Okinawa Journal

This is a beautiful, delightful game. It’s imaginative, artistically unique and the story is interesting. Unfortunately, it has some bugs that make it unplayable. Most notably, the mouse pointer disappears leaving the player unable to interact with anything. This happened during the demo and the actual game. The golden crane that is supposed to let you retry became unacceptable, and while an evil spirit was coming after me, I couldn’t click on it to pray. (Keeping it from killing me). Without the bugs, I would highly recommend. With the bugs, No.

This game has so much potential, but as long as these game-breaking bugs exist, I can't recommend it in good conscience. Time and again, I found myself stuck in places I couldn’t leave (especially the Hotel Luxus—both the lobby and the balcony). On top of that, there are only three (!!) save slots, which you can quickly run out of when combined with the bugs I just mentioned. As soon as you write your article, the current save file is automatically overwritten. If you forgot something important beforehand, you’re just out of luck. Let's hope you still have a usable save file.. There are also other bugs that prevent you from achieving your goals. For example, if you [spoiler]look at the ground before placing the sunflower[/spoiler], you can no longer place it, which prevents you from completing a very important objective—which affects the ending you achieve. I also felt that the ending was pretty rushed. It’s really a shame that such a charming game wasn’t tested thoroughly enough. It still needs some massive fine-tuning. At least it was playable on the Steam Deck (controller setting changed to "gamepad with camera controls").

Such a fun point and click adventure with, in my opinion, the BEST setting possible for this type of game. I loved the mix of mystery and spirits throughout. Also I loved the inclusion of Shuri Castle <3

I would say if you're into detective myteries and Japan, go for this if it's on sale. It is quite quirky, has a number of smaller bugs (but I didn't experience anything gamebreaking). The story is interesting but told in quite a confusing way. Also some gameplay-choices are strange, like some time-management that never seems to go anywhere. But overall it kept me entertained for over two hours.