Resident Evil 4 Remake includes typewriters

When you think of saving your game in Resident Evil, what comes to mind first? I imagine it’s a typewriter, or even an ink ribbon. Maybe even the voice recorder tapes, if you’re a big fan of Resident Evil 7: Biohazard.

I recently spent some time with Resident Evil 4 Remake, and I made sure to pick out every fine detail I could locate. I wasn’t just straining to hear Leon Kennedy say, “Bingo?” or to determine that organizing my storage box was actually as satisfying as the 2005 title, but – and I’m sorry I doubted Capcom – I was also looking for a typewriter.

Resident Evil 4 was not the first Resident Evil game to use a typewriter as a save point, however it was the first to use a typewriter that did not require ink ribbons. Saving also became unlimited, before it was finally abandoned in Resident Evil 5, along with the spirit of the series.

Anyway, I found a typewriter. After all, it wouldn’t make any sense to remake Resident Evil 4, a game that’s supposed to have closer connections to Resident Evil Village, without having typewriters as save points. However, nowadays, you never really know what will become a remake and what won’t (looking at you, Resident Evil 3 Remake).

It’s worth mentioning that in the version I was playing, we couldn’t actually use or interact with the typewriters. It was a demo, after all, and I didn’t need to panic about saving my progress for fear that a random Los Ganados would suddenly take me out. It also seemed like there was a form of autosave present between areas of the game, but again, this could all have been exclusive to the demo version.

That said, it’s safe to say that Resident Evil 4 Remake remembers exactly where it came from. So far, based on the demo portion of the game that I was able to play, it feels unmistakably like Resident Evil 4 with some fresh paint and evolved combat.

Leaving little details intact, like the look of the storage box, the save system, and the dialogue, will go a long way in making this a fantastic remake; Seeing that typewriter, even if I couldn’t use it yet, brought another sigh of relief and comforted me that this new version is in the right hands.