Jin Yoshida

## Evil-Doer

**Jin Yoshida** is a minor character and minor antagonist in the 2015 survival horror video game *SOMA*. He is an extremely hostile and uncommunicative undead creation of the WAU.

By the time Simon Jarrett meets him, he is a mindless and hostile creature, and the final enemy the player encounters in the game. He is regarded as one of the most powerful, fastest and strongest enemies within the game.

## Biography:

Before the game's main events, it's somewhat shown through voice recordings and documents that Jin was once a Japanese Human Scientist working at the East Side of the underwater base at PATHOS-II before his death. It's heavily implied how he might've died while inside the suit giving the WAU time to posses his dead body considering the outcome of Undead Jin.

Surprisingly, as Simon can read reports around the area in which Jin is encountered, there is no reports of anyone or anything having to deal with him, heavily possible or implying he was the last of his crew left alive.

## In-Game:

When the player encounter's him, Jin is locked within a heavy sealed door, behind it when opened Jin emerges and the player must navigate around him quietly and silently to avoid being caught and dying. Unless a door is closed between the player and Yoshida, escaping from a running Yoshida is nearly impossible. This means the player must be stealthy the entire time in his presence.

During the evasion of Yoshida, he always heat-tracks the player and will always go in their direction as Jin will always go a little faster when being not looked at. Making it a requirement to hide so he can be past by or always keeping direct eye-contact at all times. If caught the player will get a game over, with Jin picking the player up and using his tentacles to either infect, kill or knockout the player.

Jin is very fast and aggressive and can hear very well acute to not seeing, it's implied Jin can detect soundwaves which can explain the heat seeking part of the encounter. During the encounter the player must navigate towards a ladder to make it to the next section of the game, when the player climbs up, the encounter ends, as Jin is not seen for the rest of the game and does not follow the player in any way. His ultimate fate is incredibly unknown.

During the ending when the player (Simon), meets up with the last human, she mentions "I was wondering when the next creature would come shuffling through here", this somewhat speculates or implies she very met Jin or another monster that has already been encountered, though this is speculated and has not been proved since.

Suggesting by the layout of the level, the player (Simon Jarett) can come across various piles of black goo and blood/gore even before the encountered section, heavily implying that someone or something could or might have died at the hands of Mutated Jin, which could also explain no read reports on someone's experience with Mutated Jin.

## Appearance:

As seen, Jin Yoshida is inside of a Haimatsu Power Suit, making his entire body aside from his face completely unseen. The only definite visual element to Yoshida are the tentacles emerging from his face and bursting outside of the suit with black ink-like structured gel leaking from the exposed part of the helmet.

Jin's true human appearance is a pure mystery.

## Gallery:

Jin emerging from an unknown sector at Tau.Jin staring at Simon.Jin grabbing and killing Simon.Jin charging at Simon.A much more close-up of Jin grabbing and killing Simon.