Ushi No Tane - Harvest Moon

*waves* yep, im a semi addict to this seires. didnt know there was a survival kids2 though. shame it only came out in japan like but...*wonders if anyone she knows has an old copy knocking about their gameboy box*

i realy DO like the games, i wish they would have been a bit kinder though with the wii version. i like to kinda take things slow, so giving me a 100days or game over thing was anoying. especialy after the times i have played for about a year in the older games (even got endings where you stay on the island befor now lol)

i would love a mo version of this with every player havign their own tiny island and then once you done the tutorial type stuff, going to a main island and just deciding, sod the real world, lets just live the good like in our own little islands XD

I loved Survival Kids on the GB. I remember getting it at a Costco, it was just a random GB game but I got it and fell in love with it. Damn now I want to go back and play it.

I've heard of the Survival Kids games, but never played them.

I've tried to play the original Lost in Blue, but got turned off because of the micro-management. It WAS promising, but it ended up forcing you to worry more about your health rather than enjoy exploring the island. If only they'd made keeping healthy less of a chore......

well, you can allways *cough* cheat *cough* with infinate fullness/stamina/water/health
assuming you have the right cheat cart system for your DS and understand that you will have zero bragging rights once finished on prety much any boards (but you can at least discuss endings, fave things that happened ect)
that your save might be wiped (very rare but it can ocasionaly happen)
that if you express an opinion and others know you used said cheats, they might not consider it valid BECAUSE you cheated ect...

usualy i finish a game at least once the normal way befor i mess with cheating. becasue that way i at least have had the chance to try it properly.
however once im done with it once, i will play for fun. like rez evil on gamecube. finish it once, then play thru with ether infinate hp or infinate ammo ^^
it adds to the life of the game for me. if i was going to only play it once, while i might have traded it in for something else, if i have more fun cheating, it means i keep the game for longer.

just dont cheat on any multiplayer parts (unless its between 2 copies of the same game and your swapping from one of your saves to another, like folks that have gold/silver or similar 2 side version games)
multiplayer cheatings bad, very bad. cheating offline isnt so bad casue its yourself that your cheating, not others (my personal opinion by the way lol)

I played Lost in Blue 2. I don't remember which ending I got, but Jack and Amy got married~~ I don't like how the game makes playing as the girl slightly harder though. Pfft, Jack can watch the cave and tree house while I go punch wolves for their fur and meat. Everything gets easier as soon as you're able to make (small) traps. I was never successful in hunting with the bow and arrow or the large traps though.

The event where Jack loses his necklace was really cute, but I have to say my all time favorite part was when I found the hot spring and suggested we go in together. Aw yiss. I actually hated Jack at first since I thought he was a whiny « Mr.Gourmet's hat », buuuut he grew on me. I guess that's what happens when you're stuck on an island with another person for a long time. lol I think I spent an insane amount of time on the island just because I was so slow in getting materials.

I love that series! <33 ^^ haven't played it in ages right enough..though i remember it being incredibly annoying to build furniture -_-' that was the one thing that peeved me off xD

I tried to play lost in blue but didn't realize how to make a fire and then I kinda forgot about this game

I didn't think that being a girl made the game harder in the second Lost in Blue? Then again I always played as Amy so...

I hear playing as a girl is harder in the third game though that the guys can do so much more and the only thing you can do the guys can't is making baskets.

I love Lost in Blue/Survival Kids.
Second SK needs a fan translation cause I hear it's pretty epic, and the series needs another game.
They could fix a lot of things and make it a lot more fun for everyone.
Maybe even give the other chars some AI so you don't constantly have to take care of them 24/7.

I thought this game completely disappeared!
Anyway, I do know the series, but only own the very first game. I loved it when I first played it and I have to admit that there is a part of me that still wants to play it, but I judt never tried to play it again after I got more games.
I tried playing the DS versions, but don't even know which one. I played it because a friend had it, but for some reason I found it too hard instantly... I was unable to make a fire on the very first day of the game! Then I gave up and never played it again...

Thank you, but sadly there is nothing to get me past a certan point... I do get everything I need for the fire, but the minigame kills the mood every time. I was terrible at the L-R pushing (even when it's usually the easiest thing for me to do on other games) and then the blowing... It didn't seem to work... Someone suggested that you have to blow in a different way if I'm not mistaken... and there it stops for me... I can do almost everything at the same time, but when it comes to a simple task like pushing buttons and blowing...
Everyone describes it as if it was easy, but I end up doing it wrong... T_T

And I also heard that:

I didn't find out about the series before the first DS game came out, Lost in Blue. I have LiB, LiB 2, LiB 3, and the one for the Wii. I really like this series, I often recommend it to people I know that like Harvest Moon as it has kind of a similar vibe.

Uh, you can get items from the gorilla, one of which is needed for an ending, so you're required to befriend him if you want it. I specifically remember trying to do the imitating mini game, but gave up out of sheer embarrassment.

I've read that Jack can climb higher along with something else, but I wouldn't know from experience since I always played as Amy too.