A dual-scenario visual novel with a serviceable story that's undermined by a poor English translation and questionable action scenes.
Lost in Paradise is about a married man who is shipwrecked on a deserted island. Depending on the player's initial choice, he is shipwrecked with his best friend and his wife (bully route) or the player's wife and a dashing stranger (cuckold route). Choices within each route offer a degree of control over the content seen, but the two routes are basically linear.
Like others, I found the Cuckold route boring. The problem with deserted island scenarios is that there's often very little interesting happening, especially when there's only 2-3 characters. The protagonist is immediately injured, so that leaves two characters flirting with each other while he looks on passively. I found this insufferably boring, so pretty quickly I restarted and tried the Bully route. The Bully route is more interesting. The relationship dynamics feel a bit more complex with all the characters actively participating, and eventually another girl joins the group--though the opportunity to play the girls and guys off each other is sadly missed.
However, the game has some major issues with the writing. First, the English translation (I'm assuming it's a translation) is pretty bad. It reads like a machine translation, often mixing up the gender of pronouns. It's mostly understandable, but word choice is completely off on a regular basis. The writing has an overall awkward feel that's hard to take seriously, even during dramatic moments. The dramatic action scenes are hit particularly hard, where bits of the action just don't make any sense, to the extent that it may be a scenario issue rather than a translation issue. For example, at one point the main character from the water *leaps* into a rowboat at sea and successfully wrestles a guy armed with a gun to the floor--all without affecting the stability of the two-person rowboat in question. In another instance, after being shot *through* the shoulder from front to back, 1-2 days later he has no problem wrestling two thugs into submission simultaneously, one armed with a knife. Keep in mind this is the *same* protagonist that in the cuckold route is taken out of commission by a shallow flesh wound on his leg! During the combat his shoulder isn't even mentioned, yet it hurts around the same time period in a 100m dash to the extent that he's worried the wound will open up. Again, it's hard to take the drama seriously when it's so completely ridiculous and inconsistent.
Overall while the story is serviceable, this is not an impressive game, and I wonder about the users who think it is.