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* [[Cool, Clear Water]]: 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.
* [[The Chick]]: Skye
* [[Darker and Edgier]]: The third game is considerably darker than the others.
* [[Deserted Island]]: Although it wasn't ''always'' deserted, as the ruins show.
* [[Door to Before]]: The ruin stages.
* [[Earn Your Happy Ending]]
* [[Edge Gravity]]
* [[Emergency Weapon]]: Should Jack run out of spears in ''[[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.
* [[Escort Mission]]: Since Skye is [[The Load|practically helpless]], you have to aid her in doing difficult things like [[Sarcasm Mode|crossing stepping stones, or climbing up ledges]].
* [[Fake Difficulty]]: The puzzles are not challenging. Keeping yourself from dying of thirst and hunger is challenging.
* [[Fishing Minigame]]: 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.
* [[Feminine Women Can Cook]]: Skye is in charge of making the meals, and finding special ingredients is a minigame you can do while playing as her.
* [[Gotta Catch Them All]]: There are many different kinds of fish, animals and plants that you have to collect for [[
* [[Guide Dang It]]: Want 100% completion? Better look up a guide! Especially in ''Lost in Blue 2'', where the final plant is little more than a pixel.
* [[
* [[Hyperspace Arsenal]]: 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.
* [[Insurmountable Waist-Height Fence]]: 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.
* [[Island Help Message]]: In ''[[Survival Kids]]'', 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.)
* [[James Bondage]]: Ken, the male character from the first game, is this if you play as a female character.
* [[The Load]]: In ''Lost in Blue'', whichever character you don't choose ends up as this due to their being badly injured.
* [[Level Grinding|Item Grinding]]: Required for [[
* [[MacGuffin]]: The keystones in the original, needed to unchain the ship.
* [[Market-Based Title]]: ''Lost in Blue'' in the US, ''Survival Kids'' in Japan. The first game ''was'' called Survival Kids in the US, though.
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* [[Oxygen Meter]]: In ''Lost in Blue 2'' onwards, characters have a limited swimming ability.
* [[Pixel Hunt]]: 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.
* [[Poison Mushroom]]: 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 [[Random Number God|randomized from playthrough to playthrough,]] though there are certain ways to tell which is which without chowing down.
* [[Robinsonade]]: Premise of the games.
* [[Ruthless Modern Pirates]]: Some of the games feature other human inhabitants on the island--very, very unfriendly people, though.
* [[Simulation Game]]
* [[Sliding Scale of Gender Inequality]]: Varies from game to game.
** ''Survival Kids'': [[Purely Aesthetic Gender]]. The only real difference is that, in [[New Game+]], female characters can make fox-skin caps, while male ones can make wolf-skin ones. Otherwise, they're identical.
** ''Lost in Blue'': The female character is [[The Load]], unable to use stepping stones [[Escort Mission|without assistance]], gather resources, or even [[Stay in the Kitchen|leave the area immediately surrounding the cave]]. When playing her as a character [[Feminine Women Can Cook|all she can do is cook]], make rope and [[Friend to All Living Things|take care of animals]]. The creators attempt to [[Hand Wave]] this by stating that the reason she can't stray far is because [[Blind Without'Em|she lost her glasses]].
** ''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 [[Action Girl]], who excels in some non-traditionally female activities like hunting and swimming.
** ''Lost in Blue 3'': Better than the original, a step down from ''Lost In Blue 2'', and but not as bad as first impressions. Every kid has their own set of skills. Females have full cooking skills, while males can climb better and hunt. All other skills are unique to the character or shared. The first two kids are very typed though.
** ''Lost in Blue: Shipwrecked'': About the same as ''3'', and she comes with a pet dog to boot. Lucy can either be left home while Aiden forages, or can come along to help explore.
* [[Standard Status Effects]]: Poison, paralysis, confusion, and energy boost are the typical ones.
* [[Stay in the Kitchen]]: Skye
* [[Team Pet]]: The monkey in ''Survival Kids'', which you get to name. ''Shipwrecked'' also has a dog.
* [[Video Game Cruelty Potential]]: 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.
* [[We Cannot Go on Without You]]: You're dead as soon as one of your characters' health meters reach 0%.
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