10 Video Game Secrets That Literally Wasted Your Time
6. Dedicated Licker - Saints Row IV: How The Saints Saved Christmas
Saints Row IV's DLC, How the Saints Saved Christmas, tells an over-the-top tale about everyone's favorite purple gang taking a visit to Santa's workshop.
The DLC is full of tongue-in-cheek humor that you'd expect out of Saints Row, but if you want to see a certain easter egg, the tongue will need to leave the cheek and go right for a certain holiday treat...
No, this is not some weird innuendo but actually the solution for one of Saints Row's most tedious secrets.
When you visit the North Pole for the first time, the entrance to Santa's workshop will be blocked by a giant candy cane. The game will instruct you to enter via the stables or try to lick your way through a treat.
The latter option sounds funnier, but when you attempt it, you will notice that the candy meter next to the objective doesn't move, so most players give up after a minute, thinking it's impossible to lick through the candy.
However, it does secretly workâit just takes a whopping ten minutes of mindless button pressing.
Your reward for your commitment is the game calling you crazy while you do it and then unlocking a "shortcut" that takes more time than the stable option, but without all the fun action.