Saying that, though, Viva Pinata has a worrying level of longevity - I tend to play it for a couple hours every few days, and have been doing since I bought it, and probably will be doing for months to come.

As one of the people reposible for porting GUN to the PSP, we found it somewhat baffling as well. We did what we could, namely added some extra-big hints.

I started playing Gun recently and finally got to the final boss; but, I had to defeat the boss in a way that was completely and utterly different than anything else in the game. I had to resort to GameFAQs.com to get the strategy to beat the boss, and even then it took quite a few tries. It was just annoying that the skills I had developed up until that point, mostly running and gunning, were not as useful in a battle in a restricted area where the boss was immune to my weapon fire.

I also suspect that some of these boss battles are developed near the end of the development cycle. The dev team and testers, who have been playing the game for years at this point, want to do something different and try to make something challenging. It ends up being too different and a bit too challenging.

My thoughts.

And as long as talking pinatas don’t make their way in to Achaea ypu can enjoy besting little girls as much as you want! I’m sure some of them are seriously hardcore…