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Dec 12, 2006

The Evils of Viva Pinata

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Note: For all the people without a sense of humour - THIS IS A SATIRE!

Everyone keeps talking about Bully and how it got away with a teen rating despite its violent context, but little do they know that there is one game that is corrupting our youth day after day -- and it got away with an E for everyone rating. That game is Viva Piñata. Sure, it looks innocent enough from a distance, but once you play the game, you will see the corrupt nature of Microsoft hidden deep within.

The game starts as your character arrives on Viva Piñata Island to find a little girl wearing a mask who asks for your help in rebuilding the garden. The garden around you looks like something out of a downtown ghetto with tires, weeds and pieces of junk everywhere, but don't worry because the girl helps you start the game by telling how to tend and attract piñatas to your garden.

Now, can you see the racism in that beginning alone? I mean obviously if the island is full of piñatas and the little girl is wearing a festive mask, then she must be Mexican and by having her tell you how to fix the garden instead of having her do it herself, it's Microsoft’s way of saying Mexicans are lazy. You see how evil this game is.

Things just get worse from there. As piñatas arrive in your garden, you are required to build them homes, satisfy their needs and then mate them to make more piñatas of their kind. Harmless enough, right? Harmless until you get to the mini games.

You see, Microsoft wants our children to believe that mating is nothing more than a game, and worse of all, some of the piñatas even have some weird kinks in their mating mini game rituals.

The Tafflies are required to navigate a maze of bombs that is in the shape of a pile of poo with stink lines. How can we believe this is suppose to be a wholesome game, when our children are playing mini games in poo shaped bomb mazes in hopes of mating some piñatas?

Sounds like weird scat play to me. There are even mazes that are phallic shaped for piñatas like the Worm or the Syrupent. The mating process gets much worse when the piñatas start performing their filthy sexual dances before they make their little babies.

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.

Viva Piñata even has incest and possible gay sex going on. Yes, once you mate two piñatas, you can then mate them with their offspring and they will produce a baby piñata together.

Is Microsoft trying to teach our kids that having relations with your family is OK? They should have made it true to real life and had the baby piñatas come out disfigured or something. Of course, with all this weird breeding going on, I bet people didn’t even stop to think about the fact that each piñata has no distinctive features to separate the boy piñatas from the girl piñatas.

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. Next thing you know, your children will be humping the piñata at their next birthday party, instead of breaking it open. God, I hate to imagine how warped our children could end up from all this.

The weird sex isn’t the only thing going on it the game though. Getting back to the racist nature of the game, you have all these obvious Mexican people on the island and what pray tell does Microsoft have you doing to the Mexican people? They have you hiring them to do gardening.

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.

Finally to top off all this sick, twisted gameplay, your children will be forced to watch as piñatas kill other piñatas and feast upon their chocolate candy insides or watch as they are bashed to death and poisoned by the evil Ruffians that live on the island.

One evil Ruffian will even kill your piñatas for just getting sick. Is this Microsoft’s way of saying that when an animal gets sick, your only choice is to kill it. God, what are you trying to do to our children? They're going to need therapy just to make it through life as somewhat normal people after this game.

Play the game for yourselves and see the evils I’ve talked about in this article. People like Jack Thompson are so worried about the violent and sexual messages we see in games like Bully and Grand Theft Auto 3, that they can’t see the corruption that is getting to our children in games like Viva Piñata or Pokemon.

If games like these can get an E rating, then perhaps the rating system does need to be re-evaluated. I urge anyone reading this, if you have Viva Piñata in your home, please don’t let your children play as they will be corrupted by the foul messages that lay within.

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12 comments:

Anonymous said...

That is one excellently written parody.

I wonder how long it will be before someone does pick up on just how weird (but very very cute) the mating dances are and so on are. It can't escape Jack Thompson's notice for ever.

Still, it's good to see that Rare have still got the same tounge in cheek humor that made Banjo-Kazoie and Conker's Bad Fur Day such entertaining games.

Anonymous said...

It actually did kind of squick me out that one of my parent worms was breeding with one of the babies. I didn't think anything of it until it happened. If anything, it made me stop giving names to all the pinatas. I still play though cause it's so cute!!

Anonymous said...

this is really funny.. BUT.. it's only a matter of time before google indexes it and some clueless parent gets linked to your blog when searching for viva pinata and DOES NOT get the joke.

Next stop.. the national news media!

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Anonymous said...

Is this a joke? because what you say is pathetic, learn to play a game for what it is.

Unknown said...

Perhaps put the bit about this being a satire as a note at the top :) I was directed here from another site, with no indication of this being a funny article (I think it was, but one poster has already missed reading to the end)

Anonymous said...

Wow, random people will always assume outrageous satirical comedy is truthful reporting. This will never stop being amusing to me.

Hey paul, go check out www.somethingawful.com its a real news site!

Also check out a previous GG post in order to find legitimate ways to break into blogging!

http://4thegirlgamers.blogspot.com/2006/12/video-game-writers-guide-to-original.html

Anonymous said...

haha.

this article is a joke. if you were really into gaming then you wouldnt be worrying about these features in the game.

so what if you think the game has racist features. the only thing i see is a game with characters that show you how to do things correctly in the game...i dont see a sweaty hispanic speaking to me in spanglish, but i cant help the fact that youre the racist one to think of this since i didnt care of what the characters are in the game. for christ sakes...one of the characters has a pumpkin for a head...how does that make him into a "mexican"? idk...youre the racist one...tell me.

also, who cares on how the pinatas mate...cause once again. its a game. kids are just wanting to have fun and not worry about why pinatas dont have genitals and why the other pinata had sex with its sister/brother. WHO CARES...cause once again...ITs A GAME!!!!

i bet the only reason youre saying stuff about the racism and incest crap is probably because your just a holy roller who doesnt go with gay marriage and racist to every other person that isnt white.

so who ever wrote this article...get a life.

also...gamer girls suck.

Unknown said...

I'm only going to say this one more time. I don't actually think anything I wrote about is true. The article was meant a satire of how real wack jobs out there freak out about every little thing in games. Like Bully being a columbine simulator.

GOD, GET A SENSE OF HUMOUR!

Anonymous said...

Kudos to you, I am no child and I played the game, as cute as it is, its quite disturbing this game is meant for a "child." From the incest to gay sex and animal bashing, its a surprise this game has an e rating.

Nice job on the satire, it was well written, witty and hilarious.

Cheers

Spela said...

like this :)

Anonymous said...

LOL! That's funny stuff! But you left out the part of the game where it teaches our children about reincarnation since the dead pinatas are put back together outside the garden. Blasphemy! Baby Jesus cries over this game. Rock on! Good job!