My Viva Piñata garden gets a Japanese resident
I’ve been sort of “conversing” with Tastsumi-san, who runs the Japanese Xbox.com webmaster and community blog, for a while now. We’ve mentioned to each other that we should play a game — a retail or Xbox Live Arcade title — one day so we could “meet.” We haven’t gotten around to it yet, the least of not is the language barrier. I can’t speak for Tatsumi-san, but my Japanese is non-existent and Xbox Live games being voice chat based isn’t helping me much either.
Instead, I noticed one night he was online playing Viva Piñata and I got an idea that I would send him a piñata via the in-game post office. I bought a Kittyfloss from Paper Pets and I think gave the him (or her) a flower and a scarf and, with some help, named it Tama — which is apparently a very common pet name in Japan. I sent it to Tatsumi-san one evening. Some time later I got the tip to check my post office in the game. I got a crate back! I cracked it open and Tatsumi-san sent me a Pretztail and the name was in the Japanese charater set. This was great! I feel weirdly attached to this unique Pretztail in my garden. Some piñata better not ever try to eat it.
It was really nice of him and so in return I sent him a Doenut that I named “Haruko” which means something like “the child born of the spring.” I felt it was a timely name. I hope he likes it too.
A video of the special Pretztail in my graden is below.
Video: Viva Piñata - 「ã‚ã¤ã¾ã‚Œï¼ãƒ”ニャータ〠- Japanese Pretztail
(You need a Windows Live ID to log in to MSN Soapbox for a short time it seems.)
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