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Let me start out by saying that I think there’s a Nintendo DS version of this game coming soon. Technabob reported this a few days ago, so I’m stoked. I hope to see this soon.

Viva Piñata is a fantastic family game that I think anybody would really enjoy playing. This game is not just for kids (and no jokes about the 25-year-old an loving kid games please). In this very colorful game you are given gardening tools and a small plot of land. Your simple task is to take this plot of land, and use your tools to make it a place that piñata animals would want to live.

In this game you get to put together different places to live, you can landscape your garden pretty easily, and you can grow and sell crops to make money to continue to grow your garden.

Pros:

  • Very colorful an appealing graphics
  • Very easy to understand instructions help you move along the game
  • A very interesting and slightly detached story line helps keep you interested

Cons:

  • The online play could have been better. It would be great to be able to visit other folks’ gardens on Xbox Live
  • The piñata houses are rather large, so it’s kinda tricky to place them well
  • It’s far too easy to accidentally hit characters and upset them, causing them to stay away
  • We could a little more action in the game, it gets a bit tedious at times

The bottom line is that this game is pretty non-linear and fun to play. It could use a little more online play and it would be nice if it mixed it up a little more.

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