Dino Crisis 2 - Plot Interpretation

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  • @ArrogantNinjaStudios
    @ArrogantNinjaStudios  หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    6000 views??? It was at like 1k just a year ago!! Thank you to anyone who has watched this. I know, I SHOULD do a DC1 video, but I'm keeping that in my back pocket for later.
    If this video gets over 9000 views, I'll upload a full dc2 playthrough video w/ commentary.

  • @sifuhotman1300
    @sifuhotman1300 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    The warhead was nuclear I thought, so falling over wouldn't trigger it. The explosion was just the rocketfuel burning.

    • @ArrogantNinjaStudios
      @ArrogantNinjaStudios  ปีที่แล้ว +5

      That is... plausible, and you're the first person to actually point that out. I figured both would explode if within the same vicinity of one another. I ain't a smart man, but if there's evidence to back that up; that would make sense.

    • @sifuhotman1300
      @sifuhotman1300 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      ​@@ArrogantNinjaStudios You need either extremely high pressure on a very specific area, or a ridiculous amount of heat... A little rocket fuel isn't going to do it.
      The reason why fusion isn't easy is because you need even more ridiculous levels of pressure or heat, compared to fission, to trigger a nuclear reaction.

  • @robsantorobass
    @robsantorobass ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Dino Crisis 1 and 2 are true gems.

  • @juana9873
    @juana9873 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Man, thank you for your explanation. I am from Brazil, 30 years old, and i played it when i was a kid, just as you did. I am from Brazil, in the time, i didnt understand english and just loved the game. Few years ago i tried to search for new informations about the end game, but got even more confused. Now i am still here looking for answers. Maybe you're right, they made it to make us confuse and to keep looking for explanations. Now my english is way better and i could listen to you for 37 minutes.
    Some things are finally clear to me. Thank you. But definitely i am even more sure of one thing: this game is confusing as fuck. And that was a answer i needed. I lived decades of my life thinking that i was dumb or my english was just too poor to understand this game lol. Anyway, thank you for your explanation and for your time doing this video (i think it took some time to do so). I really love this game, after all this time and its great to see that i'm not alone. Peace.

    • @ArrogantNinjaStudios
      @ArrogantNinjaStudios  ปีที่แล้ว

      Hey man, thank you for commenting and leaving your thoughts! I wasn't sure if this video would actually be useful to anyone else but based on the responses I've got makes me feel like I did a decent job of it. Thanks once again!

  • @geronimo5537
    @geronimo5537 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    best dino crisis 2 review I have needed to see in awhile. only thing left out was how the satellite also traveled through time.

    • @Justinw303
      @Justinw303 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      And why a team dedicated to saving dinosaurs would feel the need to have a satellite that’s sole purpose and capability seems to be the ability to target and annihilate dinosaurs

    • @Realvolver
      @Realvolver 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I think it is for the same reason policemen carry guns hoping they will never have to use it one day

    • @rc59191
      @rc59191 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It didn't they had a missile base silo that they used to launch a rocket carrying a satellite.

  • @keepcalmlovedinosaurs8934
    @keepcalmlovedinosaurs8934 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Criminally underrated video! Brilliant review! Played DC2 when I was 11 and has been an influential classic ever since.

  • @erickvonengelwalten8568
    @erickvonengelwalten8568 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Hey man! Great Video! First of all, lets put in context: First: The outliner of this game is Kenichi Iwao and the Writer is Noboru Sugimura. The first one is responsible to create the High Concept of games for Capcom and Square at the time, being in his Belt RE and PE1. And Noboru is RE2 and PE2. DC2 was to be a PS2 title, but it was rushed to be a PS1 title for lack of knowledge about PS2 engine, because make game on PS2 was very hard and unknown on that Era.
    So in a period of just one year, they invested on gameplay as you say, motion capture (this is one of the first game ever put to use) and fun replay status, that it is the best part of this game! The Story neve gather much materials, because Iwao and even Sugimura was getting out of Capcom and going to Square. So i think they just got, the Beginning and the End of a Concept idea, without really having no middle or any explanation (and im not kidding). And do to pressure they just go for it!
    The most logical answer to the Eternal question is How in the Hell is this make senses? I dunno, but in my theory is that the 3RD Energy is like a Mega Laser Cannon that when shot its split time and space, and at the end of each point, its swap the places and objects between the trace. That was the whole objective of the project. How it works, apparently even Kirk knows haha, because how in heavens can you miscalculate 65 million years for a data of transport. DUNNO!
    1 - But i think that, the first incident swap things to the 65 million yrs ago, that will explain the paradox of were humans came from, or whatever. Thats how you destroy live, with humans killing all species to compose the Fauna from the world (almost like Sound of thunder book)
    2 - I think that they go for 3 million in the future because it was a safe date that nothing was existent in that time, life was no more. But what they swap from 3 million years back we dont know. Perhaps, it is the present date of the Characters of the Boat!
    3 - Its a mistery that Doctor Kirk is not in this game too, was he in the 3 millions in the future? Not a memo hinting.
    4 - Unfortunately we never know. But i the best guess is that Dylan never dies in the accident and sgot injury and Paula got to the Pod without legs, but it makes no sense too. I think it was all an atempt to create a franchise that never be.
    Personally if i was to make a continuation, i will put Old Regina, 30 yrs late with some white hair mix with red, rinckles, scars, trying to still Rescuing Dylan from the DC2 timeline. She robbed the Data, after the Government Refuse to accept a rescuing from the Rescuing mission.
    If someone read this so far! I apreciate your time, thanks!

  • @lexilara237
    @lexilara237 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    In my head, it went a little something like this (assuming that all the events occur in the same timeline). The 2009 accident brought Dinosaurs to the present time, the 2010 accident took the lab, the surrounding area and its people to another time, and left a jungle in its place, with ONLY flora in it. They did not however knew from which time the vegetation belonged to. Then, assuming it belonged to the past, the government send the TRAT team and Regina to rescue the people that were engulfed in the accident, while continuing to do research on the 3rd Energy. Along the years they experience some consequences regarding the accident in 2009 (let's indulge in the ripple effect), maybe diseases, some people or cultures evaporating in thin air, fossil fuel disappearing etc. Fast forward a bit to 2055, they finally discover what was wrong. The 1st accident is causing the ruin of the human race. Knowing their impending doom, WAPP created another "accident", on purpose, sending all the dinos let loose on Kirk's facility to the future, where they could grow and reproduce (maybe current weather conditions frail them, causing them to perish slowly or shrink in size, or prevented them from mating, making them infertile of smth) and then send them back where they came from HOPING it would stabilize the present and prevent human extintion. Of course, the gate they created engulfed the facility they were in and all its people, as it did in 2010. There, 3 mil. years into the future, the researches are treating the dinos and helping them grow in test tubes, while also making sure that the current weather/atmosphere is ideal to the dinos' survival AND, still, studying the 3rd Energy. The computer somehow fails and dinos are set loose. A bunch of people die, but the remaining people, knowing that they failed to save 2055's humans, in the last hope of saving humankind, conduct an experiment on their own children, trying to create bio-engineered humans that can co-exist with dinos. The experiment requires an incubation period, and they set it so that the children would wake up when the process is complete. First, three kids, using them as a ground base for the project, them the rest of them. The last reseacher dies making sure those kids would live in a new tomorrow. Meanwhile dinos thrive and mate, populating the future earth. Then the 2010 people (and buildings) arrive, the dinos come, kill most of them and few remain trying to survive. It is by this time that the 1st three kids from the experiment wake up. However, one unforeseeable consequence of the experiment, aside from losing their speech, is that they now see dinos as a thing to protect and they defend the dinos from the people that arrived at their world. Some time later, TRAT members and Regina arrived too. As it turns out, they didn't have a clue what time these people ended up, nor did they know that they're on the future, instead of the past. Everything happens and Regina and Dylan end up at the facility. The last researcher (in this case, it wasn't Dylan and the girl wasn't his daughter) left a message explaining what happened and what they did to whoever found it and that, if, somehow a time traveler were to end up at the facility (maybe someone from 2055) , that there was enough energy left for one more trip through the time gate and that he would save all the data from the Noah's Ark project, the 3rd Energy and the bio-engineered humans project just in case it was useful or, in case it didn't work, they could perfect it and bring hope to the present people (maybe the past people as well). Regina takes it, goes through the gate, Dylan dies trying to protect the girl. The end. I personally think that what the plot fails to deliver is WHEN stuff actually happens, and if it all happens in the same timeline or not. If they didn't put Dylan as the hologram, the story could've been more cohesive. Anyways, that's my two cents. ✌🏻

    • @ArrogantNinjaStudios
      @ArrogantNinjaStudios  ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Holy crap, thank you for taking the time to write out that huge response! Honestly, your interoperation could definitely also be a possibility. Who knows, maybe if they ever plan on remaking DC1 and 2, we'll get an proper answer.

    • @erickvonengelwalten8568
      @erickvonengelwalten8568 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Its a great answer! But i think lacks various points like my answer. Brain melted fans try to make logic of the old game plot haha

    • @geronimo5537
      @geronimo5537 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      best dino crisis 2 review I have needed to see in awhile. only thing left out was how the satellite also traveled through time.

    • @lexilara237
      @lexilara237 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@geronimo5537 the way I completely forgot about the satellite hahahaha

    • @partsparis
      @partsparis 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Smiling is better than yougurt
      Michael Weston from Burn Notice believes the opposite
      Eating that stuff sustains him

  • @Foxtrop13
    @Foxtrop13 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    19:55 I love how Regina jump head first to rocket proof glass, and broke it

  • @MistahJay7
    @MistahJay7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Regina's main objective was always to get the Third Energy Data. That's why SORT sent her and why she could give less of a fucks about the survivors
    That's why she is the best lol

    • @Realvolver
      @Realvolver 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      So actually Regina becomes the Gail of DC2?

    • @MistahJay7
      @MistahJay7 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@Realvolver Yup pretty much.

  • @craigslinger43
    @craigslinger43 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Great video mate. I absolutely love this game and have done since childhood (26 now), I’ve played it countless times. Love seeing different takes on the story, and seeing so many helps me to understand it more and more; because, frankly, it isn’t straightforward at all! Might be time for me too fish out the PS1 and give it another playthrough.

  • @StoicNatsoc
    @StoicNatsoc ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Great Video mate. Dino Crisis 2 has a very complex story to be honest. and i love this game beyond any other on PS1

  • @turismofoegaming8806
    @turismofoegaming8806 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I think I might go ahead and beat this tonight?
    I got a game saved right before you leave the compound after the poison forest..

  • @boi9842
    @boi9842 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Dino Stalker is a good game, when i was a kid i used to replay it over and over again, that and King Kong PS2. Shooting dinossaurs is fun!

    • @ArrogantNinjaStudios
      @ArrogantNinjaStudios  10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You know what? It's been years since I played it. I just remember it being really frustrating to control. At some point, I'll do a video on it as a follow up to the DC2 video.

    • @boi9842
      @boi9842 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@ArrogantNinjaStudios the game was designed to be played with a light gun(see GunCon 2), if you're emulating PS2 on PCSX2 there are ways to set up mouse controls as well. Personally i played itwith a cheap dualshock, didn't have problems.

  • @jwhittmusic
    @jwhittmusic ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This is about as coherent an explanation as could be expected. Love the game play, hate the story as its a disjointed, completely jumbled mess. The only way I think it could make reasonable sense is if future Dylan were trying to save an alternate timeline where the temporal, bullshit plot device, disturbances took place...even then that's a stretch because why would you risk everything in your life to save another timeline? I get the feeling they had a good grasp on an ok story up until the end, and then just threw a bunch of time loop type disaster elements together, hoping it would work out. I don't really know man, regardless thanks for putting thus video together. This games story still keeps me up at night lol. Also wrote this before finishing and upon completion, you came to the exact same conclusion I did...we cant all be crazy for using this logic.

    • @ArrogantNinjaStudios
      @ArrogantNinjaStudios  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hey man, thanks for your feedback! It took me a while to put this all together. I know there's still a lot of unanswered questions, but I tried to cover as many of the ones that haunt my dreams.

    • @jwhittmusic
      @jwhittmusic ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Arrogant Ninja Studios if only Capcom could be bothered to actually explain what they were thinking or smoking lol. I'm not a fan of the modern day remake/reboot sort of thing, but this particular series could certainly use that treatment just to at least do it some justice.

  • @Realvolver
    @Realvolver 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    My personal theory is that it is a unique timeline: as far as i am concerned,in the Dino Stalker game there are hints about Regina being able to save Dylan. So when Dylan comes back to his time,he manages to create the Noa's Ark plan. Probably the effects of the first incident are not immediate and the crisis expands even in the decades after so there is still need to fix the timeline of the universe. Probably Dylan thought to be able to fix things now that he has knowledge,but actually as also the film Tenet shows, even with time travel destiny can't be changed. The gate disappears and this happens beyond their control and the Noa's Ark plan is a failure. If you think about it this makes sense: if the first incident created a problem in the fabric of space-time,it created it in the whole space-time,present and future,and this makes impossible to human to predict what happens. That's the actual Time Crisis.
    So the Noa's Ark plan fails and Dylan sets the message to his past self hoping he can fix things. In a unique timeline/universe the events end here,since Dylan is now dead 3 million years in the future. Nothing will ever change at this point.
    From 2055 no one came back from the Noa's ark plan project so humanity should be f*cked up at this point,but this is beyond me since i have never played DC3 and probably never will.
    PS (SPOILER ALERT FOR TENET): in the film Tenet the protagonist almost lives the exact same thing: he lives thing in his time only to acquire the knowledge needed to go back in time and guide his former self into the exact mission he has just done and is easy to belueve why: because he was successful thanks to the help from himself from the future. The loops isn't actually a loop because the protagonist just lives in a linear way anyway,once he has concluded his help towards his past self,the timelines keep proceeding in a linear way. Tenet is,to be honest,very similar to DC but with a twist: future humanity wants to fk up past humanity to save their time,so the produce damages in the past to improve their future but well is a bit more complicated than this and is almost beyond my comprension too at some points

  • @advmx3
    @advmx3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I will not lie: The worst problem with DC games is that cutscenes doesn't have subtitles and sometimes it's very hard to grasp the plot.
    And yeah, it's a messed up plot by the end I wish capcom re-made these games into something interesting and unique, but I doubt they would. Considering what they did to Resident evil 3 Remake, I don't want to think what they would do trying to use these games as quick cash grab

    • @ArrogantNinjaStudios
      @ArrogantNinjaStudios  10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      As much as I want a remake, RE 3's remake is a perfect example of how not to redo a game. I absolutely would buy a re-release, but the OG will always be my favourite by default.

  • @EstebanLopez-bn9pd
    @EstebanLopez-bn9pd ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The baby triceratops isn't really nothing compared to the scenes you see in EVO, a SNES game about the cruelty of evolution.

  • @guilhermeosti9526
    @guilhermeosti9526 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Now explain to me how the T Rex traveled from one Island to another

    • @ArrogantNinjaStudios
      @ArrogantNinjaStudios  ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Very carefully. But very good point! I'm not sure if it's implied it's the same one from Dino Crisis 1 but it wouldn't surprise me.

    • @Vollification
      @Vollification 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The dino file says it becomes very persistant when it decides on a prey and that it swims

    • @guilhermeosti9526
      @guilhermeosti9526 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@ArrogantNinjaStudios still it's a big distance for a dino big as the T Rex without the means to swim that long

  • @kaziulaz
    @kaziulaz ปีที่แล้ว +3

    20 years ago i was cant sprak or read english and i was worry that maybe thank to this i dont get idea of story. But. I waswonder from time to time about wtf happend what is explanation. Thanks to you i know that even if i know 99% of what was said in this game i dont push any further in this game scenario understanding anywhere fares than i was before :D This really nice part of most games .....there no need to know mutch more than "load save start easy hard " rest is unnecessary ..Jope that some day capcop show us some marcy and explain "time fuck in past future" this game or say it all was just for strir of gamers heads and then own was dont know what they creating but it was somwhat fun after LSD

  • @zoa1-99.......
    @zoa1-99....... 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    31:40 Dino Stalker is the true sequel and explains more about stuff.

  • @Michka1001
    @Michka1001 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Regina didn't have to fight long neck boy underwater in the reactor to open the shutters. She can blow them open with the Aqua Grenade, not as much fun though

  • @Nixisergal
    @Nixisergal 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I really like the story they tells us, but the two biggest problems I see in the story are, as you say, the Dylan of the future should have warned the Dylan of the present of what was going to happen. and the one from the present should have been smarter and left with Regina and then returned to save the survivors and the other biggest problem the Ark project would have been a good idea only if they had sent them to the past it would have stopped the paradoxes they were experiencing
    Also thank you for this awesome video of a game I love alot ❤

    • @ArrogantNinjaStudios
      @ArrogantNinjaStudios  9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Thanks for sharing and I highly appreciate your kind words! Reading stuff like this is what motivates me to make more content. I've got two more PS1 classics coming up in the next video :)

    • @Nixisergal
      @Nixisergal 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@ArrogantNinjaStudios It makes me happy, I can’t wait to see your next videos then!

  • @brucesistrunk4520
    @brucesistrunk4520 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    How did the T. rex get to that area?

    • @lukefiorentino9757
      @lukefiorentino9757 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      When u travel to other location in dino crisis 2you can see edward city. 3rd energy facility and the jungle area, you can also see the geography of the island so the rex yes it could walk to edward city

  • @partsparis
    @partsparis 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Who killed that baby triceratops
    Whats this acronym stand for wapp council
    Is a Android or a what?

  • @garcianelson123
    @garcianelson123 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    DIL-LAN not DIE LON

  • @arca3033
    @arca3033 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    please make more videos like this im from paraguay.. love your video

    • @ArrogantNinjaStudios
      @ArrogantNinjaStudios  ปีที่แล้ว

      Hey, thank you so much! I've been working on another video for a little while, work just has most of my time. I appreciate your feedback!

  • @BobExcalibur
    @BobExcalibur 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    >DIE-LAN
    They pronounce his name multiple times throughout the game. Are you a chatbot?
    :D
    Great video.

  • @GalakStari
    @GalakStari ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Awesome video! Just wanted to point out one thing. 23:44 It was actually “May 10th, 2010”, as Dylan states when we first see him on the boat. That being said, thank you for explaining the timeline and everything. I love this game, and played it a lot growing up, but the plot was very confusing, and still is in some areas lol.
    But yeah, why wouldn’t Future Dylan warn Present Dylan what was going to happen? Unless, like you said, his situation went down differently than Present Dylan’s did. This leads me to several other questions. Did Future Dylan also have to fight the Giganotosaurus when he was younger? If so, was the Anti-Satellite System still there? Who set that up? And if it wasn’t there, how did he escape from the Giga? Did he have a Future Dylan of his own? If so…. wouldn’t he have known ahead of time that the Noah’s Ark Plan wasn’t going to work, and that he’d be trapped in the same time period as before?
    Sorry to ramble on like this. There might not be any answers, but I just wanted to voice them. Great job with the video!

    • @ArrogantNinjaStudios
      @ArrogantNinjaStudios  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hey, ramble all you want! I love hearing people's thoughts on this! Thanks for taking the time to watch the video and share your own thoughts on the matter. IF there ever is a remake, I really hope they clarify at least some of these lingering questions.

    • @GalakStari
      @GalakStari ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ArrogantNinjaStudios Of course! Dino Crisis is one of my favorite game series, and it’s always nice to see others talk about it.
      And yeah, I really do hope they remaster the first 2 someday, that would be awesome!

    • @kaziulaz
      @kaziulaz ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@ArrogantNinjaStudios y hope to but i think they unfortunately fuck up this game even harder or just erase flat out story soo it will look like Ace Combat 3 in US/Eu region.

  • @jaimeabadrodriguez1428
    @jaimeabadrodriguez1428 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Man, thanks for the video, 20+ years later and I still don't get it 100% at the end. So I'm Dylan at year 2055, if I know I am going there 40 something years before and I know what will happen, why I don't use that information in my present time (2055) to avoid all the mistakes that happened and have gotten me trapped 3 million years in the future? It doesn't make sense. Whatever.

    • @ArrogantNinjaStudios
      @ArrogantNinjaStudios  2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Hey thanks for watching! I was a little stumped myself on that. I didn't touch the topic because I can't pin down an actual outcome. I can only assume that things go slightly differently during the original timeloop, meaning his daughter didn't exist when he went through it. I think that certain things don't happen when the old/future dylan experienced the original DC2 mission. This is all just a guess though but that's the only way it makes sense of why he didn't share any of that information with present Dylan.

  • @blackdragon5274
    @blackdragon5274 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Nice video, well explained! I think I get it

  • @alexhughes8895
    @alexhughes8895 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great vieo!

  • @lukefiorentino9757
    @lukefiorentino9757 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Ammm my boy you know why david crashed the heli?

  • @kudosbudo
    @kudosbudo 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    you do know folk can say a game is rubbish without you being pissy about it right? folk have different tastes. 0:56 stuff like this puts me off yojtuber now. too many folk think tier opinion is unassailable. and i made the mistake of watching shit from folk coming out with that crap before.

    • @ArrogantNinjaStudios
      @ArrogantNinjaStudios  6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Mate, it's a joke. Calm down. You're welcome to like whatever you want.