History VideoGame / SirenGames

Recently, a remake that's a likely ShoutOut to Western adaptations of classic J-Horror films like ''[[TheRing Ringu/The Ring]]'' and ''JuOn[=/=]TheGrudge'' has been released on the PlayStation 3. ''Siren: Blood Curse'' adds Americans to a roster that are composite {{Expy}}s of the original cast members in a re-imagining of the first ''Siren''.

* [[spoiler:BlackDudeDiesFirst: Sol in "Blood Curse". ''Twice'', actually, thanks to the time rewind.]]
* BlackSpeech: The Shibito constantly mutter and sing to themselves, in words that can't quite be made out. Averted in the second game where the yamibito speak English or Japanese, depending on your settings.

[[caption-width-right:400:[[MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail Wi nøt trei a høliday in Hanuda this yer? See the løveli bløød-red lakes, the wønderful mining system, and mani interesting furry animals. Including the psychøtic Shibitø. A Shibitø ønce bit my sister...nø, realli!]]]]

The 2006 sequel, ''Siren 2'' takes place in an isolated island and features an entirely different cast, who must stop a pair of evil beings, [[SealedEvilInACan sealed away long ago]], from returning to this earth. One important change in the sequel is that conventional weapons are far more widespread, and one can even take them off of fallen enemies.

Recently, a remake that's a likely ShoutOut to Western adaptations of classic J-Horror films like ''[[TheRing Ringu/The Ring]]'' and ''{{JuOn}}[=/=]TheGrudge'' has been released on the PlayStation 3. ''Siren: Blood Curse'' adds Americans to a roster that are composite {{Expy}}s of the original cast members in a re-imagining of the first ''Siren''.

Has a [[{{Characters/Siren}} character sheet]].

* BodyHorror: The evolved forms of Dog, Spider and Winged Shibito in the first game, and the evolved forms of the Yamibito in the second.

** [[spoiler:Harumi is the only true survivor of the catastrophe. Everyone else is either a Shibito, a Shibito permanently tac-nuked by ''[[AncestralWeapon one of the Uryens or the Homuranagi]]'', or is trapped in the same temporal dimension as the Shibito with no way back home.]]

* EscortMission: All three games feature them.

* {{Immortality}}:[[spoiler: Hisako Yao/Yaobikune]]

** This trope is probably the reason the aforementioned characters had their ages raised in the US version.

* InterruptedSuicide

* MadDoctor: [[spoiler:Shiro Miyata]]

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The 2006 sequel, ''Siren 2'' takes place in an isolated island and features an entirely different cast, who must stop a pair of evil beings, sealed away long ago, from returning to this earth. One important change in the sequel is that conventional weapons are far more widespread, and one can even take them off of fallen enemies.

* WeaksauceWeakness: In the first game, Spider Shibito can't open doors, so it's rather easy to lure one into a room you don't plan to use, knock it out, and trap it. In the second, most of the enemies are vulnerable to bright light, which kills Shiryo and Yamirei, and briefly stuns Yamibito.

* SwordOfPlotAdvancement: The Homuranagi ''sort of'' qualifies. [[spoiler:Kyoya automatically obtains it after taking down the Shibito-fied Jun Kajiro in the Netherworld with the Uryen, but using it to go {{Highlander}} [[OffWithHisHead on Datatsushi]] is necessary to achieve the True (or rather, Full) Ending.]]

Recently, a remake that's a likely ShoutOut to Western adaptations of classic J-Horror films like ''[[TheRing Ringu/The Ring]]'' and ''[=~Ju-on~=][=/=]TheGrudge'' has been released on the PlayStation 3. ''Siren: Blood Curse'' adds Americans to a roster that are composite {{Expy}}s of the original cast members in a re-imagining of the first ''Siren''.

* AnvilOnHead: In the first game, it's more specifically an ECG monitor on the head of a Shibito. Of course with him being a Shibito, it's best to proceed with the mission before [[IGotBetter he gets better]].

* ParentalAbandonment: Professor Tamon Takeuchi's parents died in a landslide twenty-seven years prior to the game. [[spoiler: [[IGotBetter They got better.]] [[CameBackWrong Sorta...]]]]

* OneHundredAndEight: The number of levels/movies in the first game.

** There's also a plot reason: [[spoiler: any graze means she's compromised by red water.]]

* OneHitPointWonder: Harumi. She's a ten-year-old girl who also can't run or use weapons, so for the levels you play as her, you must be ninja-level stealthy.

* CakeEater: Twenty-three year old Yoriko Anno clearly has a [[AllLoveIsUnrequited thing]] for thirty-four year old Professor Takeuchi.

-->''... I see... you've resisted the temptation of the sirens for decades, lying here... Everlasting life means everlasting pain...''

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[[caption-width-right:400:[[MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail Wi nøt trei a høliday in Hanuda this yer? See the løveli bløød-red lakes, the wønderful mining system, and mani interesting furry animals. Including the psychøtic Shibitø. A Shibitø ønce bit my sister...nø, realli!]] ]]

* RaimiVision: Sightjacking uses this as a very important gameplay tool.

* BodyHorror: The evolved forms of Dog, Spider and Winged Shibito in the first game, and the evolved forms of the Yamibito in the second. (FACES DON'T GO THERE!)

* [[spoiler:BolivianArmyEnding: At the end of the second game, Private Yorito Nagai is swept into what seems to be an alternate dimension populated entirely by Yamibito. The sight drives him insane, and he starts shooting wildly as we fade to credits.]]
** It's not peachy in the first game either. [[spoiler:Harumi is the only true survivor of the catastrophe. Everyone else is either a Shibito, a Shibito permanently tac-nuked by ''[[AncestralWeapon one of the Uryens or the Homuranagi]]'', or is trapped in the same temporal dimension as the Shibito with no way back home.]]

* [[spoiler: DeadAllAlong: Ichiko, who drowned in a ship accident and is now being taken over by an EldritchAbomination from beneath the sea. The game lets you know that the sole survivor of the accident was a female student and lures you into believing that student was Ichiko...only to reveal later that it was in fact her best friend.]]

* FridgeLogic: How would Howard and Melissa know that downing a brain shibito would knock out the spider shibito for that particular stage? It doesn't really make sense, especially when Melissa follows the wheelchair brain shibito and the (very) creepy shibito nurse into the lift for the sole purpose of knocking brainy out. Why would she do that? Why? Isn't she 1) preoccupied with finding Bella and 2) crapping herself?

** Arguably the entire village of Hanuda as a whole in the first game, but especially relevant to the [[spoiler:Maeda]] house where a few characters have their own missions taking place there.

* [[spoiler: {{Immortality}}: Hisako Yao/Yaobikune]]

* [[spoiler:KillEmAll: Most of the characters end up dead or undead. The ones that ''don't'' die are [[DownerEnding trapped in Hanuda forever]], with the exception of Harumi]].

* [[spoiler: MadDoctor: Shiro Miyata]]

* [[spoiler:StableTimeLoop: In the first game, Kyoya Suda ends up single-handedly committing the historical and legendary slaughter of (Shibito-infested) Hanuda that attracted him to the village in the first place. In the remake, the good guy has to set everything into motion by e-mailing one of his crew from 1973 after the town goes whacked again. As well Amana, meet Bella. Bella, meet Amana]]

** [[spoiler:The [[strike:alternate]] partial ending has the Shibito wreaking havoc across all the fields... and Kyoya packed with grenades, the Homuranagi, and an assault rifle. And he kicks off the massacre by [[DeathFromAbove calling down a celestial artillery strike on the Shibito with the Sword Uryen.]]]]

* [[spoiler:TwinSwitch:]] Even the game doesn't tell you about it.

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[[caption-width:400:[[MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail Wi nøt trei a høliday in Hanuda this yer? See the løveli bløød-red lakes, the wønderful mining system, and mani interesting furry animals. Including the psychøtic Shibitø. A Shibitø ønce bit my sister...nø, realli!]] ]]

** In the second game, [[spoiler:Yorito Nagai kills Otoshigo by weakening it with bullets, causing it to crash into a fuel tank, then setting it ablaze by hitting it with an electric lightbulb attached to a generator. Mamoru, Ikuko and Kanae (formerly Akiko) arm themselves with the [=YamiNaki=] shards to fight Mother. Kanae stabs herself, weakening Mother through their connection, and Ikuko uses her powers to freeze Mother, allowing Mamoru to strike, sending her to the ground, where Ikuko can hit her. Finally Mamoru lands the finishing blow, and the threat of Mother is gone forever...OrIsIt?]]

* InterruptedSuicide: [[spoiler:OrIsIt?]]