Product Description

Includes - A Parent Go Free Voucher*

Pinata live on picturesque Pinata Island, an idyllic land where they have fun adventures and enjoy dancing, all in preparation for the day when they get the chance to entertain people at parties"

The Pinatas demand a well-maintained garden before they'll settle in. Cultivate and maintain your garden to attract your first basic Pinatas. Keep them happy and more will arrive "" the better your garden the more exotic the Pinatas.

• Create and cultivate a beautiful and welcoming garden to attract Piatas
• Collect Piata to complete your Piata pyramid - over 60 Piatas to collect including 7 exclusive brand new species
• Care for and customise your garden and your residents by tending to their needs
• Carry out missions for favourite characters from the TV series
• Collaborate with friends - share any piata, accessory or object from your garden via wireless
  
  *Voucher entitles one FREE entry for an adult per voucher and per full paying adult. - Voucher can be used at: Warwick Castle, Madame Tussauds, London Aquarium, The Dungeons and any Sea Life Centres/Sancturies

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1321 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: THQ
• Released on: 2008-09-05
• Rating: Universal, suitable for all
• Platform: Nintendo DS
• Format: Unknown format

Manufacturer's Description

Piñata live on picturesque Piñata Island, an idyllic land where they have fun adventures and enjoy dancing, all in preparation for the day when they get the chance to entertain people at parties"¦

The piñatas demand a well-maintained garden before they'll settle in. Cultivate and maintain your garden to attract your first basic Piñatas. Keep them happy and more will arrive "" the better your garden the more exotic the Piñatas.

Customer Reviews

A Creature Garden Paradise
If you liked Animal Crossing, you are almost certain to like this game.

You start off with your own little garden and a few creatures and items. If you treat your creatures well and tend to your garden, you will attract new species and new items and features to play with. Your garden also gets bigger and bigger over time.

What seems like a simple game starts to get more complex if you want (go at your own pace) as you can breed creatures, grow more exotic plants, collect different items for your garden and design a really fab landscape. It becomes an amazingly absorbing game which both kids and adults can enjoy - much like Animal Crossing in that sense.

The sound is good and the graphics are excellent. Amazing what they have packed onto a small cartridge.

Highly recommended.

Create your own paradise.
I've never owned an Xbox360 so can't compare this to the original version, but on it's own as a DS game it is cram packed full of stuff.

Building and managing your own pinata garden is a lot tougher than it looks. Keeping pinatas from splitting each other apart (unless you want them to of course), managing space, building pinata houses, and making sure sour pinatas don't cause any trouble.
But despite the sometimes rather hectic pace of things the controls are perfectly designed to help you. The interface is intuitive and the drop down menu system makes the most common tools and commands a few screen taps away.
The game also looks great. Played from an almost top down perspective the pinatas have excellent 3D models and fluid animations. The backgrounds are 2D but are really detailed and the game plays in a pseudo 3D style overall because of the fixed camera. The pinata romancing videos look to be ripped straight from the Xbox version (based on videos' of the Xbox version I've seen online) and there are even clips from the TV show included in the tutorial mode.

With a playground mode and some excellent tutorials it is a wonder the whole package managed to fit onto a DS cart.
I cannot recommend this game highly enough. It's brilliant.

Not as relaxing as Animal Crossing - but good value gameplay
I have never played this game on any other console so can't compare but I was pretty impressed by this game.

You start off with a very small patch of garden and 1 wormlike pinata that you then breed. More pinatas will enter your garden when you have reached their various conditions. i.e some will only come if you have a certain amount of grass in your garden or a certain number of worms, so it's all a balancing act. You tempt in new pinatas, sometime by sacrificing your current pinatas as food for the new ones.

I can see how there is a lot of gameplay in this game as I have played a lot of hours and am only about 20 percent of the way through. I can also see how it is a game that I will will replay a lot as there is a lot of choice in how you build your garden and variations in breeding that it would feel like a new game with each play.

It makes me feel a bit stressed when I play it and it's not something I would play before bed. The garden can get overcrowded and an evil pinata breaks in and starts killing all your pets. I always like animal crossing as it's a game I could dip into, do a little bit and come out feeling calm and relaxed. Viva Pinata however feels much more like you are running the game and a sense of godlike power - so I guess it depends what you are in the mood for.

All in all tho this is well worth the money and it will be staying in my collection. I just bought a copy for my 12 year old step daughter for her birthday as she loves it and I can't get her off mine.