u/secretadm29

Look, I really like the following characters: Minos Prime, Gabriel, V2, Original Swordsmachine, and Mirage (in no particular order, except for Minos, who is my favorite).

However, all of these have already received the treatment they deserve (especially Minos, even within the game), so I will write a text about the Swordsmachine (specifically, the original and briefly touching on its copies).

1: The design is simply wonderful: the exposed black parts/handles, along with the yellow main carapace, his motorized sword, his legs that resemble those of the Sentry, his head being basically an elongated rectangular parallelepiped, and his square blue eyes somewhat distant from each other enchant me. He is somewhat dirty, matching his story. Besides, for me, he, Gutterman, and Guttertank are the ones that most resemble machines made for combat and war; he has a whole vibe of being resilient and badass that enchants me.

I also think it's really cool that his sword is an engine and heats up, besides resembling a saw.

2: His lore is also very cool! I really love the concept of a "very intelligent machine that improves itself with scrap," he's the best example of adaptability in ULTRAKILL: His body is very different from the old one (which we never saw), because it improved. When entering phase 2 and losing his shotgun, he improvises awesome ranged attacks with his sword.

I like the fact that he's so popular that they made inferior copies, seriously, I really love aura characters that have weaker versions of themselves, and I have a certain obsession with copies, clones, copycats, fakes, I really can't explain it.

3: His intro is absolute cinema: certainly one of the best in the game: you see him in the background quickly, then, in slow motion, you see him kill two Strays and go to another corner, ignoring you. After that, in the next room, there's an interesting sequence where you and he fight in separate rooms, killing several enemies. It's really cool to see an enemy in a situation similar to yours, side by side. In this same phase, it's possible to access the path he took and other scenes of him killing husks. The game does a great job of introducing him and immersing the player in the story shown on screen and in the gameplay.

In the next phase, he falls from the sky, embedding his sword in the ground, only to have his arm ripped off and his shotgun stolen, returning in a challenging second phase at the end.

4: I LOVE his attacks: the shotgun shots, the sword advances, the strikes, the enraged mode, the ranged attacks, EVERYTHING about him is very fun for me to deal with, especially now that I'm very good at the game.

5: This guy was the first rival in the game (being the first machine to challenge, besides the whole thing of appearing in the background doing the same thing as you) and, even though he's considered a greater machine, not supreme (which I consider unfair to him), he rivaled V1 and was a difficult boss for most beginners.

6: He has a great concept but it was WASTED. The copies (I'm not counting Agony and Tundra, they are very good and I wouldn't make any changes to them) are very similar to the real one, even though they are, both in lore and HP, much inferior. They should have more differences, or at least without the new attacks from the second phase. The fact that they have a shotgun is also a mistake: it would be cool to have other weapons or worse versions of the shotgun. They are already extremely easy, changing the weapon and removing the attacks from phase 2 will change NOTHING, even a beginner can handle them decently. Besides, in this case, increasing the HP a little wouldn't be so bad (from 60 to 70).

7: Him improving with what he sees, and being a hoarder (guess what: I LOVE THAT TOO) opens up opportunities for MANY INCREDIBLE AND FUN BATTLES exploring this. Heck, even V2 had it, why not the guy who adapts? There are SO MANY POSSIBILITIES that would force the player to improve and be more creative, more unique, so many designs and possibilities.

Anyway: I LOVE THE ORIGINAL SWORDSMACHINE!!

PS: Sorry for the bad English, I'm not fluent in the language.