Dimiterscu Wine, Tofu, and 26 More Brilliant Little Resident Evil Requiem Details

This nonfiction contains spoilers for Resident Evil Requiem.

Resident Evil Requiem yet sees the bid instrumentality to Raccoon City, truthful it’ll astonishment nary 1 that it’s run is loaded with Easter eggs and references to the past. From heavy cuts referencing 1998’s Resident Evil 2, to nods to much modern games successful the franchise, present are 28 superb small details we’ve spotted successful Resident Evil Requiem truthful far.

For seasoned fans, the unquestionable item of Requiem is Leon’s instrumentality to the RPD. Well, its ruins – it decidedly didn’t look similar this past time. As expected, the dilapidated section is packed with references to the past.

1. Before you participate the doors of the Raccoon City Police Department, you'll announcement the streets astir you consciousness precise familiar. Look down you, and you’ll spot the tanker that separated Leon and Claire, and past subsequently exploded, inactive successful the nonstop aforesaid presumption it was 28 years prior.

2. Right adjacent to the tanker is simply a gathering with ARUKAS written connected it, which is simply a notation backmost to the archetypal 1998 game, which successful crook referenced Street Fighter Alpha 2’s Sakura. Arukas is Sakura spelt backwards. Perhaps surprisingly, that isn’t the lone Street Fighter notation you tin find, but determination are a mates of steps earlier we get there.

Once Leon is yet reunited with the RPD, he’s flooded with memories of his traumatic experience.

3. In Resident Evil 2, conscionable earlier you’re introduced to the Licker, you find a dormant constabulary serviceman with its jaw sliced astir wholly off. 28 years later, that constabulary officer (well, his skeleton) is inactive successful that nonstop aforesaid position, present notably sans jaw.

4. Also inactive successful the RPD are the remnants of each the unusual puzzles Leon and Claire had to solve, frozen successful clip and covered successful dust. The Lion statue puzzle successful the main hallway is declared by Leon to beryllium the oddest of them each erstwhile helium says, “This puzzle was weird”.

5. A travel to RPD wouldn’t beryllium implicit without a snoop astir the S.T.A.R.S office, and though you tin find tons of chill details successful there, specified arsenic Jill’s beret, it’s Barry’s scavenger hunt that’s the astir fun.

After pursuing the 2 clues, you’ll find a hidden cardinal for a locker. This cardinal has the connection Jojo written connected it, and for those who don’t know, Jojo is simply a notation to the Japanese manga JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, which was besides written connected a locker successful the archetypal 1998 mentation of Resident Evil 2.

6. The Jojo cardinal opens a locker that contains a full big of goodies, including Barry’s acquisition of 2 tickets to the Raccoon City Zoo, a determination that appears successful the Resident Evil Outbreak series, which besides happens to beryllium the crippled our leader Grace’s mom, Alyssa, is from.

7. At the basal of this locker, though, is simply a wealthiness of PS1 nostalgia, which includes boxed copies of the original Resident Evil, Street Fighter Alpha 2 and Mega-Man 8. There’s besides a poster for Street Fighter Alpha and what looks to beryllium a TEMU PS1 that looks much similar a Sega Saturn than a classical PlayStation.

8. Later on, connected the crushed level of the RPD, you tin spot random appearances done the cracks successful the partition of everyone’s favourite edible hero, Tofu, who was an unlockable playable quality successful the archetypal Resident Evil 2. Tofu, beret and all, peeks retired to accidental hello. And yes, if you’re speedy enough, you tin popular a changeable astatine him to bash immoderate harm to his squishy consistency.

I’m not definite what the nonstop trigger is for Tofu, but it feels similar it’s conscionable aft you prime up Barry’s To Do List, which besides appears to beryllium the trigger for the adjacent detail.

9. Wesker’s table drawer is present an infamous determination successful the past of Resident Evil 2. In the remake, it contains a limb component; successful the original, aft hitting the enactment punctual 50 times, you were “rewarded” with an inappropriate photograph of Rebecca Chambers. In 2026, aft looking astatine Barry’s to-do list, you’ll find a enactment astir a publication called ‘Medicinal Benefit of Herbs’, showing that it’s been returned to the room by Wesker. Make your mode implicit to the room to find this book, look inside, and erstwhile again you’ll find the photograph of Rebecca, with a enactment referring to her arsenic “Rising Rookie Rebecca”. RRR past happens to beryllium the codification for Wesker’s briefcase, successful which you find a charm of his iconic sunglasses.

10. Once you’ve near the RPD, marque definite to caput left, and you’ll beryllium capable to revisit the parking garage, the determination wherever Leon archetypal met emotion interest/frenemy, Ada Wong. In here, you’ll find a cute carnivore charm, the aforesaid 1 seen connected the keys that Ada hands to Leon successful Resident Evil 4.

11. In the RPD, you’ll erstwhile again travel face-to-face with Mr. X. But did you announcement that Grace really bumps into him, too? Well, not really, but the feline that she brushes against the streets of Wrenwood astatine the precise commencement of the crippled definite does look similar he’s wearing Mr.X's outfit…complete with the fedora chapeau helium wears successful the RE2 remake.

12. Like Tofu and Mr. X, there’s besides different returning Resident Evil 2 legend, who, though ne'er outright named, is rather intelligibly everyone’s favourite no-nonsense mercenary, Hunk. This unlockable quality from the archetypal Resident Evil 2 (and galore games that came after) turns up arsenic a brag successful Requiem’s last act, and somewhat lives up to his legacy, with Leon declaring him to beryllium a pugnacious bastard aft they duke it retired to the death. RIP Hunk.

Resident Evil 2 isn’t the lone crippled from the bid referenced successful Requiem, though, with the erstwhile entry, Resident Evil Village, besides getting a mates of nods.

13. Just aft you scope the helipad, you participate a country afloat of items to examine. One of these is simply a wine bottle which has the sanction Dimiterscu written connected it, intelligibly referring to everyone’s favourite goth mummy from Resident Evil Village. The vessel is labelled “Sanguis Virginis”, which is the aforesaid vino utilized to lick a puzzle successful Village’s castle location.

14. Later on, successful Spencer’s study, you tin spot a representation of a lone pistillate with the missive M connected it. This refers to Mother Miranda, the large atrocious of Resident Evil Village and (as we find retired astatine the extremity of that game) Ozwell E. Spencer’s idol and inspiration.

15. One of Requiem’s large bads is Victor Gideon, who sports immoderate important jewellery. Look adjacent and you tin spot a snake motif connected his ring. The aforesaid snake motif is seen connected Krauser’s weapon successful RE4.

16. Requiem besides has a notation to the silliest of Resident Evil’s puzzles, with Grace pointing retired the ludicrous systems of opening doors successful these zombie-infested mansions. When inserting the Red Gem into a doorway astatine the Rhodes Hill Care Center, Grace rightly states, “How bash mean radical get successful here?”

17. But possibly nary doorway successful Resident Evil is much iconic than the original game's loading surface animations between rooms, thing that is referenced adjacent the opening of the crippled with a dilatory zoom connected the doorway earlier the chainsaw-wielding Doctor attacks Leon.

That conflict is implicit chaos, with a big of chill interactions with the chainsaw. There are a mates of superb details you mightiness miss, though.

18. The chainsaw is unwieldy astatine the champion of times, spinning wildly erstwhile connected the floor. If you negociate to termination a zombie portion they’re inactive holding it, the chainsaw volition extremity up dragging the fallen soma eaters on for the ride.

19. A zombie tin besides beryllium impaled with a still-operational chainsaw, the revving leaf protruding consecutive done their rib cage. Don’t fto them get excessively close, though, due to the fact that if they drawback you, past they’ll thrust their thorax with the chainsaw straight into yours.

20. It’s rather wide that galore of the different zombies roaming the halls of the Rhodes Hill Care Center person their ain personalities, but determination are besides medical records you tin find that stock their names and defining traits, with a idiosyncratic favourite being Eileen Zimmerson, 1 of the singing zombies whose property upset is described arsenic “main quality syndrome”.

21. Meanwhile, the tremendous wide grinding its mode done the hallways who we cognize arsenic “Chunk” is really called Thomas K. Jackson, and the mentation Leon takes connected is called Timothy B. Jackson. So they’re really brothers, some with irregular eating signifier disorders.

22. Interestingly, respective zombies inactive clasp traits from their mortal existence, similar the cleaning zombie, who is ace focused connected scrubbing the humor retired of the mirror. She will, however, besides determination locations to cleanable up the gore you make by sidesplitting different zombies.

23. Later on, erstwhile Grace and Emily conscionable Harry Reed, astir would advancement connected with the communicative portion Emily is harmless successful the helicopter. If you’re a psycho, though, Capcom has prepared custom dialogue for Harry should you, for immoderate reason, determine to unload connected the whirlybird.

24. Capcom has besides layered subtle instructions into the situation erstwhile Leon archetypal takes to the motorbike successful Raccoon City, with a billboard appearing precise aboriginal connected that says “Learn to Steer” conscionable aft the subordinate takes control.

25. Leon is simply a maestro with his equipment, arsenic shown erstwhile utilizing a flashlight with his handgun. When you spell to reload, Leon volition smoothly tuck the flashlight into his shoulder, making for a precise slick and elaborate animation.

26. Also interesting: erstwhile reloading, some Grace and Leon volition retain the magazine if determination are inactive rounds successful it. If it’s empty, they’ll discard it.

The last details are, astatine the clip of penning this, portion of an unsolved mystery, truthful answers mightiness beryllium retired determination by the clip you ticker this, but they’re ace chill nonetheless.

27. After taking retired the Tyrant, you’ll announcement a hoops tribunal with a suspicious-looking head successful the middle. Shuffle footwear that caput on until it goes done the hoop, and you’ll get a caller enactment punctual that tells you “There’s nary clip for playing around”. Instead of pushing guardant to the orphanage, caput backmost to Kendo’s weapon shop, and you’ll present find a punctual connected a headless Toy Uncle bobblehead that reads “just disregard A”. Our archetypal mentation was that this was a notation to the ending choice, since the archetypal enactment (or "A" ending) isn’t the canon one, but we’ve since stumbled connected thing other that mightiness explicate it further…

28. The final mystery is simply a doozy that we’ve yet to solve, but present are the hidden clues we person truthful far. After your flight from The Girl successful the elevator shaft, her limb volition beryllium severed and disposable to prime up. It didn’t look to service immoderate intent until we decided to tally it done the investigation instrumentality you usage to upgrade your crafting recipes.

After solving this puzzle, you’re shown a achromatic surface that says ‘Let’s Play’, and a series of letters: G,A,U, and C. Based connected the anterior clue, I deliberation it’s harmless to disregard A.

Hidden successful the crippled are immoderate clues to what these letters mean. In an hourglass you tin find and rotate, U is revealed to beryllium linked to the fig 380,000. In Grace’s humor investigation report, C is 4.2 LY, and connected the broadside of the humor analyser device, there’s a sticker that says G = 15,000,000.

What does each this mean? Well, our conjecture was that it’s the region to the moon, sun, and nearest star, which besides happens to beryllium the series buttons for the puzzles successful the Rhodes Hill Chronic Care Center. After utilizing the G, U, C series and translating them into moon, sun, and prima inputs for the machine, entering that codification triggers a creepy laughter dependable effect.

What does that mean? That’s wherever we’re stumped! Hopefully, you’ll already person the answers and tin driblet it successful the comments.

And that’s everything we’ve spotted truthful acold successful Resident Evil Requiem. Did we miss immoderate chill Easter eggs, oregon are determination tiny gameplay details we missed? Let america cognize successful the comments.

Dale Driver is an Associate Director of Video Programming astatine IGN. Be thoroughly bored by pursuing him connected Bluesky astatine @daledriver.bsky.social