Video Game Vent Crawlers
Despite their relative mundanity in the real world, to a character in a video game an air vent is the perfect way to get past a locked door, spy on some NPCs or even take refuge from all the terrible creatures trying to get you (until you realise that they spawn there in the darkness and you’ve just crawled face first into their nest, of course). Pretty much a necessity for any stealth game worth its salt, you can even find some suggestion of the vent-crawling trope in games set in medieval times (although, to be fair, these do tend to be subterranean tunnels and sewers as opposed to some kind of craftily engineered magical equivalent). So who are some of video gaming’s top vent crawlers?
