History VideoGame / LostInBlue

* AcceptableBreaksFromReality: Firewood and tree bark picked up in the rain or other wet conditions does not need to be dried before it can be used.

* ArtificialStupidity: Occasionally happens in ''Lost in Blue 2'' if you leave your partner alone. Even if you leave a lunchbox and bottles of water in their inventory or on the shelf, they might not eat or drink. Meaning the safest course of action is to drag the other character along with you.

* FishingMinigame: There are actually ''three'' methods of fishing--traps, spears, and fishing rods. In the ''Lost in Blue'' games, fish is the most efficient food source.

* GottaCatchThemAll: There are many different kinds of fish, animals and plants that you have to collect for HundredPercentCompletion, and that's not even getting into the different kinds of tools, furniture and food you can make.

* InsurmountableWaistHeightFence: Generally averted with the male characters who can climb. Depending on the game, female characters may be hindered by things actually intended to aid mobility like bridges, ledges or stepping stones. In ''Survival Kids,'' both male and female characters are unable to cross shallow water.

* MacGuffin: The keystones in the original, needed to unchain the ship.

* NewGamePlus: In the first game, the change is mostly cosmetic, as it allows you to make wolfskin and foxskin caps. In ''Lost in Blue,'' this lets you play as Skye, the female character. Beating ''Lost in Blue 2'' grants access to "Serious Survival" mode, a survival run playthrough with only one of the main characters, and no partner to help gather firewood, or make baskets for traps.

* StayInTheKitchen: Skye, the female protagonist of Lost in Blue, loses her glasses during the shipwreck and is unable to help the player character outside of "household" tasks, like keeping the fire going. The female protagonist of the sequel, Amy, is a hobbyist archer and better at hunting and diving than Jack, but many guides will still advise the player to leave her at home whenever they can due to not sharing Jack's energy-saving climbing ability, leading to her mostly just keeping the fire going, and making rope and baskets.
* TeamPet: The monkey in ''Survival Kids'', which you get to name. ''Shipwrecked'' also has a dog and a monkey, though you aren't able to name either.
* VideogameCrueltyPotential: In the original ''Survival Kids'', you can feed your partner character anything at all--it won't harm them. If you're feeling mean, you can stuff them with toxic mushrooms or raw seafood.

* ArtificialStupidity: Occasionally happens in ''Lost in Blue 2'' if you leave your partner alone. Even if you leave a lunchbox and bottles of water in their inventory, they refuse to actually eat/drink it even if they're dying. Meaning the safest course of action is to drag the other character along with you.

* NewGamePlus: In the first game, the change is mostly cosmetic, as it allows you to make wolfskin and foxskin caps. In ''Lost in Blue,'' this lets you play as Skye, the female character. Beating ''Lost in Blue 2'' grants access to "Serious Survival" mode, a survival run playthrough with only one of the main characters. Although this mode could be considered more difficult without the partner making baskets for land traps (which catch more satiating also transfers over all of the furniture and extra shelters built in the completed playthrough

* NoPeriodsPeriod: Probably justified in ''Survival Kids'' at least, as the characters are presumably young enough to have plausibly not hit puberty yet. This can be TruthInTelevision- under extreme duress or physical exertion, females stop menstruating.

* PoisonMushroom: There are eight different kinds of mushrooms that you can find. Their effects differ from game to game; some will burn your throat and thus make your thirst meter go down faster, some will keep your energy meter from going down, some will induce stomachaches, and some will do nothing. Which is which is [[RandomNumberGod randomized from playthrough to playthrough,]] though there are certain ways to tell which is which without chowing down.

** ''Lost in Blue 2'': Due to the complaints about the inequality of the first DS game, ''Lost in Blue 2'' features a female protagonist that has abilities which complement those of the male character. In this game the female character is more of an ActionGirl, who excels in some non-traditionally female activities like hunting and swimming.

* StayInTheKitchen: Skye, the female protagonist of Lost in Blue, loses her glasses during the shipwreck and is unable to help the player character outside of "household" tasks, like keeping the fire going. The female protagonist of the sequel, Amy, is a hobbyist archer and better at hunting than Jack, but many guides will still advise the player to leave her at home whenever they can due to not sharing Jack's climbing ability, leading to her mostly just keeping the fire going, and making rope and baskets.

* WeCannotGoOnWithoutYou: You're dead as soon as one of your characters' health meters reach 0%, except in the first game. In the first game, if the other kid dies, it gives you a bad ending later on.

* CoolClearWater: Averted. In the beginning of ''Lost in Blue'', there's a freshwater river that has fish swimming in it, and your character comments that it looks safe to drink. There's also a small hole in a temple you have to go through that is apparently safe to drink from.

* EdgeGravity

* GuideDangIt: Want 100% completion? Better look up a guide! Especially in ''Lost in Blue 2'', where the final plant is little more than a pixel.

* JamesBondage: Ken, the male character from the first game, is this if you play as Skye.

* LongSongShortScene: Unless you are ''really'' bad at cooking, chances are you won't hear much of the cooking song in ''Lost in Blue 2''. Even then, you're forced to just end the cooking after 99 seconds of failing to complete it.

* MarketBasedTitle: ''Lost in Blue'' in the US, ''Survival Kids'' in Japan. The first game ''was'' called Survival Kids in the US, though.
** In the PAL region, the first game is called Stranded Kids.
* NewGamePlus: In the first game, the change is mostly cosmetic, as it allows you to make wolfskin and foxskin caps. In ''Lost in Blue,'' this lets you play as Skye, the female character.
* NobodyPoops

* NoPeriodsPeriod: Probably justified in ''Survival Kids'' at least, as the characters are presumably young enough to have plausibly not hit puberty yet.
** TruthInTelevision: under extreme duress or physical exertion females stop menstruating.

* OxygenMeter: In ''Lost in Blue 2'' onwards, characters have a limited swimming ability.
* PixelHunt: In the second Lost in Blue, the last slot in the plant section of the glossary is a dandelion located in a corner of a certain area of the island that is inaccessible until you get really far along in the game. You have to go hunting for a little weed that is almost indistinguishable from the background. And even though a little box pops up whenever you walk over an item, it's still agonizingly hard to find.
** Just ''barely'' subverted from being too big of a pain, as it's slightly larger than the static, unobtainable dandelions. Although you wouldn't notice without looking for it.

* StayInTheKitchen: Skye

* HyperspaceArsenal: An odd example. Your characters' bags have enough capacity to hold exactly twenty items. It doesn't matter what they are. Just twenty items. One has to wonder how Jack and Amy can only manage to hold twenty leaves at one time, yet somehow manage to shove twenty logs down their asses.

A series of [[SimulationGame wilderness survival games]] by Creator/{{Konami}}, for the UsefulNotes/NintendoDS and UsefulNotes/{{Wii}}. ''Lost in Blue'' games tend to be only thematically related to each other. In the US, the ''Lost in Blue'' series is treated as a SpiritualSuccessor to the earlier GameBoyColor game series ''Survival Kids'', while in Japan, [[MarketBasedTitle the series has been continuously branded with the Survival Kids name and there's no true difference between them.]]

* BittersweetEnding: One of the possible endings in ''Lost in Blue'' is unlocked when you spend 365 days on the island without finding a way off. Suddenly there's a cutscene where the two characters realize that they'll never get off this island, but it doesn't really bother them anymore. There two similar cutscenes in the original ''Survival Kids'', found after 100 days--one if you've rescued the other kid, and one if you haven't.

* TeamPet: The monkey in ''Survival Kids'', which you get to name. ''Shipwrecked'' also has a dog.

* WeCannotGoOnWithoutYou: You're dead as soon as one of your characters' health meters reach 0%.

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[[caption-width:350:You see that girl standing there looking helpless? [[BlindWithoutEm That's because]] [[TheLoad she is]].]]

A series of [[SimulationGame wilderness survival games]] by Creator/{{Konami}}, for the UsefulNotes/NintendoDS and UsefulNotes/{{Wii}}. ''Lost in Blue'' games tend to be only thematically related to each other. In the US, the ''Lost in Blue'' series is treated as a SpiritualSuccessor to the earlier GameBoyColor game series ''SurvivalKids,'' while in Japan, [[MarketBasedTitle the series has been continuously branded with the Survival Kids name and there's no true difference between them.]]

* ActionGirl: Amy from ''Lost in Blue 2'' and the original ''SurvivalKids'' girl, as well as in ''Shipwrecked''.

* IslandHelpMessage: In ''SurvivalKids'', the way to get the quickest ending was to build one of these on the beach. You'd then get rescued. (It is, of course, a long ways from the Best Ending, which you need to unlock New Game Plus mode--in which your character rescues the other child on the island, befriends them, the two of you escape on a Lost Technology ship, and grow up to get married.)

* NoPeriodsPeriod: Probably justified in ''SurvivalKids'' at least, as the characters are presumably young enough to have plausibly not hit puberty yet.

A series of [[SimulationGame wilderness survival games]] by Creator/{{Konami}}, for the UsefulNotes/NintendoDS and UsefulNotes/{{Wii}}. ''VideoGame/LostInBlue'' games tend to be only thematically related to each other. In the US, the ''VideoGame/LostInBlue'' series is treated as a SpiritualSuccessor to the earlier GameBoyColor game series ''SurvivalKids,'' while in Japan, [[MarketBasedTitle the series has been continuously branded with the Survival Kids name and there's no true difference between them.]]

* EmergencyWeapon: Should Jack run out of spears in ''LostInBlue 2'', he can take enemies on with his bare hands. Punches hit for puny damage, but successful dodging can lead to him taking down a ''tiger'' like a man.

* NoExportForYou: The Japan-only sequel to the original GBC game, ''Survival Kids 2''.

A series of [[SimulationGame wilderness survival games]] by {{Konami}}, for the NintendoDS and {{Wii}}. ''VideoGame/LostInBlue'' games tend to be only thematically related to each other. In the US, the ''VideoGame/LostInBlue'' series is treated as a SpiritualSuccessor to the earlier GameBoyColor game series ''SurvivalKids,'' while in Japan, [[MarketBasedTitle the series has been continuously branded with the Survival Kids name and there's no true difference between them.]]

* JamesBondage: Ken, the male character from the first game, is this if you play as a female character.

* PixelHunt: In one game the last slot in the plant section of the glossary is a dandelion located in a corner of a certain area of the island that is inaccessible until you get really far along in the game. You have to go hunting for a little weed that is almost indistinguishable from the background. And even though a little box pops up whenever you walk over an item, it's still agonizingly hard to find.

* VideogameCrueltyPotential: In the original ''SurvivalKids'', you can feed your partner character anything at all--it won't harm them. If you're feeling mean, you can stuff them with toxic mushrooms or raw seafood.

** TruthInTelivision: under extreme duress or physical exertion females stop menstruating.

* WastedSong: Unless you are ''really'' bad at cooking, chances are you won't hear much of the cooking song in ''Lost in Blue 2''. Even then, you're forced to just end the cooking after 99 seconds of failing to complete it.

* ItsUptoYou: You can't rely on the non-player character to get you off the island.

* WastedTrack: Unless you are ''really'' bad at cooking, chances are you won't hear much of the cooking song in ''Lost in Blue 2''. Even then, you're forced to just end the cooking after 99 seconds of failing to complete it.

* ActionGirl: Amy from ''Lost in Blue 2'' and the original ''SurvivalKids'' girl, as well as in ''Shipwrecked.''
* BittersweetEnding: One of the possible endings in ''Lost in Blue'' is unlocked when you spend 365 days on the island without finding a way off. Suddenly there's a cut scene where the two characters realize that they'll never get off this island, but it doesn't really bother them anymore. There two similar cutscenes in the original ''Survival Kids'', found after 100 days--one if you've rescued the other kid, and one if you haven't.

* BossInMooksClothing: The Leopard in Survival Kids.

* TheChick: Skye.

* EscortMission: Since Skye is [[TheLoad practically helpless]] you have to aid her in doing difficult things like [[SarcasmMode crossing stepping stones, or climbing up ledges]].
* FakeDifficulty: The puzzles are not challenging. Keeping yourself from dying of thirst is challenging.

* FeminineWomenCanCook: Skye is in charge of making the meals, and cooking and finding special ingredients is a mini game you can do while playing as her.
* GottaCatchThemAll: There are many different kinds of fish, animal and plant that you have to collect for HundredPercentCompletion, and that's not even getting into the different kinds of tools, furniture and food you can make.

* NoExportForYou: The Japan-only sequel to the original GBC game, ''Survival Kids 2.''

** ''Survival Kids:'' PurelyAestheticGender. The only real difference is that, in NewGamePlus, female characters can make fox-skin caps, while male ones can make wolf-skin ones. Otherwise, they're identical.

* StayInTheKitchen: Skye.
* TeamPet: The monkey in ''Survival Kids,'' which you get to name. ''Shipwrecked'' also has a dog.
* VideogameCrueltyPotential: In the original ''SurvivalKids,'' you can feed your partner character anything at all--it won't harm them. If you're feeling mean, you can stuff them with toxic mushrooms or raw seafood.

* TheLoad: In the original game, whichever character you don't choose ends up as this due to their being badly injured.
* LevelGrinding: Required for HundredPercentCompletion.

* NoPeriodsPeriod: Probably justified in ''SurvivalKids'' at least, as the characters are presumably young enough to have plausibly not hit puberty yet.

*** In her (and the developer's) defense, we are never told just how bad her vision really is. For all we know, she could be ''literally'' blind without them- many people are. I'd cut her some slack for not being very useful if this was the case. Heck, even doing the little she does is impressive if you think about it this way.

A series of [[SimulationGame wilderness survival games]] by {{Konami}}, for the NintendoDS and {{Wii}}. ''VideoGame/LostInBlue'' games tend to be only thematically related to each other. In the US, the ''Game/LostInBlue'' series is treated as a SpiritualSuccessor to the earlier GameBoyColor game series ''SurvivalKids,'' while in Japan, [[MarketBasedTitle the series has been continuously branded with the Survival Kids name and there's no true difference between them.]]

* EmergencyWeapon: Should Jack run out of spears in ''[[LostInBlue Lost in Blue 2]]'', he can take enemies on with his bare hands. Punches hit for puny damage, but successful dodging can lead to him taking down a ''tiger'' like a man.

A series of [[SimulationGame wilderness survival games]] by {{Konami}}, for the NintendoDS and {{Wii}}. ''Game/LostInBlue'' games tend to be only thematically related to each other. In the US, the ''Game/LostInBlue'' series is treated as a SpiritualSuccessor to the earlier GameBoyColor game series ''SurvivalKids,'' while in Japan, [[MarketBasedTitle the series has been continuously branded with the Survival Kids name and there's no true difference between them.]]