Beginning with a few basic tools, players build and take control of their environment to attract and host more than 60 species of wild piñata, utilizing hundreds of customizable elements to create their very own, distinctively unique, thriving paradise. Viva Piñata gameplay continues to evolve with new content available via the Xbox Live service and the ability to play, trade and interact with Viva Piñata players everywhere.
Find the whole review @ http://gnadegames.blogspot.com Do not be turned off by Viva Pinata's colorful and kidlike presentation. Though Kids will probably adore all the colorful critters and simple controls, adults will love the depth, challenge, and overall uniqueness of the game. Is this game a "must-buy" like Gears of War? Not quite, but if you are a gamer open-minded to non-shooters and are looking for something that plays different...this game is for you. Yes this is the beginning of the review, but this game is one of the best "family" games I have ever played. There is obvious kid appeal, but nothing is overly cutesy or annoying. Adults will of course not really care to watch the "romancing danced" of the pinatas, but the game is smart enough to know that and will only show you a new movie if you breed a new species. You can skip this if you wish and watch two worm pinatas dance over and over again if you choose. The beginning of the game is very well paced and you're constantly trying to absorb everything that is thrown at you. RARE is back after a mediocre Perfect Dark Zero! OK, I'm rambling and this review is quickly deteriorating in quality so I will impose some structure: Gameplay: 8/10 Pros: There is a lot to do! and if you don't like the meaningless tasks of gardening, you can hire helpers to do it for you. The controls work well (thank god for the shortcut d-pad). It's not the most frantic gameplay, but this is a simulation game. The way you can do anything to your garden or quickly undo it and dynamically change it is just really satisfying and liberating. There are sooo many different pinatas with deep preferences and requirements. Cons: There are times when there is too much going on or you get interupted from sodding the grass or cleaning up your lot. Then there are other times when you are waiting for something to do. Overall, it's a good pace, but you feel some of the busy times could be spread over the hectic times better. I found myself lacking direction after the initial tutorials dropped off. I kept working and eventually I got it, but a little more direction or objective list would help. There is no excuse for pinata, seed, etc information to have to be loaded. When I highlight an object and click info, a menu should pop up giving me basic stats. Some species are just too picky! Graphics: 10/10 Pros: Gorgeous and vibrant garden and interesting creatures. There always so much going on...seeing a bustling garden is really a testament to the Xbox 360. The pinatas are animated really well and exude personality. The zany "human" characters all fall into the visual presentation well. The menu system and loading screens also stand out and embody the visual style of the game. Cons: Yes the game is not as stunning or jaw-dropping as "Gears" but I can't think of anything to complain about or nitpick...maybe you can. Sound/Music: 9/10 Pros: "human" characters voices are full of personality...my favorite is the sarcastic pet shop owner who is so un-thrilled with her job. The voiceovers are excellent. The pinata sounds are also tremendous and help clue you into the personality of the species. I love the pretztails and badgers (forget their pinata name). ...read the whole review @ http://gnadegames.blogspot.comRead full review
This game is different for most people. It is, of course, a kids game, but I find it really enjoyable. The whole point of the game is to get your pinata garden to grow and you get more pinatas in it and the garden grows and so on. You spend most of your time growing plants that will attract new pinata or growing plants that will make the resident pinata romance and make a baby pinata. Once you get into the game a ways you see how complex it actually is, pinata start fighting each other and eating each other and bad guys come and you sell things to make money and you call the doctor to fix the ill pinata and more. If you enjoy The Sims or Animal Crossing you will probably like this. If you have the extra cash get it and spend a few hours in it. If you want a higher gamer score spend a weekend with this. If you do get this game I have three very big tips to start you out.: 1 Grow tons of chilies with red fertilizer, 2 Start at least two gardens to separate the pinata that fight, and 3 Use a post office box to clear off land when you get the option. I've had it for a few weeks and I feel it is a very solid mess around game that can entertain me for hours at a time.Read full review
First off too anyone who thinks this game is kiddy.Some aspects of it may seem a little childish,but for those who just want to have some fun and a good time .Well Viva Pinata is the game for you! With some pretty awesome visuals I was amazed to see a game of this genre to look so well.The game will seem very familiar to those who favor the game known as Harvest Moon.The whole point of the game is to create a garden that is the king of all gardens! Attract all different species of pinata to your garden by having things like;ponds,trees,certain plants,and certain pinatas.This game is very fun and addicting,but I will point out the pet-peeves I had with this game.Remember these are just my opinion.I didnt really like how it focused more on attracting the pinata than actually being able to make a full grown garden and be able to interact with a "villiage" of people.Such as you would see in a Harvest Moon game.I also wish there was more customization to the game.I wanted to be able to color my own pinatas,but unfortunatly you have to use the colors the game gives them.Those are just 2 little things that stopped me from enjoying this game as much as I could have.They arent really a big deal or anything,but if they added it plus the ability to mess around in friends gardens and trade your custom pinatas with your Xbox Live friends.This game would have so much more going for it.In all i had a great time with this game! i give it a 8.9 - 10.Read full review
When I first played this game it frustrated the hell out of me lol. But once you realize that you can't just collect all 60 species at once and don't let yourself get attached to the smaller, more adorable, pinata since they're going to be food for the bigger more valuable pinata...it becomes lots of fun. Great game for achievement hunting as all of them can be acquired in single player mode, even if you're not an experienced gamer. There are many different ways to build your garden, which in turn determines which pinata are attracted to your garden. So if you're looking for a game that caters your a persons individual taste for game play this is an excellent choice.
As an adult at 36 yrs. Viva Pinata seems like a fun game to play. Reminds me of a Sega genesis game I once had, 'Populous', where I need to build and shape the ground, the dirt! The animals are CUTE! (the pinatas). The 'people' charaters, they're FUNNY! especially when I whack Leafos with shovel! She's funny. She goes uh uh uuhh (saying don't do that to me!) This game is very complex. There is ALOT to this game! If you are a sort of fan of videogames, You'll get the hang of this game within about 1/2 hour. But it can take quite a while to figure out what to do on new advancements.
In Viva Pinata you have inherited a garden in a fantasy world populated by living pinatas and an assortment of odd characters. Your mission is to build your garden to attract pinatas to live there. Everything you grow in your garden, including the pinatas, vegetables, flowers, and trees, can be sold for chocolate coins. You can use the coins to buy more seeds and grow more plants or to otherwise improve your garden. Viva Pinata is like a cross between Pokemon and The Sims and virtual pets, but I found that the result is greater than the sum of its parts! This is a sandbox game of the best sort. You can make whatever decisions you want to and your garden can look however you want. You have the ability to dig ponds, grow grass, build houses for your pinatas, and all sorts of other activities that I am still discovering several hours into the experience. The decisions you make about how your garden develops will determine the kind of pinata who want to live there. The open-ended nature of the game is its best feature, and it really makes you feel like you are in control of the game's environment. The feeling of empowerment that kids receive playing Viva Pinata is enhanced by the excitement of constantly finding new things to do and play with. I am impressed that a game that is so easy for kids to pick up is also so complex. My daughter is nine and was familiar with the controls and basic concepts within a half-hour. Yet the underlying concepts of the game are complicated. The skills I see her working on in this game primarily have to do with resource management, which as we adults know is critical for daily life. You have a limited amount of space for your garden (just like in real life), yet if you are not organized in your approach then the garden will quickly become a place of chaos. Kids will also learn the concepts of working to make money and how to budget for the next big item they need to improve their garden. As other reviewers have stated, this looks like a game for kids, but it will suck an adult into its world just as easily. I couldn't wait for my kids to go to sleep the first night so I could start on my own garden. Time is greatly accelerated in the game, and the result is that you are very busy - you may suddenly look up from the game and see that a few hours have passed in the real world almost as quickly. The pinata are just the right amount of cute so that they are fun to watch, not annoying. There is no lull in the action for at least a few hours, at which time you may have been able to hire some helpers to take off some of the pressures of a big garden, such as watering and gathering your sellable items. This too is a good introduction to kids of the concept of people management. Lots of times you have to tell your helpers what to do, rather than just letting them do their own thing. Otherwise, their priority list is typically different from yours and those plants that you just planted may die because your helper was busy watering something less important. Viva Pinata has way too much to offer to cover it all in such a short review. The environment is incredibly well done, from the sounds to the graphics. The game play is very addictive. Playing Viva Pinata actually got me excited to go out and do lawn work in the back yard! For parents wondering if this game is suitable for their kids, I will say that I am picky about what I let my kids watch and play and there is nothing here which offends me. There aRead full review
I won't go into the high-tech stuff. It should suffice to know that Viva Pinata is an absolute blast from ages ranging from the very young to someone like me who got hooked watching youngsters playing. The graphics are wonderfully bright and colorful and the animal pinatas based on the real thing but with unsual characteristics (to say the least.) I can't get enough of this game and have four gardens working at this moment where I raise pinata animals in a range of habitats from muddy swamps to plush grasslands and forests. You will have fun dealing with each character's personality and quirks, breaking up quarrels, matchmaking to produce more pinatas and even tampering with genetics to make some even weirder ones. My favorites are the two and four-headed snakes. There are also "humans" to help you care for your garden and pinatas and you have the option to do with or without them. In fact, you have the option to do or not do whatever you wish in this game. My grandson and I are competitive with each of us trying to beat out the other accomplishing all 50 achievements and creating ALL the varities of pinatas first. This is a wonderful game for parents to also enjoy watching their children play. It is one in which you can get involved with your child even if you don't want to play. Some main characters that you will need to watch out for are the "Sour" critters that try to trash your garden and upset your "good" pinatas AND the dastardly duo that leaves poison candies all about to hurt your animals. You have the options of healing them or allowing them to go to "pinata heaven" (I guess,) but the jealous sour critters can be won over and changed for the better with time. Please do yourself a favor and buy this game. Better yet, rent it first and try it out. It would be my guess that when you go to take it back, your child will be one real unhappy camper! Thank you for reading and I hope this has been a help.Read full review
I bought this for my younger cousin and he loves it
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
I don't play lots of video games, and the ones I do play are pretty fluffy- my favorites are Katamari and Mario! This game is fluffy and adorable, really, what's cuter than colorful pinatas? I got bored with the game play, though, since it's more SIMS than action. Protect the pinatas, feed them, give them houses, but there didn't seem to be much more than that. This game is fantastic to watch someone else play- let them do the boring things, you just get to laugh and cry when they love or get taken away. The animation is cute, the music is catchy, it's just a little tedious for me.
The game is loads of fun. but mainly for children under 12. I myself am a child at heart and greatly enjoy all the animated kids movies, and the Sims video games, and all that good ole fun kiddy stuff. But this game, for an adult, I promise you will get a little dull. the square landscape is a little boring when I was hoping to explore the surrounding hills. But when it came down to it its only a flat square, and when you expand, it becomes a larger flat square. The way to multiply your pinata's is called "romancing"...is very tedious and a very very childlike nintendo maze. Another thing is how often and tedious it is when your pinata's get sick (which in my garden, about every 5 min). If it happened rarely, it would be a neat additional detail, but it happens far too often that it becomes annoying. The game is interesting, do not get me wrong. It has good effects, a fun story, good animations, good graphics, but as an adult who DOES enjoy the kiddy games, this one only entertained me for a short time until I just gave in to the voice in my head saying that it was TOO kiddish. However, if you are 12 or younger and are reading this review, DISREGARD EVERYTHING I JUST SAID, the game is great! have fun!Read full review
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