Beautiful? Yes!!... relaxing?... well, about as relaxing as a trip to the dentist. Game is beautiful, story is cute. But as others have said, saving doesn't save where u want it to. If u save and quit immediately after doing the greatest painting of your life, it will be gone when you load back in as if u had never done it. Navigation is nearly impossible. While *spoiler* u do eventually get a map, it's pretty much useless considering u don't see where u are. If while getting lost in the woods, and u WILL get lost, a lot.. u come across a character in need of something, good luck finding them again
There is no compass, or anything that guides u, no mimimap, No tutorial, no guide, not even a main screen. And the worst part by far is the cold. At first,from 730 PM, until 5am u can't be outside, if u eventually have a tent, u most likely will not have time to pitch it before you "freeze" and get teleported back to the last place u slept. so u sleep again, then you just get lost again until you freeze, rinse and repeat until u can afford a coat, which is where I am, 6 hrs into the game.