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2 people found the following review helpful:
 A short, thoughtful piece on the Holocaust, June 9, 2016by MathBrush This game is a short, fast-paced but contemplative work about the holocaust. It seems influenced by Photopia, with scene change after scene change, non-linear storytelling, and the same general dreamlike tone. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
Baf's GuideThis work addresses a really serious theme - holocaust. It's always a risky and difficult thing to do; however, the author managed to find a right tone for his game, and coped with his task well enough, avoiding sliding into histrionics or telling commonplaces. On the other hand, Buried In Shoes fails to form an integral picture, remaining a set of detached scenes - each of them moving, but not necessarily meaningful.
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very promising, underappreciated, November 20, 2008by Jeremy Freese (Evanston, IL) If you skim Buried in Shoes and cast the author as trying to write interactive fiction's answer to Schindler's List or Night, then, no, you won't like it. If you appreciate elegant, spare writing about loss, memory, and the dilemmas of the unforgivable, then Buried in Shoes provides a unique interactive experience that is brief yet sticks with you afterward. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
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18 people found the following review helpful:
Awful preachy pretentiousness - avoid!, October 28, 2008Just the most obvious, heavy-handed, "nazis were bad" point-making possible. Embarrassingly naff. To complement the pompous, pretentious tone, we have a ridiculously sparse implementation, with barely any description beyond the surface-level. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
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