Siren

Siren is a survival horror game from the director of the original Silent Hill. You must take on (or rather, avoid) the possessed Shibito as one of ten alternating characters, while using Sightjacking, an ability that lets you see through the eyes of the Shibito themselves. Talk about new perspectives.

Regional Differences#

• The title screen in the Japanese version is largely the same as the North American version save for the copyright year (2003), a registered trademark symbol under the logo and the menu options reading Data Load/New Game/Option with Select Menu under it.
• The game's name was changed to Forbidden Siren in Europe. The opening introduction and title screen were revised to match.

Japan	North America	Europe

• The European version opens with a Resident Evil-style warning before the "Sony Computer Entertainment Europe" presents screen.

• The aforementioned Sony screen is changed to a more ghostly styled screen in the European version as opposed to its standard look in the other versions. A similar change was seen in the European version of Dark Cloud 2.

Japan	North America	Europe

• The game will play two different videos if left idle at the title screen: a gameplay demo and the cutscene that follows Kyoya's first encounter with a Shibito. The latter video does not play in the European version if left idle.
• The ages of various characters were changed in the North American version.

• Naoko Mihama's profile in Archive File 069 changed her hip size from 86 cm in the Japanese and European versions to 36 inches in the North American version (which converts to 91 cm).
• Akira Shimura's suicide scene is edited to remove the part that shows him putting the gun to his mouth.

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• Shiro Miyata's suicide scene is edited to remove the part that shows him putting the gun to his head.

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