Konami announced a sequel to its survival adventure Lost in Blue for Nintendo DS. Lost in Blue 2, the game will be released for the Nintendo handheld early 2007.
The stylus is now used for: carpentry, wicker work, cooking food that would otherwise make the heroes ill, and skin diving.
Lost in Blue 2 boils down to a slightly desperate tale of desperate castaways. There's little reward for its aping realism at the cost of fun. Rebalancing the game's central mechanics could have made it a joyous adventure, but the painfully dull micro-management of resources and the persistent monitoring of the characters' health meters destroys any joie de vivre.
Your journey begins on a sinking ship in the middle of the ocean with only one place to go...