Critical Response
The reaction to the game was mostly positive. Just Adventure gave the game an "A+", saying "...this is one of the best games I’ve ever played. It impressed me from start to finish." Programmer in Black, while having a few gripes about the scoring system, finished his review with "I recommend this (game) highly."
However, the reaction was not completely positive. The small view window, a potentially cumbersome biochip system, and the overwhelming number of ways the player could meet an untimely end drew criticism from some reviewers, such as Adventure Gamers, who wrote in their three-and-a-half star review: "The first thing you'll invariably notice about the game is its tiny viewscreen...a very disappointing return of windowed gaming...Once again filling up another large portion of the screen is the elaborate interface. The first game's interface walked the fine line between complex and complicated, but the one used in Buried in Time is altogether unwieldy." Most of these problems were resolved in the next game in the series, The Journeyman Project 3: Legacy of Time.
Read more about this topic: The Journeyman Project 2: Buried In Time
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