10 Hidden Video Game Rewards Given To Smart Players
7. Ash Lake - Dark Souls
Illusory walls are a staple mechanic of the Dark Souls series. They are regular-looking walls that, when hit or walked through, reveal hidden areas where the player can usually find some kind of treasure.
Finding illusory walls demands the player to be pretty observant and smart about the way they explore new locations, which is why finding even one of them is a pretty difficult task.
That said, in the original Dark Souls, there is actually a huge reward hiding behind not one but two illusions! How huge are we talking? Well, about the size of an entirely new explorable area!
Called Ash Lake, this secret location is normally never discovered by casual Dark Souls players, as it requires you to be so observant as to find an illusory wall hidden behind another illusory wall.
If this doesn't somehow sound challenging enough, the entrance to Ash Lake is hidden inside the labyrinth-like tendrils of the Great Hollow location in Blighttown, which are infamously hard to navigate.
It takes an especially keen mind to successfully discover Ash Lake. That's why most players aren't even aware of its existence.