Forbidden Siren 2

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Forbidden Siren 2
European cover
Developer(s)	SCE Japan Studio
Publisher(s)	Sony Computer Entertainment
Designer(s)	Keiichirō Toyama, Naoko Satō
Series	Siren
Aspect ratio	4:3
Native resolution	480i, 576i
Platform(s)	PlayStation 2
Release date	^JP February 9, 2006 ^AUS July 7, 2006 ^EU August 4, 2006
Genre(s)	Action-adventure, Survival horror, Stealth
Mode(s)	Single-player
Rating(s)	CERO: 15+ OFLC: MA15+ OFLC: R16 PEGI: 18+ BBFC: 15 USK: 16+
Media	DVD-ROM
Input methods	DualShock 2

Forbidden Siren 2, known in Japan as Siren 2 (サイレン２, Sairen Tsū^?), is a stealth-based survival horror video game developed by Sony Computer Entertainment's Japan Studio for the PlayStation 2 in 2006. The game is preceded by Siren and succeeded by the upcoming Siren: Blood Curse.

Unlike its predecessor, Forbidden Siren 2 was never released in North America.

[edit] Plot

The game tells the story of several characters who become trapped on Yamijima Island after a blood-red tsunami that capsizes their ferry. The game is played through several character perspectives, each with his or her own strengths and weaknesses, through an overlapping time line of the fateful night. The story can unfold in different ways with, in many cases, two or more different versions of a level, which will have slightly different objectives than the original. If the player is thorough and plays through these optional versions, the story and characters may develop even further than before.

[edit] Characters

Mamoru Itsuki (一樹守, Itsuki Mamoru^?)

A journalist for the mystery and science magazine "Atlantis", Mamoru travelled to Yamijima to gather research for an article when his boat is capsized by a massive blood-red tidal wave. Waking up alone on the shores of the island, he soon encounters Yuri Kishida and is tricked into helping her open the seven gates of the Underworld, releasing the Yamibito. He escapes the Underworld with Ikuko Kifune, but is left alone soon afterwards. He resolves to find a way to correct his mistake by stopping the Yamibito. At the pinnacle of the Spider's Thread, he is sucked into Mother's dimension and defeats her with the help of Akiko, Ikuko, and the Annaki remains, erasing the creature's existence from the real world. He is the first true survivor of the game.

Ikuko Kifune (木船郁子, Kifune Ikuko^?)

A dock worker and marine biologist with psychic abilities that allow her to possess the people that she sightjacks. Because of these abilities, she has painful memories of being taunted at school for being "different". She is also the estranged twin sister of Ryuko Tagawa, and a daughter of Noriko Kifune. She is on the ferry that is capsized at the beginning of the game, having been drawn to the island by instinct. She rescues Mamoru Itsuki from the Underworld and destroys the seven gates so that no more Yamibito can be released. She separates from Mamoru soon after, preferring a solitary path. She liberates the souls of Shigeru Fujita, Tsuneo Ohta, and Tomoe Ohta, and reunites with Mamoru on top of the Spider's Thread. Working with him, they defeat Mother and escape back into the real world. She is the second true survivor of the game.

Yorito Nagai (永井頼人, Nagai Yorito^?)

A private in the Japanese Ground Self-Defense Forces, Yorito crash-lands on Yamijima Island along with Takeaki Misawa and Hiroshi Okita, who dies on impact but is quickly resurrected as a Shibito. Lacking in field experience, Yorito follows Takeaki until they are separated when the Siren sounds. When he next encounters Takeaki, the major has become mentally unstable, threatening to kill Ichiko Yagura. Yorito kills Takeaki in order to protect the girl, but his attempts backfire when the possessed Ichiko attacks him. He eventually joins up with Mamoru Itsuki in climbing the Spider's Thread, but falls off and is confronted first by the Yamibito versions of Hiroshi Okita and Takeaki Misawa, and finally Otoshigo. He then falls from the sky into the Yamibito dimension where he sees them walk around like normal people. This drives him insane and he embarks on a killing spree.

Takeaki Misawa (三沢岳明, Misawa Takeaki^?)

A major in the Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force, Takeaki is in the helicopter that crash-lands on Yamijima Island with his comrades Yorito Nagai and Hiroshi Okita. Despite his razor-sharp demeanour, Takeaki is constantly plagued by the horrific memories of an operation where he rescued Harumi Yomoda, the only survivor of the original Siren game, from Hanuda. As events unfold, he becomes increasingly psychotic and homicidal, even more so after ingesting some hallucinogenic medicine. This culminates in his encounter with Ichiko Yagura, whom he threatens to kill because he finds her suspicious. He is shot from behind by Yorito Nagai in order to protect Ichiko, and dies. However, he is resurrected as a Kou-Yamibito, and finally destroyed by Yorito.

Akiko Kiyota (喜代田章子, Kiyota Akiko^?)

A clairvoyant who is able to see visions of the past while sightjacking. She is kidnapped by Soji Abe in an attempt to prove his innocence, but willingly goes with him to Yamijima Island as she senses that they will find their answers there. She is one of only two people to see Mother for the monster she really is- the other being Ikuko Kifune. After the Underworld is opened, she is contacted by the spirit of Shu Mikami and asked to free his father's soul by destroying his Yamibito form and stabbing him with a sacred Mekkoju branch. After this act, she receives a final psychic flashback and realises that she is actually an avatar of Mother, just like Kanae was 29 years ago. This causes her to transform into Kanae. However, she fights the psychic control of Mother, and commits suicide by stabbing herself in the stomach with the Annaki remains. This act weakens Mother, allowing Ikuko and Mamoru Itsuki to defeat the monster. She reunites with Shu Mikami in the afterlife as Kanae, where they can be together forever.

Soji Abe (阿部倉司, Abe Sōji^?)

A construction worker, and flatmate of Ryuko Tagawa, who is beaten to death before the events of the game. Soji is immediately suspected of murder, and kidnaps the clairvoyant Akiko Kiyota so that she may prove his innocence. He is on the ferry that is capsized by the blood-red tidal wave, and ends up on Yamijima Island with Akiko. Though he loses Akiko temporarily, he meets up with Shu Mikami, and together they descend into the Underworld. Later, he aids Akiko in freeing the soul of Ryuhei Mikami, and reunites with Tsukasa, Shu's faithful seeing-eye dog. Together, he and Tsukasa survive the collapse of reality upon Mother's defeat, and emerge into a new reality where Mother – and by extension, Ryuko Tagawa – never existed. He is the third true survivor of the game.

Shigeru Fujita (藤田茂, Fujita Shigeru^?)

A down on his luck police officer who grew up on Yamijima Island, moving to the mainland to raise a family. Before the events of the game, he requests a transfer back to his hometown to investigate rumours of a young woman being sighted on the supposedly desolate island. He is on the island when the blood-red tidal wave hits, and is caught up in the events. He rescues Ichiko Yagura from a horde of Shibuto on-board the Bright Win, and stays with her until the Siren sounds. He is then stabbed to death by the possessed Ichiko, and later resurrected as a Shibito. He eventually becomes a Yamibito, and is destroyed by Ikuko Kifune with the Mekkoju branch reserved for him at birth, thus freeing his soul.

Ichiko Yagura (矢倉市子, Yagura Ichiko^?)

A young schoolgirl attending Kameishino Prefectural Middle School. In the year 1986, she is onboard the ferry Bright Win with her school's tennis club when the body of Yuri Kishida is discovered in the ocean and pulled onboard. The Bright Win is then lost in a freak tsunami caused by Yuri. During the storm, Ichiko falls overboard and drowns, only for her body to be taken as a host by Otoshigo, the father of the Shiyros and Mother's mate. She regains consciousness in the hold of the Bright Win as the game's events begin to unfold and is rescued from the roaming Shibuto by Shigeru Fujita. When the Siren sounds, she becomes completely possessed by Otoshigo and stabs Shigeru to death. Regaining her senses and horrified at what she has done, Ichiko stumbles around the island until she encounters Takeaki Misawa, who threatens to kill her. She is saved by Yorito Nagai, but soon goes insane and becomes completely possessed. After her final transformation into Otoshigo, she is destroyed by Yorito.

Shu Mikami (三上脩, Mikami Shū^?)

An up-and-coming novelist, whose most famous work is "The Mermaid's Tear", inspired by a story his father used to read to him. He was born and raised on Yamijima Island by his father, Ryuhei Mikami. As a child, he discovered a young woman called Kanae washed up on the shores of the island. Kanae was taken into the Mikami household, and Shu became close playmates with her. After discovering the body of his murdered father, Shu attempts to escape the island with Kanae, only to be cornered by the villagers, intent on killing "the witch". They fall into the sea, and Shu manages to survive by climbing onto a drifting boat. However, the experience is so traumatic that he loses his sight and his memory of the incident.

Years later, he returns to Yamijima Island with his seeing-eye dog Tsukasa so that he can unlock his lost memories. He is on the boat that capsizes at the beginning, and returns to his old house to find himself at the scene of his father's murder- time his folded. He is separated from Tsukasa, but joins up with Soji Abe, and together they descend into the Underworld. Seeing the monstrous Mother as his lost playmate Kanae, he embraces her grip and is lost forever. Later, his spirit returns as a ghost to implore Akiko Kiyota and Soji to free the soul of his Yamibito father, and to entrust Tsukasa to Soji. He is reunited with Kanae in the afterlife when Akiko commits suicide with the Annaki Remains.

Kanae (加奈江, Kanae^?)

An avatar of Mother, sent to open the seven gates to the Underworld and unleash the Yamibito. She first appears in 1976, where she is washed up on Yamijima Island and found by a young Shu Mikami. She is accepted into the Mikami household, and sets about her goal to manipulate Shu into opening the gates for her. To this end, she murders Ryuhei Mikami so that she may have complete control over Shu, but her actions are witnessed by Tsuneo Ohta. Evading the subsequent manhunt by the villagers, Kanae attempts to escape to safety with Shu. She is eventually cornered, and falls into the ocean. Mother is so enraged by this failure that she sends a tidal wave to wipe out Yamijima, causing a fold in reality.

Later, Akiko Kiyota - another avatar of Mother - is finally overtaken by the psychic power of the deity and transforms into Kanae. However, Akiko resists this control enough to commit suicide using the Annaki Remains, weakening Mother enough for Mamoru Itsuki and Ikuko Kifune to defeat her. Kanae joins Shu in the afterlife, where they can be together forever.

Tsuneo Ohta (太田常雄, Ōta Tsuneo^?)

The head of a group of fishermen on Yamijima Island and also a sworn protector of the cursed island (Amimoto). He lived/lives there with his daughter Tomoe. In 1976, he was aware that Kanae had washed up on the island and due to rumours and personal beliefs, he brands her a witch. On a fateful night, he orders his fishermen to watch Kanae, and he himself witnesses Kanae over Ryuhei's bloody corpse with a blood-stained knife in her hand. He and his followers (his daughter included) chase Kanae and Shu to the lighthouse, but a landslide causes the pair to fall into the sea. Tsuneo and company think it's over but a massive, red tsunami engulfs them all, causing a time fold.

Due to the time fold, he is encountered in the present by Shigeru Fujita and Ichiko Yagura. Tsuneo recovers but them promptly dies and becomes a Shibito, pursuing Shigeru and Ichiko. Later on, he becomes a Kou-Yamibito and is destroyed with his Mekkoju branch by Mamoru Itsuki.

Tomoe Ohta (太田ともえ, Ōta Tomoe^?)

Tsuneo Ohta's daughter. She helps in pursuing Kanae and due to the time fold, later mistakes Yuri as her. She becomes dazed after the tsunami and wanders around the island. After being frightened by a Shibito, she panics, runs off and trips over a ledge and is impaled by a spike. She's later resurrected as a Shibito, and later becomes an Otsu-Yamibito. She causes repeated trouble, but is later destroyed by Mamoru.

Ryuko Tagawa (多河柳子, Tagawa Ryūko^?)

Another avatar of Mother. She lived in Tokyo and somehow forgot her purpose, and lived as a normal human. Shortly after meeting Soji, Yuri Kishida arrives, explains that 'she must do this for Mother' and murders Ryuko. Soji is later blamed for Ryuko's murder, forcing him to elope to Yamijima Island with Akiko Kiyota.

Yuri Kishida (岸田百合, Kishida Yuri^?)

Yuri is actually a real person, who had the unfortunate luck to run into Mother's avatar, who kidnapped her, took her clothing and assumed her identity. So 'Yuri' travelled to Yamijima to control Mamoru to open the Seven Gates of the Underworld. When she succeeds, she reveals her true self, which causes Mamoru to reel over in shock.

Hiroshi Okita (沖田宏, Okita Hiroshi^?)

Yorito Nagai's best friend in his force. When he dies on crash landing on the island, Yorito is overcome with grief, but quickly recovers when Okita gets up as a Shibito and attempts to kill Yorito and Takeaki Misawa, the acting commander. Okita later turns to a normal Yamibito and repeatedly tries to kill Misawa and Yorito. Yorito eventually kills him for good by ramming TNT down his throat and detonating it after saying a quick "Goodbye".

Ryuhei Mikami (三上隆平, Mikami Ryūhei^?)

Shu Mikami's father moved to Yamijima Island after his wife died. When Kanae arrived, he took her in as she bore a startling resemblance to his late wife. He carried out some research about the Annaki Remains with his acquaintance, Omito Takeuchi (Tamon Takeuchi's father from the first game). He is later murdered by Kanae in order for her to gain complete control over Shu. When Tsuneo arrives to catch Kanae in the act, Ryuhei becomes a Shibito and scares Tsuneo off. Later transformed into a Kou-Yamibito, he is slain and put to rest by Akiko Kiyota before her discovery about Kanae and herself.

Noriko Kifune (木船倫子, Kifune Noriko^?)

Ikuko Kifune's mother and Ichiro's supposed lover. It is rumoured she was pregnant with Ichiro's baby, but when Yuri's body was found and brought aboard the Bright Win, the tsunami caused her to fall overboard. This coincides with a Yamijima belief that all pregnant women who bathe in the Yamijima Sea, will bear a cursed child. Later when the time fold is fixed and Ryuko never existed, her murder was replaced by Noriko killing Ichiro.

Tsukasa of Jilldoll (ツカサ・オブ・ジルドール, Tsukasa obu Jirudōru^?)

Shu Mikami's guide dog. She later helps and escapes with Soji Abe after Shu's death. Actually Shu's spirit persuaded Tsukasa to join Soji.

Ichiro Nakajima (中島一郎, Nakajima Ichirō^?)

Noriko Kifune's lover. Possible father to a cursed child, he is the victim of murder after Ryuko is erased from existence.

Kyoya Suda (須田恭也, Suda Kyōya^?)

The main protagonist of Siren. At the end of the original game, he disappeared into the darkness to embark on a bloody massacre of the Shibito with the holy sword Homuranagi. At the end of Forbidden Siren 2, he returns to continue his crusade against evil; this time against the Yamibito. He still brandishes the Kajiro family sword and the Uryen.

Nitaka Ichifuji (一藤二孝, Ichifuji Nitaka^?)

A secret character unlocked by completing Hard Mode, found in Takeaki Misawa's column. Nitaka is a soldier in the Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force who had the unfortunate luck to transform into a Shibito when the red tidal wave hit the island. After Mamoru opens the Seven Gates of the Underworld and unleashes the Yamirei, Nitaka, a fellow soldier and a woman called Momiko are the only Shibito survivors. His scenario involves retrieving Momiko's iron and escaping from the apartment complex whilst avoiding the Yamibito.