History Main / SuspiciouslyCrackedWall

* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' has many examples of these. 2D games also have fake wall cracks.
** Although this only helps with fake walls that aren't cracked, tapping them with Link's sword produces a different sound than tapping a solid wall.
** It helps with the cracked ones, too. The aforementioned fake wall cracks might even appear more often than real ones.
** Some games, like ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild Breath of the Wild]]'', use piles of boulders in the same way, functioning as the cracked "wall" of a mountain.
%%* ''VideoGame/ZombiesAteMyNeighbors'', some levels are almost completely made of these.

* ''VideoGame/TheSimpsonsGame'' has cracked walls which break when Homer hits them.
* ''VideoGame/{{Skully}}'' has cracked walls blocking your paths, which can be destroyed if you're in your default Strong Golem form.

* In ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamAsylum'', removable walls -- as well as being explicitly marked in Detective Vision -- are visibly cracked and holed to normal vision.

* In ''[[VideoGame/BanjoKazooie Banjo-Tooie]]'', cracked wall = [[StuffBlowingUp grenade eggs]]. Cracked ''floors'' also signal that they are able to be broken by a [[ThisIsADrill Bill Drill]].

* In the first ''VideoGame/GodOfWarI''.

* In ''VideoGame/DayOfDefeat'', the walls that can be demolished by players' explosives are marked this way.
* If there's a cracked wall in ''VideoGame/{{Dubloon}}'', you can crack it open with your supply of bombs. There's also a more common invisible variation.
* Goes hand in hand with the ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'' series. ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaCircleOfTheMoon'' has a approximately 4-pixel-wide marking for breakable walls.

* ''VideoGame/{{Unreal}}'' has a few and often requires to break them in order to advance. The Na Pali Haven level has even two of those.
* ''VideoGame/{{Heretic}}'''s secret doors were always given away by a telltale light beneath them, or a subtle change in texture.

* ''VideoGame/DarkForces'' has them, esp in the level where you must rescue Crix Madine

* ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' has [[http://www.bghq.com/textures.php?game=doom wall textures]] noticeably different to draw attention to secret doors, sometimes misaligned or bordered but often with conspicuously damaged wall segments such as [[http://www.bghq.com/textures/doom/215.png this]], [[http://www.bghq.com/textures/doom/446.png this]] or [[http://www.bghq.com/textures/doom/586.png this]]. Played straight when the wall is set to open on damage, meaning you have to physically attack the wall to make it open.

* The ''Film/JurassicPark'' video game for Sega Genesis had suspiciously cracked walls in some places in Dr Grant's levels. However, rather than signalling places you could blast through the walls, they signaled places where Rexie would break through and attack you once you got too close.
* ''VideoGame/CastleInTheDarkness'' has these. You can hit them with your sword to reveal hidden paths.
* ''VideoGame/NinjaOutbreak'': You can break these to use as shortcuts.
* Any time a cracked wall pops up in a ''VideoGame/LegoAdaptationGame'', it's an easy guess you need a character with either SuperStrength or an AbsurdlySharpBlade to break it down and reveal something.
* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftPizzaDelivery'': In the prison mission, you encounter cracked walls that can be broken through with enough bullets.
* ''VideoGame/BreathOfFireIV'': In Muktu, following the Northwest trail lead to a cave with an odd looking wall. Using Ershin's headbutt to smash it open will reveal a hidden passage going deeper into the ruins. This area is notable for being the home of the [[BossInMookClothing Rider]], [[SuperBoss the strongest enemy in the game]].

* Cracked walls are featured in ''Videogame/{{Cultic}}''. Blowing these up with explosives is necessary to get to many of the secrets.
* Cracked walls are present in ''Videogame/{{Hrot}}''. These are destroyable using explosives. Usually cracked walls hide secret areas.
* ''VideoGame/SlayersXTerminalAftermathVenganceOfTheSlayer'' features cracked walls that open up secrets when blown up.
* ''VideoGame/GenshinImpact'' has breakable rock piles that have a treasure chest or other things hidden behind them. They can be blown up or battered down (ideally with a claymore and/or a Geo elemental move). Just to make them [[NoticeThis more obvious]] they glow a bright colour when the 'elemental sight' mode is active.
* In ''VideoGame/KirbyAndTheForgottenLand'', if a surface is cracked, it likely can be destroyed, often revealing secrets.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Pseudoregalia}}'', if you see a wall that's cracked and darker, it is breakable, revealing new passages.

* VideoGame/{{Pseudoregalia}}: If you see a wall that's cracked and darker, it is breakable, revealing new passages.

* Goes hand in hand with the ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'' series. In fact, when the trope doesn't pop up in an installment, fans cry foul.

* ''SlayersXTerminalAftermathVenganceOfTheSlayer'' features cracked walls that open up secrets when blown up.

* ''VideoGame/SonicHeroes'' has some of these as a minor gimmick in [[BigBoosHaunt Hang Castle]] and [[BigBoosHaunt Mystic]] [[ThatOneLevel Mansion]]. These walls can only be broken with your power character.

* ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' had [[http://www.bghq.com/textures.php?game=doom wall textures]] noticeably different to draw attention to secret doors, sometimes misaligned or bordered but often with conspicuously damaged wall segments such as [[http://www.bghq.com/textures/doom/215.png this]], [[http://www.bghq.com/textures/doom/446.png this]] or [[http://www.bghq.com/textures/doom/586.png this]]. Played dead straight when the wall was set to open on damage, meaning you had to physically attack the wall to make it open.

* ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry3DantesAwakening'': In the puzzle room containing the statues crying TearsOfBlood, one wall has a crack with an odd white light in its center, indicating that it can be broken.

* There's a notable moment in ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry 3'' where you enter a room that doesn't seem to have anything in it... but there's a glowing crack in front of you. Turns out that there's a wall ''almost immediately in front of the door'' that you destroy to carry on.

* ''VideoGame/ZombiesAteMyNeighbors'', some levels are almost completely made of these.

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* The ''Prince of Persia'' games have these, especially ''Warrior Within''. Notable in that you need a specific weapon to break them - usually a powerful one that you get near the end - and the best upgrades are behind cracked walls at the start, so you have to spend half your time backtracking and trying to remember where they are.

* The ''Film/JurassicPark'' video game for Sega Genesis had suspiciously cracked walls in some places in Dr Grant's levels. However, rather than signally places you could blast through the walls, they signaled places where Rexie would break through and attack you once you got too close.

-->-- '''Comic Book Guy''', VideoGame/TheSimpsonsGame.

* Cruelly, some cracked walls in ''VideoGame/LaMulana'' must be attacked, but others blast you with lightning when you attack them. [[TrialAndErrorGameplay If there's a way to tell which is which, it's not immediately apparent]].

* In the first ''VideoGame/GodOfWar''.

* ''VideoGaem/PokemonRubyAndSapphire'' has certain areas in the overworld which can be turned into the entrance to a [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Secret Base]]. One of these is a strange hole in cave walls, which isn't so much a crack as a neatly-defined square ''hole''. In a ''cave wall''.