"Lost in" High Maintenance
posted by JMichaud (BETHESDA, MD) Oct 14, 2008
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Cooking Mama meets Robinson Crusoe in Lost in Blue: Shipwrecked.
When your cruise ship is sunk, you are left on an uncharted desert island (why can't it be an uncharted arctic island for a change?)
You soon meet up with a fellow cruise ship passenger named Lucy. Your task is to survive long enough to get off the island alive.
But the makers of this game make it very tough to do that.
It's a constant struggle to balance the needs of our twosome; finding food took so much energy that they got tired after a few days (resting at night didn't replenish all their energy).
To make matters worse, after some nights they got bad colds because the fire went out during the night. This caused them to get tired even faster.
And while I waited for them to rest, they got hungry, but I can't search for food because they are sick but they can't rest because they're too hungry. Catch 22 anyone?
It's too bad our heroes require so much maintenance; searching the island is fun, cooking meals is much like in Cooking Mama, and other mini games are very well implemented.
Maybe two player mode will help solve the problem; in one player mode, Lucy doesn't do anything except use up resources.
I say rent Lost in Blue: Shipwrecked and give it a try. But don't expect this to be a walk in the park.
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