.... how did they sneak something like this through the age rating?
I wonder if al those... err.. game raters (sorry lost the word) would think and see like you do, this game would be canceled for sure.
Seriously, I have to pick this game up. I have the other two Xbox 360 games from Rare, and they're a lot of fun. I refuse to pay full price for games anymore, but as soon as I can get a coupon or the price drops, I'll snatch up a copy.
"They have no genitalia, yet they can breed. How is that possible and how do we know we aren’t breeding boy piñatas together? You see how sick and twisted this game is. The people at Microsoft are trying to warp the minds of our children with their evil gay, incestuous piñata sex."
There is no sexual orientation for that reason; there is no gay or straight sex.. they are not real. There for stating that they don't have genitalia and saying that they can have gay sex is redundant.
As for YOUR OWN racial stereotyping stating that Latino people are the only people whom inhabit and "slave" in the garden, is completely throw out of actuality. It wouldn't fit context to have Asian, African American, White, Indian, or any other culture in the game because piñatas come from the Latino culture. So you by stating that this game stereotypes Mexicans as:
"it's Microsoft’s way of saying Mexicans are lazy. You see how evil this game is."
Yes I know, it's MICROSOFT'S perception of a average Mexican, but you are the one who interpreted that aspect of the game that way. And you are the only one that has thought about that being discriminative towards the Latino culture.
"Thats right, Microsoft has the little Hispanic people doing hard labor in another ploy to keep the immigrants down. These game developers make me sick. Even the people working in the stores are only paid with chocolate coins. So, what the Mexicans aren’t good enough to receive real pay for all their hard work? No, we have to pay them in food and shelter, instead of real money or they may get a leg up in life and we can’t have that."
First of all, its not hard labor, people of all races and ethnic backgrounds do it EVERYDAY YOU IGNORANT DUMBA$$. They receive payment in candy to fit the context, once again you threw it out of context and added your own interpretation of a stereotype.
"For example, the Taffly’s dance has them sucking on each other with their mouths and then one even goes as far as to suck up the other one and then spit it back out with some weird green slime. If that doesn’t sound sexual, then I don’t know what does. This is a kid’s game and there should be nothing sexual in it, especially when it comes to making piñata babies."
What you just described is about just as sexual as a kid eating a piece of bread. It shows there is interacting between the two cardboard boxes, but there is absolutely NOTHING sexual in that at all.
And as for comparing these games to GTA and Bully...
In GTA you beat hookers to death after having sex with them in your stolen car that you got from some rich mobster.
In Bully, I agree that its ridiculous that the game got a teen rating, the bloody game teaches kids that violence is the answer. This game looks interesting, but if it wasn't put into context a kid in their early teenage years could mistake it as a guide to dealing with bullies.
This game, its some cardboard boxes living. It's no worse than the Sims(rated teen), but the thing is, the Sims are rated teen because of sexual themes, crude humor and violence which this game has limited amounts to none of.
Most violence these is entails the death of these boxes. ITS LIFE, get used to it.
All in all, this game you are ranting about is skeptical, but not a culture / ethnic stereotype, moron.
Honestly, you are the racist ignoramus here, not Microsoft.
Damn you just got served.
"The people at Microsoft are trying to warp the minds of our children with their evil gay, incestuous piñata sex."
Why, pray tell, Do you refer to gay sex as "evil"? And how is the game "warping the minds of our children" with the concept of said relations?
It seems to me that you're the homophobic racist here. You're more of a danger to our kids than microsoft and I never thought I'd hear myself refer to anything as more evil than that company.
As Defcon says...The chocolate money is the freaking currency in the game...Just like in Ratchet and Clank the currency is nuts, bolts and screws...what message is that supposed to be sending to our kids?
Look if I had kids right now...I'd much rather let them play something like Viva Pinata and take the 30 seconds out of my day it would take to put the game into context for them than let them play something like GTA and have to explain to them all the time that beating women is wrong, guns are not toys, and you aren't going to get money and points in life for shooting people or causing as much damage you can in a freaking car chase.
You sir, need to get a life, and stop trying to find all the supposed hidden messages in all the kids games these days or you're going to get smacked out damn soon.
Defcon sums up some of your invalid arguments.
THIS IS NOT A GAME FOR KIDS!!! It's mEgA-hArD!!
Okay, it's not mega-hard, but I would think that a child would take a long time to adapt to it. Controls are tricky, very context sensitive, and after the first 30 mins there's a lot happening in your little plot of land. How good are kids at multi-tasking?
However, independent of this article, I did think that incest was a little weird, but since each of the Piñata are sexless and ageless, this simplification kinda blurs-out the incest.
And it's pretty upsetting watching Piñata get killed. Not *really* for kids.
Considering Leafos and none of the other characters (from what I've seen anyway) have any discernible features to say they are Mexican (and most of the voice actors have UK and Irish accents) it's a bit of a mute point
Also, this was a fantastic article. Viva Piñata is one of my all-time favorite games and I found this hilarious. If someone tried to give a valid reason to disprove this article, they're reading way too much into it.

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