10 Hidden Video Game Images You Weren't Supposed To See
1. Heineken Label - Dark Souls II (2014)
Clearly, estus is not the only tipple of choice within the land of Drangleic. Some undead need something a little stronger to keep them from going hollow.
The first area you'll come to after falling down the Majula pit in Dark Souls II is the Grave of Saints, a rat-infested crypt overrun by poison and pestilence. There are dozens of locking mechanisms around the area, and inserting a Pharros lockstone into most of them will cause corrosive liquid to gush out of the rat statues along the walkways.
If you're playing the raw, vanilla version of Dark Souls II, you may just want to take a closer look at this substance. And when you do, the very last thing you'd expect to see is a real-life label from a bottle of Heineken.
Who knew rats were beer lovers? In all seriousness, the label is part of a larger texture, seemingly from somewhere like a scrapyard, and its inclusion in the game is an obvious mistake. So much so that FromSoftware were very quick to patch it out.
Oh, the shame. In a game series so dedicated to its rich and fascinating world-building, it it must have been extremely humbling for the developers to be told there was unwanted booze in their brainchild. What's the lore behind that, eh, Miyazaki?
At least we still have Siegbräu.