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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.
Recently, a remake that's a likely [[Shout-Out]] to Western adaptations of classic J-Horror films like ''[[The Ring|Ringu/The Ring]]'' and ''[[
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* [[Anachronic Order]]
* [[Ancestral Weapon]]: The Uryen figurines and the katana Homuranagi in the first game.
* [[Anvil
** "Blood Curse" lets you drop a neon sign from the second floor early in the game.
* [[Arch Enemy]]: {{spoiler|Otoshigo and Mother.}}
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* {{spoiler|[[Black Dude Dies First]]: Sol in "Blood Curse". ''Twice'', actually, thanks to the time rewind.}}
* [[Black Speech]]: 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.
* [[Blessed
** The reason you're able to heal rapidly in the first game? {{spoiler|You've been exposed to the red water, and you're slowly mutating.}}
* [[Blind Seer]]: In the first game, the blind Miyako Kajiro is able to use her psychic abilities to see through peoples' eyes, and can apparently see peoples' auras. In the second, Shu Mikami, stricken with blindness due to childhood trauma (no need for spoilers, as it's the first scenario), finds himself able to Sightjack his seeing-eye dog (and others) when he gets to Yamajima island.
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* [[Creepy Cool Crosses]]: The Mana Cross, a strange variant, shows up all over the place in Hanuda. {{spoiler|It's actually patterned off of some planks the villagers put Datatsushi on when he crash-landed on Earth.}}
* [[Crucified Hero Shot]]: Played with a bit. {{spoiler|Although Datatsushi's not a "hero", he was sacrificed upon the Mana Cross, proving the savior of the ancient village.}}
* [[Cursed
** 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.}}
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* [[Immortality]]: {{spoiler|Hisako Yao/Yaobikune}}
* [[I Know Mortal Kombat]]: Yoriko manages to cut through a gate by a skill that she says she saw in a Comic Book.
* [[Impaled
* [[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.
* [[Infant Immortality]]: Both averted and played straight: {{spoiler|Miyako and Tomoko (both 14) die - the former ends up as a sacrifice in a ritual (although she lives on in spirit) and the latter becomes a Shibito}}). It is also possible to watch them die in-game after taking too much damage. However, ten-year-old Harumi is never shown dying when a Shibito discovers her, {{spoiler|and she is the only character from the first game to actually escape Hanuda}}.
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** In the second game, the corpses of the shibito and yamibito are simply possessed by new shiryo or yamirei within moments, which apparently heals the body. {{spoiler|Explained by the island's belief that if corpses aren't staked with Mekkojou branches, they will be unable to go to Heaven and their bodies will be possessed by evil spirits.}}
* [[Kill'Em All]]: {{spoiler|Most of the characters end up dead or undead. The ones that ''don't'' die are [[Downer Ending|trapped in Hanuda forever]], with the exception of Harumi}}.
* [[Kill It
* [[Laser-Guided Amnesia]]: Any Shibito that gets knocked out while pursuing your current character will forget about that pursuit and resume their normal routine after reviving. Unless of course you [[Too Dumb to Live|stood there to watch the whole time]].
* [[Leitmotif]]: {{spoiler|In "Blood Curse", the same melody follows Bella and Amana around. It serves as a subtle hint towards the connection between the two characters.}}
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* [[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.]]}}
* [[Survival Horror]]: If we have to explain, we're going to force-feed you some mermaid.
* [[Sword of Plot Advancement]]: 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 [[
* [[They Would Cut You Up]]: What Shiro ends up doing to {{spoiler|the Ondas}}. Turns out that not much will kill them, no matter how much he cuts.
** Also happens to {{spoiler|The previous Miyako from the last failed ceremony, after her escape attempt failed.}}
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** {{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.]]}}
** {{spoiler|Yorito Nagai}} in the second game
* [[Town
* [[Twin Switch]]: {{spoiler|Even the game doesn't tell you about it.}}
* [[Ultimate Evil]] (The titular siren, in the original game... maybe. Going strictly by the game, you don't actually see it and skip over it in the [[Sorting Algorithm of Evil]]; [[Word of God]] says that what you skip to actually ''is'' the siren, after all.)
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* [[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.
* [[What Happened to
* [[White Dwarf Starlet]]: Naoko Mihama in the first game. Once a famed idol at nineteen, her career went steadily downhill as she aged, until, at twenty-eight, she's been reduced to reporting for a crappy "Ghost Hunters"-style supernatural show.
* [[Wouldn't Hurt a Child]]
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