I take it to be an ironic statement. In this ending, you essentially became the CEO of the most influential company in the game's would by just coming into the building and murdering your predecessor and just about every other NPC on the map. The only one that you could have done was "invest" to power up the ZKC, but given the previous like "sacrificial hero blessed by primordial luck" I think the canon is that you won the Zippy out of a slot machine and used that instead.
> Sigma Mindset - Inferiority complex, Self Help Books, Dissolutional, Depression Naps > CEO Minset - GOALS, TEN YEAR PLAN, INVESTING, WAKING UP EARLY Know the difference.
The seemingly endless escalation of the music is a mirror progression of the CEO mindset: the endless growth of wealth. At what point does it end? At what point does it matter anymore? The BPM can only go so high before it's indistinct from silence, where you might as well not have bothered.
Because you can't see the main character's face, could we assume that LIFE is reflecting his own face back at him? After all, it said "All your friends are in hell yet you smile."
@@elster333 Yes, the lenses are throwing light at his eyes. But I think it can even go deeper. Life mocks him how he uses his life and what he does with it.
In my play through all the special NPC's in cruelty squad HQ immediately die and never come back if you enter the map with hope eradicated. Those where your friends and they are literally in hell.
yeah so in this one you're a demon overlord who becomes a CEO like in the game world and in the other one you just end up in the same cycle of doing gigs over and over
I described this song to my friends as “The sound of a man descending into a mental breakdown that leads to them strangling someone and the music getting louder and distorted drowning out the gurgling pleas.”
I WEEP. YOU ARE A ROTTEN HUSK. YOU OVERFLOW WITH BOUNDLESS POWER. YOU HAVE THE SOUL OF AN EMPEROR. SACRIFICIAL HERO. BLESSED BY PRIMORDIAL LUCK. YOUR FRIEND ARE IN HELL YET YOU SMILE. ONLY GOOD THINGS WILL COME TO SOMEONE LIKE YOU. SET GOALS. HAVE A TEN YEAR PLAN. INVEST. WAKE UP EARLY. CEO MINDSET. GOOD LUCK.
the sound of a man losing everything he ever loved, entering a state of psychotic anger and trying to keep the last of his sanity is truely elegant in a way.
thanks for uploading this. pretty sure they removed the ability to fish his gun away, even when he's not alerted, so he's even more of an unwinnable troll now.
okay apparently the new gun in the HQ level scales based on the valuation of your total assets. you can beat him if you have a large amount of holdings. clearly i was neglecting the true cruelty squad experience, which is trading stocks and fishing
@@zogingu Yeah they patched it. You'll have to find the ZKZ and buy a ton of stocks from the stock market. I bought about 300 from different available stocks and that makes the ZKZ an instant kill to about anything including the boss.
Just get the ammo arm attach and spam deadly gas at him from out of aggro range cause the auto ammo regen time is perfectly synced to the reload animation of the riot pacifier
LIFE might be breaking the fourth wall, telling the player(s) not to waste their life in the real world. Alternate interpretations are viable, however.
I thought that the NPC speech in this was just jibberish akin to how NPCs in banjo kazooie speak, but it actually sounds like TTS ran through some sort of filter, like you can acrually make out some of the words people speak in cruelty squad Or maybe I am crazy?
it's some sort of TTS, you can tell when you have people going 'AAAAAAAAAA'. My guess is it's a TTS in like finnish or something trying to read english with some stuff on top
It seems like English spoken with a very deep Finnish accent, maybe not even trying to pronounce syllables correctly. Also, when you make an NPC say the same line over and over again, the voice is slightly different every time. I think the voices are actually pure recordings being fucked with in real-time using the game engine
Honestly this ending is quite inspiring, especially once you understand the 3rd ending. Life still has meaning in our world at least until some weird dystopia happens.
@@loscopihues2343 The world of cruelty squad is one where life is fundamentally meaningless. If you honestly think that it's a one to one portrayal of the real world, you have some deep seeded issues you need to solve bro. Just know that suicide is not the answer, a CEO mindset is.
@@TheReaperAwaits1337 what's wrong with wealth? the problem is that in cruelty squads universe just about everything has become meaningless. Making it just a funny number you raise in the game.
Missing meaning, absurd consequence. Delusions to cover the conformed servitude. Sever the ouroboros, mercy the posterity. Inevitability. waiting weight, debt of life, irreparable imposition.
>SET GOALS. HAVE A TEN YEAR PLAN. INVEST. WAKE UP EARLY. CEO MINDSET. the most debased and blacksuppositoried line ever said ever. I unironically live by this line. Cruelty Squad actually altered my life. I get that the game is anti capitalist but damn.
@@mr.selyumor5402 it's not just that line that made it glaringly obvious that it was anticapitalist. it's that the entire cruelty squad world takes place in a postmodern hypercapitalist dystopia. it's basically a warning of what the world might become if we continue capitalism. the creator of the game seems to be some sort of anarchist from what he tweets, and i can't tell if he's trolling or is genuinely on that unabomber mindset. personally i think we won't devolve into bio-augmented freaks with capitalism, and if we do, it's definitely not gonna be the conservatives' fault. considering how much they hate any sort of change to the body. still, better than starving
@@NileForce2214 it starts there, but then you get to alternate worlds, archons, universe resets, death as a concept to balance life and at a certain point it kinda comes off as surface level to just go and say that it’s about that one thing. It’d be like boiling down Mother 3 to just being a critique of the economy. I’m sorry if I come off as rude but I really dislike this kind of thing, though I’m sure you didn’t mean it
Uh no NO. Please don't make me do this again. GOD. FUCKING. DAMMIT. This uh- [plays roblox with neurons] This- This is NOT good for the RUclips bitrate. REALLY uh, [last breath of my life] really- Really didn't want to hire an animator for this one I guess? uh- [undergoes lobotomy] Thank you? THIS SHIT IS MAKING MY HEAD HURT! Why is it- why- Why is it giving me actual good advice? [Solid Snake death sound effect]
Instead of the first ending, where you are trapped forever in doing jobs that have no higher meaning, you instead become the CEO of Cruelty Squad, and... Likely, give out jobs that have no higher meaning, your life itself being no more meaningful than in the first ending. Rather than riding the train to nowhere, you're driving it, but it changes nothing. The only way to fix it is to find the one thing you simply cannot have...
@@underthepale something i never got was how,if the game stories revolves around why death is meaningful and important,why doesn't the protagonist die? even in the "golden age" ending, your protagonist is implied to become an immortal god, who then forces death on the universe but not himself, somewhat making him a hypocrite of cosmic proportions
It's kinda complex. First you need Cursed mode active and get the "Death HP" which is on the first level. Then go to the HQ and open the cursed door then beat the boss. Pro tip, start with the fishing rod and the New implant in the HQ. He's beatable. I promise. Oh yeah there's also a new weapon in the HQ too. Good luck.
@@AnotherJman get the cursed flashlight and equip it, or go to the secret room behind the vents in HQ and touch the dark orb turns your HUD blue and makes the game way harder by increasing damage done to you and putting extra targets in most levels, as well as increases chances of rare enemies spawning, but it opens up new areas
@@CruSquad_Archives this is kinda odd since when i did my first mission i got this ending right as i got to the exit, I didnt have death hp or anything i just played the first mission
![Felix "Unfair" | [Stray Kids : SKZ-PLAYER]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/Oswujxm2Ag0/mqdefault.jpg)
>SET GOALS. HAVE A TEN YEAR PLAN. INVEST. WAKE UP EARLY. CEO MINDSET. GOOD LUCK.
unironically the funniest line i have ever heard in a line
I take it to be an ironic statement. In this ending, you essentially became the CEO of the most influential company in the game's would by just coming into the building and murdering your predecessor and just about every other NPC on the map. The only one that you could have done was "invest" to power up the ZKC, but given the previous like "sacrificial hero blessed by primordial luck" I think the canon is that you won the Zippy out of a slot machine and used that instead.
POV: you're looking inside of Jeff Bezos' mind
I cannot express how I love this comment, its genious, I have nothing I can add to it.
lmao take my like
Max0r has gaslit me into believing this monologue was in the form of a song.
YOUR FRIENDS ARE IN HELL - reffering to the fact that most friendly NPCs in HQ have to prema-die for you to get this ending
They do?
@@malamindulo when u activate hope eradicated and become a true ceo u must sacrifice your friends, it's life buddy
@@D0MIN0W4LKER I realized that’s what happens when you get the “Hey! Stop that!” message when you enter the HQ cursed.
Its also talking about how becoming a ceo under captalism makes you abandon your morals for the betterment of yourself and power.
@@malamindulo There's an NPC called the Secret Librarian, who can't die, and when he takes damage, he says that
> Sigma Mindset - Inferiority complex, Self Help Books, Dissolutional, Depression Naps
> CEO Minset - GOALS, TEN YEAR PLAN, INVESTING, WAKING UP EARLY
Know the difference.
them who knows:
The seemingly endless escalation of the music is a mirror progression of the CEO mindset: the endless growth of wealth.
At what point does it end? At what point does it matter anymore? The BPM can only go so high before it's indistinct from silence, where you might as well not have bothered.
Because you can't see the main character's face, could we assume that LIFE is reflecting his own face back at him? After all, it said "All your friends are in hell yet you smile."
Its pretty intresting take
maybe thats why the eyes are green
@@elster333 Yes, the lenses are throwing light at his eyes.
But I think it can even go deeper.
Life mocks him how he uses his life and what he does with it.
In my play through all the special NPC's in cruelty squad HQ immediately die and never come back if you enter the map with hope eradicated. Those where your friends and they are literally in hell.
He also has the vein going through his eye
“You have the soul of an emperor” is such a powerful compliment.
yeah so in this one you're a demon overlord who becomes a CEO like in the game world and in the other one you just end up in the same cycle of doing gigs over and over
It's funny how this ending is gotten after you explicitly give up LIFE in favor of DEATH
I described this song to my friends as “The sound of a man descending into a mental breakdown that leads to them strangling someone and the music getting louder and distorted drowning out the gurgling pleas.”
Pretty accurate tbh
You're so edgy...
i watch this every morning to kick start my grindset to become the ultimate detatched fucked up loser: a billionaire
*gazillionaire
this needs to be experienced without youtube compression to get the full effect
get the full panic attack experience with the in-game audio
Jimmy neutron when he gets a brain blast but this time it’s a brain tumor
I WEEP. YOU ARE A ROTTEN HUSK. YOU OVERFLOW WITH BOUNDLESS POWER. YOU HAVE THE SOUL OF AN EMPEROR. SACRIFICIAL HERO. BLESSED BY PRIMORDIAL LUCK. YOUR FRIEND ARE IN HELL YET YOU SMILE. ONLY GOOD THINGS WILL COME TO SOMEONE LIKE YOU. SET GOALS. HAVE A TEN YEAR PLAN. INVEST. WAKE UP EARLY. CEO MINDSET. GOOD LUCK.
i woke up to this having autoplayed at like 3am thanks
It's a sign
Set goals. Have a 10 year plan. Invest. Wake up early. CEO Mindset.
the sound of a man losing everything he ever loved, entering a state of psychotic anger and trying to keep the last of his sanity is truely elegant in a way.
thanks for uploading this. pretty sure they removed the ability to fish his gun away, even when he's not alerted, so he's even more of an unwinnable troll now.
okay apparently the new gun in the HQ level scales based on the valuation of your total assets. you can beat him if you have a large amount of holdings. clearly i was neglecting the true cruelty squad experience, which is trading stocks and fishing
@@zogingu Yeah they patched it. You'll have to find the ZKZ and buy a ton of stocks from the stock market. I bought about 300 from different available stocks and that makes the ZKZ an instant kill to about anything including the boss.
@@zogingu you can use the tranq gun and the laser gun to cheese the fight
Traq gun and spamming the Bolt ACR is way easier
Just get the ammo arm attach and spam deadly gas at him from out of aggro range cause the auto ammo regen time is perfectly synced to the reload animation of the riot pacifier
#sigmagrind
My brain portfolio will never decrease.
The sigma ending
YOUR FRIENDS ARE IN HELL YET YOU SMILE
This reminds me of SHODAN “negotiating” with the soldier from System Shock 2.
I thought it kind of looks like when JC met Morpheus
Except this one feels thematically the opposite
Somehow...
LIFE might be breaking the fourth wall, telling the player(s) not to waste their life in the real world. Alternate interpretations are viable, however.
"Nah"
@@crazytiger800 i think this ending is the main character becoming the CEO of the company and being the one in charge, but its still meaningless
@@fenix9463 NoOoOoOoOoOoOoO!
love how it gradually speeds up, thank you for that
Fruitatta. I'm a conundrummer in a band called life puzzler.
What doth life?
LIFE, Life, life...
Frittata!
@@jaitimestwo what doth Life
Haha Transactional Rifle go PING
I thought that the NPC speech in this was just jibberish akin to how NPCs in banjo kazooie speak, but it actually sounds like TTS ran through some sort of filter, like you can acrually make out some of the words people speak in cruelty squad
Or maybe I am crazy?
it's some sort of TTS, you can tell when you have people going 'AAAAAAAAAA'. My guess is it's a TTS in like finnish or something trying to read english with some stuff on top
It seems like English spoken with a very deep Finnish accent, maybe not even trying to pronounce syllables correctly.
Also, when you make an NPC say the same line over and over again, the voice is slightly different every time. I think the voices are actually pure recordings being fucked with in real-time using the game engine
I think they play a sound clip of the letter being said as it appears during the write-out, a la animal crossing.
I think it's just Animalese (the language the animals speak in Animal Crossing)
It works like Animal Crossing's seeming-incomprehensible language.
I can make out the Handler saying "oasis of love and friendship" for example.
1:34 goes hard
It's a bit of a high bar, but I think this is the most Panic-Attack-like track in the game
Honestly this ending is quite inspiring, especially once you understand the 3rd ending. Life still has meaning in our world at least until some weird dystopia happens.
The meaning implied here is just getting more and more wealthy
but our world is already a dystopia
if anything cruelty squad is a portrayal of our current world run through a lsd filter
@@loscopihues2343 The world of cruelty squad is one where life is fundamentally meaningless. If you honestly think that it's a one to one portrayal of the real world, you have some deep seeded issues you need to solve bro. Just know that suicide is not the answer, a CEO mindset is.
@@TheReaperAwaits1337 what's wrong with wealth? the problem is that in cruelty squads universe just about everything has become meaningless. Making it just a funny number you raise in the game.
Missing meaning, absurd consequence. Delusions to cover the conformed servitude. Sever the ouroboros, mercy the posterity. Inevitability. waiting weight, debt of life, irreparable imposition.
Exactly like gorbinos quest
What doth life?
this fucking jams
Weirdly calming
I’m very disappointed that they didn’t sing a song for the ending :(
youtube considers this music for me now wtf
CEO MINDSET
Tfw this isn't a nursery rhyme.
Is it normal that I did this ending right after finishing mall madness
very inspiring
>SET GOALS. HAVE A TEN YEAR PLAN. INVEST. WAKE UP EARLY. CEO MINDSET.
the most debased and blacksuppositoried line ever said ever. I unironically live by this line. Cruelty Squad actually altered my life. I get that the game is anti capitalist but damn.
lol
You boiled the game down to just anticapitalist after all that?
@@mr.selyumor5402 it's not just that line that made it glaringly obvious that it was anticapitalist. it's that the entire cruelty squad world takes place in a postmodern hypercapitalist dystopia. it's basically a warning of what the world might become if we continue capitalism. the creator of the game seems to be some sort of anarchist from what he tweets, and i can't tell if he's trolling or is genuinely on that unabomber mindset. personally i think we won't devolve into bio-augmented freaks with capitalism, and if we do, it's definitely not gonna be the conservatives' fault. considering how much they hate any sort of change to the body. still, better than starving
@@mr.selyumor5402 if you think this game is not anti-capitalist you have serious comprehension issues
@@NileForce2214 it starts there, but then you get to alternate worlds, archons, universe resets, death as a concept to balance life and at a certain point it kinda comes off as surface level to just go and say that it’s about that one thing. It’d be like boiling down Mother 3 to just being a critique of the economy. I’m sorry if I come off as rude but I really dislike this kind of thing, though I’m sure you didn’t mean it
after around 2:00 it just starts becoming breakcore
Breakcore is not just "low pitched sounds at 120+ bpm"
@@Forcoy Nerd
@@manliestdev I have no idea how everything that sound even slightly out of tune and is even slightly fast is instantly breakcore
@@Forcoy Nerd
@@manliestdev ok
Uh no NO.
Please don't make me do this again.
GOD. FUCKING. DAMMIT.
This uh-
[plays roblox with neurons]
This- This is NOT good for the RUclips bitrate.
REALLY uh,
[last breath of my life]
really-
Really didn't want to hire an animator for this one I guess?
uh-
[undergoes lobotomy]
Thank you?
THIS SHIT IS MAKING MY HEAD HURT!
Why is it-
why-
Why is it giving me actual good advice?
[Solid Snake death sound effect]
can anyone explain this ending?
*SIGMA MODE ACTIVATED*
Its literally at 1:03
Instead of the first ending, where you are trapped forever in doing jobs that have no higher meaning, you instead become the CEO of Cruelty Squad, and... Likely, give out jobs that have no higher meaning, your life itself being no more meaningful than in the first ending. Rather than riding the train to nowhere, you're driving it, but it changes nothing.
The only way to fix it is to find the one thing you simply cannot have...
@@underthepale finally the real explanation
@@underthepale something i never got was how,if the game stories revolves around why death is meaningful and important,why doesn't the protagonist die? even in the "golden age" ending, your protagonist is implied to become an immortal god, who then forces death on the universe but not himself, somewhat making him a hypocrite of cosmic proportions
how do you get it?
beat HQ on cursed mode
It's kinda complex. First you need Cursed mode active and get the "Death HP" which is on the first level. Then go to the HQ and open the cursed door then beat the boss. Pro tip, start with the fishing rod and the New implant in the HQ. He's beatable. I promise. Oh yeah there's also a new weapon in the HQ too. Good luck.
@@CruSquad_Archives What is cursed mode?
@@AnotherJman get the cursed flashlight and equip it, or go to the secret room behind the vents in HQ and touch the dark orb
turns your HUD blue and makes the game way harder by increasing damage done to you and putting extra targets in most levels, as well as increases chances of rare enemies spawning, but it opens up new areas
@@CruSquad_Archives this is kinda odd since when i did my first mission i got this ending right as i got to the exit, I didnt have death hp or anything i just played the first mission
Is that what MT fuck sounds like
I didn’t expect him to have a high pitched voice
I don't think so cause the text is talking in a second-person perspective like the other endings
Also, the "Mmm!" we hear after consuming something is quite deep as well
Putin's mind:
joe biden giving millions dollars to ukraine just to kill more people
How to get?
HQ with Hope Eradicated
@@CruSquad_Archives thx
@@lautarocardozo5214 no problem
9
The face is off center
🤓
dumm
This is actually the bad ending
1st one is neutral and 3rd one is good then?
@@shmekelfreckles8157 The death ending is good because it means that the people can finally die
@@imherehaha8989 yeah, it’s kinda like age of dark ending of Dark Souls, breaking the cycle
@@shmekelfreckles8157 Its kinda like gorbino's quest if you think about it.
@@crueltyquad18truly the gorbino's quest of game endings