10 PAINFUL Secrets In Open World Games

Shadow of the Colossus' secret garden is a hidden area in the game which can only be accessed by players with maximum stamina, requiring you to have first beaten the game three times.

As thrilling a game as this is, that's quite the committed time investment to reaching the secret garden, which can be accessed by using your full stamina to climb a wall of moss near the Shrine of Worship.

Keep continuing upwards and you'll eventually enter the garden - a lush locale filled with fruit which the player can shoot down and consume. 

However, this secret turns out to be literally painful for protagonist Wander, as the fruit is quite literally forbidden, given that each one lowers your maximum health and stamina.

Game director Fumito Ueda said that the intent of the secret garden's forbidden fruit is to return Wander to a state of vulnerable humanity, compared to the fruit outside of the garden which increases Wander's health.