I know Mikami is in a good position to understand these decisions better than us, but this still feels like a cop-out answer. I suspect there is far more to it than a terrible comparison to Monster Hunter.

This seems like a throw away hand waive statement. Like he didn’t have anything prepared to say and this was his first thought.

Monster Hunter is quite literally the exact opposite kind of game that Dino Crisis is.

Fingers crossed for an unannounced demo that’s just one saurian in a small maze, hunting you as much as you’re hunting it. Replay it enough and it fades out to a trailer: Dino Crises.