Viva Piñata

by Rare

Product Features

• Create your own garden and more than 60 types of piñatas
• Use easy, basic tools to develop an enviroment that reflects you
• Regardless of skill level, find challenge in keeping out sour piñatas, perfecting your garden and keeping your new piñata friends happy
• Choose how much you want to control your piñatas by letting them run free or attempting to control their daily lives
• Games for Windows Version

Product Details

• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B000VBFWAG
• Item Weight: 4 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: November 6, 2007
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #18,186 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

30 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars One of the best I've played in years, November 19, 2007

By 

Eric Blumrich (Montclair, NJ United States) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Viva Piñata (Video Game)

The most oft-repeated phrase in any review for "Viva Pinata" is that it's "not just for kids." This is not without good reason. While the packaging and overall feel of the game is as bright and shiny as a candied marble and is specifically designed to draw kids in, the gameply is consistently entertaining and is challenging enough to daunt any experienced adult gamer...

I'd even go so far as to say that this is one of the most original and interesting games to come along in years. It's rare that I become so engrossed in what's going on in a given game that hours pass, seemingly, with speed of a blink of an eye- but such has been the case, since I installed Viva Pinata.

Now- a word of caution: I'm running the game on a dual 3.1 GHZ system with a Radeon 512 MB 3d accellerator, and the game automatically put my graphic preferences at the lowest level, when I started it up. I manually changed things to medium, which resulted in a very pleasing improvement in graphics. However, my system now routinely ratchets up to overdrive, during play. One can only assume that you need a pretty hot system to view the game in its full glory. That having been said, the game plays smoothly as silk, and lacks the lags during autosave that have been a bane to Xbox gamers.

In closing, I heartily reccommend VP. To those gamers who reject this game because of the "cute factor," I can only say:

It must suck to be you...

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Innovative and refreshing., December 6, 2007

By 

Joshua A. Simmons (Conway, AR) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Viva Piñata (Video Game)

I didn't imagine that what my friends were labeling "that cool pinata game" was actually an engrossing habitat simulation. You can garden, landscape, breed animals -- er..pinatas. And they're all named after sweets! There is nothing more rewarding than attracting that long sought after animal to your garden.

The game is so lighthearted and dreamlike. Even death is given light treatment -- the creatures don't "die", but are busted, leaving their candy "essence" behind. Every creature has a unique house. They're all so creatively constructed that you'll find yourself buying every building just to see what they look like. What's even more fun is trying to figure out some of the more obscure food references. "Swanana" shouldn't leave you wondering for too long. ^_-

I'd recommend this game to any one of any age.

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Warning! The game has a big fat bug, June 23, 2008

By 

A. Bowen "wynter_z" (Ga USA) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Viva Piñata (Video Game)

Before you buy this game, you should know there is a huge bug that has yet to be patched. Occasionally, autosave will corrupt your save file! There will be no warning about this and God forbid the power go out while you're playing the game. To make matters worse, people have been unable to backup save files due to the way the saves are structured (ie attached to user profiles).

That being said, the game is a highly addictive ecology sim and truely one of the most creative games I've played in years.