History Main / HealingCheckpoint

This is a {{Subtrope}} of AntiFrustrationFeatures. {{Sister Trope}}s include LevelUpFillUp, for when you heal up after a LevelUp, and AfterBossRecovery, for when you heal up after a BossBattle. Frequently overlaps with SuspiciousVideoGameGenerosity in those cases where you conveniently get a save point and a full heal right before a boss fight.

*** strangely, ''X'' still has {{Trauma Inn}}s, while also having a save point near every such inn. The same applies to ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX2'', where you can heal by sleeping in your bed in the [[GlobalAirship Celsius]] despite it also containing a Healing Checkpoint.
** In the older ''Final Fantasy'' games, save points can be used to deploy a Tent indoors (a Tent is an item that works like a portable TraumaInn and normally can only be used on the world map).

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* In ''VideoGame/LostOdyssey'' the save points don't heal you automatically, but loading a saved game does, so all you have to do is save and reload. Many -- but not all -- save points are nevertheless paired up with a healing orb, even though this ends up doing nothing but sparing you a quick reload.

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* Some inter-level checkpoints in ''VideoGame/MedalOfHonor: Allied Assault'' do this, but most don't.

* ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld2YoshisIsland'': If Yoshi and Baby Mario pass through a Middle Ring, they will get 10 stars and all enemies on the screen will turn into stars as well.
* Some ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'' games have the checkpoints reward you with rings, extra lives, or any other items, like shields, speed shoes, boost refills, etc. In games prior to Sonic Rush, you were required to have a certain amount of rings when crossing the checkpoints in order for them to give said bonuses.

* In ''VideoGame/Gamer2'', if Hailey loses her deflector plate she can get a new by touching a CheckPoint.
* In ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClankFutureToolsOfDestruction'', the vendors will refill your health, and are almost always placed at checkpoints. This means the player can backtrack to the last vendor to fill up ''all'' of their health, and on the later levels this is pretty much required.
* ''VideoGame/FreshMintyAdventure'': These are also {{Save Point}}s and are marked by pedestals holding orbs that light up when used.
* The ''VideoGame/TreasureHunterMan'' series of ''VideoGame/TreasureHunterMan1'' and ''VideoGame/TreasureHunterMan2'': {{Save Point}}s, which are books, also heal the protagonists when activated.

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* ''VideoGame/SilentHill4TheRoom'' allows you to return you your apartment at certain points in levels, and hanging around in your apartment slowly replenishes your health. [[spoiler:If you think this is too good to last you're absolutely right, because soon the ghosts begin coming back to your apartment too and it doesn't replenish your health any longer...]]

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* In ''VideoGame/MetroidZeroMission'', save points in the second half of the game fully heal Samus and replenish her ammo. Save points encountered prior only save.

* In the ''VideoGame/MetroidPrimeTrilogy'' most save points restore health only, but Samus's gunship also restores ammo, and there are a few separate ammo replenishing stations. ''VideoGame/MetroidOtherM'' has save stations that double as replenishing stations.

* In ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld'', ''VideoGame/NewSuperMarioBrosWii'', and ''VideoGame/SuperMario3DLand'', if Mario is in his small form when reaching the checkpoint, he will automatically change into Super Mario.

* In the original ''VideoGame/YoshisIsland'' for the Super Nintendo, if Yoshi and Baby Mario pass through a Middle Ring, they will get 10 stars and all enemies on the screen will turn into stars as well.

* In ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClankFutureToolsOfDestruction'', the vendors will refill your health, and are almost always placed at checkpoints. This means the player can backtrack to the last vendor to fill up ''all'' of their health, and on [[DifficultySpike the later levels]] this is pretty much required.

* ''VideoGame/HollowKnight'', similar to ''Dark Souls'', restores the player's masks when they sit down at a bench but respawns all slain enemies. Benches are also the only way to fill out the in-game maps if the player has the quill item and that area's map. There are a few benches which you have to pay Geo to unlock.

* ''VideoGame/{{Splatoon}}'': In both games' singleplayer modes, touching a checkpoint restores one of the player's lives if they lost any.

Sometimes this is just a part of the same mechanic that's saving your progress--this is common when saving at a TraumaInn, for example. Other times, the save point or checkpoint won't heal you directly, but it ''will'' be surrounded by strategically-placed {{Healing Potion}}s and {{Mana Potion}}s or a convenient HealingSpring. In games with [[InfiniteLives Infinite]] or MeaninglessLives, these kinds of checkpoints just make sense, as the player could choose to get themselves killed for a free refill anyway. Aversion of this may lead to the game becoming {{Unwinnable}} as a result of saving at an unfortunate time.

* ''VideoGame/TreasureHunterMan'': {{Save Point}}s, which are books, also heal Marvin when activated.

* Likewise with ''VideoGame/SuperMetroid'' and ''VideoGame/MetroidFusion''; however, they do not replenish missiles or other special ammo, which can only be restored in separate missile rooms.
** In ''VideoGame/MetroidZeroMission'', however, all of the save points act this way until the second half of the game, where they act as full health and ammo restoration points.

** ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'' has a special ability that Raine (the game's best WhiteMage) can use which drops the ManaMeter cost of all her spells to 1 while standing on a save point, effectively allowing a similar effect as this.

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** In ''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}} Portable'', the SavePoint in Tartarus' first floor will do this, for a fee, which depends on your level.

* ''VideoGame/HollowKnight'', similar to ''Dark Souls'' above, restores the player's masks when they sit down at a bench but respawns all slain enemies. Benches are also the only way to fill out the in-game maps if the player has the quill item and that area's map.

* In ''VideoGame/CthulhuSavesTheWorld'', save points replenish all of your mana.

* The last level in the Subspace Emissary story mode of ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosBrawl'' includes save points that heal you and revive fallen party members, this is because the gane changed from straight beat 'e up levels to a huge sprawling metroidvania stage (Granted, with reused assets)

* Save Points in ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'' fill you with both: Determination and HP.

* The last level in the Subspace Emissary story mode of ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosBrawl'' includes save points that heal you and revive fallen party members.

* Some ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' games have the checkpoints reward you with rings, extra lives, or any other items, like shields, speed shoes, boost refills, etc. In games prior to Sonic Rush, you were required to have a certain amount of rings when crossing the checkpoints in order for them to give said bonuses.

* Step onto a SavePoint in any game in the ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts'' franchise, and it'll quickly restore your HP and MP. The only real exception is ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsBirthBySleep Birth by Sleep]]'', in which they only fill your HP; it doesn't do squat for your Focus meter or D-link gauge, though those are more like mini LimitBreak meters.

* ''VideoGame/SeikenDensetsu3'': Only fully intact Goddess statues (or equivalent) heal; the final dungeon feature headless statues who only have a save function.

* Most games in the ''Franchise/{{Grandia}}'' series have save points that heal the party.

* Glowing Structure Gel nodes in ''VideoGame/{{SOMA}}'' heal Simon Jarrett if he takes damage.