EDIT: Anyone up for trading some Pinatas? I'm breeding moozipans and Swananas right now so I have loads to give away/sell. Just message me if anyone is interested (Gamertag: HotleadJ)
This is probably my favorite game on the Xbox 360 and have been playing it for nearly a month now, but I have a couple of questions that are really bothering me.
- Is there a trick to keep certian pinata species happy? Things I'v noticed that keep them happy are feeding them sweets, pouring water over the ones that like it, buying them acsessories and not letting them get stomped on. I'v fenced off my larger pinatas from the smaller ones to prevent crushings, but 90% of my pinatas are mostly sad or a little unhappy. Is there a constant way to keep some pinatas happy? I'm assuming providing species with their own food scources, such as keeping some watercress flowers about to keep newgats happy may work, but I'm not too sure. Any tips? EDIT: I know about keeping them away from weeds/thistles.
- How did I, and how can I again, get my Buzzlegums to produce honey?
- I'v been breeding Moozipans to get the master romancer award and mucho moolah, but they still do not want to produce milk, how can I rectify this?
- I have a ruffian stuck in my garden and will not move or react to anything, aside from digging a pond under his feet which he will repsond to by vometing up dirt. He isn't doing any harm, but I cannot build anything where he is standing. Aside from starting a new garden, is there a way to get rid of him?
- Can garden space be reduced by chopping down trees, destroying houses and selling pinatas? What is the best thing to get rid of to create more garden space when you get the 'garden is getting full' message?
It would be cool if we could turn this into a questions, awnsers and tips thread if anyone is still playing the game, but please don't give too much away as I feel one of the best things about this game is experimeting and discovering new things for yourself, so if you wish to divulge information about some of the more 'secret' aspects of the game, such as what special items do, hw to attract rare pinatas, etc, I would appreiciate spoiler tags. Thanks. Now, some things I discovered regading game mechanics that I think some people may find useful.
- Now I may as well point out to anyone who may not have noticed, that when you are trying to attract a certian species to your garden and they have to eat X amount of something, if they only eat, say, 2 of 5, the same one will come back and will only need to eat 3 more. I always assumed that they were different pinatas and kept trying to get them to eat the certian amount of whatever they needed when they visited until I noticed a Fizzlybear eat one fir cone and become a resident. Just thought I'd point that out as it confused me for a while.
- If your garden is getting too full and you wish to keep certian residents safe, buy a crate and pack the ones you wish to relocate to another garden into said crate and send it to yourself via the post office. Start a new garden and recive the crate from the post office, then you can unpack the pinatas into your new garden, safe and sound. Handy if you want special, themed gardens or wish to breed lots of the same species without worrying about garden space.
And just a side note, I just wanted to say I think the game looks freaking spectacular, I love the art style, graphics, animation and the designs of nearly everything in the game, it is easily one of my favorite looking games of all time, right next to the Wind Waker and Metal Slug 3.
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Huh, funny thing about the buzzlegums wearing beekeper hats to make them produce honey, I just made them wear those hats because they looked amusing. I'll try making my moozipans wear bells or something.
Personally I love Newgats for some reason. Hella cute, plus I love the bird ones as I love just seeing one randomly perched on one of my structures or trees.
Anyone up for trading some Pinatas? I'm breeding moozipans and Swananas right now so I have loads to give away/sell. Just message me if anyone is interested (Gamertag: HotleadJ)
Also, instead of using the hammer to turn everything into soil, just buy yourself a create and keep picking it up and dropping it. It only costs 1 coin and does like 600% more radius then the shovel.
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Then one day, shortly after I bought Viva Pinata, it went missing.
Missing to my girlfriend's house.
That CD hasn't come out of it for about a year now. She's probably melted it to slag from playing it so much.
I miss you, Boxy.
Did anyone else notice the plug for the TV show from Leafos? And did anyone else sit through the credits sequence? Dear god, the song.... it's so bad it's hilarious. I'm wathcing the credits right now, and, this is a complete guess, but is that bird pinata by any chance called a 'Parasweet'?
EDIT: this credits sequence would make an awesome screensaver
Should answer most of your questions.
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Really though, some of them are so obscure (one of them involves tapping the egg when it bounces, for example) that you'd be best off just using a guide.
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Oh, how I wish I could remember how to stain every variant when in the field...
Putting loads of cats and dogs in a garden is awesome.
Soon, you won't have to. It's being ported to PC.
http://pc.ign.com/articles/803/803110p1.html
It really deserved better, sales-wise - but the marketing was so totally mis-targeted given who the 360 install base mostly is.
I hope they can do a good job pushing the PC version, because they probably have a larger market for it there.
You just keep on trying 'til you run out of cake
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I love the way the racoon pinatas run around the garden.
I can't wait for the rumored snow expansion.
I ended up using the Wiki from time to time to find variants (some of them really are amazingly obscure), but they game does give you a ton of information built in as well, which is nice.
My only gripes are the brief stall on auto-save and some of the loading times between screens. It's never too bad, but it gets slightly annoying. Some degree of harddrive cache (unless it already does this) or maybe some some refinement that might come along with an expansion would be super.
I've gotta second the sentiment that this is one of the best games that was ever mismarketed. It's beautiful and fun and deep and totally adorable.