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Birthdays the Beginning

Platform(s): Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4
Genre: Action/Adventure
Publisher: NIS America
Developer: Toy Box (EU), Arc System Works (US)
Release Date: June 5, 2018 (US), June 8, 2018 (EU)

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'Happy Birthdays' (Switch) Available On Nintendo Switch - Trailer

by Rainier on June 5, 2018 @ 10:30 a.m. PDT

Happy Birthdays is a sandbox game in which players create cube-shaped worlds that give rise to diverse and unique lifeforms.

From the legendary creator Mr. Yasuhiro Wada (TOYBOX Inc.), comes Happy Birthdays: a sandbox game in which players create cube-shaped worlds that give rise to diverse and unique lifeforms.

With careful experimentation, players can shape the geography and alter the temperature of each world to create the conditions for life and witness the birth of an entire ecosystem!

A garden game in which players create cube-shaped worlds that give rise to diverse and unique lifeforms.

Shape the geography and alter the temperature of each world to create the conditions for life and witness the birth of an entire ecosystem!

Yasuhiro Wada's newest sandbox game, Happy Birthdays, is out now on Nintendo Switch!

Originally released on the PS4 and PC (Steam) as Birthdays the Beginning, Happy Birthdays contains the same in-game content, but with updated UI and game elements, including:

  • Selecting from three premade environments when starting a new scenario, or start completely from scratch with the blank cube!
  • An all-new skill system! Earn "Stars" by shaping the world and capturing lifeforms, then use those stars to drastically interact with the world in different ways!

Happy Birthdays will also include all previously released DLC for Birthdays the Beginning. Now called "Monuments," you can spend your accumulated stars to decorate your cube with a variety of cosmetic items! These monuments can be unlocked by earning various in-game achievements.

Key Features:

  • A World All Your Own And On-The-Go! – Create any world you can imagine! From staggering mountains and sprawling forests to a deep sea dotted with islands, there’s no limit to your creations. And now, you can shape your world on-the-go on the Nintendo Switch!
  • Life from the Beginning – Discover the history of everything as you foster life of all shapes and sizes – from single-celled organisms to complex multi-cellular life, including plants, mammals, dinosaurs, and more!
  • Cultivate Your Imagination – Imagine, Experiment, Create! Shape your planet and decide how plant and animal life evolves. No two planets will ever be truly alike.
  • Switch Exclusive content:
    • New Gameplay: In-game items have been replaced with a skill system that rewards and encourages shaping the world and capturing creatures. Performing these actions will generate stars, which players can use to activate skills that affect the terrain, temperature, moisture levels, and more!
    • Exclusive Creatures: Gaea Drakonis, Ouranos Drakonis, and Hydor Drakonis are three mighty (adorable) elemental dragons that only appear when conditions in your world are just right!
    • Monuments: Stars generated through gameplay can also be spent to place Monuments—cosmetic decorations that were DLC in the original game. More Monuments become available to the player as they fulfill certain in-game achievements.
    • New Starting Biomes: When starting a new game, players can now choose from a lush grassland, a bone-dry desert, or a frozen tundra as their starting world. Each of these biomes have separate completion objectives based on their environment.

Happy Birthdays will contain in-game text in English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Traditional and Simplified Chinese, and Japanese.

Happy Birthdays is now available on Nintendo Switch, coming to Europe on June 8, 2018.


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