Siren

Siren
Also known as: Forbidden Siren (EU) Developer: Project Siren Publishers: SCEI (JP), SCEE (EU), SCEA (US) Platform: PlayStation 2 Released in JP: November 6, 2003 Released in US: April 20, 2004 Released in EU: March 12, 2004 This game has regional differences.

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 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.

• 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.

Name	Japan/Europe	North America	Notes
Kyoya Suda	16	19
Miyako Kajiro	14	17	Listed in instruction manual only.
Tomoko Maeda	14	17	Archive File 032 also changes her birthdate from May 11, 1989 to May 11, 1986.
Naoko Mihama	20	19	This age applies only to Archive File 006, which refers to a magazine interview Naoko did in 1996. Her actual age in the game's timeline is 28 in all versions.

• 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.

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