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Shinji Mikami believes Monster Hunter's success makes creating a new Dino Crisis difficult

The former Dino Crisis director shared that he feels Monster Hunter has adequately nailed down a lot of things when it comes to fighting big dinosaurs.

TJ Denzer

August 29, 2024 2:05 PM

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With the Resident Evil games getting remakes left and right, the call to Capcom to give Dino Crisis the same treatment has been increasingly persistent. That’s a surprise to original series director Shinji Mikami, but he also doesn’t fully see Dino Crisis coming back at this time. Why? Because Mikami feels like the Monster Hunter games are handling giant creature combat and survival too well for a new Dino Crisis to really innovate on the formula.

Mikami shared these thoughts with Eurogamer in a recent interview posted this week. When it came up that Dino Crisis was one of the series fans wanted to see most in a Capcom survey, Mikami shared surprise at the results, but shared doubt that a new Dino Crisis game would happen anytime soon.

Indeed, Monster Hunter Wilds is just beyond the horizon with a release date in 2025 and fans have been lapping up every bit of info that has come out about the highly anticipated game. Also, it’s been a while since Shinji Mikami moved on from Capcom to Tango Gameworks, and then his new Kamuy Studio where he’s currently working on a Shadows of the Damned remaster with Suda51 and Grasshopper Manufacture. After that, it sounds like Mikami would like to make a remaster of Killer7 or a new game in the IP with Suda51, so it probably wouldn’t be him directing even if Capcom went ahead with a new Dino Crisis game.

Nonetheless, Mikami seems convinced that whatever Dino Crisis does, it will have to try to avoid being too similar to things Monster Hunter is already doing. It remains to be seen if the series will come back, but we’re interested to see how Capcom handles it if it happens. Stay tuned here at Shacknews for further updates.

TJ Denzer

Senior News Editor

TJ Denzer is a player and writer with a passion for games that has dominated a lifetime. He found his way to the Shacknews roster in late 2019 and has worked his way to Senior News Editor since. Between news coverage, he also aides notably in livestream projects like the indie game-focused Indie-licious, the Shacknews Stimulus Games, and the Shacknews Dump. You can reach him at tj.denzer@shacknews.com and also find him on Twitter @JohnnyChugs.