Viva Piñata/YMMV

Animation Age Ghetto: Main reason why the game is so off-putting. It's too hard for kids, and too childish for adults.
Excuse Plot
Game Breaker: The Wishing Well in Trouble In Paradise. Throw in 1000 Chocolate Coins, and you're pretty much guaranteed to receive several coins worth 2500 Each in return. Did I mention that the value of these coins can be increased by Five times just by placing a cheap item in your garden?
Goddamned Bats: Some of the Sours are a real pain in the ass, and they'll keep coming back until you're able to tame one.
- If there's a certain pinata species you really like, or find useful--and that species happens to be part of the predation list for another pinata--you will probably be doing a lot of manual exterminating to keep your residents safe. This is possible if you just happen to enjoy having a certain species around, but for certain members of the mentioned "utility" species, it can get bad. This also includes incidences where one species doesn't eat another, but they do fight--things like Raisants and Buzzlegums, or Cinnamonkeys and Bonboons.
- This is fixed in the sequel, where you can set the Bouncer Board at the corner of the garden to repel a given pinata from showing up at all. But only if you've already got the Master Romancer award for it.
Squick: The game doesn't keep track of families, so not only is Brother-Sister Incest a possibility, but you can even mate Piñatas with their own parents or children. To be honest, there's so much inherently wrong with the game that there's even a VG Cats comic that sums it all up nicely.
Tear Jerker: If you've grown close to one of your Pinatas you might feel this way if they get smashed.
Too Good to Last: "I can't believe they canceled Viva Piñata! It had talking CGI piñatas! WHAT MORE DO YOU WANT?!"

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