A great game for the creative inside of you, for all ages.
You are given a run down plot of land and given the task of tidying it up and making it habitable for all the different piñata that'll visit.
From first glance Viva Piñata sounds and looks like a kids game but its actually deep and difficult enough for adults to like just as much.
It maybe the case that this game is too difficult for the audience it is aimed at and an older audience cant look past the childish look of it, but if you swallow your pride and give it ago you may really enjoy it.
The aim of Viva Piñata is....well there isn't actually an aim to the game, you just play and watch your garden grow. You make your own aim to the game,
whether its that you want to have collected and seen all the piñata in the game or if its that you want to make your garden the one worth the most money,
the choice is up to you. You are given all the freedom you want pretty much from the get go and you can do what you want with your land. The way you get piñata to stay in your garden is simple, if they like it they will stay.
Each piñata has a set of requirements and if they are met they will stay. For example if you want your garden to have a bunnycomb (a rabbit) you will need a certain percentage of you land to be grass and you will have to have carrots for them to eat.
The requirements start of small and easy but some become much greater and its up to you if you want to put the time and effort into your garden to cater for that piñatas needs.
Once you get a piñata to stay with you and you get more than one of the same type you can start to breed them. Breeding piñata is the same as getting them to stay,
each has its own certain requirements for them to be bread, once these are meet you'll have to complete a mini-game. The stage for each mini-game is the same for each type of piñata but each is slightly different.
You have to get one of the pair to reach the other by navigating it through a small maze, if you can make it you'll be rewarded by the piñatas breeding and you'll receive an egg which in time will hatch into the piñata of which type you chose to breed.
That's pretty much it for the players input to the game, the rest of the time you'll managing your garden and piñata;
planting seeds, making ponds, building piñata houses, these are the types of things you'll be doing to your garden. Yes they sound boring but any fans of sim games will find plenty to do.
Other type of interaction with the piñata include stopping them from fighting or feeding them certain items to make them change colour and discovering all the different type of variations each piñata has. With over 60 different types of piñata there's a lot of things to discover.
Viva Piñata is a very unique game, it is appealing to kids, adult and casual gamers of all ages. Its unique visual style and gameplay offer something not seen in any other game.
It is filled with hours and hours of addictive gameplay and once you get into it it is very hard to put down. Anyone who is into sim games should give Viva Piñata a good look, you would probably have never played anything like this before.