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Lost In Blue 3 | 
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| From: Konami
Category: Video Games
List Price: $19.99
Buy New: $12.99
New (20) Used (7) from $12.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 2126
Platform: Nintendo Ds
ESRB: Everyone 10+
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Operating System: Nintendo DS
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0 x 0
MPN: 24144
UPC: 083717241447
EAN: 0083717241447
ASIN: B0011WMINI
Release Date: March 18, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | 4 playable unique characters | | • | multiple storylines and flashback episodes | | • | over 20 mini-games for further fun | | • | realistic weather systems | | • | download play and DS Wireless Play |
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Product Description
Imagine being lost on a mysterious island, where you must use your wits to survive. In this adventure game, Lost In Blue 3, you guide one of four characters, each with their own hidden past and unique strengths, through exotic locales while braving the elements and staying alive. Work alone or together with other characters to gather food, explore the island, and hunt dangerous wildlife. Each character's abilities will dictate which path you'll take to uncover the mysteries of the island and ultimately make your escape! Multiple endings Supports DS Download Play and Wireless Play Take a departure from the harshness of island living and enjoy over 20 mini-games such as river rafting, engineering, and communicating with dolphins!
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| Customer Reviews: Read 9 more reviews...
 Too similar to LIB2 - and various annoying details December 28, 2008
I like turn based strategy games, and enjoyed LIB2, so I thought I would like the latest edition. The good? Graphics are great, multiple characters, complexity of the story. The bad? Sexism (the female character can do hardly anything by herself and so is not worth playing, which annoys me because as a woman, I prefer playing the female character). It didn't bother me that they drew her as a sexy imp, scantily clad. But the fact that she cannot hunt, she cannot fish, she's the better cook, she can't open various things, fix things.... annoying! All of the characters should have the same capabilities. Other annoyances - the storyline is so similar to LIB2, the play is nearly the same for the mini games so there's no learning curve (i.e. fishing, making furniture, etc.). The primary ending is quite abrupt and doesn't require you to "finish" outstanding things or explore all of the areas of the island. It's difficult to find what you need at the various camps, which is again annoying because you spend too much time on whatever it is that's hard to get (like wood) and not enough time progressing the story.
Lastly, it's annoying to have to drag each character to get water - they are completely helpless. It is nice that James will go hunt and get things for you, but it's harder to hunt in this game, so you are reliant on James to get the fur that you need. It's also frustrating that the furniture doesn't follow you from place to place.
All in all, it's better than LIB2, but if you liked LIB2, don't bother with this one. Try Sims Castaway instead.
 Would have been fun if it had worked, :( October 17, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The graphics looked like it was going to be a fun game but the commands it gave you to do survival skills didn't work. The X an Y buttons did nothing. So my person just died unable to do anything but roam around. Sad but true.
It had to go back must have been defective as my other games work.
 Lost in Blue 3 September 5, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
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.
Easier, but sexist September 3, 2008
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
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.
Fun, but very sexist~ August 3, 2008
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
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.
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