Capcom’s Dino Crisis Almost Found a Way to Becoming an Anime

Next spring, Netflix is releasing an anime based connected Capcom’s celebrated Devil May Cry series. The amusement is headed up by Adi Shankar, who besides helped get Castlevania and Captain Laserhawk off the ground—and according to him, helium initially had his eyes acceptable connected adapting a antithetic Capcom IP for the streamer.

On Twitter, Shankar precocious revealed that he’d initially approached Capcom successful 2017 astir the anticipation of making a Dino Crisis series. Instead, the workplace countered with Devil May Cry, which helium “didn’t adjacent deliberation would beryllium connected the table,” and the remainder is history. If you haven’t played Dino Crisis, players instrumentality connected the relation of peculiar operatives who combat dinosaurs who’ve been brought to the contiguous acknowledgment to clip question shenanigans. The bid was beauteous short-lived, with conscionable 3 main games a airy weapon spinoff to its name, but it’s got a passionate fanbase. You tin decidedly number Shankar among them: helium heaped praise onto the archetypal 2 games and considered it his ngo to revive the bid aft 2003’s Dino Crisis 3 “took the franchise disconnected Earth, but near down the suspense.”

1. Dino Crisis 1 nailed the endurance fearfulness vibe, blending the hostility of Resident Evil with the sheer panic of being hunted by dinosaurs—perfect.
2.Dino Crisis 2 took it up a notch with fast-paced enactment & unthinkable level design.
3.Sadly, Dino Crisis 3 mislaid that magic—it took… pic.twitter.com/0pOZReOdkf

— Adi Shankar (@adishankarbrand) November 6, 2024

Capcom has ne'er appeared to ne'er enactment immoderate thought into continuing Dino Crisis, even with truthful overmuch arsenic a remaster oregon putting the games connected Steam. (Surprisingly, the soundtracks for the archetypal 2 games are on there.) It’s been a frustrating acquisition for fans, particularly aft aboriginal trailers for past year’s multiplayer crippled Exoprimal—which has players don hi-tech mech suits to combat hordes of dinosaurs—sparked involvement that it was a concealed revival earlier Capcom unopen those hopes down. If that weren’t atrocious enough, creator Shinji Mikami believes the bid ran its course, and that the Monster Hunter games much than sate immoderate players’ needs to termination dinos and different nasty beasts.

But portion Capcom’s taken a meteor to the franchise, Shankar inactive hopes to get a Dino Crisis show into the satellite someday, truthful ne'er accidental never. For the moment, though, he’s afloat focused connected Devil May Cry, which hits Netflix adjacent April.

[via IGN]

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