So many colors!
As many other reviews have said, even though this game was ment for children is it just alittle too off for a young mind, I even find myself loosing track of something and then out of the blue an enemy will appear and just smash one of my danged pinata's! It's annoying and there is a high chance that a child would either bust a tantrum or even cry over the loss of their animal friend. (Oddly enough it has happened)
The 360 was just the perfect system to bring this game out on, the smallest detail is and can be inspected in this game from the colors on a pinata to a crack in a housing for one. If this was put onto any other system it could have been a major flop.
One little thing that RARE seems to have altered was the lacking of annoying, repeating background music. The music itself changes with every pinata from contury, rock, rap to even classical when it comes to romancing. While as in your garden, the music starts to play at random and it never some nasty high pitched jingle, rather then some soothing melody to help you tend to your planting!
Besides being high addictive, the game is just and reminds me of my olden days of spending endless amount of time playing Harvest Moon, let along Animal Crossing which is what this game seems to cross over if they had a messed up flipper baby!
As many a gamer remembers in games like that you'll find yourself wanting every achivement and prize for trying to reach that 100%. In Animal Crossing, you collected a whole room set to gain points while in this game you'll find youself having to breed, aka 'romance' pinatas to gain awards for having tamed these... beasts? This can take several minutes to hours as well as money melting away for every pinatas special needs...
This is a game for the next gen fans of the old Harvest Moon and Animal Crossing fans. More people will most likley be drawn to it as well besides those familiar games which first come to mind. It's not confusing its just consuming!