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Harvest Moon: Land of Beginning has been out for a week in Japan, and is turning out to be one of the most popular in the series. It sold more copies in its first week than any other version of Harvest Moon since sales records were kept starting in 2002. Wowzers!
Being able to customize the layout of your farm is an interesting feature, but also being in charge of Yamabiko Village's layout as well really makes for a personalized experience. The villagers have specific-style of houses, but you control where their house is located in the village, the decorations that line the streets, if the town even has visible streets, and so on.
Besides the farm and town, you can also customize your character. Later in the game, you can really kick things up by giving your character the opposite gender's hair style and clothing outfits. You could indeed play as a boy, but look like a girl in the game.
The first season of the game is rather slow; I was hoping the game was not as simple or easy as Grand Bazaar. The game opens up come Summer season, when you can start customizing and building more shops.
Check out the UNoT Youtube channel if you want to see some gameplay videos!
One interesting aspect of the game are your festival wins. When you attend a contest-type festival, there may be several categories with three different classes within each one; the seasonal crop festivals have a vegetable, fruit, flower, and 'other' categories you can enter your one item into, and within each of those you can enter into the beginner, normal, or intermediate judgement classes. Each class has different grand prizes. When you win a festival, you get a "brand" that will increase the amount of profit you earn by shipping that type of item. Win the cow festival, and now you'll earn more money when you ship milk. Win the cooking festival, and now your shipped cooked recipes earn more as well.
Marvelous AQL has also uploaded some more special desktop wallpapers for you to download and use.
Back to playing I go!
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