This is my honest-yet-gentle review of Santigo Bay.  It's meant to help you, the author, to iterate the game if you want to do it. I gave it 5 stars so it doesn't mess with your Itch algorithm, but the real thing starts below. Disclaimer: I really don't wish to be rude in any way with you. So if my review is just bulshit, please ignore it all.

⭐⭐⭐ 1/2

What I enjoyed:

I had a ton of fun writing the Journal. It felt like an anime director simulator. I imagined the camera angles, the vintage vhs sfx, the songs, like I was directing an anime ending song shot. I also loved the romance focus of it. So different from the major RPG experience. I started playing it alone drinking an iced mocha on Dunkin Donuts. So, yeah, I loved it.

What could be improved:

I missed the game element. It felt more like a creative writing exercise than as a proper game. No need for a win/lose condition, but when I play a game, I expect it to present me challenges and consequences. I also think it could have more random tables to help us create our own thing.

And at last, I couldn't listen to the youtube playlist cause I'e played it on my phone. Everytime I was back to read the next step on the pdf, youtube stoped playing the playlist because it was on the background. I used a Spotify playlist instead. 

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Final thougths

The game really spoke to me cause it brought back sweet memories of my childhood afternoons watching animes. It could add more gaming mechanics, but overall it was a very fun experiece.