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Don't listen to them!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: June 03, 2007
Author: Amazon User

To the people who said this game was only for little kids: YOU'RE WRONG!!! It only looks like it's for 6-8 year olds. Trust me, it's not. I know people in middle school who love this game. This game is for the whole family, and the smaller kids love it, too. This is a game you don't have to worry about when the 7 year old comes in when you're playing. The only problem is sharing the controller!

Awesome Game!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: December 30, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This is the best game that has been released for the Xbox 360!! You start out with a pretty small garden, then as you get more pinatas and your gardening gets better, you get uprades and a bigger garden. As you get more things for your garden, more pinatas are attracted to it and start to visit your garden. You can also evolve your pinatas so they become other pinatas!! You should try to get the sour pinatas to become residents because once they do they become tame, start to appear outside your garden, and the sour version of it won't ever come into your garden again! For example, if a Sour Shellybean became a resident, it would turn into a regular Shellybean and the Sour Shellybeans wouldn't come in your garden again. This happens because Jardinero(which I probably spelled wrong) comes out of his house to give you a piece of the Tower of Sour whichs keeps away that particular type of sour pinata once you've tamed it. Also, once it has been tamed, Shellybeans will appear and visit your garden. Overall, I would rate this game five stars because of how much fun it is and you can never run out of things to do on it, whether it's planting trees and flowers or getting more pinatas in your garden!!

Must be good

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: January 15, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I said to my friend hey do you wanna borrow Fight Night Round 3 and Rainbow Six Vegas and ill borrow Viva Pinata and he said HELL NO! I acted like i was going to borrow it anyways when i was over at his house and he came running up stairs to see if i had it :)

Don't believe the hype--a no fluff review by a real gamer

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 10 / 44
Date: December 25, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Basic premise of the game is you have a garden and maintain it with pinatas and you have to watch it, maintain it, help form more pinatas, etc. I had a friend pick up this game for me because of all the hype. I'm here to say that this is one of the most disappointing overly hyped titles I ever played. This feels more like work than playing a game. You have to constantly monitor your "pinatas", garden, plant seeds and a whole bunch of other tasks that weigh on you while a whole lot of characters, messages, etc. are on your screen. Also "bad" pinatas may enter and ruin all your work, you also have to help "manually" procreate which can be extremely frustrating since you have to have "requirements" in order for your "pinatas" to perform. I also would never recommend this to kids much less anyone for that matter. After level 10 I've found this to be boring and while my friend was watching me it put him to sleep. Also it's just not fun to play. Just my 2 cents from a real gamer with an honest no fluff review.

Great game for the whole family

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: January 30, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Like Sims with a garden full of living Pinata. A lot to discover and uncover as well. This is really a genuinely excellent game. You can get some clues about what you can unlock from the TV series.

MOST BEST GAME IN THE HISTORY OF GAMES

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: November 22, 2006
Author: Amazon User

this is the best game ive ever played...i love the garden and that the garden becomes huge! there are tons of different animals that can appear in front of you. my friends say "Oh they're so cute!". its an addicting game.

the aspect that most of the animals are built on real animals, is awesome. one thing that does stink really bad is that when your pinatas are sick they can be smashed..............

Cute, Warm, Fuzzy Feeling Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 04, 2007
Author: Amazon User

As you may have heard, this is the game for all ages. Even my 13 year old son who lives for shooting aliens likes this game immensely. You have to cultivate your garden and attract pinatas that hopefully become residents. They form an ecosystem that needs to be nurtured and strategized. This game is not wimpy by any means.

Delightfully Challenging

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 05, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I had been looking forward to this title MOST since I'd heard of the game about a year ago--even more than Halo 3 (don't worry, my excitement is now there where it belongs). I was so glad I was not disappointed. There were a couple of days when I wouldn't go near it b/c my pinatas or rather those pinatas that merely "appeared" made me frustrated. :)
Although the achievements make me goal-oriented and I only have a few to obtain I see myself playing this game for a long while. There are still many pinatas I need to make residents, variants to find, master romancing to be done...
My 4-year-old daughter has a garden. Despite not being able to read she is very good at spending all my chocolate coins. :) She is a bit young to grasp the whole game but I like to see that she has fun w/ it. I know it's something she can grow up w/ and continue to enjoy.
My husband hasn't played it although he's watched me play it and has asked me about it. He's admitted he's tempted to play it. :)
I definitely recommend this title.

Colorful, fun, addictive, a true joy of a game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 06, 2007
Author: Amazon User

After opening the package, I popped in the disc intending to play for about 20 minutes or so; I just wanted to get the feel of the game and controls.

Cut to five hours later and I'm commanding myself (out loud) to put down the controller and go to bed!

I love Viva Pinata and have been recommending it to all of my Xbox 360 friends. This is a truly fresh twist on god games, suitable for gamers young to old. My children (8, 10 and 12) and I each have our own gardens and enjoy the freedom of tending them however we want.

The "tutorial" is very good at telling you what you can do in the the game without telling you what to do. Your resources (journal and helpers) are easy to access and use, but how you use them is entirely up to you.

Conflict between pinatas is inevitable, as are the hard decisions you'll have to make to have a productive, lively, and profitable garden. But it works so well that any lip-biting is quickly forgotten as you accumulate chocolate coins (currency), attract new pinatas, protect and expand your garden, create pinata variants through diet or other conditions, accessorize your pinatas, romance your pinatas, keep everyone happy and healthy, and more.

The game is brilliant and I can't recommend it enough.

A game for the family

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 24, 2007
Author: Amazon User

At the begining I thought the game was boring, but after a few minutes of play it became more and more interesting.

It is a game for the whole family, above all because it is one of those few games for Xbox 360 that does not consist in killing a human fellow. Children and adults can play, and parents can play in a cooperative mode with their children.

The game consists in taking care of a garden, the better you do it, the more animals (Piñatas) will be willing to live in it. The more Piñatas you have in your garden, the more trouble you get into. The better you do it, the more space they give you for your garden.

There are so many things to do in the game that sometimes one does not even know where to start first. Actually, it sometimes feel overwhelming. Those who likes building things from scratch will love this game while they turn a deserted dump into an Eden full of life.

This is hours and hours of gameplay while you strive to get all the achievements. After some hours of striving to create a paradise full of peace and beauty, though, you may start to get bored of taking care of the conflicting Piñatas who constantly fight between each other. Plus you are constant need to make them fall in love between one other to sustain the balance of the species in your garden as well as to make money to buy other services and goods. Also they get sick and need to be protected from a few enemies.

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