VIVA pinata [Archive]

JiLL

10-01-2007, 09:30 AM

Who has this game and enjoys it?

i love it but its hard
how a child could ever play it i just don't know.

what do the rest of you think!?

carocat

10-01-2007, 09:34 AM

Great game, but I haven't played it for weeks. Really should give it a go again.

What's the most exotic pinata everyone has?

I'm almost ashamed to say mine is the chicken (Gluckles?) that I've only got, as Sub sent it to me including christmas accessories. :D

JiLL

10-01-2007, 12:26 PM

so far
a Monkey
but i so want a Hippo

Gaskin

10-01-2007, 04:07 PM

Mine is probably a Chicken thing too. Wish I had more time to play games these days :( Can't wait till GCSE's are over.

skastar

12-01-2007, 10:43 AM

soon as iv got through all my christmas games then il probably buy it. im just completin all my games one at a time otherwise il never get round to them. also i need to save up since i spent all my monies on a gaming chair:) but i played it in game for a long time and it looks like it takes alot of dedication. looks like a good game for rainydays or when im grounded:)

kHz witnotts

12-01-2007, 10:53 AM

Mines the hippo, I had the elephants but they're just so damn big and start standing on the other Pinatas and making them sad etc! Also just started romancing the cocoadiles.
Makes me sound like a big kid, but i love this game and can't get enough. Just a nice break from the bloodshed etc! :D

Gaskin

12-01-2007, 04:27 PM

It's because you're bad at all the blood splatter games.. ;)

Love you really.

kHz witnotts

12-01-2007, 04:55 PM

Your just jealous, just cos you can't get any money or pinatats.:p
Heres a tip Dan, direct a Taffly into a forebrand, then put it out with your watering can when it lands, it'll turn into a reddhott you can sell for 2100 coins! That way you wont have to cry cos you just suck at the game! ;)

Gaskin

13-01-2007, 04:04 AM

I'm going to destroy you on GOW.

kHz witnotts

13-01-2007, 10:33 AM

No you aint cos you love me really!

quickshot89

14-01-2007, 12:07 PM

a snake is my best so far :(

DayC

14-01-2007, 09:28 PM

What's so good about this game, apart from a change in the old "our game has the most realistic graphics" it just looks like a sim city rip off.

FiveOhOne

15-01-2007, 10:57 AM

My copy arrived today, and the missus has already declared I'm not going anywhere near my xbox tonight :'(

carocat

15-01-2007, 10:59 AM

My copy arrived today, and the missus has already declared I'm not going anywhere near my xbox tonight :'(
Unlucky! :p

indiglojo

15-01-2007, 11:11 AM

My copy arrived today, and the missus has already declared I'm not going anywhere near my xbox tonight :'(

YOUR copy??? I think not..... ;)

sub

15-01-2007, 01:31 PM

YOUR copy??? I think not..... ;)

You tell him! :P

MrKennedy360

15-01-2007, 02:39 PM

My mothdrop just refuse to eat the watercress flower. :(

DayC

15-01-2007, 02:50 PM

So yeah can somebody answer my question? why is this game so good etc ^

carocat

15-01-2007, 02:58 PM

It is a sim style game. You have a garden and populate it with pinatas and plants, etc. Certain plants/pinatas attract others.

According to your level you have more stuff available. Once you have a pinatas as residents you have to fulfil certain requirements to romance them which gets a lot harder on later levels.

The special thing about this game is the animations and the attention to detail. Whilst it is effectively marketed as a children's game it is so complex that it is for all age groups really, especially with all the species that can be evolved/changed.

Browse through this thread on the old forum (http://community.matchbox360.co.uk/vanilla/comments.php?DiscussionID=6189) to read some more about it. :)

MrKennedy360

15-01-2007, 04:06 PM

Pinata Island (http://pinataisland.info/index.php?title=Main_Page) is great for information about the game, too.

DayC

15-01-2007, 04:08 PM

Thanks guys will read up on it.

EAGLEOWNAGE

17-01-2007, 07:06 PM

this sounds so funny really, i havnt played the game but to me it sounds like lots of grown up people playing a kiddies game. lol

all talking about your pinata lol it reminds me when i useto here kids at school going "my pikachu owns ure charzard" haha

jamie

indiglojo

17-01-2007, 08:46 PM

about as funny as watching a load of grown ups talking into headsets & pretending to be soldiers....

reminds me of school & boys running around with sticks & making machine gun noises....

:rolleyes:

JiLL

18-01-2007, 10:03 AM

ha ha it is really complex. i just can't get some animals to romance but i've learnt how to get loads of money.
to the person who can't get his taffly fly i think it was to eat a water cress make it happy by buying it sweets and then try.
i'm kinda stuck on level 32 its getting hard to increase for me any way!!

Smudge28

18-01-2007, 11:30 AM

Hello,

Pinata really wound me up last night, every time I tried to turn a toadstool into a mushroom some stupid little pinata would come along at eat them Grrrrrrrrrrr. So I sold everything in my garden and decided to start from scratch concentrating on 2-3 pinatas instead of a whole forest full of the little scamps.

I did manage to finally get a beaver in take residence last night so that was a bit of a plus.

Has anyone got any tips on how to make Pinata more valuable???

carocat

18-01-2007, 11:54 AM

Well, you can transform some, like the taffly into a fire something by tirecting it through a torch and then using the watering can to stop the fire.

Otherwise accessories are the way to go. Check out Paper Pets.

Smudge28

18-01-2007, 12:10 PM

Cheers I' will try giving my pinatas some accessories. Redhotts are a quality source of coinage.

JiLL

18-01-2007, 12:15 PM

accessories and sending to parties (the challenge thing) makes them more valuable.
i love the bees cause you give them a hat and they will make you honey

carocat

18-01-2007, 12:19 PM

i love the bees cause you give them a hat and they will make you honey
Especially as you don't have to do anything....

The Moozipans aren't too bad either.

kHz witnotts

18-01-2007, 05:15 PM

My most valuble pinata was just over 16000, it was a fourheads that i kept sending to parties, giving accessories and i'd made a variant out of it. Then professor pestor came and smashed it! :(

JiLL

18-01-2007, 05:30 PM

My most valuble pinata was just over 16000, it was a fourheads that i kept sending to parties, giving accessories and i'd made a variant out of it. Then professor pestor came and smashed it! :(

i knoww damn that professor.
buy all the tower of sour stuff and then just switch then on and of as you need sours to visit.
good tip for making money
buy a bird of paradise and sprinkle 3 times with orange fertiliser
they will each be worth 1440 when grown and ready to sell
good money spinner

Liam

18-01-2007, 05:44 PM

Sounds OK. When i first saw it i thought no one would buy it but it seems to have been really successful. I have never actually played it myself. Ill get DayC to buy it then permenantly borrow it :)

kHz witnotts

18-01-2007, 07:47 PM

I was actually quite fortunate with professor pestor cos he glitched out of the game for some time, he came on, smashed a monkey then stood looking up at a banana tree rubbing his chin and stayed there for ages. Something walked on and pushed him away then he just litteraly stayed there until i sent the mallowolf on him. Then got the captains cutlass to stop him returning! :D

DayC

18-01-2007, 09:25 PM

professor pestor

Don't like the sound of this guy does he just walk in and wreck your game? :(

Smudge28

19-01-2007, 10:32 AM

I'm yet to be introduced to this pestor guy he sounds like a right pain.

Has any one else suffered some very bad glitches?? My Gatherling and Leafos have decided to become invisible and sometimes my pinatas decide to disappear.

carocat

19-01-2007, 10:49 AM

I've had pretty much all the pinatas in my garden disappear at some point. I had about 10 different species resident and multiple of each. And literally, I was building a house or something, went back to the garden and none apart from some whirlms were left?

JiLL

19-01-2007, 11:00 AM

Smudge28

22-01-2007, 11:30 AM

Heeeellllppppp!!!

My Sour Crocadile has become a hermit, he never comes out anymore. I've got to swans for him to eat to turn him good but he dosn't come out. Has anyone got any ideas???? I havn't really seen the crocadile since the wolf showed up.

kHz witnotts

24-01-2007, 06:43 PM

Have you turn his icon off on the tour of sour totem??? try this and see what happens!

Smudge28

25-01-2007, 12:02 PM

I'ts all sorted know, thanks anyway. I don't know what happend I had the tower turned off but I suppose it was another glitch not to worry though the crocodile is now a resident of my garden.

Black Magic Pug

25-01-2007, 01:38 PM

damn you guys, and you pinata island link, now i want to play this game----badly Grr.

kHz witnotts

25-01-2007, 07:42 PM

You really dont, you'll soon be hooked, you'll never go to bed and if your in a relationship, it'll soon come under severe stress! ;)

carocat

25-01-2007, 08:42 PM

Are you speaking out of experience there? :p

Personally I haven't played the game in 1 or 2 weeks, but I know once I pick it up again I will not be able to stop. ;)

Black Magic Pug

26-01-2007, 11:37 AM

Cool Cool well im i shoud get it in about 1 day and 13 hours :) lol, and ill give it a try while ive got time before i start all my distance learning courses sigh :/

kHz witnotts

28-01-2007, 05:13 PM

Finally got the achievement for 50 hours played last night, i thought i'd put it on and watch the tv while it passed the time away, then bling 5 minutes later i got it! Im now level 66 and have about 350000 coins spare so im just kinda experimenting with it now! :D

JiLL

08-02-2007, 10:47 AM

yesssss

i finally got the hippo im happy!!!!

Darth Geordie

10-02-2007, 12:13 PM

Would anyone be able to send me a Mallowolf and a Swanana? I will pay for them, with chocolate coins of course.

Cheers.

kHz witnotts

10-02-2007, 01:17 PM

I only need to get a parryboo and then get a black, brown and pink flutterscotch and ive had every species. (apart from the jeli but noone knows if this is a confirmed species).
Im also now trying for some wildcard species, has anyone else got one of these yet??

JiLL

14-02-2007, 06:39 PM

i can send you them if you send a fr to Hippomistress

kHz Glitch

15-02-2007, 04:00 AM

ya if anyone needs something then i might be able to help, i am a level 45 or 46 and have most of the piniatas i think, except for the deer and chewnie corn, and so if ya need anything i can probably help if witnots or someone can't

kHz witnotts

15-02-2007, 07:08 PM

i can send you them if you send a fr to Hippomistress

Thanks for that JiLL, but i have everything ready for the parryboo, and i just need to feed some stuff to the flutterscotches to get the variants. will add you anyway if thats ok!

Smudge28

26-02-2007, 10:12 AM

:confused: Hi, I need some advice. I've been trying to get the master romacer achievement for a while now. I've been concentrating on two pinatas at a time at the moment I'm trying to get master romacer for Squirrals and Moles, I've been using the Romance sweet from the shop and it dosn't seem to work. How many times do these things have to shag before I get master romancer seriously the moles have been at it constantly I think I'm on mole 43. I havn't even started on the Rabbits yet :eek:
Also how long is it before the miner finds the dragons egg???

Mazzy

26-02-2007, 03:23 PM

ok for a start, you dont need to have romanced anything to get the master romance, all you need to do is get 7 of the same pinata in your garden. you can attract only 2 pinatas then you either A, breed them until theres 7 or get gretchem fetchem to get you them. thats it.

also the dragon, get a mine get a helpers house get 4 digalings. get a lantern of loot. get a candarie and put a gas mask on him and send him into the mine. you should get one soon after. but it is random. the dragon is rubbish anyway. hope that helps. also theres a wiki that should be helpfull.

Smudge28

26-02-2007, 03:47 PM

Cheers Mazzy, that does help its gonna save me alot of time and effort.

Mazzy

26-02-2007, 04:37 PM

i fell in love with this game, lent it off my mate. shame its too short. after getting all the achiefments ;) and gota catch em all pokemon, no wait wrong game, but i got em all anyway. theres not much more point in playing the game.

Smudge28

27-02-2007, 10:34 AM

Very true, its is a great game. I'm trying to get all the achievements at the moment. 10 more to go.

Mazzy

27-02-2007, 06:30 PM

best way to get the 50 hours is to leave it on all night, just press the X buttons so your in the menu.

carocat

27-02-2007, 06:44 PM

You don't get the achievement though, if you're paused?

Just make a new garden and leave it in there, making sure the controller doesn't turn off.

neyo

27-02-2007, 07:01 PM

carocat

27-02-2007, 07:07 PM

MAZZY is so cheap. Have you ever completed a game, without reading tips, walkthrough's or otherwise glitching somehow!!? Pssha, you need (another (http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/neyouk/XLPics/photo#5008459188944257202)) ***** slap...
Haha, that reminds me of my all time favourite one... (http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/neyouk/XLPics/photo#5008458536109228114). ;)

Pinataisland (http://pinataisland.info/index.php?title=Main_Page) is a great site though. so much I wouldn't have discovered in the game without looking round that site.

Mazzy

27-02-2007, 08:35 PM

Smudge28

05-03-2007, 10:24 AM

Hello, Could some1 do me a massive favour so I can finally lay Viva Pinata to rest. I need two achievements one is the 50 hour achievement and the other is the 10000 pinata can some1 please send me a 10000 pinata, I havn't got any patience for this game anymore as I am now obsessed with Crackdown. my gamertag is smudge1983.

carocat

05-03-2007, 10:43 AM

Well, if I send you that, can I get all your stuff before you're selling the game? :p

Smudge28

05-03-2007, 10:58 AM

Of course, I havn't got that much stuff anymore I've got a few things and I can get that slag in the shop to capture most of the pinatas so anything you need I 'll try my best. And you can have my prize mole who has been with me through thick and thin.

carocat

05-03-2007, 11:01 AM

Haha, sounds good. I'm more on the lookout for pinatas to be honest, I'm a level 30 and haven't got any of the shiny ones, like eagles, swananas, dragons, crocodile [or whatever it's called] or any other shiny ones.

I'll go on VP later and send you that pinata.

As for the 50 hour achievement, just create a new garden, plug in a wired controller and leave it ingame over night until the achievement unlocks.

Smudge28

05-03-2007, 11:13 AM

Cheers for that. I can sort you out with all those pinatas apart from the eagle. I can get unicorns, flying pigs.

How do I send stuff to you??

carocat

05-03-2007, 11:30 AM

Flying pigs? I didn't even know they existed!

If you accept my Friend Request [Fear the CAT], then I can send you stuff and you can send me things.

To send things: Press X, go to the Post Office, buy a crate. Place the crate, put stuff in [you can place up to 5 identical items in there, so 5 unicorns, but not 4 unicorns and a pig] and then there is an option to send money/attach a message as well.

Thinking about it, are you sure that you don't have a 10000 pinata worth pinata yet? Have you tried giving your pinatas some outfitting/accessories? Go to Paperpets, select Accessories and select your most expensive pinata [I assume unicorn?] and give it all the accessories you can give, of course using the most expensive ones. That should do it.

kHz Glitch

06-03-2007, 03:05 AM

Haha, sounds good. I'm more on the lookout for pinatas to be honest, I'm a level 30 and haven't got any of the shiny ones, like eagles, swananas, dragons

cat, if you want a dragon, get a mine, buy a digger, keep paying it, get the evolved for of a sparrowmint or watever (eats a buttercup) and give it a gasmask and keep telling it to go to the mine, it'll eventualy give you an egg which you can get a cluckles to hatch (water for blue, grass for green, thick grass for gren with mane and cracked soil for gold) and you can only get one and can't trade. or get rid of it

kHz witnotts

10-03-2007, 09:51 AM

You can get rid of it, just put your curor over it and press X, you'll see send dragon away in the top right corner. but the dragon that you have(very large i know) is still only a baby one and needs to mature!! ;)

Mazzy

10-03-2007, 02:29 PM

kHz Glitch

10-03-2007, 03:25 PM

ya i know, i meant you cant sell him or anything; and its hard to mature him, i know whate he needs but he wont eat it!

Mazzy

10-03-2007, 03:29 PM

lol, mine ate it instantly. its huge !!! also the one thing he does is, when you get a sour in your garden, if you tap/hit him with your spade he turns red and goes and kills the sour. pointless realy, but thats all he does. other than take up space and walk around.

kHz Glitch

10-03-2007, 07:05 PM

ya he is mostly supposed to be a protector i think but meh, thats what the shovel's for!

carocat

17-04-2007, 09:28 PM

I just went back onto the game after not playing it for months and I've got 15 crates. Thanks to all of you that sent me stuff. :)

Colbzz

22-04-2007, 07:18 PM

True, how would a kid play the game? but all us playing? what does that suggest? It's for big kids!!!:o

anyway im on level 11.. started about a week ago - just got a larger garden
im wondering if any of you lot uses fences to hold in pinatas too - i do and it keeps saying its too crowded now hehe

luvin it tho!

-- wish i had friends to trade stuff with etc.. add me y'all if you want

and im ALSO wondering can you actualy PLAY online and not only TRADE

linkofhyrule

23-04-2007, 01:20 AM

and im ALSO wondering can you actualy PLAY online and not only TRADE
Supposedly RARE is adding on co-op for Live, but they said that a while ago.. Then again, it took them ages to do it to Kameo.

Colbzz

23-04-2007, 04:29 PM

Well at least thats an answear - thanks dude

iamlegend

17-05-2007, 04:24 PM

I got this game recently...and its pissing me off...I keep having to water my corn every two seconds...and the damn mousemallow thingys wont eat the damn turnips...I have about 70 chocolate coins because I spent the rest on fences and buttercups...Im ready to break down in tears

Renegade

17-05-2007, 04:30 PM

For more money - buy about 15 chilli seeds, plant them. Use red fertilizer on them three times, and leave them until the chillis fall off. Sell all the chillis, which have now netted about 10x profit. That's how I made all my money!

You only have to water your corn so that the water meter is half blue and half brown, and they flower the day after. Or eventually you can just buy corn or hire a waterling to do it.

Fences are pointless. They might look good but Pinate glitch through them all the time and they stop leafos and seedos from getting to and from your garden. A mousemallow needs to be relatively happy to eat the turnip. Just keep dropping the turnip near the mouse, and then directing the mouse to it.

iamlegend

19-05-2007, 01:55 AM

Thanks...I'll try that...but I cant direct the mousemallow to the turnip because its not a resident...and to become a resident it needs to eat...a turnip :( Why does stuff like this always happen to me...?! I though this was supposed to be a kids game...

Colbzz

19-05-2007, 11:19 AM