7 Effed Up Secret Levels That Have Some Serious Explaining to Do

WHAT THE HELL?! These freaky hidden levels will live rent free in your head forever...
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[@chrisworsley8836]

The world deserves to hear how Ellen REALLY feels about Octodad... RELEASE THE UNCENSORED ELLEN CUT!!!

[@IAmTheAce5]

Jane must be so proud 🥹

[@TheOmegaXicor]

I really want them too because it would be hilarious if they are just bleeping her looking angry and saying "you stupid --- this is quite a good game actually and I had fun pla --- in his ink sac"

[@Brasc]

I don't think the Ellen Cut will be very Rose-y.

[@TheOmegaXicor]

@@Brasc booooo I wonder if it will be 4 hours long though...

[@Viviantoga]

SON OF A GUM-CHEWING FUNK MONSTER! WHY THE FRUIT DOES ALL THIS FUNNY STUFF HAPPEN TO ME?! FORGET MY LIFE! ALWAYS SURROUNDED BY MISERABLE FAILING CLODS! LIKE THIS WHOLE WORLD, JUST LIKES TO BEND ME OVER, AND FIND ME IN THE ALPS!! LIKE I'M SOME SORT OF SCHLOCK RECEPTACLE! WELL AS FAR AS I CARE, THESE MISERABLE COWS CAN HAVE A FANCY BARBECUE, WITH A GODDAMN PIG!!!

[@foxmind2490]

The best part of the Cow Level, is the deadpan delivery of the word “Moo”. Gets me everytime 😂

[@kristeenlivesay2664]

I love it so much.

[@SirStanleytheStumbler]

Mooooooooo

[@mcmogg_incmogg2080]

I love the multi moo, just moo moo moo mooooo. Reminds me of the Simpsons moe moe moe moe

[@SirStanleytheStumbler]

Diablo 3 had an even more fun version

[@zenkim6709]

Ah, but they're not just cows ... they're HELL COWS! 😀😆😉

[@BernyQuad]

"at this point you may well be wondering, 'hey, how do I make it so that absolutely none of this is happening anymore" is one of the funniest sentences I've heard on this channel. Good one Luke!

[@sourwitch2340]

Game developers watching and taking notes, because they're fun ideas

[@NimbleTack]

Luke, "Don't AT-AT me" was right there!

[@alexpage4355]

This was Luke, not Ellen!

[@maxvel0city906]

Luke trying to avoid Ellen's anger at Ocotodad was quite hilarious his responses of "don't look at me." and "I know." 😂

[@alameachan]

And she would know on behalf of her Alter Ego turning into one on occasion.

[@Vinemaple]

@@alameachan Oh, wow, I bet either Johnny or Luke are gonna set Ellen up so that Merilwen has to do Octodad things!

[@cearnicus]

Number 6. What octopus? Looks like a perfectly normal dad to me.

[@thatonewitch]

The stress must be getting to Ellen, she's seeing an octopus instead of a wonderful father!

[@FriendB]

He's just a little clumsy, no need to get so worked up about it, Ellen

[@Miketotaldrama936]

There is no Octodad in Ba Sing Se. Here, we are safe. Here, we are free.

[@BlackFroggie-zr3vl]

Beautiful

[@annana6098]

The voice acting for the Moo's gets me every time. Moo?

[@TikiAce]

Moo

[@kryw10]

Moo?

[@heathernicol3026]

Moo.

[@Vinemaple]

Mhoo.

[@gabeskai]

Moo moo

[@DodderingOldMan]

Aw man, kudos for including Club Doom. Finding that level was possibly the proudest achievement of my teenage years. I, um, didn't achieve much in my teenage years. But I can still remember spending hours and hours wandering around The Suburbs trying to find the secret level... then many more hours wandering around The Mansion trying to find the super secret level. I can still clearly remember seeing that, due to the way Doom's map was uncovered, I'd managed to reveal a tiny segment of the path to the hidden exit, which was enough of a clue to figure out the rest. Eventually. Good times.

[@4444randomness]

The fact that there was a warning for photosensitive viewers was really nice and one reason why I love this channel

[@finnover9781]

If you're wondering why you can't find a secret edition of this video, Ellen did some pretty creepy stuff in it.

[@daviddaugherty2816]

You mean, aside from her going off on that poor normal, middle-aged man in the penultimate entry? That was rough.

[@gwishart]

Plot twist: This video is actually the creepy secret level for a Tom Scott video about the Large Hadron Collider.

[@TheOmegaXicor]

@@daviddaugherty2816 I really want to know if she was ranting there or just talking normally with an angry scowl that they bleeped over, anyone read lips?

[@trueblue96CFC]

Clearly you’ve never played OctoDad

[@darklord884]

I've seen that secret video. Dear God...never expected to see such things. Honestly, you people have it easy. You haven't seen the unimaginable. Merilwen's Meat Grinder(TM) was nothing compared to this... I mean who even has that many severed fingers and rotten tomatoes, not to mention the eggs, oh, the eggs...please, people, I beg of you. Do NOT seek out the secret version of this video. I am utterly shocked how calm and composed Ellen is throughout it all. On one hand I'm terrified, on the other, I'm strangely impressed...

[@randomusernameforchris3392]

The developers of the Club Doom section definitely had some INTESTINAL fortitude making that ‘flesh maze’

[@420sakura1]

The main game of Doom alao had pulsating flesh walls. I neben that a 1993 Game war even capable of that

[@Nemephosis]

How dare you make me read that with my own eyes. 🤣

[@BruftgamerXB2A]

Ultrakill has a secret stage called "Something Wicked" which just turns the game in a horror game honestly. You must find the red skull to open the exit while being hunted by an unkillable entity called "Something Wicked" (it's his actual name)

[@undergnomes6248]

Oh...oh no. I think I want to leave now-maxor

[@LinkDawnbringer]

I think the better for an episode like this would be the one that turns it into a visual novel, though that one is good too.

[@itscznben8728]

@@LinkDawnbringer why not both?

[@tjones9097]

4-S and 5-S are also amazing examples.

[@phyllissmith9426]

The name of the game is Ultrakill. Didn't you suspect something wicked?

[@katier9725]

Maybe not as bizarre as these, but Planescape: Torment still had a level that can be called weird. It's called the Modron Maze and you can only access it if you own the Modron Cube and interact with it in a very particular sequence (basically it's a Modron-shaped magical action figure). The level in question is perhaps the only randomly generated level ever made in the Infinity Engine, it's controlled by the namesake Modrons (basically ultralogical TVs with arms and legs), and they happen to have a problem: a murder has happened and they have no idea what to do now. So in comes you, taking office as their new Director, and off you go into a new dungeon full of insane monsters (that spout mindless NPCs lines), clues and money (which are literally called that and utterly worthless), and on the hardest difficulty there are even a new teammate and a Final Boss to find. It's absolutely as parodistic and nuts as it sounds, which makes it both weird and hilarious.

[@MarkDeSade100]

Man, this brings back some memories. Torment is an underrated classic.

[@Cudddlefish]

Strange that beings of order would make something so chaotic.

[@Cunnysmythe]

​@@Cudddlefishif I recall their presence in whatever pocket dimension they're in at the time erodes their sense of order and they start malfunctioning; displaying human traits like empathy

[@NoBeats_]

That Star Fox level confused my 5 year old brain so much when I was a kid. Great list btw.

[@apeface1990]

There's one bizarre level I stumbled across in Diablo III. I've only found it once and I have zero idea how. Anyways, it was a saccarine, pastel colored world of rainbows, pots of gold, and cutesy as hell creatures that still splattered into gore when killed. It was such a mood whiplash

[@tjones9097]

You mean Whimsyshire?

[@Az_N.S.O.L.]

​@@tjones9097probably whimsydale. Op said they stumbled upon it. You access wd by killing a rainbow goblin to open the portal. Whimsyshire requires you to get several special items and then craft the staff of hearing and then talking to the ghost cow to access it. You can't just stumble upon it while playing.

[@rprealist4869]

​@@tjones9097 Or Whimsydale (Both exist, I've seen them)

[@danielstephens1185]

I think that happens if you go through a Treasure Goblin portal though I have no idea how personally. There IS a very specific way, I just don't know what.

[@me0262]

I encountered it once as well, I'm like WTF... and I got a lot of gold from it.

[@ExplosiveDisregard]

the first time i went to the secret cow level i was not prepared. there are so many, and they are so tough. they were just flowing around me like water, and the whole time i was like "no no no no no run run run!!!!!"

[@jayesun3420]

Luke broke me with," I'm going to find out" hilarious brilliance

[@azuredragoon2054]

One of Blizzard's RTS games, it was either Warcraft 3 or Starcraft, had the code "thereisnocowlevel" to level skip. And that came out after Diablo 2, which might fuel the irony. And Diablo 3 ALSO had a reference to that "lack of a cow level".

[@Cbyneorne]

I don't know if it counts as a reference when there's a real cow level in D3 too.

[@edudmodnar4661]

That was Starcraft!!!

[@Leafsanin9221]

Starcraft...I used the cheats so much when I was a kid in that.

[@Vinemaple]

World of Warcraft turned a farm in Darkshore into a phased "cow level," accessible through some sort of dungeon shenanigans, for a limited time, in celebration of either a Diablo anniversary, or a Diablo release. Moo.

[@azuredragoon2054]

@@Leafsanin9221 I had played both extensively so I couldn't remember which one for sure.

[@Brasc]

Well, if Ellen ever gets into a personal fight with Octodad, we know she'll be able to parry his eight arms and counterattack with her Beat Saber skillz (because Expert Mode transforms the final s into a z).

[@kopper0625]

Wario Land II has the “Really Final Chapter” for getting 100% that is covered in facial features and has several of the game’s enemies oddly frozen in the background. It is also the hardest level in the game by far, requiring several precise jumps in many of its areas

[@graywolfdracon]

Diablo 3 had both a cow level and Whimseyshire, a level where you kill teddybears and unicorns and loot rainbow clouds.

[@Veladus]

The best part is that Whimseyshire was a response to people complaining the game was too bright and cheery.

[@megamandrn001]

Marvel Heroes had a Skrull Cow level, that was canonically solid seeing as how Skrulls had once been hypnotized into being cows forever.

[@Veladus]

@@megamandrn001 "Don't kid yourself, Jimmy. If a cow ever got the chance, he'd eat you and everyone you care about!" - Troy McClure

[@PancakeLoverGoro]

Safe to say that if Ellen ever finds Octocdad, she's making him into freaking takoyaki

[@Vinemaple]

Mmmmmm, takoyaki. I miss being able to eat seafood! Damn you!

[@ZX81v2]

"Cow Quest" was a hidden quest you activated by adding a text file to "Diablo - Hellfire" (Sierra Add-on) This makes a new NPC appear who sends you to get his "Donkey Jacket" "Moo! I said Moo! Look I'm a Cow alright!" Also, normal Diablo if you click on a cow a few times, your char says "Yep, thats a cow" You end up with the Cow Suit armour Earliest refs I know of to the Moo-Moo Farm "Cow" idea

[@Vinemaple]

It's often claimed that Blizzard intentionally *started* the Cow Level rumor with stuff like that, but it seems to me like a chicken-and-egg situation.

[@YonoZekenZoid]

The Secret Cow Level is a staple of the Diablo franchise. It is a nod to an urban myth that started when you could either use the internet or use the phone, and it's a reminder of a company that used to care about their customers. It was also one of the best ways to prepare for the next difficulties (nightmare, hell) in terms of xp and loot, and one of the few places where you could farm a four-socket sword in normal

[@crescentmoonrising4852]

9:09 So I guess that's where the heart of Lorkhan ended up after the end of Morrowind

[@Matt-md5yt]

lmao

[@Vinemaple]

I was thinking Y'shaarj's heart from World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria.

[@Cigarboar]

The Isamat Urber questline from Lost Kingdoms 2. You have to track down a bunch of cultists, collect their runestones, then go back to the very first level to unlock a door with a key an old lady gives you in the forest (whose use is never fully explained or described) so you can go to a secret island full of creepy music and floating heads leading up to an alter of more human heads and a face with tubes pumping blood like a heartbeat. I can't believe this game hasn't been featured in other videos.

[@RedSpade37]

I think we all need to check that one out! I only ever got to play the 1st one. I remember the metallic skeletons you can summon being very poweful. Is LK2 a card battler type of game like the first one? I'll have to see if I can find it...

[@Cigarboar]

@@RedSpade37, it's more open world than the first one but it plays very similar. I highly reccommend it if you enjoyed the first one.

[@RedSpade37]

@@Cigarboar Thanks for the information! 👑

[@0ceanicify]

While I could say "all of Psychonauts", have you been inside Millo Vodello's childhood mindscape?

[@ReeveProductions]

So true! Psychonauts is the best weird levels ever!

[@deohenge1865]

In Nier: Automata, there's an area in the desert where you can find several extremely large orbs with a familiar, terrifying visage on them. This area exists as the grounds for a hidden boss fight much later in the game than when you first arrive in the desert, and is walled off behind a sandstorm. That said, if you aggressively push through the sandstorm and insist on going to that area anyway, you can get there. Instead of a boss fight, however, you're just left in a sandstorm with minimal visibility in a field of enormous terrifying faces. Fastest I've ever NOPE'd out of an area in a video game to date.

[@phawkuffe9491]

Monolith's mid 90s fps Blood had a "fun house" level that was a giant digestive tract.

[@Yoxiv]

Star Wars Jedi Survivor has an interesting secret. On the world of Koboh, if you enter a cave housing a Bilemaw (basically an alien Triceratops that vomits acid), climb up to the upper floor of the cave, then hug the walls until Cal finds a hidden crack that he can slip through. Inside, you'll go through one of the LONGEST crawling sections ever seen in a game, with Cal and BD-1 slowly sliding through a claustrophobic passage for well over a minute, only to emerge into a cavern with a group of frozen battle droids drawing on easels. Their subject? A Mogu, basically a Wampa that doesn't have snow white fur, but is still just as angry and beat-you-into-the-dirty

[@RoryStarr]

The secret dungeon in FFXV is as obscure and hard as it is basically modern art project. Absolutely nuts.

[@RedDragon-117]

You guys forgot the Dead Ops Arcade from Call Of Duty, where you fight the forces of the cosmic silver back, all you got to do is press the trigger buttons simultaneously on the main menu, then type DOA into the computer behind you and after that it's fever dream fun

[@gwts1171]

What about that terrifying Egg Room in Animal Crossing: New Horizons?!? Also, can you imagine how good that octupus would be at Beat Saber?

[@whitethunder9064]

...what egg room?

[@SolaScientia]

@@whitethunder9064 Back when Animal Crossing: New Horizons was released everyone was playing it a lot. Luke did a lot of chill livestreams with it. On Bunny Day (Easter) he visited Ellen's island. She gave him an egg outfit and had him go into her house and she had an entire room filled with all the things you can make with the eggs you find before and on Egg Day. It was playing the "I Love You" song by KK Slider and it was very creepy. She'd also used the bathroom to store a bunch of fish in tanks and Luke found that one rather creepy as well.

[@davidmcgill1000]

Bunny Day will always be New Horizons' Halloween event. The real one doesn't even come close to being as scary.

[@floppyjr.6424]

ULTRAKILL's dating sim secret level is just weird as heck! Why would a game about mass murdering demons in hell have THAT in it! By the way the level is found in the third level of the lust layer behind a waterfall.

[@justinsinke2088]

I love how how there are Diablo fans who will bash Whimsyshire in D3 as a complete tonal slap in the face to the franchise when The Cow Level is a thing.

[@dahn57]

Whimsyshire was taking the piss of those idiots who whined about D3's look before it even came out, that was the whole idea 😉

[@Ag3nt0fCha0s]

Ellen’s rage is unconvincing yet amusing.

[@Vinemaple]

I know how Ellen feels. The "You're so funny when you're angry" struggle is real.

[@kristianfischer9814]

Why unconvincing?

[@JeedyJay]

She's like Luke in that regard. They both do great "angry eyes" though, it needs to be said.

[@alankenny21]

@@Vinemaple Because she was pretending to be angry. When someone is pissed off you know

[@AridosUK]

i dunno, octodad can be a pretty frustrating game

[@GuardianT1]

The cow level has always been my favorite. The voice moo-ing is superb. Also, the cow King boss is a force to be reckoned with. The steaks have never been higher... 😉

[@mr.mammuthusafricanavus8299]

After some therapy Ellen later reveals that her Octodad left for Milk at the grocery store beside the sushi bar and never came back

[@NeppyMan]

Diablo 3's Whimsyshire has to be on the list. Particularly with the "fine, you wanted colors?" backstory.

[@SilentPsychopath]

Congratulations Ellen, your Octodad rant was so impressive, even my dog woke up from her nap to look at my phone wondering the the hell was going on!

[@AdamusPrime24]

Aight the Club Doom segment was wild, but the 'flesh maze' was the bit that really made me go 'WT ACTUAL F' XD

[@Drag0n092x]

I remember as a kid I discovered the AT-ST can actually be piloted by two players if you plugged in another controller; one person swiveled the head and shot, and the other controlled the legs and movement!

[@Doogie2K3]

Two more id Software ones: 1) Wolfenstein 3-D, episode 3. The secret level is literally first-person Pac-Man. I think you've covered this before in other videos but it's worth repeating. 2) Doom II: The first secret level is a recreation of Wolf3D's first level. Cute. The second secret level can be found in the same way as Wolf3D's, and leads to a replica of that episode's final boss level. Neat. Where it gets weird is at the very end, where you shoot four hanged Commander Keens to expose the level exit. Just...deeply disturbing.

[@jeffreywells1832]

The secret expansion to Constantine's Mansion that shipped with Thief Gold was something of a head trip.

[@sheridankelly8772]

Thanks for the photo-sensitivity warning!

[@donaldgow6673]

I'm not sure if my day is better or worse for having heard the expression "effed-up ravehole" but it's in my head now. I wonder if that displaced something important?

[@otterspotter]

I would've suggested Doom's secret level where there were Commander Keen figures being hanged from the ceiling on a noose that you can shoot in gory fashion (did anyone else play Commander Keen when they were younger?) But now that I know about Club Doom, I would've retracted my suggestion.

[@davidmcgill1000]

Which was also a secret level within a secret level.

[@bravepart]

I remember stumbling across the GTA4 Easter egg hanging with a friend. Our reactions were of sheer horror and subsequently trying to blow it up

[@speedingoffence]

6:56 "We're not here to yuk anybody's yum" is the best expression I've heard in a long time.

[@darklord884]

At least in the darkness of that CoD Finest Hour level, you do have one ray of sunshine as your character exclaims: "The bear is adorable."

[@quingster3420]

I don't know that it's really a secret level, but the little hidden nook in the middle of Milla's disco party in Psychonauts is pretty sad/horrifying.

[@jodinsan]

To continue in the tradition of the Secret Cow Level in Diablo 2, Diablo 3 has it's own cow level, as well as two new ones. Whimseyshire and Whimseydale. They take the weird of the Cow Level and make it weird _as well as_ horrifying.

[@scottanderson8329]

Is it weird that I really want to see Ellen playthrough Octodad now? 🤣

[@kralik394]

As long as it's a demonetized uncensored stream, I'd watch it.

[@johnbuck4395]

The warp zone in Star Fox was like an acid trip 😂

[@shinyagumon7015]

The best part about the Heart Easter Egg is that your character in the DLC "The Ballad of Gay Tony" can get drunk enough to end up inside the statue.😂

[@RoonMian]

I feel like it's a big Morrowind reference. The Heart of Lorkhan? The Brass Tower?

[@tegon_]

I've got a bit of an obscure one. In "Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops Plus" on the hardest difficulty, at around stage 16-20 you have a chance of finding an additional "Exit" box that's purple instead of the usual red. These lead you to a secret stage. The one I remember has a whole load of enemy soldiers just doing crunches in the middle of it. It was super creepy to just stand there and watch a bunch of people just doing crunches in a research laboratory room. Also, I think that the baddie of the game, Null, also appears super-imposed on the screen if you wait around long enough? Honestly, it was a fever dream at that point, so maybe I hallucinated that part.

[@tjones9097]

I played a free steam game called DEPO (death epileptic pixel origins) which is basically a first-person platformer. The secret levels aren’t found mid level, but rather they are found by either having a certain item on you, or with a puzzle. They include a world where everything is falling apart, a tower with constantly rising glitches, and more. What’s more weird than the secret levels is the secret in the mansion. It requires you to find a vent in the party room, go through a painting in another room, use the monocle costume, and do a puzzle, to find a room that gives you lore.

[@garrisonmike]

I still remember the deer-hunting level in Myth II -- where the deer were undead and would run toward you and attempt to explode.

[@MermaidHair5091]

Diablo 3, whimsy dale was the best “secret” level I found without looking. It was a bit jarring on first visit but by Jove I got set items!

[@dmzwrites1853]

In Final Fantasy 3, or 6, there is a triangular island, the only enemy is a sand worm that only eats characters and every attack you do does 666 damage. If you let it eat your party, you go to a secret area and get a mime playable character.

[@PhDMario]

Let’s not forget the secret level hidden in Excel for Windows 95. The Hall of tortured souls.

[@DemonicBolt66]

As weird as The Secret Cow Level of Diablo 2 was... what was with Diablo 3's Secret Pony Level? That's just one of the several bizarre places you can end up in Blizzard games

[@kainquioneofmany957]

Whimsyshire....and yes trippy af

[@RichardFleming]

Even better with Whimsyshire is the health potions become cupcakes. Dropped by ponies. If you know, you know.

[@smurfjegeren9739]

The.. hidden gem? Future Cop LAPD has a secret level if you finish all the single player arena levels. It changes out the planes with butterflies, tanks with caterpillars, and the music to flight of the bumblebee :P

[@AmberFrmThVaultGaming]

I spent so much time trying to figure out the Diablo secret cow level. 😅 I was crushed to learn it wasn't real.

[@NV..V]

Best part of the video...watching Ellen channel her inner 'Tony Suprano." Classic

[@EGOwaffleboy]

9:04 "come nerevar, come and look upon the heart. And bring wraithguard, for I have need of it." "I am a god, how can you kill a god? What a grand and intoxicating innocence."

[@codyhoward7640]

Secret ant levels in command and conquer

[@dahn57]

The Ant levels were in Red Alert, the original Command and Conquer was the one with Dinosaurs 😉

[@alexpage4355]

I'm surprised more people haven't suggested this one. Thanks to the magic of the internet, it's almost as iconic as Diablo II's cow level, at this point.

[@codyhoward7640]

@@dahn57 couldn't remember which command and conquer was from. I figure they would be able to figure out what I was talking about :)

[@Jonathon_Hennessey]

In the game Elden Ring there is a secret area called the Mohgwyn Palace which serves as home to Mohg one of the game's bosses. Finding this place requires either invading the worlds of three other players or killing a npc in the Altus Plateau and speaking to Varre or finding the portal in the Consecrated Snowfield. The mohgwyn palace is a very creepy place with lakes of blood and monstrous birds among other things.

[@Cudddlefish]

Y’know, I didn’t really consider how weird that place was until you pointed it out just now. I was probably too distracted by the giant skeletons shooting laser beams at me and farming that one bird that will run off a cliff if you shoot it.

[@darrenlenz6401]

Diablo 2's Cow Level was one thing... But Diablo 3's Whimsyshire was delightfully, terribly awesome.

[@gamepassghost]

Okay, so it’s late here and I *may* have rabbitholed over this particular video. But a rare opportunity missed by this channel to talk about Perfect Dark! One involved the cell scene we’ve seen before!

[@VideoGameVillians]

That Diablo entry has a small info error. The "Cow Level" in the first game did exist, but only if you bought the expansion and even then, only if you altered the game files to re-enable the cut content. The cut content is an entire quest with it's own level, activated by talking to a guy dressed as a cow, and you can earn yourself a nifty set of armor that has the unfortunate side effect of looking like a cow costume.

[@Idran]

Yeah, but the reason it was cut content was because Blizzard told Synergistic to cut it along with all the other easter eggs they were including; they didn't want an expansion in the first place, and only reluctantly let it go through with some very strict requirements because Sierra was so insistent on making one. So I'm not sure it's fair to count it when Blizzard gave it a firm "no" and Synergistic was just lazy about how they removed it.

[@MrJaCraig]

I remembered the cow level for Diablo, so glad I wasn't the only one. I was worried I was going crazy... Crazier anyway.

[@misamagica]

Literally every bonus level in Ultrakill fits here. In one, it becomes a horror game, in another a dating sim with custom art and everything, and in one it straight up just becomes Crash Bandicoot. Absolutely wild.

[@ka-mai]

Wait did those secret levels now become regular levels in my head?? Like it wasn't weird in there before...

[@kes-3d]

Fun tidbit, in Rogue Squadron 3D on PC you can use the Chicken Walker in any mission with the same code. You can also play as a bad guy Tie with the code "goodguytie" and as the Falcon with the code "wookiepelt".

[@ericpena7173]

The white background really kills me at night

[@777BIGschott]

I love it when ellen gets mad 😂

[@hoseinzadehminaee1799]

Is there anyone who can seriously says Ellen isn't the best one in whole ox team?

[@ivanquarman01]

You can get to the non-existant cow level as soon as you get the required items.

[@genlando327plays2]

The problem with basketball for a cephalopod, my dear Ellen, is the suction cups... can you imagine just how hard it is to LET GO at the right moment? And the number of applicable appendages just multiplies this problem exponentially...

[@fendelphi]

Also, technically, are they really arms at all? Tentacles are a completely different kind of extremities than an arm or foot after all.

[@genlando327plays2]

@@fendelphi oh this is a good point. Pretty sure there are rules against using appendage extending tools in basketball! What? There aren't? Hmmmmmmm... loophole!

[@laszlokovacs8348]

lmao at the camera operator giggling quietly around 4:35

[@khaoz6913]

Not a secret area, but Wraith Marsh from Fable 2 freaks me out. Not just the inhabitants, but also the soundtrack. 😰

[@ajm5007]

The voice acting on that Diablo 2 cow level gets me every time. It really makes the level.

[@seand7042]

4:34 Fear the Battle Cattle!!!

[@kristianfischer9814]

Moo.

[@sacpen30]

I love how Blizzard leaned hard into the cow level, and by Diablo 3, we got the nightmare fuel that is Whimsyshire 😂😂

[@zendroidy]

Just watching Octodad was enough to fill _ME_ with rage. I get it, Ellen.

[@CaciqueVanGuard]

I always thought the beating heart was a Morrowind reference.

[@Versatile_fitness]

The "Dont at me!" Fpr the starwars fans had me! 😂 especially reiterating it at the end of the clip!

[@KeybladeMasterAndy]

Never knew Octodad had a secret level

[@niceguy169]

Number 5: Rogue Squadron, one of my favourite games. When I got the hyper-realistic Thrustmaster joystick duo from the 90s second-hand, it was the first and only game I tried to get working with all the buttons which were supposed to be now at my disposal, :) I MOST DEFINITELY played as an AT-ST walker and on normal levels, (I mean, it's too slow and restrictively ground-based to TRULY try to complete a level, but I remember seeing how far I could get in the escort mission that I think is the second, which has several AT-ST walkers itself, because that mission is mostly ground stuff). Number 6: REALLY? You aren't sure what that "Give Up" is? Clearly if you find this challenge too much of a pain in the ass, go THIS way to "give up" on this challenge and return to the proper game! I've never even SEEN this game, never mind trying it or finding this secret level! As SOON as I saw the sign I instantly recognized what it was and what it meant, and simply assumed that was the entrance (which you then confirm I was correct about). :)

[@robertoazuaje9279]

I'm pretty sure this one breaks the record for most swearing in an Oxboxtra video. If they have a swear jar in the studio Ellen's probably paying some cash xD

[@MageSkeleton]

Kinda important to note, wirts leg cannot be sold, however, it's easy to reacquire. And i'm not sure if it's when you kill the COW KING or just open the portal in general but you can only do it ONCE with that character. After which you can no longer enter the level (unless you make a whole new character).

[@cocacola4blood365]

8:40 All this needed was for Huey Lewis and the News to start singing "Heart of Rock and Roll."

[@trinketsphinx3212]

Honestly, it was climbing the octopus after your son that drove me to apoplectic rage. I literally had to stop, walk away, and come back the next day.

[@vjazz9374]

WE NEED MORE UNHINGED, ANGRY ELLEN!

[@sheolcodemonkey4027]

When Luke said "Yeah, flesh maze" on the phone to his mum, I like to think that when he says she was "right about video games", she didn't say "They'll rot your brain" or somesuch, she literally said "They'll have you going to a nightclub filled with revenants in gogo cages and then send you through a flesh maze" and for this whole time he's been thinking she's batshit crazy

[@Aythe1]

Club Doom is like.... Nostalgic? I used to play Doom with my mum as like a 6 year old xD Cant imagine that now, but it was amazing

[@zacharysmith4856]

I was gonna type a comment about not knowing the chicken password from Rogue Squadron… then Ellen started screaming at Octodad. 😬😂

[@GreatFox42]

The Rogue Squadron quadrilogy (Counting BfN) is full of weird secrets. Like the running gag of a secret unlockable flying Buick. As in the car. With wheels. And lasers.

[@SamClemensRIGL]

How about the Painted World of Ariamis? Maybe not weird by Dark Souls standards, but still pretty uncanny!

[@FrackinFfoxglove]

Idk if the people at outside Xtra have every played ultrakill, but if they ever make a sequel to this video, litterally ANY of the secret levels in that game could apply to that list, especially "somthing wicked" and "all imperfect love song".... or "the witless".... or "clash of the brandicoot".... or "I only say morning"..... or... wait no that's all of them, all of them are strange in some way.