Forbidden Siren 2

Forbidden Siren 2

Released2006
Forbidden Siren 2 is the second installment in the Siren series. The game tells the story of several characters who become trapped on Yamijima Island, an island off the coast of mainland Japan. On August 3, 1976, an underwater cable was cut, and all power to the island was lost. During the subsequent blackout, all of the islanders disappeared and the island became deserted. Twenty-nine years later, in 2005, a magazine editor called Mamoru Itsuki is visiting the island to conduct research for an article when the ferry he and a small group of other passengers are on capsizes, after it is hit by a red tidal wave. Shortly after his arrival, a group of soldiers crash land on the island after their helicopter has engine troubles. They must all find ways to survive the island's "monsters", the shibito. The game is played through several character perspectives, each with his or her own strengths and weaknesses, through an overlapping timeline of the fateful night that alternates between the present and the past. 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
58Wit Score

Details

DeveloperProject Siren
PublisherSony Computer Entertainment
ReleasedFebruary 9, 2006
StatusReleased
GenresAdventure
ThemesHorrorSurvival
PlatformsPlayStation 2 PlayStation 2
ModesSingle player

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Community Score
Mixed Reception58/100

About This Game

Millennia ago, Mother — an ancient water deity — was imprisoned beneath the earth when light first came into the world. Her mate, Otoshigo, retreated to the ocean's depths. For generations since, Mother has dispatched human avatars to the surface to prepare for her return, but each one has failed and never returned to the Underworld. In 1976, the power goes out on Yamijima Island when an underwater cable is severed. A four-year-old boy named Shu Mikami discovers a young woman washed up on shore — a woman named Kanae who bears a striking resemblance to his dead mother. They become inseparable, and Kanae moves in with Shu and his father. The islanders distrust her, unnerved by her aversion to sunlight. They are not wrong to be wary: Kanae is one of Mother's avatars, tasked with guiding Shu into opening the seven sealed gates on Yamijima Island that keep Mother imprisoned. Before she can complete her mission, Tsuneo Ohta — leader of the local fishermen — decides she must be killed.