Top Five Secret Levels in Video Games

[@Johury]

The cow level existing is one of the most internet things to ever exist

[@gagejoseph91]

What cow level? There is no cow level. The cow level is a lie.

[@TheGloriousLobsterEmperor]

Cow level? Quit your nonsensical talk, there is no cow level!

[@chain_links]

I don’t like how the names of the entries are missing from them in the newer countdowns

[@FixTheWi-Fi]

Huh, y'know, I haven't actually played Symphony of the Night, but I'd heard the "flip the castle" bit mentioned in such a way that I thought it was *just the second half of the game*

[@Azardea]

It is.

[@Fonzzz002]

I actually completely missed it in my playtrough, where I had a rather anti-climax final boss fight. It wasn't until months later I heard there was a mirrored castle where you can find the "real final boss". Didn't felt like returning to the game to collect all remaining stuff so I left it at the alternative ending.

[@Kadaspala]

It's the secret second half of the game ;)

[@FrahdChikun]

2-S that was recently added to ULTRAKILL is probably one of my favorite secret levels for a lot of reasons: First, some context: Secret levels in ULTRAKILL are based around a special gimmick that separates it from the main levels. Prelude-S is straight-up horrifying with having to navigate a dark maze with the only source of light being a skull, constantly being hunted down by what the game calls "Something Wicked." 1-S is literally the Witness, a calming experience to be honest. Second, the hype: For months since the game's initial early access release people could find the entrance to 2-S, but it was blocked off by a "Under Construction" sign. A lot of us, myself included, wondered what the theme of 2-S would be. Would it take advantage of the advanced movement tech the game has to offer? Will it be something different? Finally, the reveal: When entering the secret level, the screen fades to black and text appears on screen: describing what appears to be a journal entry regarding someone trying to reach a destination in a short amount of time. It's described in a dreary manner and it made me wonder: what am I going up against? Do I have to navigate another maze? Do I have to escape something in a limited amount of time? I was on the edge of my seat. *And then the screen faded to a picture of the main character dressed as a schoolgirl, the secret level was a fucking Visual Novel.* I lost my shit and burst out laughing. The text that was described? It's the cliched trope of someone running late for school with breakfast in their mouth, rushing towards the building.

[@Fonzzz002]

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[@herbiecrush]

Top 5 games where the protagonist was evil all along

[@CountofBleck]

Ooo, massive spoiler list I'd love if OFF or OMORI was up there

[@Pattamatt1998]

Ah yes, another reason for Rabbid to bring up Spec Ops: The Line

[@matthewmagnani2915]

“Top 5 Games where you play the villain”, essentially. He did that years ago.

[@toumabyakuya]

@@CountofBleck Spoilers.... I don't think OMORI would fit, after all, Sunny didn't want to kill her sister, it was all a mistake. If anything, I would say OMORI lacks any villain.

[@Fonzzz002]

@@matthewmagnani2915 I think Herbiecrush refers to plotwist villains, where you assumed the main characters was a goodguy until late in the story.

[@shadowlinkbds]

Secret levels seems to not get talked about as much as secret bosses do. I do love finding hidden unexpected levels as much as bosses and easter eggs. Of course like secret bosses secret levels can be pretty challenging and will take time to complete and master them. Almost like in a way finding them is ironically the easy part.

[@AzureRoxe]

Secret bosses were quite a bit thing thanks to games like Final Fantasy having many of them.

[@manuelalbertoromero9528]

@@AzureRoxe Oh so many.

[@nobodyfamousX]

I feel like secret levels don't get talked about as much because the idea of levels in video games has been declining for a long time. As open world becomes more popular we have less levels and more missions and to do lists. So devs have changed how they hide things.

[@OfNoImport]

I loved the cow level. I went into the D2 MPQ files, extracted the Cow SFX and made an entire Windows Sound Theme out of nothing but devs mooing into microphones.

[@wariodude128]

I'd like to see a sequel top five video honestly. Just take an older top five and search out five more entries. Could be fun.

[@TheLadyLiddell]

Those bonus Mario levels feel like they're right out of Mario Maker

[@guerillagrueplays6301]

So, wait... saving Richter is supposed to be a *SECRET* part of SotN? The game talks repeatedly about doing it, and makes it clear that's what you're supposed to want to do, so I always just kinda assumed that avoiding his fight 'til you had the right stuff was the only way to actually finish it, and that the upside down was just the game's regular progression. Huh.

[@ragingmonkeycritic]

I will always praise this man for many things and one of them is his ad segways

[@dobadobadooo]

A really cool secret level is Niflheim from Tales of Symphonia. Not only is it so obscurely hidden most people don't even know it exists, it's a 20-floor dungeon with unique visuals and music that becomes a main plot-point in the sequel. On top of all that it has an added boss fight in the remake that is bar-none the hardest fight in the entire game.

[@belseygell9258]

Top 5 games based on/inspired by books (e.g., I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream, American McGee’s Alice)

[@mr.e9502]

The Witcher was based off a whole book series, so there’s that.

[@bobafett4265]

Parasite Eve? It's based on a book...

[@alansmithee3183]

The very first Megami Tensei game was based on some fantasy novels.

[@MoostachedSaiyanPrince]

Here's an idea: best/most creative ways developers solved player exploits. For example, the way players were exploiting the way meditating makes farm animals respawn in order to loot them for massive piles money over and over again in The Witcher 3. So CDPR added a powerful monster that will spawn when it notices you doing this and makes the exploit much harder to use.

[@doctorwhouse3881]

Kingdom of Loathing had an integer undererflow problem which lead to infinite meat (the game's currency). The solve? Create a whole event about spending ridiculous amounts of it.

[@fredchallenger5278]

Top Five Time Rabbid Luigi has made a correction to a previous video in a completely separate one.

[@Ashtarte3D]

Symphony of the Night is not where Richter Belmont "shows up." The scene you are playing through when you control him is the end of Dracula X, aka Castlevania: Rondo of Blood which also is where Maria is from but as a little girl that throws doves and shit.

[@silverreaps6803]

He knows

[@apollorock3r244]

I remember even Diablo III references the Cow Level when one of the loading screen messages say “There is no cow level.” XD And with the news of the upcoming remaster of Diablo II, I wonder if Vicarious Visions are going to remake the Cow Level. XD

[@chibisora9224]

In D3 you can use a bovine bichard in the cube to go to the non existent cow level. Or find it randomly from killing a treasure goblin.

[@bobafett4265]

I don't think Vicarious Visions would go out and not add the Cow Level, it's too iconic not to keep.

[@TheMrOkamiden]

Top 5 things the Internet willed into existence in video games.

[@JustCyanaid]

Glad to see some love for mile high club. I played through the first MW game for my first time ever on veteran difficulty, and this level was easily the best one. It’s one of the most brutal levels of an FPS I’ve ever played, and because of that it’s one of the most satisfying as well.

[@shyguykid7935]

Top five games where the protagonist is framed.

[@davidspring4003]

Dishonored

[@dailynonsense9360]

“Damn brat, I’ll sue!”

[@Vinman1509]

Dishonored, Mario sunshine

[@justinbowman1342]

Persona 5

[@toumabyakuya]

Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney. Phoenix is framed of being the killer of case 2.

[@esskay2195]

I like to think that the greatest secret level was inside us all along...

[@shawnheatherly]

Such a fun video. I love the personal connection to Star World in Super Mario World, and I'm glad I'm not the only one who had heard of the cow level before knowing what Diablo even was.

[@danieldossantossoares6947]

Ah I loved the upside down castle so much back then! Thx for the great video, as usual. Cheers from Brazil!

[@DanOWar55]

Next countdown; Top 5 weirdest visual novels/dating sims. Chop Chop and Haotoful Boyfriend come to mind

[@BigBoss15310]

LOVE the Sekiro shirt, sir. Good stuff.

[@kimzee59]

I might just be because I am someone who likes exploring in video games but I never struggled to find the upside down castle in Symphony of the night

[@1e33n7]

Quite Litrally I heard the FCKN D2;LOD music... I knew ... I exclaimed! out loud: "He's gonna talk about the COW lvl."

[@vocalcalibration8033]

I guess the modern equivalent to special zone levels being named after surfer lingo is internet speech. I think we can guess what kind of level "Yeet" is.

[@SerathDarklands]

No _Ziggurat Vertigo_ from _Quake?_ Shame on you, RabbidLuigi. That level is the pinnacle of awesome secret levels. One-eighth normal gravity, you get the rocket launcher a little early, a secret area accessed by using an invulnerability powerup (the Pentagram of Protection) and swimming in lava... It's awesome.

[@rpgfan1187]

Top Five First Bosses in Video Games

[@johnnyraven8178]

You already know the daiblo cows gonna be on there

[@Chaos89P]

The thumbnail is a dead giveaway.

[@inaraoftyria3878]

There is no cow level

[@mredwood1697]

Here's an idea. Top 5 penultimate bosses better than the final boss

[@alansmithee3183]

That could be interesting. Personally, I think two which could fit this bill would be Meta Ridley (Metroid Prime) and Alice Twilight (No More Heroes 2).

[@saphiriathebluedragonknight375]

Kuyrem from Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Gates to Infinity.

[@gregzotter6189]

That would be interesting.

[@jacktwelve1710]

I wonder if the color dungeon from links awakenings will be on this list Edit: I guess it didn’t make the cut

[@isenokami7810]

Okay, 1) love the Dark Cloud 2 profile pic. Those games deserve more recognition. Which brings me to 2) I’d love to see the postgame levels from either Dark Cloud game on a list like this. Maybe if someone talks about the Demon Shaft, it’ll justify the WEEKS it took me to climb that stupid tower.

[@Julayla]

At #5, my brother and I accidentally found out about that secret and despite the difficulty, the levels were fun and we manage to beat those levels. The results were quite rewarding

[@deleno7290]

The fact that the Ratchet and Clank: Going Commando and Up Your Arsenal secret levels aren't on this list is a tragedy. An entire hidden level only accessed through either completing the game 100%, or through a very obscure "pseudo" out-of-bounds, or a teleporter that only activates at 2 am on the PS2 clock. The hidden level is a replica of the floor plan of the office of Insomniac games, creators of RAC, and fittingly the level is called the Insomniac Museum. It contains exclusive audio recordings of various developers discussing the game's internal workings, showcases incomplete/cut content, lets you even enter a sort of debug mode to create your own particle effects, has programmable and extra playable minigames, and entire testing areas demonstrating world units, jump height/distance, and walkable angles. It is truly an incredible secret, but its always left out of these sorts of lists. As are most PS2 classics. Everyone just goes for the Nintendo classics, as usual.

[@luismartinezpaz3586]

Top 5 Creepiest / Scariest RPGs An excuse to look at RPGmaker games

[@user-vi3bm2mx2h]

Haven't played it, but utahonotatari looks absolutely horrifying from what I've seen

[@darth_hylian]

Ah dang I totally forgot about that game. Spent so many hours in it as a kid and finished nothing 😃

[@MusicVersa]

It's weird to refer to the inverted castle in SotN as an "area" or a "level". It literally doubles the size of the game. Also, SotN came out in 97, when many still didn't have internet. Finding the inverted castle without a guide is very difficult, and I'm sure many folks missed out on it back in the day.

[@newbiegamelover4767]

So, the number 1 secret level is one that doesn't exist? Eat your heart out, Zoo Level. ... WAIT! NOT LITERALLY! (That's the kind of game that would make something like that literal.)

[@thevioletbee5879]

It’d be cool to see a countdown for something other than video games. Maybe shows or movies you like.

[@ShadowWolfRising]

Top 'Insert Number' where the Villain-Protagonist was a hero all along.

[@randomclustermissile8701]

Top 5 best moments of foreshadowing in video games

[@randomclustermissile8701]

Or if you're danganronpa, across a whole series

[@isenokami7810]

I think I’ve spent too much time on KZbin. The entirety of the Star/Special World segment, with that one track looping, my mind couldn’t stop trying to distort it because everyone else who uses that track does that.

[@DarknessTemplar6]

top 5 worst plotholes

[@MetallicD3ath]

I feel like the vast majority of games *used* to have secret levels. I feel like it's not so common anymore. Either that, or devs have just gotten better at hiding them. Note that I do think there's a difference between a "hidden" or "secret" level and an "optional" or "bonus" level. If Mile High Club just "unlocks" after beating the game, I don't think it really counts as a secret level. I'm still on the fence if, for instance, Goldeneye 64's extra levels would count, since I seem to recall their existence being obvious, but the method to unlocking them *not* being shown anywhere in the game.

[@kieranstark7213]

Also 5: Other Super Mario World (The Second Reality Project) worlds like Sonic Shortcut and Thirdspace

[@nikelson47]

Here to support you, rabbid. 💓

[@nicholasfarrell5981]

No Battletoads level 4? The effort to unlock that was absurd.

[@Brookyb10]

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[@MrPooleish]

"Best Secret Levels in Video Games #2: The Second Half of Symphony of the Night?"

[@chasecole6794]

Could we get a Top 5 New Game+ bonuses? With perhaps Fire Emblem Three Houses on it for the amount of bonuses New Game+ gives you? eve

[@alexpousson5237]

Week 8 of Requesting Top 5 3DS games

[@Dust3290]

@A complete and utter mystery Never is too strong of a word.

[@FastFowl]

Week 8 of me seeing this and still not being interested.

[@alexpousson5237]

@@FastFowl You were interested enough to comment and that's just getting this comment more attention.

[@sukumuieywang8058]

@@alexpousson5237 Commenting doesn’t denote interest lmao that’s a weak argument. Especially if someone is commenting to shit on you

[@FastFowl]

@@alexpousson5237 interested does not equal irritated. Trying to guilt trip a creator into making what you want? It got old 7 weeks ago.

[@dailynonsense9360]

Top 2 Dark, Psychological Early 2000’s Games About Death That End With A Magical Self-Insert Child Going Into the Moon and Having a 1v1 With a Deity to Save the World: Majora’s Mask Persona 3 Two isn’t a lot, I’m just amazed that something that specific happened twice.

[@khfan4492]

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[@HylianTabby]

Top 5 reasons why The Last of Us 2 is overhated

[@DerpyBerb]

Gaijin gumba, and scishow also sponsored surf shark... this is the third one in a row I have watched

[@FrozenTundra88]

Top Five Secondary Characters that Deserve their Own Games.

[@denniscleary7580]

Should do a video on the top five things that are easiest to complete in video games. 🤔

[@whereisspacebar2991]

This video is sponsored by surf shark and the first entry is about surfing. Interesting coincidence.

[@whenthemusicsover6028]

I was half-expecting the Pac-Man secret level (E3M10) from Wolfenstein 3D. :/

[@DerpyBerb]

Enter the Gungeon has some fun on lockable levels.

[@AidanRatnage]

The Mario Kart track is actually called Moo Moo Meadows, not Moo Moo Farm.

[@rabbidluigi]

Moo Moo Meadows is Mario Kart Wii Moo Moo Farm is Mario Kart 64

[@AidanRatnage]

@@rabbidluigi Those graphics looked too good for the 64.

[@Nefarious_Bread]

The Painted World of Aramaris always makes me thing of Sekiro.

[@guccidonbuzzflightyear4440]

Next Mario has to have a No cap world

[@iamspikefire]

man if only those fire numbers were green it'd be perfffeeectttt

[@bronsontolliver9027]

Used to go around killing people's Hell Cow King back in the day.

[@rpgfan1187]

The Inverted Castle -- It's a secret to everybody.

[@lileewinks]

Top 5/10 over the top ending sequences! I’m talking like running along a rocket heading into space and punching a god into the sun Bayonetta level shit

[@tsyumamatsuthehavenofguard32]

4:40 ...it's not even him but it's a cursed image

[@MageSkeleton]

here i was expecting you to "wow" me. Thanks for the trip down "memory lane".

[@helispark]

Where did the ranking subtitles go? Y'know, where you had the choice's name put in at the bottom of the screen at some point in the video?

[@starscreamsniper926]

Half Breed Priscilla must be protected.

[@StormRulerKazunagi]

speaking of symphony of the night please support Bloodstained

[@robbegeusens1302]

Top 5 combat systems.

[@Willhelm_Urgestein]

Mile High Club whould be a Bonus Level

[@omegazero5884]

top 5 mechanics no one gets right (evolving world, moral choices,)

[@BlazeTheMovieFan]

Great video.

[@DavrenHelsmere]

"(Symphony of the Night) is the best the series has to offer right now" *Respectfully disagrees in Curse of Darkness*

[@evanfinke6265]

Nice shirt gamer

[@CaptainFalcon333]

10:34 How can someone who hasn't played Dark Souls understand what the "bullshit" means? Why is she not visible? Is that what's bullshit?

[@marcuspate1309]

Hello? Color Dungeon in Link's Awakening?

[@TheAkaiAoi]

Me: *just woke up and see the old-fashioned thumbnail* What year is it?? Edit: Formatting

[@Ecko_Effect]

Guys do NOT watch the last five seconds of the video because there is NO secret message there.

[@RoboBlue2]

Top 5 Dragon Quest anime villains.

[@bthepoetoffical]

something something interaction

[@memyopinionsche6610]

KONAMI doesn't care about Castlevania.. ask kojima and the game metal gear survives..

[@LuccianoBartolini]

Top Five Games Made in Latin America. There are plenty of good games made down here.

[@owenmenning3878]

Woooo new video!

[@cultimagination]

top 10 robots in video

[@Dutchtica]

Nah I'm calling bullshit on your #2. Its not a fucking hidden level; its the path to the true ending. Its not a star road, a cow level, the game LITERALLY guides you to having to go that way -10 Internet points

[@KohakuAmber22]

Moo moomoomoomoo moo moo moo.

[@YukoValis]

I think you swapped 1 and 2

[@A2forty]

I see you cow level

[@theredwingsguy9056]

Clicked on this just because of d2 cow level

[@Jdudec367]

here before this video has been up for 5 minutes.

[@nicholasfarrell5981]

Moo.

[@anone.mousse674]

Moo

[@tyrant-den884]

Yorst.

[@bloodyphantom2760]

First

[@joserodriguez-qx2ie]

You're losing it, man. Love you to death, been a fan for years. But it seems like...you lost something. Bring it out. I know its tough. Its tough for all of us. Be better. Youre worth it.

[@DavidFrankland]

"It's very fortunate that this video is sponsored by Surfshark" Really? I've never watched one of your videos before, and I won't ever again. I stopped there. It was a 90 second build up to a Surfshark ad. I don't care what followed.