Viva Piñata Discussion thread

Creature · 4 Feb 2007 at 19:40

Still need that Bonboon smcshaw?

Abooie · 4 Feb 2007 at 20:06

Creature said:
Still need that Bonboon smcshaw?

Heh, for some reason after 3 days a sour bonboon finally came into my garden and beat my 4 head! Cheeky blighter! Then he came again and my four head kicked him into touch so I've got one. Thanks though.

I'm not sure there's any pinata I've not got now, lovely game.

Mp4 · 4 Feb 2007 at 20:49

My missues has this game , though i've only watched her play it so far i kind of like the idea and see why its addictive.

ill have to give it a go once i can get her off it.

DEL 707 · 4 Feb 2007 at 21:38

smcshaw said:
Heh, for some reason after 3 days a sour bonboon finally came into my garden and beat my 4 head! Cheeky blighter! Then he came again and my four head kicked him into touch so I've got one. Thanks though.

I got really lucky with the Bonbon, I was waiting for a Twingersnap egg to jump so I could bash it when a Bonbon appeared and picked a fight with 1 of the parents, luckily he won

Which pinata uses the most water, is it Swanana? I've got all the rewards for that pinata and I'm looking to reclaim a bit of land.

dannyjo22 · 15 Feb 2007 at 13:49

Seen this available now for £24. Kept away til the price reduction. I like sim type games like themepark am I gonna like this for playign half hour here and there?

MadFruit · 15 Feb 2007 at 13:59

DEL 707 said:
I got really lucky with the Bonbon, I was waiting for a Twingersnap egg to jump so I could bash it when a Bonbon appeared and picked a fight with 1 of the parents, luckily he won

Which pinata uses the most water, is it Swanana? I've got all the rewards for that pinata and I'm looking to reclaim a bit of land.

Chippopotamus I think.

Appear requirements
Have 400 square pinometers of water (40%).
Visit requirements
Have 500 square pinometers of water (50%).
Resident requirements
Have 600 square pinometers of water (60%).
Romance requirements
Have 700 square pinometers of water (70%).

Anyone help me out with a Galagoogoo? It's the only one I can't get to come to my garden... it never eats enough tulips - and doesn't seem to remember how many it's eaten when it returns. It's driving me mad

Dolmio Chips · 15 Feb 2007 at 14:03

I can send you a galagoogoo if you want.

Havent sent one before so you will need to explain it.

Going to be sending this back to swapgame as soon as I have the 50 hour achievement so let me know soon if you want it.

MadFruit · 15 Feb 2007 at 14:23

Dolmio Chips said:
I can send you a galagoogoo if you want.

Havent sent one before so you will need to explain it.

Going to be sending this back to swapgame as soon as I have the 50 hour achievement so let me know soon if you want it.

Cool, yeah nice one. I've never done it either. But as far as I know, you select the post office option in the village menu, then select a friend to send it to, and the Pinata to send, and it just does it. I think that is how it works from random guessing

I've sent you a friends request

Dolmio Chips · 15 Feb 2007 at 14:48

Sent one across. Hopefully it should be flying through the sky to your telly now.

Let me know if it worked.

Abooie · 15 Feb 2007 at 15:25

dannyjo22 said:
Seen this available now for £24. Kept away til the price reduction. I like sim type games like themepark am I gonna like this for playign half hour here and there?

Yes, you'll love it. The only problem will be keeping it down to half hour sessions

My wife went out for the day a few saturdays ago, I thought I'd play for an hour... I was still playing 10 hours later when she got back!

dannyjo22 · 15 Feb 2007 at 17:34

Cool, gonna try to pick this up tommorow. Downloaded the video demo thingie off live, looks good.

MadFruit · 16 Feb 2007 at 15:51

Dolmio Chips said:
Sent one across. Hopefully it should be flying through the sky to your telly now.

Let me know if it worked.

Excellent, picked it up last night, but was only on for five minutes (long enough to get the 50 hour achievement too!! Didn't know I was that close).

Came straight though perfectly. Very nice, thanks very much.

Now I've got everything resident, and most things Master Romancer, just before the 50 hour mark

dannyjo22 · 16 Feb 2007 at 21:00

This game is brilliant, cant put it down, into a 4 hour straight stint!

Dolmio Chips · 16 Feb 2007 at 22:40

MadFruit said:
Very nice, thanks very much.

No problem, I've got just over 2 hours left to get the 50 hour achievement.

dannyjo22 said:
This game is brilliant, cant put it down, into a 4 hour straight stint!

It certainly does have the addictiveness factor, played it for 14 hours last Saturday. :eek:

dannyjo22 · 17 Feb 2007 at 00:24

Man played this too long tonight. The repetition has started to do my brains in. Why for the love of god do you need to keep doing those mazes and have to romance them so many times to get the master romancer.

I wish once you had got a species to do it once you could get them to repopulate automatically as long as you planted what was needed.

As its a game from 3+ I', suprised cos I cant see many kids having patience for it, especially for the cross producing etc.

Only managed to romance a few, trying to get the tarflys to feed the frogs is killing me

Dolmio Chips · 17 Feb 2007 at 12:38

dannyjo22 said:
Man played this too long tonight. The repetition has started to do my brains in. Why for the love of god do you need to keep doing those mazes and have to romance them so many times to get the master romancer.

I found some of the mazes quites tricky, especially when you only had one life to do it. To make it easier once I had 4 or 5 pinatas I would just buy the other 2 from the hunter woman who catches them for you. You only actually need to have 7 of the same species in the garden at the same time to get master romancer.

dannyjo22 · 17 Feb 2007 at 18:48

Having a few problems getting some creatures to join, even though I meet the requirements. Cant get the duck to come in at all.

Also Sometimes i plant trees and they dont bear any fruit. Have tried many times with the monkey nut tree but no result.

Also the diggers, I was expecting them to actually make me money. So far they have done next to nothing :confused:

Yeah I've started getting one of a type in then buying the other as the romancer isn't a target anyway, but master is.

I dunno how they listed this as a kids game, I think my nephew whose 8 wouldn't get this at all.

Gezzard · 17 Feb 2007 at 23:54

Popped out and grabbed this for £25 - Been hooked for the last 4 hours solid, one question though, if you don't mind, does the size of your garden increase as the game progresses? just running out of room for houses for all my pinata's and ponds and trees etc..

Dolmio Chips · 18 Feb 2007 at 00:12

Yeah you get 2 upgrades as your level increases.

Think its at about level 10 and 20, cant remember exactly

Sherbs · 18 Feb 2007 at 00:25

Yewen said:
It is not unreasonable if I challenge someone with the game a fair while in advanced to prove that it is not a torrented game.

In the rules not to discuss warez, so if you are talking about a game from first hand experience around the release time of suspect versions then it is not unreasonable.

Been that way since the 8th of December, nobody I have challenged has had an issue with it.

You can download 360 games via torrent?! Cheers Yewen! Think you deserve a ban.