Viva Pinata is a fun game, with beautiful visuals and color. But their are some things which can be very frustrateing
Game play: Very good, you are alerted when “sours” (piñatas that ruin your landscape and can make your piñatas sick) drop sour candy. You can direct resident piñatas to eat other piñatas for romance which is great because you don’t want all of your smaller piñatas being eaten against your will. But the only problem I had was the amount of piñatas you can actually have in your garden. The amount of piñatas you can have is very limited; forcing you’re to create different gardens focused around different things (water, grass, trees, etc…) Rare is aware of this though so for every garden you have you have the same amount of space of your biggest garden and the shovel and water can upgrades remain the same. In Viva Piñata it is also very interesting and fun to evolve certain piñatas or to create color variants, doing this along with romancing new breeds and getting new resident piñatas will help you gain levels which get you better upgrades. While creating your garden you really see how customizable it can be. Sound: Very relaxing, although it does spike up at times for no apparent reason.
Visuals: Amazing, the reflection of the piñatas off the ponds is magnificent, the colors are extraordinary and everything has a lot of life.
Value and Replay Level: Very high