Famicom Bunko: Hajimari no Mori (PART 1)

This is a gameplay video showing Famicom Bunko: Hajimari no Mori (lit. meaning "Famicom Pocket Books: The Forest of Beginnings), a text-based adventure game developed by Pax Softnica and published by Nintendo. It was released only on the Nintendo Power cartridge rewriting service, which ended on February 28, 2007. The game was never released outside of Japan.

The player assumes the role of an elementary school boy who is staying at his grandfather's home in Kuzunoki village located in the countryside over summer vacation. He befriends a young girl living in the village, and goes through several mystical adventures over the course of the summer. The graphics are old-fashioned, and there is a distinctly pastoral scheme set throughout the game.

The game system is very similar to that of Heisei Shin Onigashima (updated version of Shin Onigashima), where action and puzzle mini-games are mixed into an overall command-style adventure. The player chooses the character's actions from a command menu, and some commands must be selected within a certain time limit. The game was supposed to be the first of the Famicom Bunko series, but the limited availability of the Nintendo Power system resulted in poor sales, and Hajimari no Mori ended up being the first and last game of the series. The game cartridge itself has become increasingly difficult to obtain, but it was released on the Virtual Console in 2007.

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• Super
• Nintendo
• Famicom
• Bunko
• Pocket
• Books
• Book
• Hajimari
• Forest
• Mori
• Beginnings
• Beginning
• Pax
• Softnica

[Phostings1]

@skyrunner14 agreed,lol.

[skyrunner14]

And that, my dear friends, is called "being lazy".

[evenmorebetter]

Because Nintendo doesn't like to release import games that are too heavy on Japanese text, and this game is... er, a book?

[skyrunner14]

If it's already out on Japan's VC, why not the US VC?