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  • Awesome Music:
    • Much of the film's original score is reprised in some way.
    • "Don't Remember You", which plays during Oscar's scuffle with the Velociraptor, in a Stylistic Suck sort of way.
  • Epileptic Tree:
    • Okay, so how did InGen obtain Tylosaurus DNA? Gerry even mentions that it would be next to impossible to find any. Your guess is as good as ours.
    • The wiki suggests that, at some point, a Tylosaurus may have swam into fresh water (much like a bull shark) and found itself in a swamp; this would have given mosquitoes the opportunity to feed off of it. Of course, this would have been a very rare occurrence and the odds of that DNA being preserved are even worse, but InGen does only need one sample...
  • Genius Bonus:
    • Gerry mentions to Yoder that reviving the Herrerasaurus enabled the scientists to firmly classify it as an early theropod. This is an actual debate among palaeontologists, as that species lived early on when dinosaurs were evolving as a separate group.
    • Dr. Sorkin's journal mentions that being able to clone Triceratops has confirmed her suspicions that the related ceratopsian Torosaurus was really a mature specimen rather than a distinct genus. This is another ongoing debate among paleontologists.
    • Also, the marine exhibit has an aquarium with a central display. Gerry has quite a few chances to teach his daughter about living fossils and the geological strata. They provide clues to solving the puzzle of the room.
  • Harsher in Hindsight:
    • Nima lamenting her tribe's loss of the island becomes twistedly tragic after Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, which reveals that Isla Nublar had housed an active volcano named Mount Sibo all along and that Ingen's displacement likely saved the tribe. To be fair, it wasn't the relocation — it was the fact they were basically put in shitty conditions when InGen promised clean and healthy.
    • Sorkin's plan to release the Tylosaurus into the ocean would had brought dire consequences to the world. The trailer to Fallen Kingdom shows the Mosasaurus has escaped from Jurassic World and attacking surfers.
  • Heartwarming in Hindsight: If this game is canon, then Jurassic World seems to suggest that the napalm bombing didn't happen after all, meaning that none of the dinosaurs were killed. On the other hand, it doesn't explain what happened to the Troodon, which are shown to be very good at hiding. Either they were exterminated, contained, died off on their own, or were still on the island during the events of the film. Then again, there's a good chance they may have been destroyed by Mount Sibo's eruption.
  • Hilarious in Hindsight:
    • Dr. Sorkin's death by being Tylosaurus chow was a death that actually showed up in Jurassic World where Zara was eaten by a Mosasaurus. Coincidentally, Zara was the first woman to die in a movie while Laura was the first woman to die in the whole franchise.
    • May also be Heartwarming in Hindsight, but in this game Dr. Sorkin's attempt to save the Tylosaurus from the bombing by releasing it into the wild is indicated to possibly have negative consequences on the ocean's ecosystems. By Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, another much larger mosasaur, Mosasaurus hoffmani, is released into the wild accidentally and seemingly becomes a threat to the wildlife out in the ocean like the Tylosaurus could've. But ultimately Jurassic World Dominion would reveal that not only has she not become a threat to the modern wildlife as expected but has in fact reached a peaceful coexistence with both humpback (as shown in the film where she affectionately nuzzles up to a pod's young member) and killer whales (as detailed in the Dino Tracker website where it cooperated with a pod of them to hunt sharks).
  • Jerkass Woobie: Nima can come off as this, given how understandable her intentions are. Yoder becomes one, as the gruesome fates of his friends push him off the deep end.
  • Misaimed Fandom: Some gamers who dislike the game ignore the fact that the entire point of the game was supposed to recreate the atmosphere of the movie. They mostly complain about it not being a shooter, despite Telltale Games' insistence to avoid making that kind of game.
  • Narm: Some of the death scenes are unintentionally funny.
    • The Troodons sound very menacing indeed...except when they utter elk bugles.
  • One-Scene Wonder:
    • The Herrerasaurus make one brief appearance in episode two during one of the odder action segments, and then are never heard from again.
    • The Tylosaurus from the last episode may also count.
  • That One Level:
    • The "Fight To The Death" action sequence where Nima fights Yoder is easily the most difficult to get a gold rank on. With numerous QTEs appearing often immediately after one another and having less than a second to hit them in time, this is the part that will almost certainly cause a few restarts if you're aiming to get all the gold medals.
    • There are several areas that can be really annoying playing on mobile thanks to a rapid succession of prompts needed to avoid dying. Nima escaping the dilophosaurs and Gerry and his daughter evading the T. rex can easily give you a sore wrist trying to get through.
  • The Scrappy:
    • Jess Harding, predictably, due to falling into the "annoying tag-along kid character" archetype.
    • Dr. Sorkin, due to endangering the rest of the cast to save the dinosaurs in accordance to her animal rights philosophy that is difficult for most players to relate to, and for having a smug and self-righteous attitude towards characters who disagree with her. And it bites her in the end.
    • Yoder often catches flak for his unfunny, poorly timed one liners, idiotic decisions being made on a dinosaur infested island despite being a trained merc, and unnecessarily turning on the main characters seemingly just because the game needed another human villain once Dr. Sorkin had died
  • Take That, Scrappy!: Dr. Sorkin gets one of the most brutal deaths in the game.
    • Yoder being crushed by Rexie can also lead to some fans cheering.
  • They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: The Troodons are established to be a bigger threat than the Raptors, as in smarter and more dangerous to the point Raptors flee upon hearing their presence. Despite this, they only appear in the shadows for the first three and make their first full appearance in Episode 4 but quickly disappear after the first act.
  • Too Cool to Live: Poor Oscar.
  • Unintentional Period Piece: The game is mostly pretty good about avoiding this, but one details stands out. Sorkin's journal claims that Torosaurus is the mature form of Triceratops, which was a short-lived, controversial theory that briefly gained mainstream attention in 2010, when this game was being developed.
  • Viewer Species Confusion: The mosasaur was thought to have been a Mosasaurus due to Sorkins labeling it as "Mosasaur" in her journal, though that term lacks the "-us" meaning it refers to the family Mosasauridae. The InGen Field Guide confirms the genus to be Tylosaurus. The confusion largely subsided after the release of Jurassic World, which features a proper Mosasaurus that looks nothing like the creature in the game.
  • Vindicated by History: Slightly, while still considered one of Telltale's weaker efforts, many gamers who had followed the company admit this game at least tries to shake up the formula (whereas later games would stick rigidly to the same formula for others. Batman being one of the exceptions.) by having the player be more involved in the action via QTE segments once the danger presents itself, was one their first game in their lineup where you can actually die (Back to the Future avoided that) putting more tension in those segments and likewise where you can somewhat change the ending depending on certain actions. It was just that these features were clumsily implemented that soured the reputation for the game despite the praise for the story.

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