Viva Pinata
Really, Viva Pinata is an exotic game. In the game, you mostly spend your time tending to your garden and taking care of your pinatas. The goal of the game is to make all the pinatas to become a resident inside your garden. Special things need to happen before they come. As for your garden, you beat the junk into pieces, make hard soil moist, and plant grass along with flowers. Sometimes you get bored, waiting for pinatas to come, planting, or repeatedly beating random pinatas.
Other than that, you have to worry about your pinatas becoming ill, fighting eachother, or getting beaten to destruction by Dastardos. When your pinata becomes ill, you must call your local doctor. If you don’t call in time, Dastardos will come, and there’s nothing that can stop him (other than other items that prevent him from stepping into your garden). You can tell if they’re ill by looking closely. They’ll have little pictures of Dastardos’ face floating around. Be careful!!
Dastardos, ready to strike with his special stick, seen on the left side.
Of course, there are always nice characters. A girl named Leafos helps you in the very beginning, but other than showing you the basics, she doesn’t help AT ALL. Seedos comes every day (in Viva Pinata time), and if you talk to him, he gives you a seed. You can only talk to him only twice every visit, or whack him with you’re shovel. But be warned! If you do whack him, he will drop weed plants in you’re garden.
A picture of the gamer talking to Seedos, awaiting his new seed. Greedy much?
The wierd stores they have help you in parts of the game. Costalot’s Store sells high priced (hence the name) items. Not only do they help, they might also get a pinata to visit, be seen, or even romance. There’s Willy the Builder, who builds anything. He builds houses for your pinatas (which are needed to romance), mines, and other stuff. Gretchen Fetchem hunts pinatas you’ve already seen, but don’t want to work hard for. Last but not least, they have the two rarest pinatas. The Chewnicorn (Chewing Gum +Unicorn) and the Dragonache (Ganache + Dragon).
The majestic yet fierce Dragonache… Incredible! (Imagine this at a kid’s party…)
To conclude, Viva Pinata is full of variety. When I started, I thought it couldn’t get any more BORING. But, if you like to collect, it turns fun. For this good game, I give it a 9 of 10. Yes, 9. Why? It’s fun to see these pinatas, plus, it was one of my favorite shows when I was four. Gotta try!
Sorry everyone!! I haven’t been able to post anything lately, since my cousin is in town until Friday. Until then, Viva Pinata!!
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[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]OMG! This song was in my head for a MONTH. Oddly, it reminds me of my friends.
Modern Warfare 2
The game Modern Warfare 2 is one of the best games that Infinity Ward has ever created! Call of Duty 6 has action, stories, and it continues where you left off from Call of Duty 5: Modern Warfare. Although there are two different consoles, I have to recommend using the X-Box 360 if you’re new to first-person action games. PS3 is for the experts who are used to first person action games. Try it out, you’ll probably enjoy it (unless you hate gore, blood, fighting, war, etc.).
In the story, you leave off as “Soap”, “Roach”, etc. I love the fact that you travel fighting in many maps that are also in the multiplayer section such as “Afghan”, “Estate”, “Favela”, and others. Although following your teammates (such as Ghost) is fun, it could have been better if you could have played with two people in campaign mode. The parts I personally liked were the sniping moments. The worst parts was the part later in the game where you climb up a mountain. It took too much time animating that when you could have started off at the top!! Rating this storyline, I would give it a 8 on a scale from 1-10. As you can clearly see, I take my video games seriously.
This is the climbing sequence that annoyed me. GAWD it’s annoying….
The controls are easy. If you try to learn the controls, then it is WAY too easy. It’s the almost the same controls as regular first person shooting games. Anyways, the multiplayer mode is what you play if you finished campaign. Here, you can reach up to level 70, and from there prestige’s 1-10. As you make your way through, you earn titles such as “Accident Prone”, “Surgical”, and “Darkbringer”. Also, you can earn emblems and join your friend’s clan. Other things to unlock are perks and guns, stuff like that. I would rate multiplayer an 9. Good job multiplayer!!
These are some sample titles. Check ‘em out!
Last but not least, you have one last mode titled “Spec Ops”, meaning Special Operations. Here, you do extra missions not found in the campaign mode. There are five different levels, including more sub-levels. For example, there’s Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta, and Echo. Try to pass all the levels with the top score of three stars! each have their own kind of thing, like racing, shoot-outs, or just time-attacks. Rating this mode, I would give it a 6. Try to do better Infinity Ward! These are too time consuming, while it’s more fun and easier to play Multiplayer.
This is a racing sequence in Special Operations. Booyah!
To conclude my blog, Modern Warfare 2 might be tough to play, but it could just be one of the best games. Others like Halo can’t compare to Call of Duty. On my scale of 1-10, Modern Warfare 2’s average is would be a average 7.6 points. It’s not half bad, so go buy a demo or something to try it out.
