Viva Piñata gets parents' approval

not me...im still planning on getting it...

Got it for my son for his birthday and we've been playing it. Being able to use two controllers was a stroke of genius.

I am playing through F.E.A.R. right now. I would consider myself a hardcore gamer... and yes, I've played Viva Piñata. It's a great game for all! just check out my gamertag if you don't believe me.. mrkniceguy

I still don't understand how this is a kids game. It's so flipping difficult. I guess I can't micro manage like kids can.

i agree with #4... the game can be quite difficult at times! definately not something a 6 year old could handle. unless they're making new and improved youngin's these days, who knows.

lots of fun tho.

My wife and I both have 40+ hours each into our gardens, more than all three kids put together. A fantastic game, and I hope Rare does some additional content for the game.

If I had had the time, I would have put a lot of effort into Viva Piñata, but alas, I traded it in for a more quick-paced game (Call of Duty 3).

It was a bloody good game, and it had a very relaxing and pleasant tone to it, so it always put you into a calmer state of mind. It's what I'd call a 'nice' game - a genuinely pleasant theme with no subtle sleazy undertones.

I think people really underestimate how smart kids are. If a kid is given the chance to play something like Viva Pinata. My eight year old brother managed to beat Knights of the Old Republic. Sure, he took forever doing it, but no one helped him.

There's a lot of things to manage in the game, but how you play determines a lot of it. If you take your time and don't worry about having 10 animals out at once, you're not going to bury yourself. There's almost nothing in the title that's forcing you to do much of anything... Pester himself doesn't appear for quite a while and by then most would have a very good grasp of the game.

At this point the game's been out long enough that fanboys that would dislike it don't even have it in their brains anymore.

For those that care, Target has the game for $20 now.

Did you seriously just call CoD3 "quicker paced?" That game took me literally more than 40 hours of gameplay to beat...on NORMAL!

Their save system sucks...you have to choreograph the checkpoint if you get a crappy save...
Turn left, duck, shoot the guy over the hill, turn right, throw a grenade to distract the group ahead of you and run to the left. Hide momentarily behind this rock until 3 dudes run by, quick run over to the building and chuck another grenade inside before moving in. Of course there's no checkpoint in this, so if you die you go back to square 1.

I'd love to pick it up since it's so cheap now. If I finish the back catalog of games I have sitting around now before Bioshock and Mass Effect hit in September, I'll be playing this a bit this summer.

Are you kidding me? A kids game? Parents choice award? Yes finally a game that teaches children about sex, so I don't have to!! and so i ask, to what kind of parenting has america stooped?

This game is all fun and games, until someone gets romanced!

praiznhim, my 5 year old plays it and he has only gotten 2 girls preggers.

Exposure like this is what will help break down the "theme barriers" that plagued Xbox (and Nintendo) last generation, and this gen, at least for now

that was the only thing that put PS2 ahead of both Xbox and GC, the fact that the other 2 were locked in theme barriers, Xbox with "realistic mature" and GC with "fantastic kiddie"

Hopefully its success is a sign of more variety to come

i love this game. my half-brother has it and every time i go to my dad's i always stay up incredibly late just trying to do random ass crap. i'm not really good at, umm, accomplishing anything in the game. i usually get distracted by mundane tasks. i need to buy it soon since i'm leaving for college in a few months.

I kinda agree with #10. They're not "dancing," kids. That's what Mommy and Daddy do when they think you're sleeping, though granted not very often.

I've played up to level 11 or 12, and still the only pinatas that want anything to do with each other are the Whirlms. What's a guy got to do to make those other paper idiots happy?!

My family is big into games, everything from Halo to Dance Dance Revolution to frogger. EVERY single one of us LOVE Viva Pinata. (for the record, I (mom) am the only female of the group so that makes 3 males ages 31, 15 & 12 that play Viva.)

As for the game teaching about sex, get real..they do a cute little dance and then poof an egg appears, that is NOTHING compared to commercials on basic/local TV.

for #10 Heaven forbid you take your kid to the park and see two dogs mating.. they are animals for crying out and nothing graphic..