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Lost in Blue3

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 30, 2008
Author: Amazon User

LIB3 is a Solid game with lots of game play, a variety of stuff to do. and it has a good story behind it. I don't like how the made the cooking and furniture designing exactly like Lost in Blue 2, but it mixes it up with the 4 characters and other activities too. I Haven't Beat the game yet. But i hope to some day. Can't wait to play the Wii version "Shipwrecked". Overall, if you like the survival, puzzle, play for 4 hours and not relize it game, then this game is worth the 30 bucks.

Better then 2

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 25, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This is better then 2 but if I am comparing games i would but Sims Castaway before buying this game.

Easier, but sexist

1 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.

Get Lost in Lost in Blue 3

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: May 04, 2008
Author: Amazon User

First, let me start off by saying that I am a 45-year-old woman, not a "kid", anymore!

I loved this game.

The only down-sides are:

Your co-survivors still aren't smart enough to eat or drink without you babysitting them.

When you discover something new (oil barrels, clay pot, flat slab) you have to return to your base to ask them about the items, before you are able to use them.

Otherwise, if you enjoyed either or both of the first two LIB games, you'll love this one, too. I actually found this one easier to complete than the others. Well quicker, anyway!

James is a very good hunter, and having him around to go get food is a huge benefit. He'll bring you large quantities of meats, along with the lard and fur, and then you'll also have an abundant quantity of large bones to sharpen for hooks and spears.

Love, love, love these games, Konami - keep 'em coming!

Fun, Fun, Fun

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: March 28, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Awesome I just love this series. If you liked Lost in Blue 1 & 2 then you'll love this one.

The Best of the Three

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: April 01, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I'm a die-hard fan of these games, and this is the best one yet. It solves some of the problems of the previous versions, and adds some plot twists. Note that It helps to have played LIB2 before you play this one.

Fun, but very sexist~

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: August 03, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I have really enjoyed the depth and storyline of Lost in Blue 3. I did choose to start the game with Claire only to realize she can't do/use half the stuff available because she's not male.

If your character is Claire you can make fishing poles but can't use them, bow & arrow but can't use them, even diving has to be done by the males in your group. I don't even know why she is able to make half the stuff available if she can't use it and none of her group will either. She can't make rope, rafts, or furniture without a guys help. The only thing the males can't do is basket weaving...and that is left to the only female character in your group that you don't find till much later in the game.

It is unrealistic to think a female stuck on a deserted island wouldn't/couldn't do these things herself. Being so far into the game I don't want to start over as a male, but I hate that I am missing out on these other features just because my character is a girl.

I can only give the game 2 stars for their decision to limit the female characters in an unnecessary way. If it weren't for that one major flaw the game would be 4-5 stars.

:(

Boring and not very fun at all.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 17
Date: March 30, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I played this game on a review that it was an "old school RPG" (OSRPG). I'm 39, I know what OSRPG is and this is not it. This is boring and very sad. Claire's (the girl partner, if you chose a boy main character) heart rate (health) just kept dropping because I couldn't figure out how to build the fire. When I finally found the wood, her health dropped to 43% and kept dropping even after I made the fire.

By the way, building the fire was not fun. You have to keep pressing the L and R buttons (DS owners KNOW these buttons are fragile and will stop functioning if pressed to hard or *way* to many times, especially the L-button [Google it if you don't believe me]) repeatedly until a bar turns red, then you blow into the mic to start the fire. Nice, except you HAVE TO do this EVERYTIME the fire goes out, EVERY night or the girl will freeze to death and die.

Making food from clams and sea-weed was cute, but frustrating, as it did not bring health points back to 100%. The amount of HP recovered is based apon how well the food was enjoyed or prepared. If it was not enjoyed, you got a small amount of HP. The most I saw when the meal was OK was 19 pts. By the way, what is the POINT of having a REST system if it ONLY applies to you? That's right - the girl partner (Clair) will NOT recover health at all, even when she is resting with you.

EVERY RPG game in HISTORY has you recovering HP while sleeping, not this game. Food didn't heal her: one time she blatantly refused to eat ("No thank you, I'm not hungry.") while her HP was dropping!? Clair, my partner, died as I watched her heart points dropped down to 0% - she just keeled over and died: Game Over. This after I fed her, rested for the night, AND built the fire 3 times.

That was not fun. I turned the DS off, pulled the game, and sent it back to the nether regions from whenced it came.

Fun Game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: March 30, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This is my first time playing Lost in Blue game. I wasn't sure I would like it at first after playing Sims games and not liking them too much; however, Lost in Blue is totally different from Sims games.

Positive: you don't have to play previous games to understand Lost in Blue 3, easy to play, cute characters, easy instruction, addictive, large island and many places to explore, lots of items to find, interesting story.

Negative: repetitive, not enough storage for food and other items, the other person (guy or girl depend on the gender of your character) is useless and you have to constantly tell him or her to get food or woods, it's a pain to travel with your companion because it's soooo slowww.

Overall, Lost in Blue is a must have if you like to play games such as Harvest Moon/ MySims. The game is fun and addicted and highly replay-able. Game style: B+ Fun: A-

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