I can't get past day two! The hunger and fatigue always gets to my characters. No matter how much food I get it isn't substantial enough.

Does anyone have any advice?

1 word.

FISH.

I'm serious. At the beginning, you need fish. Get as much food as you can from the beach (Clams, Seaweed) and make food. Grill the shellfish and cut the seaweed with a purple seed and a blue seed. (It's a recipe), then go up the stairs next to the cave. Cross the river, and there should be a stick a little south of thre. Make it into a spear, and head back to the river. Stand ont eh largest stone, face north (Against the rivers current) and fish. You can get Masu Salmon there, and 4 of those plus a rock salt is about...40% hunger filled up.

Othere then that, all I can say is practice.

UnknownVoices,

Listen to Silverhikari.......that is all I can say.

I played this game for almost a month before I got a hang on it. Most people get it faster and some slower.

I took a little longer than most people.

Once you are able to get to the forest, make sure you get some bamboo, you can have your partner make baskets with the bamboo and if you use that and a stick it will make a trap and you can place this right outside your cave, when I cooked up any 4 birds together it would fill my partner and I up really quick. And if you use 4 birds to make a box lunch, that will fill you up pretty close to 100%.

Take your time and have fun. I know this is something you probably don't want to hear. But be patient. As soon as you get it, it will be a breeze.....

Straight across from where the cave is, stand next to the rocks where the little indent is and you can spear for sweetfish. Grill it with salt and you'll have a recipee and it gives you quite a lot of %.

Also, try to find out which mushroom works for you to give you extra energy. It's different in every game so no point in telling you which one works for me.

Another trick, before you go and do something 'big', quicksave so you can go back to the point before you attempted it.