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Some of gaming's greatest treasures are hidden in plain sight! Join us as we explore the most incredible secret areas developers tucked away for the most dedicated players to discover. From mind-bending easter eggs to fully realized bonus worlds, these hidden gems reward those willing to look beyond the obvious path.
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00:00Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're looking at some of the coolest secret
00:09levels and areas found in recent video games.
00:13Seek you great in status, perhaps to rule the world in time.
00:2210. The Final Final Test Badge Marathon – Super Mario Bros. Wonder
00:30The Super Mario series is always good for including a secret final level, one that is
00:42undeniably a masterclass both in design and making you question your platforming skills.
00:49The Final Final Test Badge Marathon from Super Mario Bros. Wonder is such a level.
00:54You can only unlock it after you've collected every Wonder Seed, every Flower Coin, and reached
01:00the top of every flagpole across all levels.
01:12It's essentially a series of obstacle courses, each of which has you use one of the badges
01:17you earn throughout the game.
01:19It isn't as hard as other final levels Mario and co. have endured, but it's still plenty
01:24challenging.
01:25Of course, it's also a ton of fun, blending its difficulty with Nintendo's signature delightful charm.
01:329. Grand Slam – Ion Fury
01:41The oldest game we'll talk about today, 2019's Ion Fury is a love letter to old-school PC shooters
01:56like Duke Nukem and OG Doom.
01:59Following a boss fight within the fourth level of the game's third zone, you'll find a piano.
02:04Playing specific notes in a certain order, which you find on a computer in the previous level,
02:10gets you a keycard that opens a door close to the level's exit.
02:14This all gets you into the hidden level, Grand Slam.
02:18As you might expect, the level is a sports arena teeming with tons of enemies.
02:31It's really fun running around a dystopian baseball diamond, food court, and other areas, unleashing hell.
02:38And the level has its own neat secrets for players to track down as well.
02:42Number 8 – The Fong Ki Caverns – Star Wars Jedi Survivor
02:55The planet Kobo is home to a ton of quests in Star Wars Jedi Survivor, many of them optional.
03:10One that might be easy to miss only shows up after you're brought there for the fourth time.
03:15You'll find a prospector outside Doma's shop who mentions having nightmares about the Fong Ki Caverns.
03:22Following this rumor is the only way to access this area of the map, which is home to a lot of tough enemies.
03:29These include a couple lightsaber-wielding Force users, as well as a really cool fight against a Rancor.
03:45It's a great place to test your combat skills, but there's also plenty of loot to be had,
03:50like an upgrade to your map that highlights all unlooted chests.
03:55Number 7 – The Jungle – Baldur's Gate 3
04:16You can find most areas in Baldur's Gate 3 just by exploring, but the jungle is more well hidden.
04:23In Act 3, you'll find the Circus of the Last Days.
04:26One of its employees is Akabi, a genie who runs a magically-rigged spin-the-wheel game.
04:32It costs 500 gold to play, and everything you can win is useless, unless you cheat the cheater
04:39to win the jackpot.
04:41A DC 20 perception check tips you off that he's cheating.
04:44You can pickpocket the ring, allowing him to do so by passing a DC 15 sleight-of-hand check,
04:50or as a bard, distract him with a DC 15 performance or persuasion check.
04:58Akabi won't be too happy about the outcome, and will transport you to a jungle full of dinosaur
05:04enemies.
05:06This is the only way you can find this area, and its enemies don't appear elsewhere.
05:11So, the lone party member will need to handle things alone.
05:15It's an interesting way to hide an area, and the reward of Nyrulna, a legendary trident
05:21that returns to your hand after you throw it, is more than worth the visit.
05:25You are alive!
05:27That is gift enough!
05:29Now be gone!
05:31Akabi is bored of you!
05:33There's a really cool secret level tied to Lily, the technician who upgrades your gear
05:54in Stellar Blade.
05:55Each time you find collectibles, like data slates and documents, you add to her progress bar.
06:01You don't have to collect everything, but once the bar reaches 100% and you're about
06:06to head from the Great Desert to Spire 4, Lily will ask to visit Eidos 9, where you'll
06:11find her Atelier.
06:13Traversal in this place is both really fun and pretty dangerous.
06:27Grinding around on the roller coaster rails, which is just a cool design for a level, is
06:31great, but there's also polluted water that will kill you after a few seconds.
06:36Your main objective here is to destroy cocoons that are protected by monsters.
06:40There's a lot to explore and, of course, several outfits for EVE to collect.
06:52Number 5.
06:53The Crater
06:54God of War Ragnarok
06:56You might raise an eyebrow to this one, considering most of us probably found it anyway, but even
07:12the game refers to it as a hidden region, and you can miss it if you don't follow a specific
07:17side quest.
07:18And that's good enough for us.
07:20After completing the Creatures of Prophecy in Vanaheim, you'll find Lunda's weird pig-dog-pet
07:26thing Helka by the nearby Mystic Gateway.
07:29After following her for a while as a side quest, she leads you to a cliffside where you get
07:34a hint towards the location of the missing Burgeir, one of Freyr's allies.
07:41Atreus!
07:42I'm fine!
07:43You?
07:44Using their mystical flying boat, Kratos and Atreus will set out to rescue him before being
07:59attacked by a dragon, causing them to plummet into the crater, a humongous, completely optional
08:05area.
08:07There is a ton to do here.
08:10Bosses to face, puzzles to solve, loot to collect, lure to track down, and, of course,
08:15a friend in need of rescuing.
08:17The only problem is that the game throws this at you right as you're gearing up for the
08:22climax.
08:304.
08:31The Unmoored World – Dragon's Dogma 2
08:45During the climax of Dragon's Dogma 2, you can either choose to walk away, receiving the
08:50bad ending, or fight your big bad dragon antagonist, which leads to your celebratory coronation.
08:57However, during this scene, instead of sitting on your throne to end the game, you can find
09:02the Pathfinder, who gives you the option to go back in time.
09:05If you accept, you'll be taken to the climax once again.
09:09While riding the dragon to the final fight, using the empowered Godsbane blade on yourself
09:15causes you to both crash, and you later awaken in the unmoored world.
09:35This is kind of cheating, since it isn't a level or area, but it is a complete recreation
09:41of the world.
09:42All the water is gone, which reveals previously inaccessible locations, and a dense fog continuously
09:49creeps in, blocking access to familiar places.
09:53There are also new quests, and much more powerful enemies.
09:57Everything looks apocalyptic, which is fitting, since you then have to prevent the end of days.
10:02It's a pretty cool way to approach secret post-game content.
10:19Number 3 The Halig Tree – Elden Ring
10:31The Halig Tree dungeon is now pretty famous, as is the boss fight against Millenia that
10:37lies at the end.
10:38But before it gained fame, the method of actually finding it was pretty obscure.
10:42It involved collecting two halves of a medallion, one of which was found in Castle Sol, and
10:48the other held by an old man disguised as a pot in the village of the Albenarix.
10:54You must keep it.
10:56You then had to present it at the Grand Lift of Rold to open the consecrated snowfield, which
11:02presented you with a puzzle, the solution of which was also obscure, before you could
11:07actually get inside.
11:09It's a stunning location, though.
11:10A gigantic tree you descend down with majestic castles and some really challenging enemies.
11:17The tree leads you to Elfeil, an impressive keep housing plenty of loot to cherish – if
11:22you can survive, that is.
11:35Number 2 Laser Hell – Split Fiction
11:40Hazelight's latest fantastic co-op adventure, Split Fiction, wants you to experience all
11:55it has to offer.
11:56But even it includes a secret level most players missed at first.
12:00In the maximum security section of the isolation chapter, players will find an elevator with
12:05a string of binary code above it.
12:08You're meant to each stand on one button inside that takes you to the next area, but if one
12:13player enters the code using the buttons – the right one standing for 1 and the left
12:17one standing for 0 – you'll be taken to a hidden challenge.
12:31There are five rooms featuring different laser obstacles, and getting through them is, without
12:36a doubt, the hardest part of the game.
12:39In fact, it's so hard that director Joseph Ferris recorded a video message inviting the
12:45first duo to conquer it to visit the studio and check out the team's new game.
12:50Just grab me, wherever, whenever, and just prove it to me, and I promise you, I will take you
12:56to the studio and you will have the adventure of your life.
12:58Again, extremely good work.
12:59Thank you guys.
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13:15It's completely worth collecting all 300 bots and 120 puzzle pieces in the base game
13:35of Astro Bot, just for the fun of it.
13:38But if you do so, you're also rewarded with a secret final level called Great Master Challenge.
13:44Now, Astro Bot doesn't tend to be very hard, but this level is an exception.
13:50There isn't really any safe space that won't fall out from under you, or be swarmed by enemy
13:54attacks and other hazards.
14:06Just like the rest of the game, though, it's an extremely well-designed obstacle that feels
14:10incredible to play thanks to the DualSense controller.
14:13At the end, you're rewarded with one final bot, modeled after Chop Chop Master Onion,
14:18a deep cut nod to Parappa the Rapper.
14:29If there's an awesome secret level you found in a recent game that we forgot to mention,
14:34let us know about it in the comments.
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