10 HUGE Video Game Secrets You’ll Hate Yourself For Missing

Celebrated video game auteur Hideo Kojima is no stranger to including weird secrets in his games. Whether it's adding himself as a gooey monster to jump scare players in Death Stranding or slipping in a cryptic Silent Hill Easter Egg in the teaser for upcoming horror game OD, Kojima fans can always expect to find some peculiar surprises within his games.

Nowhere is the developer’s proclivity for the bizarre best seen than in his Metal Gear franchise. In addition to chicken hats, fast travel cardboard boxes, and spooky photographs, players could also access a secret playable nightmare section in Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater.

To play this secret level, players need to save their game as soon as Snake is thrown into a cell after he's tortured by Colonel Volgin. Doing so will cause Para-Medic to tell Snake a scary story about Dracula, which Snake is displeased to hear.

Upon exiting and reloading the save, players will find themselves in Snake’s nightmare, a hack-and-slash minigame in which they fight hordes of monstrous enemies until the game is over.

This minigame was intended to be turned into its own game called Guy Savage. However, after the project was cancelled the section was removed from all future releases of Snake Eater.