Before the modern era of remaking the Resident Evil series with an third-person perpsective, Capcom introduced the original Resident Evil Remake all the way back in 2002. However, even with the original remake being almost 20 years old, a Resident Evil fan has discovered a new piece of trivia from this reimagining of the initial treck through the Spencer Mansion.
The discovery was originally posted to Reddit by user himmeup, though it was reportedly found while watching a let's play of Resident Evil Remake on YouTube. In fact, watching a playthrough online as opposed to playing the game firsthand might explain how the fan was able to notice the small detail that might slip past most players as they are stressfully reading through notes and trying to survive.
What this fan has found is a piece of text that has an incorrect date inside of it that either implies the month of November is counted differently in the Resident Evil universe, or a translater made a simple mistake. The text is a journal entry that reads the date as November 31st, a date that doesn't exist considering that the month of November ends on the 30th. It's clearly a mistranslation or scripting error, though some fans have had fun in the comments of the original post theorizing that the calender is somehow different in Resident Evil than it is in the real world.
Was watching a playthrough of REmake on youtube and noticed the note was dated November 31... from residentevil
It isn't uncommon for a mistake in the text to go unnoticed all the way until the game ships, especially one like using a date that doesn't exist as it might be easy to miss when going over the mountain of text that goes into these types of games. In the case of the original Resident Evil's remake, there are dozens of these journal entries and experiment notes scattered across the roughly ten hours of gameplay. Of course, fans will still have a field day finding a mistake like this November 31st situation and running the joke through every variation they can find.
The fact that this mistake supposedly hadn't been found for almost 20 years comes as a bit of a surprise, especially considering how popular Resident Evil and its following rereleases have been. However, with Resident Evil 4 Remake rumored to be on the way, fans might be soaking up every bit of content the series has to offer in the meantime. Hopefully for Capcom there won't be too many more mistakes for fans to find and run with as they continue to dig through the full Resident Evil catalogue.
Resident Evil Remake is available now for GameCube, PC, PS3, PS4, Wii, Xbox 360, and Xbox One.