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• gamedeal user

  Jan 24, 2016

  [h1]TL:DR[/h1] [i]Lumberjacks know how to fell aliens pretty damn well.[/i] [h1]The Good Stuff[/h1] ++Telltale-esque story where choices matter ++Lots of choices throughout, some make a difference whereas some provide a different line in the dialogue +Text moves at your speed +See your choices after each chapter +Seeing as choices matter, multiple playthroughs are possible +Good sci-fi action and writing +Background paints a picture as to what the setting looks like +Can easily do one plathrough in one sitting [h1]The Ok Stuff[/h1] =Characters are for the most part good. Main guy is cool but some minor characters are a bit annoying =There are decisions where one option is clearly better than the other, only a couple though and they're mostly just dialogue based ones [h1]The Bad Stuff[/h1] -Nothing. [h1]The Truthful Hard Facts[/h1] [table] [tr][td]Acquirement Method[/td][th]Steam store[/th][/tr] [tr][td]Price Paid[/td][th]$2.99[/th][/tr] [tr][td]Length[/td][th]2-4 hours[/th][/tr] [tr][td]Rig Used[/td][th][url=http://steamcommunity.com/groups/thisgrouplinkwasavailable/discussions/0/1473095331487872526/]Laptop[/url][/th][/tr] [/table] [h1]Check out my Steam group for more Reviews![/h1] [url=http://steamcommunity.com/groups/thisgrouplinkwasavailable]STEAM REVIEWS GROUP![/url] [h1]My YouTube channel![/h1] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4BQSDGExl23rHcd9ML2mRw?
• gamedeal user

  Feb 13, 2016

  “Buried: An Interactive Story”, as an interactive story has a lot going for it. But as a story it still has a way to go, and some of the issues are so integral as to likely prohibit repair. Still, for the most part not a bad way to spend three hours. (Due to offline play, I can only estimate game time at over three hours. There is a LOT of text. I found this to be both a plus and a minus, as you will see.) The premise of “Buried: An Interactive Story” (BAIS) is that you are the boss of a logging crew who very suddenly finds that he and his crew are the victims of a mysterious and unknown disaster deep in the forest. You find your way into an underground government facility, where things really start to go bad. The story/game is broken into 5 chapters, each chapter is further broken into small segments, allowing for pauses. The story of BAIS is pretty basic Lovecraft-like, and not particularly original. Saying that, I would also say that the mood generated is adequately creepy, with a story that feels both complete and real, in the context of this type of game. If the idea was simply to create a great story, this would fail. But since the point is to create an interactive story, it succeeds quite well, with the storyline leading not to more story so much as more decisions. The purpose is simply to drive the player to the next choice, and the choices really stand out (at least for the first three chapters.) The choices really are often quite difficult to make, as they almost always involve other characters for which you feel a genuine sense of responsibility. Some choices are simply to move the story along, and give the feeling that the response would have varied little based on the decision made, if at all. Some choices are significant, as you are notified once your choice is final. At the close of each chapter the player is notified of the statistics involving each significant choice among existing players. UNFORTUNATELY, once the fourth of five chapters of BAIS is reached, the choices do next to nothing for the story and are rarely significant. In virtually every case it’s a simple choice of “noble choice” versus “selfish choice”, and shallow beyond belief considering the depth of many choices offered in the first three chapters. I chose “noble” (this IS fiction), so I have no knowledge of how other choices would have played out. About his point, the complexity of the game that was such a strong feature to begin…..comes crashing down. In numerous cases the story feels unconnected, and one death as related in the story was absolutely NOT the death that had occurred in “my” story. While there were many pluses to the first half of the story, I was quite happy when it finally came to a grinding halt. Great attention was paid to the grammar in BAIS, which was much appreciated. I only found one case of a typo, one of a sentence that made little sense linguistically, and one case of “I” instead of “me”. While there were numerous cases of commas improperly used (or absent), they were by no means dealbreakers. The minor background sounds added much, as did the background stills and the choice of typeface. The feature of leaving the game with a simple ESC, then returning regardless of the position within a chapter segment was very welcome. While I wish BAIS had either been shorter and cheaper, or long with more attention paid, it was still acceptable. Still, I would recommend waiting for a sale price of no more than $1.50 US. BUY ON SALE ONLY. Thank you.
• gamedeal user

  Feb 4, 2017

  After watching a playthrough of this game by Markiplier, I had to get it for myself and try out the different decisions. A wonderful game and well worth the price!
• gamedeal user

  Feb 5, 2017

  Straight off, let's do away with the "Choose Your Own Adventure" tag. It's [i]not[/i] a CYOA, as the plot doesn't appear to truly diverge except at the very end; it's just aesthetic choices which are quickly railroaded back onto the same author-set track. That's okay, though it harshly limits replayability. With this in mind, if Markiplier brought you here, [b]stop watching his playthrough until you've finished the game yourself.[/b] The speed of the text and button reveals feel appropriate to the atmosphere, but it's painfully slow when you're just trying to power through a replay. Although mashing the space key can speed this up a bit, I think this game would benefit from a variable speed/instant reveal option. An appropriate atmospheric soundtrack is a pivotal 'make or break' point in multimedia literature, and Buried makes it. The Wasteland/Fallout feel of it fits well. Markiplier claims at a few points in his playthrough that the 'calm' soundtrack doesn't fit the immediate events. I disagree; this is a text story, and jumping to frenetic music would be distracting and would stand out like a sore thumb. This soundtrack doesn't stand out – it looms in the background. The writing is respectable. I would caution author Barry Napier to "kill his darlings," however; "haul ass" is a phrase which should never be used more than once in a work, and then only to demonstrate what sort of person a character is. Beyond that, there's some over-reliance on horror/action tropes, occasionally to a degree which borders on breaking suspension of disbelief (ie: Overdrawn at the Blood Bank, Ax-Crazy, Aliens are Bastards, Science Is Bad). Mostly, though, the writing is convincing and interesting. I hope to see more interactive fiction like this from Mr. Napier and Bromoco Games. And then, there's the value. That's not exactly a Triple-A price tag. Overall I wouldn't call this a masterpiece, but it's well-made entertainment for substantially cheaper than watching whatever trash reboot Hollywood has most recently vomited at the cinema. Save your money and get Buried instead.
• gamedeal user

  May 4, 2018

  While I did enjoy the story, I was very unsatisfied with this game being presented as a 'Choose your own adventure' story while it is nothing of the sort. Literally none of the choices have any impact on the story (believe me, I went back and re-did choices to see the differences) and that bothered me a lot. (Particularly after playing something like Choice of Robots where it's a real choose your own adventure and your choices actually do radically shape the story.)
• gamedeal user

  Oct 26, 2019

  I get many vibes from Buried such as X-Files, Lovecraft, The Thing, The Mist as well as some good old fashioned original creepiness. The game does a great job of describing just what kind of bleak dread is going on around you. You play as a logger who wakes up after being knocked unconscious from some kind of blast to find his site in ruins, some of his crew dead and many missing. From there things only get more strange and worse for him. You get to make many choices throughout the game and one thing that was always in my mind was the feeling that even if you make the choice that seems like the “good” or “honorable” choice that you will just cause yourself some kind of harm down the road. That if you chose the option that may help others that you will suffer for it later. I love it when a game can make me feel that way because let’s face it: life seldom gives you options where everyone comes out a winner so this game can get pretty real. The soundtrack was well done and served it’s purpose to set a grim tone. I will say that it didn’t have a lot of variety and did get old after a bit. The game is ambiguous in it’s ending, something I don’t mind as it allows me my own theories. The background art is great. There is no voice acting but that isn’t a negative in my eyes. I’ve long held the view no voice acting is better than bad voice acting. I played Buried on Linux. The game never crashed on me once. I didn’t notice any spelling errors. There was no manual save system. The game would auto save every time you quit the game. I would have preferred a manual save system but it’s not a long game so it wasn’t a big deal. There were no options at all such as to change the speed of text, enable/disable fullscreen, etc. A visual novel doesn’t need all the bells and whistles like some genres but most visual novels have more options than Buried. While playing the game my system RAM usage was at around 2.1GB, my CPU usage around 6%, my GPU usage around 13% and my VRAM usage around 423MB. The game takes up 514MB of disk space. I really got into the story of Buried and will easily recommend it. There are a good number of choices, good art and soundtrack and overall was a great experience. I finished my first playthrough in about 2 hours 45 minutes. I paid $3.29 CAD for Buried and it is easily worth that and more. They could have asked me for $10 and it would have still been worth it. If you enjoy visual novels, especially ones with a darker story then give this a go. My Score: 9/10 My System: AMD Ryzen 5 2600X | 16GB DDR4-3000 CL15 | MSI RX 580 8GB Gaming X | Mesa 19.2.1 | Samsung 850 Evo 250GB | Manjaro 18.1 | Mate 1.22.2 | Kernel 5.3.6-1-MANJARO