For the first time in series history, you can completely customize your character's appearance! Choose your character's gender, skin color, facial expression, hairstyle, and much, much more! You can even go to the tailor and have them make new outfits for you!  Don't like where your crops and barn are on your farm? Easy! Just pick them up and move them! Yes, it's really that easy to customize your farm in Harvest Moon: A New Beginning!

"We've seen an unprecedented interest in our 15th Anniversary Edition with the premium cow plush, and pre-orders will be ending shortly," said Hiro Maekawa, President and CEO at Natsume. "Harvest Moon: A New Beginning is truly a new beginning for the series, and we're proud to celebrate it with fans!"

Due to overwhelming demand, Natsume has also announced that pre-orders from the Natsume Online Store for the Harvest Moon: A New Beginning Anniversary Edition will end October 23rd. 

Fans have five days left to pre-order from the Natsume Online Store to get their game on launch day!  Pre-ordering Harvest Moon: A New Beginning will net players the adorable yak plush - one of two new animals found in ANB, and, for the ultimate fan is the Harvest Moon: A New Beginning 15th Anniversary Edition, which includes both the game and the coveted 12" premium cow plush. 

In addition to the ability to customize your character's and farm's appearance, you can also create tons of new additions for your farm, house, and Echo Village! Build park benches and topiary for the local citizens, a pet house for your farm, and exotic wallpaper and furniture for your house!  A New Beginning features new animals like llamas and yaks, new crops to harvest, and new characters to meet and woo!

Echo Village has seen better days...  Just as you've moved in, everyone else has moved away to greener pastures. It's your job to bring villagers back by making the town appealing again, and giving Echo Village a new beginning!