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Harvest Moon on a Desert Island

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 06, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I really enjoyed this game. I would recommend it highly for fans of Harvest Moon - the daily chores of gathering food and keeping yourself and your companion healthy reminded me of the tasks in HM. I can't rate it higher than 3 stars, though. When you reach the point of building furniture, the mini-game is very difficult. Even my lightning-fast gamer 11 year old couldn't do them. Unfortunately, if you can't master this task, you get stuck half-way through the game. If you are interested in this game, you might consider getting "Lost in Blue 2" instead - it is almost as good and has an easier building mini-game.

A lot of work!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 14, 2007
Author: Amazon User

There was alot of great reviews (and some not so great) about this game that prompted me to buy it to see what it's all about.

The graphics first of all is great. Vibrant colors and realistic. The boy moves pretty well.

I rated it low because, to me, it was alot of work. You have to go back and forth, search for items, put them in your backpack. Learn how to cook. Decide what he can eat. The game keeps telling me:

He is hungry.
He is thirsty.
He is tired.

This happened so often that it got annoying. I had to hurry up and try to find some more items before he 'died'.

I guess this game is suited for people who have patience, thinking and love to hunt and search for items, figuring how to use them and all that. I don't. I like fast paced games. This isn't it.

Very fun

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 04, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Lost in Blue is a great adventure game with fun features like fire-starting, scavenging, hunting and fishing. There are three different modes: boy story, girl story, and challenge mode. The boy story is by far the best mode in my opinion. I didn't really get as much enjoyment out of the other modes, as they got pretty dull. But the game is definitely worth buying for the first mode, and you might find you like the others too.

Where's Wilson when you need him?!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: June 04, 2007
Author: Amazon User

"Lost In Blue" is one of those sub-par games that want to be so much better than they are, and the fact that they aren't is such a tragedy that you almost feel bad for the people who have to market them. Don't get me wrong, there are fun aspects to the game; spear-fishing, for instance, is a hoot, and after spending days (in game-time) on the brink of starvation, the opportunity to finally see a full Hunger meter is truly satisfying. I should also mention in all fairness that the game does make good, if limited, use of the DS touch screen and microphone, mostly through the aforementioned spear fishing and through fire building. Unfortunately, these bright spots are too few and far between to add up to a game worth playing, or at least paying full-price for, and I spent much of my time feeling angry and frustrated at the game's nonintuitive and often downright illogical gameplay. Bow-hunting, for instance, is almost impossible without the use of snare traps, and even then it's irritatingly hit-or-miss; using snare traps essentially entails watching an animal as it walks, making a guess as to where its path will take it, and placing the trap and hoping your prediction was correct. If it was correct, great; if it wasn't, and the animal changes direction at the last second, you're screwed, because traps can't be reused once set. You can also capture and domesticate a goat for the ostensible purpose of obtaining milk, but even though I did everything I was supposed to do (capture goat--check, bring home--check, provide partner with bottles--double check), the goat went unmilked until it finally keeled over dead in the night. But what really killed the game, and what made me lose interest and leave it unfinished, is the fact that halfway through the game, you're required to leave your partner behind at camp and strike out on your own for a few days, making sure that she has enough food and water so that she won't die while you're gone, and the game offers absolutely no explanation for why you can't just take her with you even though she's perfectly capable of making the trip with your assistance. Worse yet, at the cave which serves as your home-away-from-home, there are TWO ready-made (not to mention unexplained) sleeping pallets, only serving to underscore the question. And worse even than THAT, she proves time and again to be so wildly inept at taking care of herself--flatly ignoring the barrel full of fresh water and letting herself slowly die of thirst, for instance--that you may well have to abandon your quest midway through and run home to stop her from killing herself. (She also has an unfortunate tendency to wander away from the cave, leaving you to search for her before she dies of exposure. You may feel tempted to just let her go and be rid of her, but the game won't let you do that; if she dies, the game ends.) You'll most likely end up running home a few times anyway, as the game only lets you stockpile a few days' worth of provisions for her to live off of, and exploring the ruins will almost certainly take far longer than that. I can't imagine why the game's designers would intentionally include such a flawed puzzle, but it's there, it can't be avoided, and it frustrated me to no end.

Since I've already rambled on far too long, I'll only mention in passing the game's thinly-disguised sexism in the form of a male character who does all the hunting and gathering and a female character who hardly ever leaves home, as well as the sudden jarring digression into Tomb Raider territory that comes with exploring the ruins. Once you've beaten the game, you have the option of playing it through again from your partner's point of view, a page clearly taken from the book of Resident Evil 2 (fortunately, that's where the similarity ends!), but since I gave up on the game halfway through the first playthrough, I can't offer any opinions on that particular aspect. Honestly, though, the fact that the first half of the game is so hard to get through with your patience intact proves--to me, anyway--that it really doesn't matter if the second half is enjoyable or not. All in all, while "Lost in Blue" does offer a few innovative and fun gameplay elements, the aggregate experience was so overwhelmingly negative for me that I can only recommend this game if you're not the kind of person who is easily frustrated, and even then, you should probably look for a used copy.

Lost in Blue is Fantastic

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: April 10, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is the first time I truly want to write a review for a game. This game ROCKS. However, I did feel it is very hard in the beginning, so that I asked my boyfriend to help me a bit. He is a quite experienced gamer with PSP. When he started to play this game, he STICK with it. From the moment I give him my Nintendo DS lite and the game, I feel like it is not my property anymore:) He just cannot put it down. How interesting is that. Then after I watched him playing for quite a while, this game is not that hard for me. We talked about the difficulties in the game all the time. Oh, BTW, I could always go to those websites to check some tips and knowledge for the game. So that if you meet some difficulties that you cannot talk to someone, just go to the Internet, search it in the google, like "how to make a trap in Lost in Blue". etc, you will always be able to solve it through other people's experience. It is so fun. I really like the fishng, hunting, makeing tool, making furniture modes. It is so much fun. And everytime I explored a new place, I get soooo excited. Please trust me, your HP, hunger, thirsty will get more and more easy to accomplish as you play the game more and more. And you will be able to get more and more foods as you play. In the game I already died for like 10 times, but I kept going. And I am so happy that I bought this game. Now I haven't played my other DS games a while, as I truly want to finish the Keith mode and unlock the girl mode. Let's see!

Great!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: April 05, 2007
Author: Amazon User

you play a boy named Keith who ends up on a deserted island and you find a half blind girl named skye. Skye cooks for you. You have to be aware of both of their health. You find food water and other tools.

I'm Lost in Lost In Blue!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: March 17, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game, used, for my daughter and decided to pop it into my DS to take a look at it before I gave it to her. It's a good thing I didn't tell her that I had received it yet, because I can't stop playing! Wonderful use of the DS capabilities - like using the microphone to blow on your fire to get it going, and using the touch screen to search on the ground for food, spices, fishing bait, etc!

I had to buy a second one, because I know that I'll want to play again as Kyle, after I've beaten the game the first time, and my daughter won't have that much patience!

Also, I preordered LIB2, because I just KNOW that it's going to be every bit as enthralling and entertaining as the first one! Keep 'em coming, Konami!!!

Great game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: January 29, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I have only had my DS a few months now and the reason I bought a DS is so I could purchase Lost in Blue. But finding this game was like a needle in a haystack! It is sooo hard to find! Geewhiz! Well after about 2 months of keeping tabs on my local gamestores, a preowned copy came in yesterday. Needless to say I swiped it up quick! lol When I saw it sitting there on the store shelf, I got so excited I felt like a kid again. =) I was like "Ah!!! I found it!!" lol And for only about $25 preowned! I had the most stupid grin on my face too! lol Well I got the game home..the reason I bought the DS...and I started playing. It is so fun! I am very very pleased. It's a little difficult though right now since I just started. I already died once and Skye died once since I was away. I forgot to leave her food and water. My bad. Now I know. I had made a fire too by combining certain items. Skye has cooked a few different meals for us already as well. Our health levels are still very low but I heard you get stronger the more you play and progress. I had gathered coconuts by picking them up off the ground and shaking them from trees. I have dug up clams and picked up seaweed. I haven't tried the mushrooms yet but I heard some of them are poisoness but they say the effects only last a few minutes thank goodness. I still gotta figure out how to get water from a source besides coconuts. I heard the river is a source but I have to see how to do that today after work. I am looking so forward to finding the raw materials to build a fishing rod in order to fish...being the fisherman in real life that I am. The hunting with a bow aspect looks really cool too. Graphics and sound effects in this game are nicely done as well. It's gonna be a long day at work today thinkin about Lost in Blue until I get home! lol My only problem is that I have to pry my wife off the DS then b/c she is hooked on Yoshi's Island on the DS! lol In my opinion, just about anyone can enjoy Lost In Blue. I am an avid gamer into racing and rpgs and such, but I highly enjoy Lost in Blue and I highly recommend it. Enjoy! =)

enjoyable but have minor flaws

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 12 / 15
Date: September 17, 2006
Author: Amazon User

if u don't know the feel of this game, think castaway meets havest moon. in the begining u can gather coconuts, seaweed, clams to survive. later on you have the ability to fish, hunt, and explore the island that u are stuck on. sounds pretty mundane but just like watering your plants everyday in havest moon, you'll find it enjoyable. near the end u can explore ruins and solve puzzles. and depending on how u finish the game, u can open new modes to play as skye (the girl) and another secret character. (i can't say cuz it will ruined the plot).

one minor flaw about this game is the character storage system. there just isn't enough space in your backpack to put everything in. but that isn't enough to spoil the major fun of the game.

Good game but glitches will freeze it up.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: September 13, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I've beat the game twice but there are glitches that freeze it and I had to re-start twice. That is bad.
It's fun if it doesn't freeze up.

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