Someone please talk to me about this game.
This is possibly one of the weirdest and ambitious games I've ever played, but at the same time it's just terrible. It's like Silent Hill Team took the feedback of the first few silent hill games but made a complete parody out of it. I love how uncanny everything is but sometimes it's just too much. The pacing is also just terrible. How did this niche game even get fully released?
I've no idea, I started playing it on the recommendation of some posters in a horror game thread here, gave up a few episodes in though. The potential is there but it really isn't used effectively at all.
You made this thread yesterday
Stop it
it's an art
Uninronically.
The controls are simple, but the way they teach it to you is just terrible. They also try to teach you the controls while jumping between a bunch of different characters while trying to escort them. This is the worst opening to any game I have ever played and I was constantly confused as to what the fuck was even happening.
Why when you die does it have the weird crosshair effect on your eyes? Why do I have to open a menu for literally ever single action? Why is each level tiny as fuck?
This game has some serious potential and could've been a cult classic if it just took a more normal exploratory direction with its gameplay. The atmosphere and sneaking mechanics could have played nicely with it. But it felt more like a weird experimental indie game on the Dreamcast.
One of the weirdest games I have ever played for many reasons. I never hear anyone talk about either. Which is odd because it was developed by team silent when they were still together.
I did, and it got no responses. I want to talk about this game that no one talks about. What's wrong with that?
maybe no one talks about it cause it's shit. but not shit enough to be enjoyable
>and could've been a cult classic
It is.
I mean, there is videogames audience besides casual cattle you are part of. For you, it is Silent Hill and Resident Evil.
True gentleman appreciate Siren series.
Don't fight it, just stick with simple stuff.
I absolutely love this game OP, but it's so weird that casuals hate it and Sup Forums never got into it. It is a cult classic for sure though.
Did you even play Forbidden Siren 2 OP?
care to explain what's so good about it that we humble plebs are missing?
Does it get better? I do want to stick with it, it's just the first hour of the game is a complete mess of gameplay and story introduction.
I have not, what changed in the sequel?
Try to explain tier3 quantum mechanics that is still deeply theoretical to soccer mom
>Does it get better?
I recommend to try Siren 2 first, it might get you accustomed to Siren idea
it's wave collisions that mimic particles, particles were ALWAYS the illusion bitch.
I've just realised the game I was thinking of was Siren: Blood Curse. How is that game compared to this one?
Alright I'll give it a shot. Is it a different set of characters in the second? I don't wanna get more confused about the story than I already am.
I think there are some from Siren 1.
Also, don't be afraid to read some wiki stuff and articles/literature related to it.
2 is a little easier than 1. Introduced a light vs dark mechanics, there are 2 rivaling groups of shibito this time (one isn't called Shibito though IIRC) and there are more guns in the sequel, but it's still a very good game.
I'd say 2 fixed a lot of flaws of the original, but was also slightly too actiony since one of the MC's is literally a Japanese army soldier. On the other hand if anyone here loves guns, Forbidden Siren 2 is one of the only games in existence than features modern Japanese military weapons as they are notoriously hard to get access to in order to put them in video games. The main Jap private has modern Jap army weapons while his sergeant has cold war era Jap weapons which are also rare. There are other characters in the game too that don't have any weapons but the soldier missions are a bit action heavy.
So is this a stealth/horror game?
It looks pretty good.
i only played blood curse, it was cool, the atmosphere is good, but the gameplay was meh
Nothing far fetched about giving quantum mechanics explanations to a soccer mum if she asks for them. Go for it, user.
Blood Curse is just terrible compared to original, but the art and graphics are great.
I don't understand why people have such a hard time with Siren1/2, they're great stealth/horror games.
one of my favorite survival horrors of all time senpai, shame it'll never come back since sony dropped the ball hard with it on the ps3
this and fatal frame are genuine goat series that have been all kinds of fucked up by their respective publishers
2 has different characters to 1, and is a bit more forgiving and easy. But playing 2 first, it might be harder to go back to the original.
Maybe start with the remake, Blood Curse, then play 1 then 2.
I don't remember exactly, but it's funny that the first or just the second mission is one of the hardest in the whole game.
it's pretty much exactly like you said. Never quite got into these. S1 is plagued by terrible Eng-dub & controls, and the TV series style is just distracting. The 3rd game's a total joke.
FYI, the director of SH1 did make Siren too.
That's an odd choice for a traditional horror jap game. Would you recommend Blood Curse first?
Blood Curse is borderline garbo so no
I haven't played Blood Curse.
Just play 1 then 2.
If you want to play BC first since you are worried about the PS2 games being too hard, then do it to acclimatize yourself. But the main difficultly is basically figuring out what you gotta do to progress, it's better to just use a guide for that.
In a way it's kinda a puzzle stealth horror game as you have to figure out all this timeline stuff about how to distract enemies to get past to do all this list of things that is lucas arts adventure game tier crazy.
>Siren 1
>TV series style
???
probably stuck on the use of "episodes" throughout the game, brainlet probably associates that word with television and only television lmao
Each level was somewhat episodic.