Not sure how to feel about Buried Stars. It’s a murder mystery visual novel with an interesting premise, but not a whole lot actually happens. Most of the game's events are inconsequential, and the free conversation gameplay got really old really fast. Suggesting keywords to each person over and over was so boring that I ended up just speeding through text until I could get to actual story progression, which was decent.
This might just be a me thing, but I felt the mystery was pretty simple and I figured it out almost right away. This is probably a side effect of the game's cast being super small, so there's not a lot of room to hide.
The game forces you into a bad ending regardless of your choices on your first playthrough, which I thought was a really weird choice. The game is already repetitive, and having to replay a significant portion of it was super tedious.
The game's characters are decent, and I was still compelled enough by the story to finish, but it's not an amazing game. It's just okay.
6/10
This might just be a me thing, but I felt the mystery was pretty simple and I figured it out almost right away. This is probably a side effect of the game's cast being super small, so there's not a lot of room to hide.
The game forces you into a bad ending regardless of your choices on your first playthrough, which I thought was a really weird choice. The game is already repetitive, and having to replay a significant portion of it was super tedious.
The game's characters are decent, and I was still compelled enough by the story to finish, but it's not an amazing game. It's just okay.
6/10