Viva Piñata aims to change this, but even with its colorful characters Viva Piñata is a game anyone can enjoy. You start out with a barren garden and a masked girl named Leafos wandering in it.

Viva Pinata. There are currently ... And before you know it, you'll be giving serious thought to the layout of your garden in an attempt to maximize the quite small space that's available to you.

Viva Pinata is one of those games that can easily be looked over due to it's seemingly younger target audience. However, looking over this game would be a mistake no matter what your age happens ...

Touch control and the dual-screen layout make the creative and managerial aspects of Viva Piñata an instinctive, tactile breeze. Your garden occupies the touch-screen, and is about four screens ...

At first, the goal in Viva Pinata doesn't seem clear. Somewhat like the Sims, the game is open in design, featuring a highly cohesive AI that interacts with other AIs in complex ways.

Viva Pinata. Features. ... this looks like the most original design to come from the studio in years. ... Instead, the player will sculpt the unruly landscape into a garden ...

Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise is a reworked version of the original game released in 2006, adding new piñatas and items to use in your garden as well as overhauling some aspects of the ...

There hasn't been a whole lot of anticipation surrounding Rare's follow-up to the Xbox 360 gardening/critter breeding/candy sim, Viva Piñata. Why is this? Maybe it was because the most recent ...

Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise continued the piñata-nurturing, garden-building tradition, but felt more like an expansion than a sequel. If a third Viva Piñata is ever announced for 360 (we ...

Rare has told Eurogamer that Viva Pinata: Pocket Paradise will bloom in Europe on 5th September. This DS conversion loses none of the charm, nor complexity of the PC and Xbox 360 originals ...

— -- "Viva Pinata: Trouble in Paradise," a Microsoft Xbox 360 exclusive, doesn't stray far from the core game play that made Microsoft's original "Viva Pinata" so popular. It is still an ...

Reviewing games that have been converted to the DS from one of the home consoles is often a case of identifying where they have cut the corners. Or in some cases realizing that the game in hand is ...