Grief and repression of its trauma presented in the form of Bataillean eroticism, discontinuous beings mired in the pain of life until death returns it all, transgression of representation fearful to experience in a town which knows it all, expressionistic to the end. The definitive survival horror game still remains the apotheosis, even as its combat suffers from woe of too little negation compared to the Forbidden Siren series, because it realizes the potency of play with the frightening stories of individuals captured within themselves and an environment, less political than the original game but no less developed in the solipsistic mentality of the American. Mary and her letter are bookends to a journey whose necessary transformations contain the brilliant design of characters set against what they already know and what the player must know before a conclusion which confirms the cycles of violence, an ingrained eroticism, and returns us back to the continuity sought by all.