Summary

• Save points vary in games: Minecraft uses beds, Hollow Knight uses benches, and Nier Automata uses vending machines.
• Different save points can enhance gameplay by adding difficulty, advancing the story, or fitting the game's tone.
• Save points in games like Undertale and Dark Souls contribute to immersion and add to the overall experience.

To many, 'save points' are an almost archaic concept, which has largely been replaced or at the very least bolstered by auto-saving features in most games. There is an overall consensus that save points not only break the immersion for players, 𓆉but they can create a feeling of frustration, causing you to exclaim something along the lines of, "I have to restart all the way back here?".

For some games, however, save points are integral to the player experience. They had a layer of intentional difficulty and punishment, add to the tone, or even advance the story. These are just a few games th🃏at make use of very clever save points.

Updated September 21st, 2024 by Hilton Webster: aWhile many of us don't even think of saving the game as a necessary act anymore, there are plenty games out there still that want to make that simple act something a bit more memorable. We've updated this article to highlight just a few more of those quirky save points.

11 Beds - Mine♑craft

There are few souls left in this world who have not heard of Minecraft. It is far from just a video game anymore but a media empire spanning movies, toys, collectibles. and yes, video games. In this instance, we're talking about the Mine🃏craft that started it all, and how being sleepy saves the day.

Literally. While Minecraft has various methods of saving across its many different modes, the good ol' survival mode knows that the best way 💮to save your content is to build a bed and go to sleep in it. Who needs fancy save points when you can j♔ust go to bed and memorize the day instead?

10 Benches - Hollow kn𝔍ight 🔯

The Metroidvania genre is one packed with games, yet least of all the actual games 🃏that created it. Of the many games that have risen to the heights of the genre, Hollow Knight is amongst the most celebrated. Challenging combat, endearing art, and enticing level design make it an all time classic. The ෴various little guys help, too.

Owing to the challenging nature of the༒ game, it only saves in two instances - when you quit, and when you rest. The benches spread throughout Hallownest are the game's way of getting you to sit down and recollect your journey. The Knight will update their map once they sit down, as well as save the game. It always pay😼s to take a break.

9 🃏 Nie🉐r Automata - Vending Machines

There are a great many🐓 things that you may hold Nier Automata in high acclaim for. Maybe it's the commentary upon the foundations 🔯of humanity, the destructive nature of war, the ability to ride feral hogs, or even just the fan-favourite androids of 2B and 9S. What probably did not stick in your mind are the Access Points.

While Nier Automata has auto-saving, it's rather rare, so you're expected to back up your save data at Access Points instead. In-lore, this uploads an Android's memory to the base so they can be brought back should their body be destroyed. That's nice and dandy, but did y🐷ou notice they're just༒ vending machines? Pretty fascinating that they survived the ret of the planet's destruction.

8 SAVꦦE Points - Undertale

This article entry... it fills you with determination. There are many things memorable about Undertale, but few that are so synonymous with the game as the "SAVE" points. These appear as little glimmers throughout the game, where you can save your game and regain your "HP" points. Doing so is typically followed up with a message that changes at every SAVE point. There is one consistency throughout all the SAVE messages though, 🧔which is that they all end with "...fills you with determination."

On the Genocide Route of Undertale, the SAVE points reflect the numbers of monsters in an area that yo𒅌u have left to kill. When the deed is done, the SAVE point message will simply read, "Determination." Both versions set quite a resolute tone for you as the player.

7 ⛄ Typewriters - Resident Evil 💟

Amidst all the horror of Resident Evil, the one delight you can always relish in is the sight of a typewriter in the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Resident Evil franchise. Typewriters are a staple of the series, though the rare sight of one has undoubtedly caused quite a few players some grief.

Despite this frustration, the use and scarcity of typewriters added to the overall tension buildinꦏg in early RE games. To make things even harder, in earlier Resident Evil games as well as higher difficulties of the more modern entries, you only had a finite number of Ink Ribbons to u✱se at the typewriters, making saving a strategy in and of itself.

6 Refrigerators -🅰 Eastward

Reminiscent to the SAVE points in Undertale, or perhaps more poignantly the Save Frogs in Mother 3, the refrigerators in Eastward have a knack for bringing you a moment of existential dread with each manual save. Many of us have spent an unknown amount of our lives staring blankly into a fridge, the c♚ool air gusting over us, just to close the door and walk away empty-handed. In Eastward, the game seems to be making a commentary on this universal experience, as if every time we stare into our refrigerator, we leave a little part of us behind.

Leaning into the morbid💦ity of this concept, each time you make a manual save at a fridge, you will be greeted by a suitably uneasy message, such as, "You can refrigerate your memories here. But when you take them out again... will the n⭕ew you really be you?". Good luck sleeping tonight.

5 Safe Rooms - Left 4 Dead 🌠

Left 4 Dead might not be the first game to use Safe Rooms in practice, but the implementation of them is certainly one of the most immersive. Whether you are playing in Single Player or Campaign mode, after blasting and hacking through 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:waves of zombies, a Safe Room is a wel🍸come sight at the end o♑f every level.

Once all the players are inside and safe from the zombie horde, you can heal up and resupply before continuing on in your adventure. Safe Rooms bring a nice fluidity to the Left 4 Dead experience so that you do not necessarily feel like you are merely saving progression, but resting up before you and your party c♊harge back into the horde.

4 ♛ Save Frogs - Mother 3

Setting a legendary precedent for zany and unique save points, the final and most well-known of the Mother series has you as the player saving your game with... frogs. In previous Mother games, the save mechanic e𓄧mployed was telephones, so this is truly an epic upgrade.

Later in the game, you can even use the Save Frogs to deposit or withdraw your Dragon Power, which i♛s Mother 3's in-game currency. Scattered throughout the game in often unlikely places, every Save Frog is different, and each one has a unique message. Can you find them all?

3 𝐆 💫 Restrooms - Dead Rising

꧒When you think of the perfect place to rest and rec🧸harge before heading back into battle, images of inns, taverns, and other humble abodes might come to mind, right? Well, Dead Rising proves that there is no safer place to renew yourself than the lavatory.

Spread throughout Williamette Parkview Mall, restrooms can be used by Frank West to take relieve himself... and save your progress.꧅ Not every save point in Dead Rising is a restroom, but they certainly are the most memorable ones.

2 ꦆ Bonfires - Dark Souls

For most, the idea of a campfire conjures up cozy feelings, maybe memories of the smell of woodsmoke and charred marshmallows. But, those familiar with 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Dark Souls and other Soul🥃s titles truly understand the euphoria brought on by the wave of relief from seeing a Bonfire.

While Bonfires as a save mechanic are pretty suitable to the fantasy world of Dark Souls, what makes these save points truly iconic is their scarcity. Souls games are known for being incredibly punishing, making the sight of a Bonfire a truly blessed and ♐memorable experience.