i really wish i had a physical copy and didnt have to use emulation to play it several months ago but i absolutely adored playing through it, it wasnt as hard as i wanted it to be but the aesthetic, visuals, score (the first encounter theme fucking rips and the save theme is easily my fav save-related piece of any game ever), characters, story, gameplay and setpieces were all amazing. i hate that this is probably never going to see the light of day again (series wise) or get a remake since 3 was an apparent mess but still... oh well! i need to play 2 soon

If you're a fan of Jurassic Park or Resident Evil, have I got a game for you! Dino Crisis is a killer idea. What better threat to humanity than resurrected dinosaurs and questionable scientific practices? The execution is also mostly satisfying. Yes, the tank controls have not aged well at all, but the thrills and intrigue of the narrative make for a classic in the survival horror genre. It has a complex level design with limited resources and threats around every corner, and DINOSAURS! This is a game sorely in need of a remake, much like its sister series, Resident Evil.

Resident Evil with dinosaurs...sign me the hell up!

Dino Crisis was a game i've been meaning to play for years now. I got myself a copy recently, and popped it into my ps1 for some vibes. Wow. To me, the game is terrifying, and stands up today as a great horror game. The combat was solid, but I can understand how to the controls are clunky by today's standards. I didn't mind them. The puzzles are simple enough to not take up all of my time, but just complicated enough to make me feel accomplished when I complete them. The game is definitely a copy-paste of Resident Evil, but I don't even care, because that's one of my favorite series ever. Everybody says it, but i'll throw my vote in, we NEED a remake of this game. Not to say the original isn't amazing, I love it. But a full remake would be super awesome.

I loved Dino Crisis. I knew I would, as I am craving dinosaur games all the time. This was a blast, and I can only hope the series gets re-ignited some time soon.

I give Dino Crisis a 9!

Fun enough game. The need to use your environment and block off enemies instead of dodging past listlessly shambling enemies is really interesting. The choice of using tranquilizers to temporarily remove a threat or spending rounds adds to the tension a ton too. When one of the raptors followed me into a room for the first time was genuinely shocked that they were this smart. Sadly the game just gets too repetitive and the amount of backtracking is gets egregious alongside the game's small enemy pool. You can feel the dev team struggling to get the game finished in time with how much reuse there is. If the level design was better and there were more hazards I'd consider it up there with the other PS1 RE games. As it is I wouldn't play it again over them.

It's fine I suppose. Not gonna lie, Dino Crisis is rather generic in concept for a survival-horror game, but is thankfully saved by dinosaurs. The dinosaurs are rather repetitive unfortunately, banking on a few species.

Short and concise, I suppose Dino Crisis is novel in concept. Stuck in an isolated island run by dinosaurs is a total fun time, right? Kind of, except when I start solving its dreadful puzzles.

Dino Crisis is tight. Its hallways even tighter. Regina? Great character. Would I vouch for a remake? Yes, but please. Lose the godawful puzzles, pretty please.

English isn't my first language, so when I was a kid, I struggled to catch what I needed to do to progress in the game. Back then, without fully comprehending the game mechanics, and with the dinosaurs jumping around, I found myself stuck at the beginning.

Now, 20 years after my initial attempt with this game, I've rediscovered Dino Crisis, a great game, possibly one of the best on the PSX that I've played.

In the end, it did become a bit boring. Aside from that, I don't have much else to say. With great puzzles, not too difficult, without jump scares, and with a good balance of action.

A Great Game.

I didn't expect to enjoy it as much as I did, it's much better than I remembered.

It's certainly Capcom's classic survival horror game with the most tension. I also find the level design very good, perhaps as good as RE2's, and the controls work very well.

The differences between Dino Crisis and Resident Evil are all good and give Dino Crisis its own unique identity. The dinosaurs are extremely dangerous, which increases the tension of the game, the mixing system is much better than the herb system in RE (and with a complexity similar to the gunpowder mixing systems of RE3), and the puzzles are fun to solve. The voice acting is also wonderful in a goofy 90s way.

Of course, there could be more variety of dinosaurs (which we would see happen in the 2nd game), I'm not completely sold on the box system (I like the idea of having to spend items to open them, my problem is not being able to access the different colored ones). As for the pacing, many people don't like it, but I personally don't see any issues. In fact, it's a slower game than the REs, but not by much either; I think it ends up being more about memorizing the map to avoid walking more than necessary. I also like the choice of dinosaurs repopulating the rooms once or twice but never infinitely, since ammo is extremely scarce in the game compared to the REs (still enough to kill almost all the creatures, especially if you focus on fusing poison darts).

Overall, the game is Capcom goodness from the 90s. Good level design, striking visuals, a huge atmosphere, high production values. In the end, I was wrong not to expect a great game on this replay.

Maaaaan I tried to enjoy this game. The first 40 minutes of it or so were good, i thought it was possible I would've liked this game as much as I did RE2 or RE3. Then this game just turned into a massive slog of trying to finish this. Not only is this Mikami's worst game but this is by far one of the worst games I've played in general. It's inferior to RE in almost aspect. Characters, sound design, OST, level design and puzzles. This game was a huge miss and would've been better had Mikami stuck closer to the RE formula than he did making an overly vague game that falters at every left, right and turn.

On a technical level: a masterpiece. Next to Silent Hill and MGS as my favorite looking title on the PlayStation. It has such a sharp and tactile look to its world with satisfying moving parts. This super military tech look juxtaposed with the bloodthirsty raptors that inhabit the island make this such a unique looking and feeling game. I really enjoyed the puzzles as well and after hearing so much about this game was surprised to find that that's really the meat on its bones. I avoided combat at all costs, you'll spend all your ammo on a single dino. Wish that weren't the case, that you really could hold your own, but I suppose it is survival horror. Pretty fantastic game all around albeit a tad frustrating.