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pretty good!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 9
Date: December 26, 2005
Author: Amazon User

i read a lot of reviews about people saying its too hard. it is too hard, that is what makes it so fun! at first it is impossible to find food and the food you do find turns out to be poisen. i am on day 22 and the thing is the you have to travel the ENTIRE island. i have found 2 jungles so far and that is because you have to travel far away. as for the game, its great. you are a boy at first and have to find a cave and get fire and food. than you find the girl and you its like your 2 people but you dont control the girl (except when you hold her hand and have her travel along) you have to get fish by making a rod out of the things you find like tree bark, sticks, straw and all that stuff. you can make a better more advanced fishing rod buy getting bait and vines in the secret jungles. you can give any food you find ie:coconuts, onions, carrots, peaches ect. to the girl so she can cook them. it is a little bit scary though (i know i am weird) but when you travel to far and you dont have food and there is wild animals lose, it gets strange and scary. the girl (i keep forgetting their names) can make baskets for you so you can use them. the stylys comes when you want to fish, dig up onions or carrots or even use the stylys in your packpack. the mic comes for blowing fire. but the buttons are the main tool in lost in blue. the graphics are beyond good. it feels like you are ACTUALLY on the island. my cousinwho is a complete nintendo hater, even admitted this game being fun. it truly is and even if you do get stuck dont give up because the more harder it is the more itll be easier in the end.

tip for people who own this: if you went too far from your cave and don't have enough life to return back to the cave than there is peaches hidden all over the ground, or i suggest you pack with you 10 different kinds of food, or when it looks like your about to die than save the game. than if you do die you can continue from where you last was.

THIS IS THE BEST GAME EVER by fuzzymealkeaton454545

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 9
Date: January 31, 2006
Author: Amazon User

i thought this game was the best i could go out and catch fish with my fishing rod and catch so many carp oh ya this one time skye made a "baked carp" and i regained 109% hunger im not kidding. then there is this one place you know where you find skye whel i found a place where you can get a total of 4-6 bamboo you go to the raft and then you keep folowing the beach and then you make it to where the potato patches are to the north of you and then you go to the edge of the rock where the water is (make sure skye has full water and food and the tide is at its lowest) and then you will go into i movie type thing and then you will go to a place that is opposite the raft side you go up the ledge and to the top and get bamboo shoots and bundels! (but make it quick the tide will come back up again.) also you can go to the waterfall after you take sky up there and push the rock to its death and then after that you climb to the waterfall and go behind it. after going behind it you can take a drink. then go up to the foresty and get some vines to make bowes and fishing rods. after that you can go to the grasslands and find a stick and some twigs and make a bow and arrows and then hunt a animal and get lard and meat and bones and then make bone arrowheades and make a torch from a stick and the lard. oh ya you can also make fryed food from the grease.i hope that is helfull i love this game ohya.

GREAT GAME!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 9
Date: June 20, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Ok, i've had this game for over a YEAR now and i still play it. its so addictive and fun if you like these type of games. i finished the boy version and am in the girl version, and after that there is boss version!!! i just love the whole nature and survival thing, and this is like over 30 hours of gameplay! even more depending on how fast you are, but i like taking it slow and enjoying the whole experience. Enjoy!

The equivalent of watching water boil

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 11 / 19
Date: February 04, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game was very disappointing. At first, it sounded very promising and different. You're Keith and you're stranded on an island after the cruise ship you were on has sunken. Now you have to stay alive using your "survival skills". There's also another person on the island, Skye, that Keith meets up with who was also on the same ship. However, she is so dimwitted, whiny and completely useless that she makes you want to kill her just to eat her. It's bad enough to hear Keith whine and complain every few seconds. Eh, but killing her, unfortunately, is not an option. Afterall, she's a major part of the story line blah blah blah. After you've been formally introduced, Keith "accidently" steps on her glasses and renders her completely blind apparently because she's completely incapable of moving around on her own. You than turn into her seeing eye dog and have to hold her hand constantly to move her around, otherwise, she'll stay in one spot. This will slow down the journey considerably. Along the way, you'll have to pick up scarcely scattered coconuts, clams, potatoes, mushrooms etc. to eat and drink as well as sticks and twigs to build fires. But as you venture on, you lose health due to running just as fast as you can feed him. Before you know it, you've already died 50 times. This is pretty frustrating especially when he can't run when his health is low and you can't get food and water to him fast enough. This pretty much comprises much of the game's objective, to keep the bastard alive. In other words...boring. You'll constantly have to feed Keith and take time to let his lazy ass rest every 5 minutes. His little buddy Skye is not any better and you'll have to do the same for her. Did I mention there's endless walking and climbing through what looks like the same patch of dead grass over and over again? Yeah well, you'll be doing a lot of that only occasionally stopping to push a log. The stylus can't even be used to move the characters. The characters are so pixelated to the point that they look like walking squares. Possibly the only redeeming aspect of this game is the tool making, hunting, and fishing parts which were mildly enjoyable, but definitely won't make up for the lack of "fun" in the rest of the game. This game has no replay value. Pass on this game and pick up Trace Memory, a similar but much better title as well as a number of other much better DS titles.

Half great, half horrible

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 6 / 8
Date: June 23, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The first part (mode) of this game is excellent. You play as a young man who is shipwrecked on a tropical island, with a girl of the same age. The whole premise is that you have to find a way to eek out a living however you can and eventually get rescued. You make weapons (for hunting and fishing- no battle in this game!) You gather food and water and range all over the island, solving puzzles. All very fun, for those virtual life fanatics. And guess what! After you finish the firt mode, you unlock a second mode, where you get to play as the girl....

....Except the game makers must not think much of girls. She's useless. She's half-blind and so weak that she can't even pull herself over tiny rocks, in order to explore the island. All she can do is hang around your cave home all day, gathering clams and cooking. Over and over and over. If you're lucky, the boy may come home late one night with news of all the fun things he's been doing on the island. Yay. How insulting to female gamers, like myself- and boring!

All I can say is- buy this game for the first mode. Have fun for a week, and then leave it alone, before the second mode poisons your soul.

Lost in blue.... sleeper hit of the nintendo ds

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: July 12, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Imagine, if you will, an island out in the middle of the ocean filled with lush jungles, sandy beaches, and mystery around every corner. Lost In Blue for the nintendo ds takes all of the imagining part out of it, and is one of the only games I've played that actually immerses you into a whole new world. There's a lot to do once you are on the island including finding shelter, gathering foods, hunting, fishing, milking a goat, building various weapons, tools, and furniture, and a whole lot of exploration. But it isn't all fun and games on the island, as you have to help your character (keith) and a girl he met that washed up from the same shipwreck (skye) to survive. After beating the game as keith, you will have the option to play as skye, which is a different experience in itself. This game is one of the best RPGs I have ever played, and in my opinion it is a must have for anyone who owns a nintendo ds.

Really difficult...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 8 / 14
Date: August 28, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The premise of this game is that you are stuck on an island with a girl around your age. She can't see because she lost her glasses, but she can cook. So your job is to collect food, firewood and other necesities for you and her and to bring them back to your home inside a cave.

The problem with this game is that your stats (how healthy, hungry, tired etc. you are) decrease quickly. And I find that once you pick all the coconuts from the trees, that food is hard to find. So after trying this game over and over again I can't seem to make it past the fourht day, when all of my resources run low.

I personally think this game is too hard, but I can easiy see that other might enjoy it. If you want a challenge, then pick up this game from your local store! If not, keep looking...

Lost in Blue

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: November 21, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Lets talk LOST......I buy this game for me, so I can disappear and play something that is not a shoot em up or collect battle cards....and my 12 year old steals it and has been playing it ever since....and he has those shootem up games for his DS.

Anyway its a really fun game once you figure out your momentum of keeping yourself and Skye feed, not thirsty or tired. You have to use whats there to do stuff. Its kind of Lost meets Survivor. I will enjoy it if I ever see it again.

Starts out very good, but gets a little repetitive.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: November 27, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game was okay.

You are stranded on an island with a girl with bad eye-sight, and you break her glasses. You and her try to survive on this island for as long as you can, and, hopefully, get off the island.

THE GOOD
This game is VERY interactive with the DS's capabilities. At the beginning, it's very entertaining to catch fish, gather food, and make fire. You can make a fairly wide variety of tools, and many different items are found all over the island. The graphics are pretty good, and the island you are stuck on is fairly large, allowing a nice space for exploration.

THE BAD
This game may get very boring and repetitive, because every 5 minutes, your characters are starving and you need to catch food. One fire may last about 10 minutes before needing to make another one. The girl you are stranded with will die if you leave her alone for 15 minutes, and one day in the game is, in reality, 20 minutes, hardly leaving any time to explore.

This game is good, but not my favorite choice.

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.

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