for the extra inspiration to keep pushing, by the way! I want to beat the story fair and square and experience Motion Twin's work firsthand after seeing how much I was missing out on
I really hope we get a rematch against the time keeper as an alternative to the Collector. A new stage instead of Astrolab and an fight very different from the first time you fight her. Complete with lore rooms and such which explains or atleast hints to why everything changes every time you die.
Is there any lore which goes into the nature of the procedural generated stages?
Awesome video! Thank you for taking the time to record all of these moments for this lore video.
5 dislike is from concierge, time keeper, hand of the king, the giant and mama tick
thank you! i was legit wondering who would dislike this video and why..
makes sense..
now we wait for the full lore video with this ending and new info brought to light
Truly awesome work. Subscribed and looking forward to more of your videos.
Awesome! Thanks so much! Will be another one for Dead Cells coming out soon (hopefully)!
I'm don't mean to go off topic, but are you planning on putting the full story of Blasphemous in one video like you did for Hotline Miami?
I don't have any plans on it for now, but never say never! It could be something that's made some time in the future!
Thanks for watching!
Dead cells has one of the most beautiful stories i have ever heard
I bet some people here only knew about this game because of the IGN Plagarism scandal from 2018.
I thought about not wanting spoilers, said "fuck it" and watched the video. I am glad now, because damn, its _very_ unlikely I would have played through.
You really enjoy randomization, don't you?
Haha. It's a mixed bag. I think it has a place as a player.
Trying to get shots for this was a nightmare though. I played for like 3 hours one night to get a 15 second shot...
Thanks for watching!
Been getting my butt kicked by Dead Cells lately, and now I can finally watch these videos! I really like how your quality is consistent; these videos are just as good as the newer ones!
Well, that was disappointing..
I'm proud of myself for having guessed the story just a few runs in after having made it past the clocktower and seeing the statue with the cheeky critique of the king's helmet!
YES! THANK YOU! After finishing 5bc and unlocking everything in the game, the only thing i was missing was a good summary of the story.
Thank you for this video.
Now Dead Cells is complete for you! Lol. Thanks for watching! Happy to hear I could help!
@@SquatchGamingChannel It'll only be complete when they stop making updates for it, which isn't the case, seeing as an expansion is coming in a month.
I totally forgot about that! Lol. Fatal Falls! I think I read that that's going to be their last bit of DLC.
I love Dead Cells in it's entirety. I've never gotten to BC5 so... having someone to narrate it is pretty cool. I'm still going to go for the end of course, and what with the new DLC... well it's gonna be a helluva trip. Thanks for the video.
Been playing on mobile and infuriatingly getting nowhere. Thank you so much for unlocking this lore for me, because lord knows I wasn't gonna make it by myself.
Man you are a hero. There was no way I could beat this game. I really wanted to know the story
Man, at that point the Time Keeper may as well stop rewinding time and just accept their fates, considering there are just a few survivors and the Panacea cannot be used anymore (cause there aren't much people left to cure.)
So yeah, that was Dead Cells. Maybe one last dlc or update about the origin of that sap in the slumbering sanctuary and the story of that "Queen" so the history will be sealed.
I personally think the true ending would be finishing off the Time Keeper, or her ending the rewind so that the undying finally becomes dying.
About the King, he's an ass, but I don't really believe it was all his fault in the demise of the island.
I LOVE THIS VIDEO. I'LL BE MORE INTENTIONAL ABOUT THE GAME. 4 BOSS CELLS ALREADY, NOW I KNOW WHERE TO GET THE FIFTH ONE. THANK YOU!!!