Rare' s Viva Pinata

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ORIGINAL: IGN

For many years now, Microsoft and Rare have wanted to create game for all ages, including games for kids. Viva Pinata is definitely a kids’ game. That may put you off. But as opposed to the dozens of crappy kids games churned out by other publishers each year, Microsoft and Rare have made an engaging and surprisingly refreshing title. It' s deep in the way that old Nintendo kids games used be, like The Legend of Zelda, Super Mario Brothers, even Pokemon.

Now I' ve been a skeptical of Viva Pinata ever since I saw it. With the bad taste in my mouth left by PDZ and Kameo' s mediocre performance I was beginning to think that Rare had lost the shine it had years ago. But reading the review and that last paragraph in the second take, it' s swayed my mind a little.

8.5' s a pretty decent score, probably held back from a 9 by lack of Live options. I' d say this is a good indication that the Rare we all held in high esteem is still there. I think it' s great that they' ve managed to come up with something highly original with a surprising amount of depth for a " kids" game. Enough for me to look past it' s childish premise and perhaps give it a go myself. If Rare can make a kids game appealing to everyone, they certainly get my kudos.

Now just make Killer Instinct dammit!

That' s probably good news for Banjoe 3 then. I want a remake of the original Perfect Dark and i want Killer Instinct 3!!!

I' d settle for Perfect Dark over XBLM. If that' s possible, I don' t know much about how big N64 games were.

Considering they were on cartriges, not very.

They ranged anywhere from 32MB to 512MB. All of the later games were closer to 512MB so PD would be close to that size.

For those that dont know this is region free

I' m not sure about this game, though it sounds pretty interesting, it does look slightly too saccharine for my taste.

Y' know, a lot of people said the same thing about Animal Crossing. They said that even though it was made with kids in mind it was a fun romp for adults as well. Well, I didn' t care for it at all. I could see how kids would like it, but for me it was just boring as hell.

I may play Viva Pinata though. Just for the hell of it.

So it is a deep game then??

Shoot, I must have been so wrong about this game... Maybe the Wii will be good
too.

There are two rules to success:

1. Never tell all you know.

I may play Viva Pinata though. Just for the hell of it.

I' ll do the same, it' s good to be open minded about things.

I' m edging closer and closer to buying this game... It seems BlimBlim
over at Xboxyde has shown the first 10 minutes of the
game, but has played it for 5 hours and is not bored of it...

I' ll keep myself posted on this one.

There are two rules to success:

1. Never tell all you know.