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Viva Pinata: Trouble in Paradise | 
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| From: Microsoft
Category: Video Games
List Price: $39.99
Buy New: $37.00
You Save: $2.99 (7%)
New (4) Used (1) from $36.75
Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 70
Platform: Xbox 360
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Age: 5 - 20 years
Operating System: Xbox 360
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
Model: 882224718561
UPC: 400009416404
EAN: 0882224718561
ASIN: B0019MRKNI
Release Date: September 2, 2008 (New: This Week)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Condition: Brand new, will ship in protected envelope.
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| Features:
| • | Customize your garden and pinatas | | • | Play with a friend | | • | Play multiple game modes | | • | Experience Pinata Vision and show off to your friends | | • | Teach your pinatas tricks |
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| Customer Reviews:
Long live Viva Pinata! September 5, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Alright! Rare actually has given us a sequel to a much loved game and it doesn't disappoint. Lets start off with the basic information for anyone who didn't play the first.
Viva Pinata: TIP is a sandbox style game meaning that you have a small area of a world to manipulate but no more than that. You get a square of earth on pinata island for the purpose of attracting wild pinatas, filling them with candy, and sending them through a cannon to parties where kids will beat the hell out of them, eat their delicious insides, and send the battered critter back to you so you can do it again. Rest assured it is G-rated fun. Each pinata has requirements to appear, wander into your garden, and live in your garden. For example, If you plant a hazelnut tree squazzils will be interested in you all of a sudden. The ultimate goal is to get all the species, following me here?
Now the sequel improves upon the first game by giving us a bunch of new species, new plants, and new garden items, but it doesn't stop there. You can travel to the desert or the arctic to trap special area specific pinatas through a trap system that is mildly frustrating I will admit. You pay for and put down a trap, put bait on the trap that the species you want likes, and now you wait and pray that some other more common species doesn't set the trap off thereby wasting your cash. Probably the least well thought out aspect of the game.
Other new features are aggressive weeds! That's right, you don't watch your garden carefully enough and poisonous weeds will take over! This actually lends a bit of action and tenseness to a situation that was only mildly dangerous before. To compinsate, Just For Fun mode allows kids to play through the whole game without weeds, or other dangers. Perfect for the little ones.
The menu system has been tinkered with, and pinata central requests are now accessible from the village instead of as random pop up requests. To complete a request this time around you HAVE to have a pinata at maximum "candiosity" Read as happiness. This can be a hindrance but only on your cash as joy candy is quicker than other methods. Pester and the ruffians work in the same manner, same with sours, so if you've played the first you know what you're getting into.
X-box has given us a plethora of options for X-box Live if you pay for the service, and now Pinata vision! Own a X-box camera? Well snap a photo of special cards and pop! new content for your game.
Now the verdict. Separating modes for kids and for adults was an expert move and both work well. The new species are creative and fun. Trapping is annoying but you'll get it eventually. The menu is better and easier to use than the first games and other new content makes this well worth the cash for it. If you haven't played the first though, I would still recommend you start with it. Remember to watch those weeds! An A+ game for the whole family.
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