Official Nintendo Magazine give Viva Pinata Pocket Paradise 90%

Publisher : THQ

Developer : Rare

Multiplayer : No

Release : 5 September

Top Screen : Displays all of your vital garden stats, shows the game clock, any chat from key characters and updates you with news from around the garden

Bottom Screen : Where the action happens. Guide your pinata around, carry out all actions make all menu selections using the stykus

The Verdict

+ Lovely Presentation

+ Brilliant, Bonkers concept

+ So much to see

+ Free-Wheeling Gameplay

- Some overcrowding

This is rare back at their best. Original, absurd and utterly addictive, Viva Pinata is a riot

90%

"Viva Pinata is pretty bold and pretty bonkers - and most certainly in a good way"

The official Nintendo magazine is Nintendo Power.rockwii13

In North America. In the UK, it's the Official Nintendo Magazine.

According to GameRankings' database, ONM scores games higher than the average rating 72% of the time, but only by 4.2% on average.

If we consider a "serious overrating/underrating" to be giving a score at least 10% greater/lesser than the average, respectively, some of the DS games ONM seriously overrated are: Assassin's Creed (+10.4%), Cars (+19.7%), Children of Mana (+11.6%), Cooking Mama (+10.2%), Diddy Kong Racing DS (+13.2%), FFIII (+12.7%), FFXII (+11.3%), Harvest Moon (+12.9%), Luminous Arc (+13.6%), Micro Machines V4 (+21.4%), MySims (+21.4%), Myst (+15.8%), TMNT (+28.3%), Touch the Dead (+25.5%), Winning Eleven (+26.6%).

Some of the games ONM seriously underrated are: Cookie & Cream (-16.4%), Doodle Hex (-11.8%), Drawn To Life (-17.8%), Magnetica (-19.1%), Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games (-27.1%), Puzzle Quest (-25.4%).