/vr/ - Retro Games

Dino Crisis is fantastic. It's a shame it didn't really catch on and Capcom didn't believe in its design. Mikami was really onto something, if we go by the box art it's a "panic horror" game rather than a survival horror game. Sudden deaths as a result of fast deadly monsters instead of a death by 1000 zombie bites is kind of the direction horror games ended up going in.

For me? It's Panic Horror.

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It's actually Capcom's trend in the 90s to give their games a genre on the front of the box in Japan. Resident Evil just happened to have this homebrew genre name they made up. As a result of nobody else doing this Dino Crisis now stands alone as the single game in the "panic horror" genre.