Viva Pinata

I've been having a tough time with Viva Pinata, that colorful, wacky game about enticing pinatas to your garden (and forcing them to breed). I don't own an X-Box (of any kind, original or 360), so I had to tough it through the PC version. The problem with the PC version is that the Microsoft Game Studios and Rare did not in any way made this for PC. I believe they, for the most part, just copy-pasted code and stuck it on a DVD. Almost everyone has problems with Viva Pinata, and because there's no patch and they shut down the official forums, most people just hock it on eBay or Amazon. It took me a while to figure out how to run this; I originally tried the pinataisland.com site, which is immensely useful (albeit annoying and hard to navigate). Finally, with the help of Microsoft Support, it finally ran past the first 5-10 seconds of the game without crashing. Finally able to play, I must say that it's not a bad game. It's quite fun, really. I feel that it's both involved and not; you don't physically DO much, but the controls for it are abysmal and it takes a lot of effort to do anything. It took me about an hour and a half to get the hang of the controls (the arrow keys and the mouse look up, down, sideways, while in order to move, you drag the cursor to the top, bottom, and sides of the screen. It's also a little hard to click on some things, if a pinata is on top of a pinata house, for one, you have to wait until it comes down to mate it. I can never get enough chocolate coins, which makes it hard to buy houses for the pinatas (I just started mating Whirlms and selling them.) I figure it really would be best played on the X-Box, but expect a lot of trouble with getting it to work with PC.

So far:

Pinatas:

Whirlm
- Visited Resided Mated Variation 1

Mousemallow
- Visited Resided

Sparrowmint
- Visited Resided

Syrupent
- Visited Resided

Bunnycomb
- Visited Resided

Lickatoad

Mothdrop
- Visited Resided Mated

Pretztail
- Vistied Resided

Shellybean
- Resided Variation 2

Sour Shellybean
- Visited

Fudgehog
- Visited Resided

Newtgat

Raisant
- Visited

Squazzil

Arocknid

Badesicle


Plants:

Turnip
- Grown

Carrot
- Grown

Thistle
- Grown

Apple Tree
- Grown


Tools:

Rusty Watering Can

Freebie Shovel Head

Seed Shovel Head

Pond Shovel Head

Freebie Shovel Handle

Iron Shovel Handle