History YMMV / DinoCrisis

** Dr. Kirk is indeed a {{Jerkass}} and [[MadDoctor Mad Doctor]], but given he had been through difficulties with the government before, is he acting the way he is simply cause of spite or is he somewhat aware [[spoiler: of Gail's mission to collect the data for weaponizing and thinks the whole team knows it and is vicious to all of them for that]]?
** Was Tom's sacrificing himself to protect Rick against Raptor ambush a SenselessSacrifice, or maybe he fully realize that his critical injury was beyond saving, and any recovery attempt (especially when it's implied that the Medical Room is very low on supply of medicines) will ended up just ''briefly'' delay his inevitable death. That way, his sacrifice can be seen as more of him wanting to have his DyingMomentOfAwesome.

* BestKnownForTheFanservice: For some fans, ''Dino Crisis'' is much less remembered for it's Dinosaurs than it is for [[MsFanservice Regina]], whose default outfit for some reason features a swimsuit-esque tactical armor on top of her already figure revealing SpyCatsuit.
* ContestedSequel: ''Dino Crisis 2'' split the fans, with some praising the ActionisedSequel aspects while others criticised the lack of SurvivalHorror elements from the first game (yes, it's exactly like the [[BrokenBase fandom split]] [[Franchise/ResidentEvil its sibling series]] suffered). ''Dino Crisis 3'' is this ''at best'', but more often than not it's treated as outright {{Sequelitis}} which fans will be more than happy to [[FanonDiscontinuity deny that it ever exist]].
* CriticalDissonance: ''Dino Stalker'' has been savaged by critics, but a few of the fans who managed to play it, especially after the universally negatively received ''Dino Crisis 3'', liked it not only because of the frantic arcade action but it wraps up the plot of ''Dino Crisis 2'' nicely, although without Regina.
* CultClassic: This series has never reached the same popularity and success as its [[Franchise/ResidentEvil zombie killing big brother had]], but nevertheless has a pretty devoted fanbase that keeps hoping - even after all these years - that Capcom will one day revitalize it.

** The compsognathus hordes from the first game. It is implied that they are ZergRush enemies and {{not so harmless|Villain}}, but they are pitifully easy to defeat with the handgun and make a faintly amusing squeak each time one gets shot.

* EvenBetterSequel: While the first game may be the most popular, there is a camp that believes ''Dino Crisis 2'' is the superior game, in spite of its tonal differences. In addition to more dinosaurs and a larger scope of exploration like jungles, an underwater facility, and a time-displaced city, the game offers more weapons and more control regarding traveling and battling dinosaurs, not to mention it's much more fast-paced than its predecessor, which is padded out by tedious puzzle sections. Finally, ''Dino Crisis 2'' makes an attempt to flesh out the series' lore, something the first game was unable to do so, further highlighting the sequel's ambition.

* PolishedPort: The UsefulNotes/SegaDreamcast version of the first game cleans up the graphics quite a bit more obviously than the ports of ''Resident Evil 2'' and ''3'' did, seeing as the entire game is displayed with polygonal environments. It was sold at a massively discounted price, to boot.

* SpiritualSuccessor: The first two games could be considered this to ''Film/{{Alien}}'' and ''Film/{{Aliens}}'' mainly due to how similar the corresponding entries are regarding their tone and theme; ''Alien'' and ''Dino Crisis'' are horror where the protagonist has to survive against something in a closed and tight environment whereas ''Aliens'' and ''Dino Crisis 2'' are much more action-packed as well as having a plot that involves saving a colony that goes horribly wrong. Youtuber [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGxMwOzCsKcP4oLiIzzFrAA RedScotGaming]] comments on the similarities between the ''Alien'' and ''Dino Crisis'' series in his [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMf7iXipyu0 Gaming Retrospective video on the latter]].

* EvilIsSexy: He's a jerk, a murderer, and a monster, but Dr. Kirk is also quite handsome.

* BestKnownForTheFanservice: For some fans, ''Dino Crisis'' is less about Dinosaurs than it is about a MsFanservice redhead lead character Regina, who for some reason wears a swimsuit-esque tactical armor on top of her already figure revealing SpyCatsuit.

* OlderThanTheyThink: Capcom [[ActionizedSequel actionizing]] one of their popular SurvivalHorror series and [[BrokenBase causing a split in the fanbase]] as a result? They did it with ''Dino Crisis 2'', 5 years before ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4''.

* EvilIsSexy: He's a jerk, a murderer and a monster, but Dr. Kirk is also quite handsome.

* FirstInstallmentWins: More people know about ''Dino Crisis'' than about its sequels.

* ContestedSequel: ''Dino Crisis 2'' split the fans, with some praising the ActionisedSequel aspects while others criticised the lack of SurvivalHorror elements from the first game (yes, it's exactly like the [[BrokenBase fandom split]] [[Franchise/ResidentEvil its sibling series]] suffered). ''Dino Crisis 3'' is this ''at best'', but more often than not it's treated as outright {{Sequelitis}} and FanonDiscontinuity.

* BestKnownForTheFanservice: For some fans, ''Dino Crisis'' is less about Dinosaurs than it is about a MsFanservice redhead lead character Regina, who (for certain reason) wears a swimsuit-esque tactical armor on top of her already figure revealing SpyCatsuit.

* ContestedSequel: ''Dino Crisis 2'' split the fans, with some praising the ActionisedSequel aspects while others criticised the lack of SurvivalHorror elements from the first game (yes, it's exactly like the [[BrokenBase fandom split]] [[Franchise/ResidentEvil its sibling series]] suffered). ''Dino Crisis 3'' is this ''at best'', but more often than not it's treated as outright FanonDiscontinuity.

* SpiritualSuccessor: The first two games could be considered this to ''Film/{{Alien}}'' and ''Film/{{Aliens}}'' mainly due to how similar the corresponding entries are regarding their tone and theme; ''Alien'' and ''Dino Crisis'' are horror where the protagonist has to survive against something in a closed and tight environment whereas ''Aliens'' and ''Dino Crisis 2'' are much more action-packed as well as having a plot that involves saving a colony that goes horribly wrong. Youtuber [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGxMwOzCsKcP4oLiIzzFrAA RedScotGaming]] comments on the similarities between the ''Alien'' and ''Dino Crisis'' series in his [[Gaming Retrospective video on the latter]].

* ContestedSequel: ''Dino Crisis 2'' split the fans, with some praising the ActionisedSequel aspects while others criticised the lack of SurvivalHorror elements from the first game (Yes, it's exactly like the [[BrokenBase fandom split]] [[Franchise/ResidentEvil its sibling series]] suffered). ''Dino Crisis 3'' is this ''at best'', but more often than not it's treated as outright FanonDiscontinuity.

* ContestedSequel: ''Dino Crisis 2'' split the fans, with some praising the ActionisedSequel aspects while others criticised the lack of SurvivalHorror elements from the first game. (Yes, it's exactly like the [[BrokenBase fandom split]] [[Franchise/ResidentEvil its sibling series]] suffered). ''Dino Crisis 3'' is this ''at best'', but more often than not it's treated as outright FanonDiscontinuity.

* ContestedSequel: ''Dino Crisis 2'' split the fans, with some praising the ActionisedSequel aspects while others criticised the lack of SurvivalHorror elements from the first game. (Yes, it's exactly like the [[BrokenBase fandom split]] [[Franchise/ResidentEvil its sibling series]] suffered.) ''Dino Crisis 3'' is this ''at best'', but more often than not it's treated as outright FanonDiscontinuity.

** Rick's anger towards Gail wanting put the mission over saving Tom sounds very laughable due to Rick's voice actor trying to invoke TranquilFury, but comes off sounding like an edgy rebellious teenager acting out towards his parents.

* {{Squick}}: The bodies and bloodstains left around for the hero to find. While the on-screen animation is fairly dull, it's a particularly squicktastic idea to raid dead bodies for keys and ApocalypticLog entries, especially because few of those aforementioned corpses are anywhere close to intact (one corpse to come across has been eaten down to nothing more than a head and half a ribcage, like a discarded melon rind).

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: ''Dino Crisis 3'' could have been a chance to cover the cliffhanger ending of the last game, but it did not. Curiously, part of this can be chalked up to the obscurity of the actual third game in the series, ''Dino Stalker''. ''Dino Stalker'' is clearly a continuation of ''Dino Crisis 2'' in that [[spoiler:Dylan and Paula are alive]] and [[spoiler:the Noah's Ark Plan]] is mentioned. Furthermore, the game also appears to set up plot points in ''Dino Crisis 3'' (namely, [[spoiler:the Mother Computer that oversaw the project is implied to be the predecessor of the MTHR computers in ''3'' and genetically engineers dinosaurs similar to what is seen in that game]]). In spite of this, the cliffhanger of ''2'' (i.e. [[spoiler:Regina promising to rescue Dylan and Paula once a time gate is constructed]]) goes completely unaddressed and appears to have been resolved entirely off-screen.

** The way the script bends over backwards to enforce NoCommunitiesWereHarmed. There's only so many times you can hear "your government" before it starts to get cringe-worthy.

* FanonDiscontinuity: ''Dino Crisis 3'', especially by fans who were disgruntled that it never addressed the second game's cliffhanger.

* {{Squick}}: The bodies and bloodstains left around for the hero to find. While the on-screen animation is fairly dull, it's a particularly squicktastic idea to raid dead bodies for keys and ApocalypticLog entries, especially because few of those aforementioned corpses are anywhere close to intact.

* ContestedSequel: ''Dino Crisis 2'' split the fans, with some praising the ActionisedSequel aspects while others criticised the lack of SurvivalHorror elements from the first game. (Yes, it's exactly like the [[BrokenBase fandom split]] [[Franchise/ResidentEvil its sibling series]] suffered.)

** Dr. Kirk is a SmugSnake who acts all cool when you first meet him, but the moment Gail tells him that they're taking him back to the government whether he likes it or not, Kirk completely blows his lid and throws a tantrum about how he still has rights and how dumb it is that the government abandoned him and suddenly need him back. After being pressured by Gail via gunpoint to give Regina the keycard needed for the communications room, Kirk lets out a childish "Fine!". Seeing the doctor go from a snobby prick to full blown ManChild is quite narmy.

* VillainDecay: Because of the increasingly powerful guns you can get in ''Dino Crisis 2'', dinosaurs that in the previous game were unstoppable opponents you could only run from became pitiful bullet magnets who came at you in droves and were still harmless. [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools The best example]] is the Allosaurus, a difficult, time consuming, tricky thing to try to take one on when you first meet it. Then you get an anti-tank rifle or a missile pod, [[CatharsisFactor and how WONDERFUL it is to finally turn the tables on those scaly bastards!]]