Video games are loaded with easter eggs. However, some of them are so well hidden, they might never be discovered, and none of us would be any the wiser. That’s unless the developers who put them there eventually cave and show us, which is exactly what one ofRatchet & Clank: Rift Apart’s designers has done.
Rift Apart turned four on Wednesday, and to celebrate, its senior designer, Grant Parker, streamed the game live onInsomniac’s Twitch channel. During the stream, in a clip the studio has since shared on Twitter, Parker reveals an easter egg he’s pretty sure no one has found despite how long ago the game launched.
Once you watch what you have to do to unlock and make use of this easter egg, it’ll become pretty clear why no one has managed to find it, even though it’s hidden right in the middle of an area you visit frequently. Right before you go into Zurkie’s, there’s a barrier that, when you pass through it, your weapons are disabled. However, if you shoot the signs on the outside in a certain, very specific way, it unlocks a mini-game on the other side of the barrier.
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To unlock the mini game, you need toshoot the left sign five times, the right sign four times, and then the left sign 13 more times. As if that wasn’t random enough for no one to have discovered the mini game it unlocks, even if you were to have done it by accident somehow, there’s no prompt to congratulate you. Not even an indication that something inside Zurkie’s has been changed by your actions.
As for what’s different, there’s a mechanical bull inside Zurkie’s. You might not even remember it because, unless you perform the sequence detailed above, it’s just kind of there. Shoot the targets in the way Parker has outlined, however, and the bull becomes a mini-game. You can ride it and try to stay on for as long as you can. There doesn’t appear to be a reward, and it’s a prototype version of the mini game that was never polished, but it’s still a lot of fun to have it pointed out so many years after we all played Rift Apart.
Parker notes that he left the mini game in there for himself, but since it’s been four years, he figured that he may as well share it with the world. Makes you wonder what other easter eggs in various games have been left undiscovered. Certainly notthe Super Mario 64 easter egg in Mario Kart World, which players used to unlock free roam’s mirror mode almost immediately.
