Siren (video game): Difference between revisions

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This game series provides examples of:

* [[Abandoned Hospital]]: The Miyata Clinic in the first game.

* [[The Alcoholic]]: Officer Ishida in the first game. {{spoiler|Even Winged Shibito need a drinky-poo now and then...but the last one had a bit too much kick to it.}}

* [[Arch Enemy]]: {{spoiler|Otoshigo and Mother.}}

* [[Arranged Marriage]] / [[Not Blood Siblings]]: Jun Kajiro was adopted and raised by the Kajiro family so that {{spoiler|should the ritual to sacrifice Miyako fail}}, he could marry Ayako Kajiro and continue the family line.

* [[Back Tracking]]: In the first ''Siren'', justified in that Hanuda is a small village and is isolated in a [[Dark World]]. Thus, most of the main cast will go through the exact same areas previously visited- albeit with different objectives in mind and often from another approach. Once missions are completed alternate objectives of varying difficulty are unlocked for them which when completed add connecting details to the cast's story and unlock paths that move the game closer to its true ending.

* [[Badass]] {{spoiler|Kyoya}}, by the end of the first game. In the second, there's Takeaki Misawa and {{spoiler|Yorito Nagai, post-[[Freak-Out]]}}.

** Honorable mention goes to the Shibito Brain, {{spoiler|the Onda Twins near the end and Eiji Nagoshi's evolved Shibito form- which is '''literally''' a [[Face Full of Alien Wingwong]]}}.

* [[Bolivian Army Ending]]: {{spoiler|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.}}

* [[Bottomless Magazines]]: Averted in the first game. In the second, {{spoiler|as Ichiko Yagura is taken over by Oroshigo, she has periods of murderous insanity, wherein she (somehow) gets a machine gun with infinite ammo. Yorito Nagai gets an assault rifle with infinite ammo for the battle against Otoshigo.}}

* [[Burn the Witch]]: The villagers of Yamajima island believed that Kanae was some sort of evil being whose presence would lead to misery and destruction. {{spoiler|They were right.}}

** According to the supplemental material, [[It Got Worse|they got worse]]. What happened to {{spoiler|[[Fridge Logic|all the Kajiros who didn't get sacrificed]]? They [[And I Must Scream|gradually lost their human figure]]. There's a rather literal family reunion nobody wants to join somewhere under their household}}.

** In the second game {{spoiler|Sightjacking is said to actually be a curse from Otoshigo and Mother, permitting them to view all that transpires in the island.}}

* [[Detect Evil]]: {{spoiler|Takeaki Misawa's instincts are sharp enough to pick out avatars of Mother (Yuri), or people under the power of Otoshigo (Ichiko)}}

* [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?]]: In the first game, {{spoiler|Kyoya Suda either incinerates the Datatsushi with the Sword Uryen, or in a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] ''decapitates'' the [[Eldritch Abomination]] with the Homuranagi and sets off the collapse of everything around him in the [[Dark World]].}}

* [[Humanity Ensues]]: {{spoiler|Mother's method of interacting with the surface world involves creating human-like avatars whose job is to look for a suitable [[Unwitting Pawn]] that will let her out of her prison. Apparently, it's not that uncommon for them to grow fond of humanity and abandon their missions.}}

* [[Idiot Hero]]: Abe Soji in the second game.

* [[I Know Mortal Kombat]]: Yoriko manages to cut through a gate by a skill that she says she saw in a Comic Book.

* [[Impaled with Extreme Prejudice]]: {{spoiler|Required to get Shibito Risa Onda off your back in one level. Happens to, well, an arguably good guy in the second with Tomoe Ohta, at least the first time she dies.}}

* [[Improbable Weapon User]]: Over the course of the second game, Mamoru Itsuki, Ikuko Kifune and Akiko Kiyota, all pick up mysterious fossils known as YamiNaki or Annuaki shards. {{spoiler|These appear to be fragments of the ancestor god of Mother and Otoshigo, and in the second battle, they actually [[Morph Weapon|transform to resemble glowing swords.]]}} Also, at one point while playing as Ichiko, you can kill a Shibito and grab the item he was holding, a trophy about half Ichiko's height, which doubles as an Archive Item and a melee weapon.

* [[The Load]]: In the first game, every character you escort becomes this, even if they showed competence when you controlled them. In the second, companions will actually defend themselves, averting this. [[Leeroy Jenkins|Save when they decide to go charging into battle wielding an umbrella]].

* [[Locked Into Strangeness]]: {{spoiler|Hisako Yao's hair instantly goes stark white after Datatsushi is killed.}}

* [[Mama Bear]]: Reiko Takato, toward Harumi. {{spoiler|Even being Shibito-fied didn't stop her.}}

** Again with Melissa to Bella in "Blood Curse". {{spoiler|Also even after becoming a Maggot Shibito and getting struck by lightning.}}

* [[Mind Screw]]

* [[Mood Swinger]]: The shibito randomly exhibit various different emotions at any given time. They may be crying one moment and giggling the next.

* [[Ominous Fog]]: Even the daylight moments in Hanuda are depressingly cloudy and misty.

** In the second game, evolved male Yamibito apparently emit [[Ominous Fog]]. When you're in close proximity to them, everything goes dark around you.

* [[One-Hit-Point Wonder]]: 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.

** There's also a plot reason: {{spoiler|any graze means she's compromised by red water.}}

* [[One-Woman Wail]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyiACMF6jeE Karuwari II]

* [[Oral Tradition]]: {{spoiler|Hisako Yao is based off the Japanese legend of the Yaobikune, the Eight-Hundred Year Old Nun who became immortal after consuming mermaid flesh. Given a Lovecraftian twist of course. She even dresses up in a manner similar to a Catholic Nun to [[Lampshade Hanging|hang a Lampshade]] on this.}}

* [[Our Zombies Are Different]]: The Shibito in the first game. They apparently retain a good degree of the intellect they had before they mutated, but are given to strange, neurotic behaviors, such as repeating mindless tasks or endlessly patrolling. Over time they mutate into more powerful and horrifying forms. And all of them are ''thrilled'' that this has happened to them {{spoiler|because being a Shibito means being one with their god. They want you to be happy, too. Even if it means opening you up and letting the red water in.}}

** {{spoiler|Same thing happens to Kaiko in ''Blood Curse''}}

* [[Spirit Advisor]]: {{spoiler|Miyako Kajiro to Kyoya Suda at the end of the first game.}}

* [[Stable Time Loop]]: {{spoiler|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 cycle of Ouroborus. Yao both sets into motion and dooms herself, though it's not really a loop since she and Datatsushi's skull show up in multiple spots along time.}}

* [[Stealth Based Game]]: Most of the first game's missions involves the main cast trying to avoid detection by various Shibito to reach a certain location. This is usually compounded by the characters having neither effective weapons (at least in the beginning) nor [[Bottomless Magazines]] in the case of characters who pack or happen across firearms. Not to mention short of drastic measures {{spoiler|(i.e. permanent death by Uryen or Homuranagi)}} the Shibito ''will'' [[Nigh Invulnerable|revive]] eventually. Aggravated especially in the thankfully few instances of an [[Escort Mission]].

** Siren 2 also follows the same route; although some enemy weapons can be picked up and used, it is best not to be seen if you can help it.

* [[Summoning Ritual]]:{{spoiler|Two attempts to revive Datatsushi in the first game. First one is <s>unintentionally interrupted by Kyoya Suda</s> sabotaged by Miyako Kajiro as Kyoya Suda arrives and [[Hilarity Ensues]]. The second one succeeds.}}

* [[Super-Powered Evil Side]]: {{spoiler|At one point, Ichiko Yagura blacks out and wakes up to find to her horror that she's killed Shigeru Fujita. When she finally goes off the deep end (due to [[The Corruption]]), we see exactly how a schoolgirl could kill a cop, as she becomes an invincible [[Omnicidal Maniac]] with [[Bottomless Magazines|infinite ammo]] and a [[Katanas Are Just Better|katana.]]}}

* [[Took a Level in Badass]]: {{spoiler|Kyoya}} and {{spoiler|Yoriko}} in the first game.

** {{spoiler|The 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 [[Death From Above|calling down a celestial artillery strike on the Shibito with the Sword Uryen.]]}}

* [[Town with a Dark Secret]]: The village of Hanuda.

* [[Twin Switch]]: {{spoiler|Even the game doesn't tell you about it.}}

** Towards the end, a disoriented {{spoiler|Tamon sees Yoriko with the pale face of a Shibito running at him. From Yoriko's less infected view we see Tamon was the one becoming a near-complete Shibito.}}

** Miyata sees {{spoiler|a rather optimistic welcome to the afterlife, complete with the women he vivisected and/or murdered along with their unborn child happily calling him over.}}

* [[Unstoppable Rage]]: {{spoiler|Yorito}} develops a case of this near the end of the second game.

* [[Walk the Earth]]: {{spoiler|If the second game is any indication, Kyoya, unable to return to our world, wanders the Netherworld defeating supernatural menaces with the Uryen and the Homuranagi. One wonders where he gets batteries for his portable stereo player...}}

* [[Weaksauce Weakness]]: 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.

** {{spoiler|Gruesomely subverted in the case of Tomoko Maeda. At the end of her mission to reach the local church, she peers into the window and sees her parents taking shelter there. And they see her... weeping [[Tears of Blood]] that mark her gradual transformation into a Shibito. The Japanese commercial that used this cutscene was reported to have been ''very'' disturbing to viewers and was actually banned.}}

** {{spoiler|Again subverted in Bella Monroe's case in ''Blood Curse''. In the first loop, she reenacts the same scene as Tomoko's last mission, all [[Tears of Blood]] and window pounding, plus an accompanying Maggot Shibito after reaching the church where her parents are. In the second loop, you - and dear old dad Sam - finds out that she's ''Amana'', the one who started the mess by eating Kaiko after being flung into the past.}}

* [[You Can't Go Home Again]]: {{spoiler|Once you have red water in your system, you can never leave the Netherworld, even if you don't become a Shibito.}}

* [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness]]: {{spoiler|After the ritual to restore Datatsushi proves successful, no more generations of Kajiros are needed, and so Ayako Kajiro gets roasted.}}

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