Siren / Forbidden Siren, the famous survival horror videogame series, is the matter of this website, being mainly a pool of resources and links. I created this place as a host for the long-lost official European websites which were taken down way to soon after the PS2 games were released. Later you'll also find information about the story/characters in the games.

Siren / Forbidden Siren

Official Websites

Official European website mirror
This is a mirror of the first interactive Forbidden Siren flash website. Even though it bears worthful information about the preceding events and characters of the game the site was closed years ago. You'll learn the backstory of 4 characters (Kyoya, Naoko, Akira and Harumi). The chapters are played in random order and conclude in a final chapter.

Official Japanese Website
Official Korean Website

Official US Website
The US website has been taken down like the EU website, but it wasn't so fleshed out anyway. There was some kind of mini game with some awesome wallpapers as a reward though. You can download these from here!
Wallpaper 1 - Wallpaper 2 - Wallpaper 3

Viral Websites

Similar to the official EU website other sites were launched prior to the game release which contain a bit of backstory of the game's location and characters. Links to these websites can also be found inside the game.

Occult Land Collection
Urban Folklore Society
Original Japan-Horror-themed Shortfilm

Siren 2 / Forbidden Siren 2

Official EU Website

Unfortunately I missed the chance to mirror the official EU site, and it cannot be recreated. This is not so bad after all, though, since the site served mainly as a sort of character information site without much interaction. There were also a couple of cool download goodies which I'd like to present you here:
Yamijima Research - Concept art, Photos and an Excel sheet containing infos about the island
Yamijima Photos - More Photos from the island

Official Japanese Website

The official Japanese website contains a flash minigame in the style of the EU website to the first game. It's called "Sleep Walker" and can be played through with or without knowledge of the Japanse language.
Unfortunately the menu of the main website is broken, I'll provide links to the subsites from here.
Official Japanese Website
Menu Links: Top - Element - New Features - Characters - Material

Viral Websites

Shu Mikami Official Website
Yumemi Salon
Urban Folklore Society (2nd link)

Siren Blood Curse / Siren New Translation

Official Websites

Except for Japan no other region in the world received a full fledged information website for this game. Though the Japanese website is very cool and worth to be checked out.
Official Japanese Website
Blog by the developers on Famitsu

Viral Websites

Only one viral website was created for the game, providing background information for one of the game's characters. There was another website, which acted as a information website on the Hanyuda village. Prior to the game release video episodes where streamed over a couple of weeks. They showed a camera team entering the location of the village searching for evidence and paranormal activities. The videos cannot be seen anymore unfortunately.
Wright Rider
Hanyuda - Japanese Website

Other Websites

Fan Websites / Communities

Siren on Hardcore Gaming 101 - Great article and information on all Siren games
Red Tsunami - Huge Fan Site (lotsa broken images unfortunately)
Forbidden Siren Fan Site
Forbidden Horror - Fan Community
Forbidden Siren Wiki
Forbidden Siren - Extensive Russian Fan Site
Siren fan site (Japanese) e.g. with adorable character icons - haunted places tourism photos
LPs by Egomaniac: Siren - Siren 2 - Siren: Blood Curse

Other interesting websites

Gunkanjima on Urban Exploration - Photos from the deserted island that heavily inspired Siren 2
Songs of Siren: Hitomi Shimizu music interview

About

Updates

2012-02-22: Site opened.
2012-02-29: Added Japanese Siren fansite link and music interview link.

Contact

I created this website because I just love the Siren game series and I wish that it will be continued someday. Especially of the first game I have fond memories. I played it parallely with a good friend and we'd share strategies and all those great moments the game has to offer. I also liked the second title, but it didn't catch me as much, maybe because the story was way more complex. Blood Curse was a real blast again, as it is different enough from the first game, but it brought back so many great memories and also was fun to play on itself.

If you want to contact me, please send me an email!
sirenfans (AT) hotmail (DOT) com
Obviously you'll have to replace (AT) with @ and (DOT) with a .
I look forward to reading from you!
-Hauke