the phrase "upbeat flight of the bumblebee" implies the existence of "downbeat flight of the bumblebee," which feels like it would be the trailer music for a gritty racing movie.
On a related note, I'd like to see "7 Games That Went Totally Off The Rails In The Best Way Possible" as you played them. Games like "There is No Game", and "Not for Broadcast" where they start as one thing, but the story takes a drastic turn and they become something completely different toward the end.
I'm not sure on that one...I wouldn't give them that much credit (just look at most of the rest of the "humor" in the game), though Dog Mode is pretty funny.
@@AlsebraA lot of the animations are clearly over the top in a way expected to be fun and/or funny. God mode. Dog mode. A wizard staff. Ludicrous gibs. They didn’t take the game THAT seriously.
I searched for it in hopes of finding some kind of weird solution to the level, found the "triadwiki" and there they say it was created because a dev used to shout "I'm Free!!" whenever a push wall unintentionally escaped a level
The JPop concert level in Dave the Diver got me. It's so funny but so weird, and it's from the perspective of one of the side characters. Basically, the level is like a cross between Rock Band and Dance Dance Revolution.
Fun fact! It's technically not V1 in a skirt, it's Mirage, who is some sort of separate entity from V1 as far as anyone can tell. Past the fact that Mirage =/= V1, we don't really know anything about them (her?).
The Star Fleet approach to copyright is: don’t. Star Fleet can’t be fighting legal battles while also fighting the Borg, the Dominion, or Species 8472. It’s called the Dime Directive.
The most insane one for me was The World Ends with You "Another Day", where the main cast (and one side character) spend the day playing the silly side minigame but with the most over-the-top corny anime plot, with several cameos from the creators themselves. The best part? They somehow found a way to make it canon to the main story despite the bonus day taking part in a completely different universe to the main story.
Not only does Ultrakill's tonal whiplash deal a lot of damage, but it's "hard" damage that reduces your max health until you build up some style points.
OK, for V2 of this video, Road Rash 64 had a level at the very end which is the definition of "not expecting it", called "The Wall". They strap you to absurdly fast drag motorcycles and you race down a perfectly straight runway wondering "Why is this called the wall?" Untill you hit the finish line where there is a wall right behind it and you and all the NPC get sent straight up into the air. Its beautiful.
*Looks at the list of games at the start* Ok, so we’re not gonna talk about the Deadpool game when they went 8-bit because Deadpool’s antics maxed out the budget?
I feel like the only way you could get a level no one was expecting in Deadpool would be a Farming Simulator or Animal Crossing level. Although I can totally see Deadpool beating up Tom Nook then doing yoga with Isabelle, so maybe nothing is unexpected for a Deadpool game.
@@green_dragon_knight You know, I wouldn't mind a Deadpool game that features so many nonsensical cameos and crossovers (purely because Deadpool just can't stop invading other games).
"...worms, butterflies, bats, and dragonflies..." Did anyone else hear this and instantly think of the _Calvin & Hobbes_ strip where Calvin does his school project on bugs? "BATS AREN'T BUGS!" "Look. Who's giving this report? You chowderheads... or me?" 😂😂😂
Re: Star Trek and copyright Inc the future: It’d probably fall under the broader United Federation of Planets bureaucracy dealing with the individual governments of member worlds. Like, if you’re a Holodeck dev working out of an apartment on the Moon, and someone from Andoria starts just wholesale ripping assets from your published library, it’d be an thing between the legal systems of Earth and Andoria to figure out. As long as it’s not like, doing weird space things or a security issue, then Starfleet could get involved. In US Government terms Starfleet is a mix of NASA, the Coast Guard, and the Navy.
Personally, I count the Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2 pre-made park "Montana" as a joke level. It's flat and has only one tree near the center. As someone from Montana, I can assure you we have more than one tree.
As someone who once had a vertigo attack that left me stuck halfway up a mountain cliff in Montana, can confirm that it has non-flat bits. There might even be a hint in the state's name somewhere! ☺ Also, yes, many trees--at least until you reach the treeline.
Unlocking Zephyr in Warframe and pressing on the Z tab in her customization menu lets you play a version of Flappy Bird called Flappy Zephyr. There's also a fighting game hidden in Warframe.
Does Fallout 4's Far Harbor battle against the Red Death count? We keep hearing stories about the Red Death and how it destroyed many fishing boats that come close to its island. You are recommended to bring your best armor and weapons before facing it. And uh... it certainly was a battle.
@@DirgeTVNow there’s an obscure Mario reference. …Yes, actually, for anyone else reading this, “Ignorance is Bliss” was actually the name of a Mario thing in the 90’s.
Master Detective Archives: Rain Code’s Chapter 4 Mystery Labyrinth has a segment where you have to solve one of the questions while the environment and characters have suddenly turned into a popsicle stick puppet game show. This is the ONLY Mystery Labyrinth where this happens, the segment only lasts for five minutes, none of the characters comment on the change, and it never gets brought up again. Mystery Labyrinths in general are weird, but this segment took the cake.
Hollow Knight had a secret level called the Eternal Ordeal. Do you hate Zote so much you'd whack him 100s of times? Well here's a bunch of horribly deformed Zotes you can fight to your Voidheart's content! The best part is it's the only arena in Godhome without an audience, which implies the room spontaneously materialized out of his sheer narcissism.
I think the godseeker actually says that he shouldn't be in godhome, and that they're trying to get rid of him. I like to think that the people there know he's there, but deliberately don't watch
I was expecting the mass effect citadel dlc, while trying to stop the entire galaxy being destroyed you take a break to stop your clone stealing your identity then throw a party for the hell of it
Honestly, as a trekkie, that joke level doesn't seem so ridiculous considering things like the white rabbit from Alice in Wonderland appearing on a planet or some of the ds9 crew getting sucked up by a board game. Basically, I can see a Mario level happening in an episode.
Just when I finally manage to explain to non-gamers how video games are full of immersive gameplay, breathtaking stories, an oasis for the mind to hone your concentration or escape the mundaneness of life...Well, this happens.
Ah the Ultrakill dating sim level, my first experience with the game was Max0r's Innaccurate Summary videos, so when he showed footage from that I thought it was all part of the shitpost, needless to say when I stumbled on the level myself my sides were in agony from how hard I was laughing by the end
It’s honestly my absolute favorite of the secret levels. With how often it is to see nihilism be shown as pessimistic, it really warms my heart to see optimistic nihilism being shown and embraced as openly as it is for All Imperfect Love Song.
Type:Rider is a beautiful indie platformer where you slide through levels inspired by famous fonts, with the backgrounds detailed based on the eras inspired by those fonts. Garamond, Times New Roman, Helvetica. It's all gorgeous and extraordinarily regal... ...and then there's a Comic Sans level. Complete with lolcats and mariachi music and floating cheeseburgers.
I played Rise of the Triad when it came out. But I cannot remember if I bought it or just placed the demo from the magazine cover. So memorable a game it was.
I'm in that same boat. I remember getting the asbestos armor and seeing the message "Asbestos armor. Oh, so itchy!" And that stuck with me as peak hilarity! But i was just trying to answer the same question for myself... was it the full game? The demo?
The Bowser levels were my favorite part of TTYD. I feel like they may have been the prototype that later became Super Paper Mario, my favorite game in the Paper Mario series (with TTYD as a close second).
The thing that stands out most in my memory is that Alan Wake II level. You know, that one. I told my partner to get me when he reached the spot that he’ll know I’m talking about, and when his mind imploded, he knew.
Don't forget the mobile flowers, the teddy bears, and the destructible and interactable items (presents, piñatas, pots of gold, and happy little clouds)!
that was a fun game. i played it when i was a kid, i couldn't really figure out what i was supposed to be doing and only had access to like two levels (i remember a daytime level in a wide-open green field and a nighttime level in a city) but i still had fun.
My favorite secret level in Ultrakill is 7-S, which plays like a normal level right up until you reach the end, at which point you receive a vacuum cleaner and a hose and realize that the game is going to make you clean up all the blood and gore you left behind Powerwash Simulator style before it will open the final door.
I think the joke level in Metal Gear Solid 2 was a masterpiece. You get to play Solid Snake for a whole level! And then the jokes is on you. For the rest of the game. Well played Kojima. Well played indeed.
ultrakill's 5-S and arguably 7-S could make it onto the list, with 5-S being a fishing level and 7-S initially playing out as a normal level before handing you a vacuum cleaner and a powerwasher and making you clean up after yourself
Since ULTRAKILL isn't finished yet, I bet there'll be more similar levels. Anyways, shame the visual novel thing isn't voiced. Interesting how Wolfenstein 3D implies that not only did B.J. Blazkowicz encounter ghosts, he also survived them after not being able to defeat them... not even Deathshead was this inhuman. Future Cop LAPD sorely needs a legal rerelease. Gotta love hearing the ROTT music. Nice to see Elite Force II here, though I'm more partial to I; even a Star Wars fan can enjoy it enough, though that may be mostly because it satisfies the itch brought upon the Jedi Knight games from the same devs (for the first game, not the second). So, no Red Alert 1 Ants and Tiberian Dawn Dinosaurs missions?
I'm not sure it counts. When D3 was first shown off, people complained about the graphics being "cartoony." So as an april fools joke, Blizzard released a trailer with new gameplay and it was Whimsyshire and that ended up becoming the secret level in the finished game. Still Whimsydale was shown before release, so it was pretty expected.
I dunno...as soon as people started whinging on about the graphics being brighter, one could see the cogs turning in the developers heads (Blizzard has recently leaned into the more colorful graphics, after all...Overwatch is hardly drab).
The story behind the ROTT level is that in development someone messed up designing a level with a wander wall and got the "attempting to escape" message. Thinking it was hilarious he shared it and someone drew that art on a napkin. ROTT had a few Easter eggs, too. Scott's Mystical Head was a high point value digitized cap wearing head of the Apogee/3D Realms founder. If you shrank the game play area enough a message "Buy a 486!" would display. There was also a DOPEFISH command line switch that would change the startup sound to belching.
I'm sorry but are we really going to ignore how absolutely batsh*t crazy the Saints Row 3 Professor Genki game show missions were? Yes we knew they were coming thanks to pre order bonuses but they were less of a funny joke and more of a joke on the players
Having been recently replaying Wolf3D myself for the first time in 30+ years, I was so hoping Wolf-Pac would be on the list. It made my day seeing it is.
Tha ultra-kawaii anime inspired RPG Maker room behind a random statue in Felvidek is one of tha funniest examples of this I've ever seen. You really gotta see a 15th-century Slovakian priest meet a chibi anime girl and be convinced he's fallen into Hell.
No Jane don't play that Gollum game. Also I'm surprised they didn't even mention the Diablo secret cow level. That might be one of the most famous secret levels of all time.
The Giant Ant missions from the Original Command and Conquer was really out there. I sure wasn't expecting it when it came out. The FMV videos actors are also in disbelief.
Diablo 3's Whimsyshire, portals to which seem to open randomly and... there's even more gore than the regular game. And Trials Fusion's Awesome Level Max DLC, where a cat with an AK47 rides a unicorn with laser vision.
Two different (but very similar) areas, in fact. Whimsyshire - reached by obtaining the Staff of Herding (crafted weapon) and speaking with the cow spirit outside New Tristram. Whimsydale - only reached by entering the portal left behind after defeating a Rainbow Goblin (variant of a Treasure Goblin). They're quite similar in overview, but there are a few differences (specific rare spawns, certain rare items, even item drop rates)...for example, containers in Whimsydale (presents, mushrooms, clouds, piñatas) tend to toss out quite a few magical items (I've averaged at least one set item per Whimsydale run among multiple other legendaries) or a pile of gold (on Torment 5, it's rarely lower than 2m with little to no bonus gold gear).
@@kaniamia, take it back one iteration...fans of Diablo started mentioning it before D2 was in the pipeline ("accessing" it had to do with the cows you could find in Tristram). Blizzard loved the idea and ran with it, seeding references into Diablo: Hellfire (the expansion for Diablo) and StarCraft (in 1998). That said, the Staff of Herding and the cow spirit are definitive references to the Cow Level, but are present only in D3 (where the Staff of Herding allows you to speak to the spirit which, in turn, opens the portal to Whimsyshire).
This just has me recalling the Diablo 2 cow level, which at the time was already weird and hilarious enough, but then it got one-upped in Diablo 3 with the pretty rainbow pixie level. Fun times.
Long time watcher. First time commenter. No need for applause. This is now my favorite yt gaming channel. FTW was my first and best. G4 was on my tv. You all have filled that gap in my heart.
Ooh! Rise of the Triad & Wolfenstien 3D were my jam back in the day! I also remember a 'joke' secret level in the final boss room for doom 2 where you find john romero's head on a stick behind a secret wall. You had to use the idclip cheat code to actually get there though😅
In the game Fallout New Vegas, one of the DLC for the game is called Old World Blues and is basically a b science fiction movie. Compared to Fallout New Vegas's other DLC, Old World Blues is more silly in tone.
I first started it late at night and thought I just _really_ needed to get some sleep. Nope. Turns out it _does_ involve overdramatic brain robot shouting about foot-penises.
Spider-man on the Gameboy Color had a great hidden Mario level too. Just had to go to the left of the Daily Bugle building at the start of Lizard's level and there's a green pipe you can drop through
The nightmare game you play in metal gear solid 3, which you get when you save your game in the jail cell after being tortured by Volgin. Very strange slasher game out of nowhere.
I haven’t seen one of your videos in a hot minute so the new studio was a surprise. Feels weird to not have a white background, but I like the new one!
I’d seen images of V1 in a dress around the place and always thought that it was just a community in-joke. Never imagined it was something like this! Lmao
My favorite joke level was the 64 version of Rampage: World Tour's Hell level where all the humans are replaced by demons, the buildings are carved from rock and you can even eat the devil himself off his throne
resonance of fate, a turn based jrpg with an odd gun and super jump mecanic belongs on this list for its christmas level where kids mob you and rather than fire guns you thow presents at them
Jane! No! Don't go play _The Lord of the Rings: Gollum!_ *JANE!!!*
Too late this was recorded at least 24h ago... it's too late.
I'm sure she'll read some bozos comment and listen 😂
@@marhawkman303 even if she waited 3 days to Plat, she's not reading any of yalls comments 😂 let alone listening to what any of you clowns say
Another lost to the one ring
o7
@@clawedmoss9030 indeed, real shame that.
While not totally unexpected, Saints Row 4 having a text-based adventure to save Matt was a fun left turn in the game of nonsense that it already was.
the phrase "upbeat flight of the bumblebee" implies the existence of "downbeat flight of the bumblebee," which feels like it would be the trailer music for a gritty racing movie.
Well, in Pathfinder Wrath of Righteus theme music for swarm that walks is preety much "flight of the bumblebee, but as horror"
Nuno Bettencourt, guitarist for the band Extreme, plays a version called Flight Of The Wounded Bumblebee.
And then there's also Defense Battle 3
I believe "downbeat flight of the bumblebee" is called "flight of the murder hornets"
On a related note, I'd like to see "7 Games That Went Totally Off The Rails In The Best Way Possible" as you played them. Games like "There is No Game", and "Not for Broadcast" where they start as one thing, but the story takes a drastic turn and they become something completely different toward the end.
doki doki litterature club...
Those games are absolutely stellar picks, I have to say
Cruelty Squad, Paratopic, and Nobody Saves the World may count.
There was a recent game called The Operator I'd nominate for that list
@@scorpix96 First thing I thought of for this proposed category too!
"This causes an error" feels like an error the devs got while developing the game, and decided it was so funny it needed to be a secret level :D
That is what happened. It's why it even has a custom error message and image.
I'm not sure on that one...I wouldn't give them that much credit (just look at most of the rest of the "humor" in the game), though Dog Mode is pretty funny.
@@Alsebra Joe Sieglar has a video on "This Causes an Error Too" with the description backing my point up. I apparently can't link it here.
@@AlsebraA lot of the animations are clearly over the top in a way expected to be fun and/or funny. God mode. Dog mode. A wizard staff. Ludicrous gibs. They didn’t take the game THAT seriously.
I searched for it in hopes of finding some kind of weird solution to the level, found the "triadwiki" and there they say it was created because a dev used to shout "I'm Free!!" whenever a push wall unintentionally escaped a level
The JPop concert level in Dave the Diver got me. It's so funny but so weird, and it's from the perspective of one of the side characters. Basically, the level is like a cross between Rock Band and Dance Dance Revolution.
And yet the weirdest one yet developed for me was the "Egg Room".
I literally just finished rewatching the egg room stream 😶
We don't talk about the E** Room.
They said weirdest, not most horrifying. We did not deserve the Egg room… nobody does.
But also imagining Ellen's pure glee at Luke's horror makes me happy 😊
@@merissaj4518 True, it's like watching a well played sibling prank.
V1 in a skirt is something that I never expected to see in my life. Ultrakill is so unpredictable in the best ways.
Hakita truly is a bizarre man for making all that, either that or Finnish people are all just like that, not sure which.
Fun fact! It's technically not V1 in a skirt, it's Mirage, who is some sort of separate entity from V1 as far as anyone can tell. Past the fact that Mirage =/= V1, we don't really know anything about them (her?).
Newblood also made it into a body pillow.
The Star Fleet approach to copyright is: don’t. Star Fleet can’t be fighting legal battles while also fighting the Borg, the Dominion, or Species 8472.
It’s called the Dime Directive.
The Bowser intermissions in Paper Mario the Thousand Year Door gave me *SO* much joy, I loved those sections to my core 😂
completing a chapter for story prog ❎
completing a chapter for the bowser intermissions ✅
The most insane one for me was The World Ends with You "Another Day", where the main cast (and one side character) spend the day playing the silly side minigame but with the most over-the-top corny anime plot, with several cameos from the creators themselves. The best part? They somehow found a way to make it canon to the main story despite the bonus day taking part in a completely different universe to the main story.
Headcanon that "Jack's 55th Birthday" is how the mold-infected Baker's see the events of RE7
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What's flat and makes you laugh?
A Level Joke.
Is this Ellen's puppet account?
Just gonna proxy for Andy here. BOO!
BOOOO
Nope. Not doin it.
Now that's plane dumb.
Not only does Ultrakill's tonal whiplash deal a lot of damage, but it's "hard" damage that reduces your max health until you build up some style points.
OK, for V2 of this video, Road Rash 64 had a level at the very end which is the definition of "not expecting it", called "The Wall". They strap you to absurdly fast drag motorcycles and you race down a perfectly straight runway wondering "Why is this called the wall?" Untill you hit the finish line where there is a wall right behind it and you and all the NPC get sent straight up into the air. Its beautiful.
Don’t forget Guacamelee 2 where they made a whole stage based on memes and filled with people complaining about how many memes there are.
Ah yes the Cave of Dankness
*Looks at the list of games at the start*
Ok, so we’re not gonna talk about the Deadpool game when they went 8-bit because Deadpool’s antics maxed out the budget?
The title says "that no one was expecting". If you don't expect wacky stuff in a Deadpool game....
I feel like the only way you could get a level no one was expecting in Deadpool would be a Farming Simulator or Animal Crossing level. Although I can totally see Deadpool beating up Tom Nook then doing yoga with Isabelle, so maybe nothing is unexpected for a Deadpool game.
@@green_dragon_knight You know, I wouldn't mind a Deadpool game that features so many nonsensical cameos and crossovers (purely because Deadpool just can't stop invading other games).
@@DirgeTV They could call it Deadpool vs Copyright Infringement
"...worms, butterflies, bats, and dragonflies..."
Did anyone else hear this and instantly think of the _Calvin & Hobbes_ strip where Calvin does his school project on bugs?
"BATS AREN'T BUGS!"
"Look. Who's giving this report? You chowderheads... or me?"
😂😂😂
YES! 😂👍 Nice reference!
"Bats! The Big Bug Scourge of the Skies!"
8:45 Considering that during the game, you have to defeat a cult worshipping a giant slug, I think the filters are fine.
For some reason, seeing Bowser swim at 13:40 cracked me up XD
Never played any of the paper Mario games but it looks really fun playing through sidescolling Mario style levels as bowser may give it a try soon
@@therunawaykid6523 Same, never played any Mario games at all. It does look fun)
0:25 the emphasis on "I Think that is a real game"! Guess we will never know truly.
"Fidget nervously and sweat profusely" is my default condition. While I realise I need to lose weight, I didn't know I was flirting!
NO JANE NOOOO Save your self! Don't play the Gollum game.
Supervillain origin story material.
Re: Star Trek and copyright Inc the future:
It’d probably fall under the broader United Federation of Planets bureaucracy dealing with the individual governments of member worlds. Like, if you’re a Holodeck dev working out of an apartment on the Moon, and someone from Andoria starts just wholesale ripping assets from your published library, it’d be an thing between the legal systems of Earth and Andoria to figure out.
As long as it’s not like, doing weird space things or a security issue, then Starfleet could get involved. In US Government terms Starfleet is a mix of NASA, the Coast Guard, and the Navy.
The Federation is a somewhat utopian vision of humanity. The DMCA no longer exists.
Diablo's cow level as weird as it gets.
Moo.
Whimsyshire in 3. Cows are iconic, whimsy is diabolical.
I'll never get those moos out of my head
moo-moo-moo-moo-moo... MOOOOO *dying cattle intensifes
Something I will never ever be able to forget. Simply magnificent.
Moo? Moo.
Personally, I count the Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2 pre-made park "Montana" as a joke level. It's flat and has only one tree near the center. As someone from Montana, I can assure you we have more than one tree.
i think chopper drop would probably count as well, it is literally just a halfpipe.
As someone who once had a vertigo attack that left me stuck halfway up a mountain cliff in Montana, can confirm that it has non-flat bits. There might even be a hint in the state's name somewhere! ☺ Also, yes, many trees--at least until you reach the treeline.
What about THUG2 (iirc) where you was skating in hell or in Bermuda
@@sandymangamin7159 that's also a good one
“Skate on, my Son.” *Guerrilla Radio starts playing*
Unlocking Zephyr in Warframe and pressing on the Z tab in her customization menu lets you play a version of Flappy Bird called Flappy Zephyr. There's also a fighting game hidden in Warframe.
Does Fallout 4's Far Harbor battle against the Red Death count? We keep hearing stories about the Red Death and how it destroyed many fishing boats that come close to its island. You are recommended to bring your best armor and weapons before facing it. And uh... it certainly was a battle.
A more fearsome creature you'll never see...
Bowser doesn't know how physics works, that's why is fire breath isn't affected by water.
So what you're telling me is, at least for Bowser, Ignorance is bliss.
@@DirgeTVNow there’s an obscure Mario reference.
…Yes, actually, for anyone else reading this, “Ignorance is Bliss” was actually the name of a Mario thing in the 90’s.
@@DukurowI think that's the only song on that tape anyone knows.
"And then I figured I'd join OPEC"
Didn't Mario's fireballs also work under water?
Speaking of secret bug levels... What about the secret "It Came From Red Alert!" campaign in Red Alert?
Mike doesn't understand how fire breath works? What a surprise! Six years of playing a dragonborn
If you do a commenter edition of this one - the bonus joke level from SNES Star Fox is so weird and so dark.
the one with the Slot Machine?
U beat me to it !
It's also impossible to exit.
Pretty sure they did cover that in a an older vid a few months back.
@@sdrs2713 / 2 times. 1 was commentator version.
My favourite genre shift is a game unexpectedly turning into a dating sim. Check out the "Mack That Knife" minigame from Later, Alligator
Master Detective Archives: Rain Code’s Chapter 4 Mystery Labyrinth has a segment where you have to solve one of the questions while the environment and characters have suddenly turned into a popsicle stick puppet game show. This is the ONLY Mystery Labyrinth where this happens, the segment only lasts for five minutes, none of the characters comment on the change, and it never gets brought up again. Mystery Labyrinths in general are weird, but this segment took the cake.
Hollow Knight had a secret level called the Eternal Ordeal. Do you hate Zote so much you'd whack him 100s of times? Well here's a bunch of horribly deformed Zotes you can fight to your Voidheart's content!
The best part is it's the only arena in Godhome without an audience, which implies the room spontaneously materialized out of his sheer narcissism.
I think the godseeker actually says that he shouldn't be in godhome, and that they're trying to get rid of him. I like to think that the people there know he's there, but deliberately don't watch
@@DrakeBoehm You might be right, it's been a while
Not related to the comment, but I love seeing another one having this "profile pic" after so gu time. Memento mori, friend.
I was expecting the mass effect citadel dlc, while trying to stop the entire galaxy being destroyed you take a break to stop your clone stealing your identity then throw a party for the hell of it
I love everything about it! It's Mass Effect parodying itself, and I was _not_ expecting it the first time around.
You can kick anyone's ass. Including your own
Honestly, as a trekkie, that joke level doesn't seem so ridiculous considering things like the white rabbit from Alice in Wonderland appearing on a planet or some of the ds9 crew getting sucked up by a board game. Basically, I can see a Mario level happening in an episode.
Remember that one book where Trelane showed up and summoned the Winnie the Pooh cast? Yeah that was a thing.
Just when I finally manage to explain to non-gamers how video games are full of immersive gameplay, breathtaking stories, an oasis for the mind to hone your concentration or escape the mundaneness of life...Well, this happens.
Oasis for the mind can take over many forms
Everytime I see thousand year door it makes me want to play it again. Always so much fun.
And Sticker Star 😊
Ah the Ultrakill dating sim level, my first experience with the game was Max0r's Innaccurate Summary videos, so when he showed footage from that I thought it was all part of the shitpost, needless to say when I stumbled on the level myself my sides were in agony from how hard I was laughing by the end
It’s honestly my absolute favorite of the secret levels. With how often it is to see nihilism be shown as pessimistic, it really warms my heart to see optimistic nihilism being shown and embraced as openly as it is for All Imperfect Love Song.
Opening with the Gollum joke was a banger 😂
Type:Rider is a beautiful indie platformer where you slide through levels inspired by famous fonts, with the backgrounds detailed based on the eras inspired by those fonts. Garamond, Times New Roman, Helvetica. It's all gorgeous and extraordinarily regal...
...and then there's a Comic Sans level. Complete with lolcats and mariachi music and floating cheeseburgers.
Sounds like a fun game tbh
I played Rise of the Triad when it came out. But I cannot remember if I bought it or just placed the demo from the magazine cover. So memorable a game it was.
I'm in that same boat. I remember getting the asbestos armor and seeing the message "Asbestos armor. Oh, so itchy!" And that stuck with me as peak hilarity! But i was just trying to answer the same question for myself... was it the full game? The demo?
The Bowser levels were my favorite part of TTYD. I feel like they may have been the prototype that later became Super Paper Mario, my favorite game in the Paper Mario series (with TTYD as a close second).
The thing that stands out most in my memory is that Alan Wake II level. You know, that one. I told my partner to get me when he reached the spot that he’ll know I’m talking about, and when his mind imploded, he knew.
the musical theater level?
@@mattalan6618 yeah! I just didn’t want to spoil it randomly in the comments
@@Sanfo_ THAT WAS SUCH A WEIRD LEVEL FOR THAT TYPE OF GAME
@@mattalan6618 He literally interrupted my shower and went “Is… is it the song??”
This list is missing an absolute wonderful joke level. Diablo 3's "Whimsyshire" where killing unicorns has never been so satisfying!
Don't forget the mobile flowers, the teddy bears, and the destructible and interactable items (presents, piñatas, pots of gold, and happy little clouds)!
I LOVE Jack's birthday party. It's so much fun. 🎉😂
The N64's Blow 'Em Up game Blast Corps had not one, but two Pacman missions! They were fun too!
that was a fun game. i played it when i was a kid, i couldn't really figure out what i was supposed to be doing and only had access to like two levels (i remember a daytime level in a wide-open green field and a nighttime level in a city) but i still had fun.
My favorite secret level in Ultrakill is 7-S, which plays like a normal level right up until you reach the end, at which point you receive a vacuum cleaner and a hose and realize that the game is going to make you clean up all the blood and gore you left behind Powerwash Simulator style before it will open the final door.
I think the joke level in Metal Gear Solid 2 was a masterpiece. You get to play Solid Snake for a whole level! And then the jokes is on you. For the rest of the game. Well played Kojima. Well played indeed.
ultrakill's 5-S and arguably 7-S could make it onto the list, with 5-S being a fishing level and 7-S initially playing out as a normal level before handing you a vacuum cleaner and a powerwasher and making you clean up after yourself
Since ULTRAKILL isn't finished yet, I bet there'll be more similar levels. Anyways, shame the visual novel thing isn't voiced.
Interesting how Wolfenstein 3D implies that not only did B.J. Blazkowicz encounter ghosts, he also survived them after not being able to defeat them... not even Deathshead was this inhuman.
Future Cop LAPD sorely needs a legal rerelease.
Gotta love hearing the ROTT music.
Nice to see Elite Force II here, though I'm more partial to I; even a Star Wars fan can enjoy it enough, though that may be mostly because it satisfies the itch brought upon the Jedi Knight games from the same devs (for the first game, not the second).
So, no Red Alert 1 Ants and Tiberian Dawn Dinosaurs missions?
No cow level, or Whimsyshire from D3? I guess a joke level was expected for D3 after D2, but I assume people expected just another cow level.
I'm not sure it counts. When D3 was first shown off, people complained about the graphics being "cartoony." So as an april fools joke, Blizzard released a trailer with new gameplay and it was Whimsyshire and that ended up becoming the secret level in the finished game. Still Whimsydale was shown before release, so it was pretty expected.
I dunno...as soon as people started whinging on about the graphics being brighter, one could see the cogs turning in the developers heads (Blizzard has recently leaned into the more colorful graphics, after all...Overwatch is hardly drab).
There is actually a cow level in Diablo 3. You find it in Challenge Mode whm playing through Act 4's missions.
@@IrishRay2006 :o didn't know that
The story behind the ROTT level is that in development someone messed up designing a level with a wander wall and got the "attempting to escape" message. Thinking it was hilarious he shared it and someone drew that art on a napkin.
ROTT had a few Easter eggs, too. Scott's Mystical Head was a high point value digitized cap wearing head of the Apogee/3D Realms founder. If you shrank the game play area enough a message "Buy a 486!" would display. There was also a DOPEFISH command line switch that would change the startup sound to belching.
13:40 Screw it, I’m just gonna say it…
_BOWSER’S ARMS!!!_
Yeah, ROTT was my introduction to LAN gaming in like 1996! Drunk missiles FTW!!
Hell yeah Ultrakill mentioned!!!
In kingdom hearts 3, Sora can also cast fire underwater, and it's somehow more powerful than usual. That confused me to no end
I'm sorry but are we really going to ignore how absolutely batsh*t crazy the Saints Row 3 Professor Genki game show missions were? Yes we knew they were coming thanks to pre order bonuses but they were less of a funny joke and more of a joke on the players
Star Trek went full exposition… never go full exposition! 10:20
Always love a Future Cop LAPD feature, real hidden gem
Paper Mario TTYD my beloved! The bowser missions for this game are so goofy.
Don't forget the fishing secret level from Ultrakill!!
Or the fishing ultra secret feature from Path of Exile
I was not expecting to see Future Cop LAPD. My brother and I played that game so much
this just randomly popped up in my recommended and it took me back to my middle school days when i would watch these after school.
good times.
Very surprised to see another human being that knows about Future Cop: LAPD
There are dozens of us
Josh Strife Hayes made a review of it
I played it way back, was super fun
One of the best games of my childhood. Spent literally years playing it over and over.
I was really glad to see Future Cop LAPD on here. Bug hunt was (and still is) my favourite level
Having been recently replaying Wolf3D myself for the first time in 30+ years, I was so hoping Wolf-Pac would be on the list. It made my day seeing it is.
Future cop was fun as hell. Needs a remaster
Tha ultra-kawaii anime inspired RPG Maker room behind a random statue in Felvidek is one of tha funniest examples of this I've ever seen.
You really gotta see a 15th-century Slovakian priest meet a chibi anime girl and be convinced he's fallen into Hell.
Future Cop L.A.P.D. is such a nostalgic game for me. Loved both the campaign and the assault too. Remember playing this bug level too. :]
Implying anything from Paper Mario The Thousand Year Door can even be spoiled anymore with how much the fandom has talked about it. XD
No Jane don't play that Gollum game.
Also I'm surprised they didn't even mention the Diablo secret cow level. That might be one of the most famous secret levels of all time.
The Super Mario Bros World 1-1 in the first Dying Light game was a great and strange moment in a game that took parkour + zombies oddly seriously.
The Giant Ant missions from the Original Command and Conquer was really out there. I sure wasn't expecting it when it came out. The FMV videos actors are also in disbelief.
Diablo 3's Whimsyshire, portals to which seem to open randomly and... there's even more gore than the regular game.
And Trials Fusion's Awesome Level Max DLC, where a cat with an AK47 rides a unicorn with laser vision.
Two different (but very similar) areas, in fact.
Whimsyshire - reached by obtaining the Staff of Herding (crafted weapon) and speaking with the cow spirit outside New Tristram.
Whimsydale - only reached by entering the portal left behind after defeating a Rainbow Goblin (variant of a Treasure Goblin).
They're quite similar in overview, but there are a few differences (specific rare spawns, certain rare items, even item drop rates)...for example, containers in Whimsydale (presents, mushrooms, clouds, piñatas) tend to toss out quite a few magical items (I've averaged at least one set item per Whimsydale run among multiple other legendaries) or a pile of gold (on Torment 5, it's rarely lower than 2m with little to no bonus gold gear).
Nah, credit for the cow level belongs to Diablo II.
@@kaniamia, take it back one iteration...fans of Diablo started mentioning it before D2 was in the pipeline ("accessing" it had to do with the cows you could find in Tristram). Blizzard loved the idea and ran with it, seeding references into Diablo: Hellfire (the expansion for Diablo) and StarCraft (in 1998).
That said, the Staff of Herding and the cow spirit are definitive references to the Cow Level, but are present only in D3 (where the Staff of Herding allows you to speak to the spirit which, in turn, opens the portal to Whimsyshire).
@@kaniamia, that was some "Mew under the truck"-level of rumors, hey?
This just has me recalling the Diablo 2 cow level, which at the time was already weird and hilarious enough, but then it got one-upped in Diablo 3 with the pretty rainbow pixie level. Fun times.
Long time watcher. First time commenter. No need for applause. This is now my favorite yt gaming channel. FTW was my first and best. G4 was on my tv. You all have filled that gap in my heart.
Thank you for covering Elite Force 2, no one remembers that game and they were both a blast to play!
@12:20 space madness? to quote fry: every time something good happens to me you say it's some kind of madness!
14:11 Nice.
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Ooh! Rise of the Triad & Wolfenstien 3D were my jam back in the day! I also remember a 'joke' secret level in the final boss room for doom 2 where you find john romero's head on a stick behind a secret wall. You had to use the idclip cheat code to actually get there though😅
It's a joke level but you got no idea how many people want to smash V1. The whole ultrakill community is obsessed with the robot.
I always love when games reference other games and include special levels like these - yeah I just love games!
In the game Fallout New Vegas, one of the DLC for the game is called Old World Blues and is basically a b science fiction movie. Compared to Fallout New Vegas's other DLC, Old World Blues is more silly in tone.
I first started it late at night and thought I just _really_ needed to get some sleep.
Nope. Turns out it _does_ involve overdramatic brain robot shouting about foot-penises.
@@daviddaugherty2816, "Bluh-bluh-BLOOP".
I'm so happy ULTRAKILL finally made it on this channel...
Spider-man on the Gameboy Color had a great hidden Mario level too. Just had to go to the left of the Daily Bugle building at the start of Lizard's level and there's a green pipe you can drop through
Ultrakill, Wolfenstein 3D, and Rise of the Triad all in one video? I'm lucky today
Well, Ultrakill did come out with an update that allowed it to connect with adult toys….they know their audience well
Only knowing the game from this video, I can't imagine you'd need that for a FPS shoot'em'up... hhwhhyyyy? As funny as that is.... hhwhhhyyyyy?
The ultrakill fandom is... weird
Lmao what?!
7:05 - Quite an underrated game. Love it
I'M FREE!!!!! is burned into my head. Silliest joke level I ever played.
The nightmare game you play in metal gear solid 3, which you get when you save your game in the jail cell after being tortured by Volgin. Very strange slasher game out of nowhere.
I haven’t seen one of your videos in a hot minute so the new studio was a surprise. Feels weird to not have a white background, but I like the new one!
i love the bowser intermissions.
I’d seen images of V1 in a dress around the place and always thought that it was just a community in-joke.
Never imagined it was something like this! Lmao
I don't know what you did, but the lighting is much better than in the first videos with the new studio!
I thought Mike was going to be trying to convince Jane it was a real game during the spoiler part of the intro.
Did not expect a "Kendrick vs. Drake" reference.
My favorite joke level was the 64 version of Rampage: World Tour's Hell level where all the humans are replaced by demons, the buildings are carved from rock and you can even eat the devil himself off his throne
resonance of fate, a turn based jrpg with an odd gun and super jump mecanic belongs on this list for its christmas level where kids mob you and rather than fire guns you thow presents at them