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Easier, but sexist
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Rating: 1,
Useful: 0 / 0
Date: September 03, 2008
Author: Amazon User
I am a great fan of this series, and have played the previous two for the DS. In some ways, LIB3 is an improvement: it is much easier to stay alive and there is a better balance between survival and exploration. If anything, the balance has tipped too far: I found that it was too simple to stay alive, and some of the "feel" for how hard it is to make a life on a deserted island is missing. I liked that feel, though I know many people found it frustrating. Its a matter of taste.
However, the game is intensely sexist, and as a woman, I actually found it rather offensive, to the point where I couldn't finish the game. In LIB1, you can only play as the boy, and the girl is effectively blind and crippled because of the plot. Sure, its traditional sex roles, but the fact she can't see or move very well explains it. This didn't really bother me, especially since Skye shows a lot of courage and spunk in her limited way. In LIB2 the girl can do anything the boy can, in fact her hobby is archery.
Enter LIB3, where a perfectly healthy, fit young woman can't fish with a rod (but can spearfish . . . huh?), hunt, or make furniture by herself. She can cook though! Add to all that the fact she's a simpering blond who whines about her boyfriend who has been missing for two years (she finds him) and cutesy anime graphics that make her look like an empty-headed twit, and pretty soon you start to feel insulted on behalf of womankind.
After playing LIB2, which featured a very capable and tough young woman, I found LIB3 unbearably condescending.
So, if you are looking for an easier LIB experience, this is probably the way to go. But if you are looking for a remotely capable female character, you are looking in the wrong place.
Lost in Blue 3
4
Rating: 4,
Useful: 0 / 0
Date: September 05, 2008
Author: Amazon User
I've only played this a little, but it's a fun game, It's a little better than Lost in Blue2 which I have also. I also plan on getting the first one.
Also if you like those Sims 2 Castaway is a good one to get.
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