Towards the end of 2004 two games were released, both with the same intention: to reinvigorate the moribund horror genre. The first, Resident Evil 4, took the existing elements and upped the ante with an almost lunatic zeal, revamping the controls, speeding up the pace and creating an awesome, breathless, stress machine of a game that hit you with wave after wave of feral yokels and crazed monks. Radical? Yes, but the second game arguably went further. Where survival horror had often settled on Western settings, Forbidden Siren took the Project Zero approach and explored the more unsettling vistas of Asian horror. Out went the central hero and linear storyline, in came multiple protagonists and a narrative shattered into numerous, inter-related segments.



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