Recently I’ve taken an interest in pets. My family have had cats, I had two goldfish as a child, one called Jimmy, the other called Other Jimmy and there were the hamsters, Pat and Greg. Although I cared for the childhood pets I wouldn’t call it an actual interest, certainly not in the way I love and am endlessly passionate about gaming. Recently though I’ve developed quite the obsession with nurturing little creatures.
| It started with the newt. We bought a newt. It was seven pounds sterling. However I’d spent some considerable time researching newts and knew that there might be slightly more outlay than that. Two fish tanks, several rocks, substrate, toys, water plants, water testing and treating kits, food types (live and dead) and a visit to an exotic pets vets later I think Clank the Newt has settled into his new home. |  |
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On the wave of hard work and success I’ve decided now to get a kitten and I know the exact one I want. We should have it within the month but I’ve already learned everything there is to know about dry cat food and the Litter Kwitter, a system where your cat learns to pee in the toilet bowl. |
Of course all my obsessions are interwoven with gaming and so I found myself playing Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise after at first being unimpressed by the stingy gamerscore hand outs. Back when the first game came out, myself and Ready Up writers Anthony and Simes were happy as Rashberries in shit as we played a fun, reasonably easy game and were lavished with points for it. With this second iteration of the game I took the hump ten hours in when I still only had 30 points. After all this pet coveting though I found myself sneaking back to it.
Just like I have in the real world, I found myself focusing on the particular creatures I wanted and worked tirelessly towards getting those. Of course my targets were the hardest to procure and nurture being the ‘mythical’ Dragonache and the ‘prehistoric’ Choclodocus. It was a protracted and frustrating process to obtain them as I wasn’t really a high enough level gardener but now they are living happily together in their own garden and all my pet desires are fulfilled. I also got some juicy gamerscore out of it.
A snapshot of my personally reared, rare piñatas. Aww aren’t they cute!
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