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One of the best I've played in years

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 18 / 18
Date: November 19, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The most oft-repeated phrase in any review for "Viva Pinata" is that it's "not just for kids." This is not without good reason. While the packaging and overall feel of the game is as bright and shiny as a candied marble and is specifically designed to draw kids in, the gameply is consistently entertaining and is challenging enough to daunt any experienced adult gamer...

I'd even go so far as to say that this is one of the most original and interesting games to come along in years. It's rare that I become so engrossed in what's going on in a given game that hours pass, seemingly, with speed of a blink of an eye- but such has been the case, since I installed Viva Pinata.

Now- a word of caution: I'm running the game on a dual 3.1 GHZ system with a Radeon 512 MB 3d accellerator, and the game automatically put my graphic preferences at the lowest level, when I started it up. I manually changed things to medium, which resulted in a very pleasing improvement in graphics. However, my system now routinely ratchets up to overdrive, during play. One can only assume that you need a pretty hot system to view the game in its full glory. That having been said, the game plays smoothly as silk, and lacks the lags during autosave that have been a bane to Xbox gamers.

In closing, I heartily reccommend VP. To those gamers who reject this game because of the "cute factor," I can only say:

It must suck to be you...

Innovative and refreshing.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: December 06, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I didn't imagine that what my friends were labeling "that cool pinata game" was actually an engrossing habitat simulation. You can garden, landscape, breed animals -- er..pinatas. And they're all named after sweets! There is nothing more rewarding than attracting that long sought after animal to your garden.

The game is so lighthearted and dreamlike. Even death is given light treatment -- the creatures don't "die", but are busted, leaving their candy "essence" behind. Every creature has a unique house. They're all so creatively constructed that you'll find yourself buying every building just to see what they look like. What's even more fun is trying to figure out some of the more obscure food references. "Swanana" shouldn't leave you wondering for too long. ^_-

I'd recommend this game to any one of any age.

System Requirements!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: December 27, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Watch out for the system requirements on this one. I installed the game only to find out it would not run on my computer (which is only two years old). It needs 10GB of free hard drive spaced and a pretty heavy duty video card, both of which I can not afford. Unfortunately I am now left with an opened Viva Pinata game that I can not use.

Worthless for us

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 4
Date: May 22, 2008
Author: Amazon User

We installed, uninstalled, reinstalled. The game does not let you save unless you create a profile. No matter what we tried we could not save a profile. We could create it, but when prompted to save it, nothing happened. Even when we tried doing it through the "Live" site it asked for the product code, which we typed in, and then the "submit" button wouldn't even work. The game is now a $[...] piece of junk on the shelf because we can't return it.

Warning! The game has a big fat bug

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: June 23, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Before you buy this game, you should know there is a huge bug that has yet to be patched. Occasionally, autosave will corrupt your save file! There will be no warning about this and God forbid the power go out while you're playing the game. To make matters worse, people have been unable to backup save files due to the way the saves are structured (ie attached to user profiles).

That being said, the game is a highly addictive ecology sim and truely one of the most creative games I've played in years.

Total bummer...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: July 12, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I basically got this game for my birthday - I was totally happy, excited, whatever you want to call it. THEN came the terrible part. My laptop didn't let me play the game. Why? I don't know. Maybe it's not built for gaming, but one thing's for sure: A BIG WASTE OF MONEY. I can't say it's fun because it doesn't work. I can only rate it 1 star! And I think microsoft is also pretty darn stupid for saying it works on vista when it probably won't! I even have another Windows XP in my room with a heavy duty graphic card, and it still doesn't work. BIG WHOOP.

P.S. I FEEL LIKE I'M ABOUT TO BURST

Again....worthless

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: July 18, 2008
Author: Amazon User

We have a brand new computer with Vista and this would not play. The package says it works on Vista but after downloading onto C drive it kept saying compatability problem and provided a link to some step-by-step Microsoft solutions such as create user profile and uninstall/reinstall. I tried all of these so-called solutions but no change, it still kept saying not compatible. After a couple hours I gave up. As I said.....worthless.

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