What Happened To The Viva Piñata Franchise?
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- Опубліковано 13 січ 2023
- Rare's Viva Piñata is a staple of many Xbox 360 player's childhoods. Still, while the game itself is excellent, the franchise never quite took off and became as big as it perhaps could've been. w00fa takes a look at the history of the Viva Piñata franchise, offering his thoughts on the game and it's underrated nature.
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With today's technology, imagine what they could do. Perhaps Viva Pinata but you collect Pinatas around the world in different biomes you unlock, kinda like Bug Snax but more focus on gardening and building around on your main area.
After you collect enough on a new biome, you unlock new pinatas and some of the old and new pinatas will sometimes appear walking in your garden through a built landmass bridge.
We can only imagine what they'd do with it now. Fingers crossed we get to find out one day.
im thinking more like pokemon in a way but u have these small to large scale farms around the map you can buy and design in which you lure the pinata's in the area in by. each area caters to the pinata's around it and has some way to convert over other items you dont find in certain areas to those farms while dealing with professor pestor minons.
you could actually get the minions on your side and help you in viva pinata (the 1st trouble in paradise one).
BUGSNAX is a top tier game 10/10
I just want you to know, this reply was added to the "Held For Review" section for being potentially innappropriate. Idk why I found that so funny.
dont forget beautiful ray tracing falling through the blades of grass in the morning sun
This game was frickin addicting like please we need a remaster of this game, the mechanics where so fun as a kid and I love all the quirky characters and it’s clear how much love that went into this making the game, this gameplay is honestly something modern farm sims are missing (honestly I didn’t even know the tv show existed I just saw the box art in the game store and thought it looked hella hype)
Yeah it does feel different to anything else I’ve played. Someone said we’re getting a TIP “Ultimate Edition” type release in 2025 but idk how true that is
We can only hope!
I would love that, I was addicted to the ds game and would love something similar for switch
It's the only game that i keep thinking at least once a year, evene if the last time i played it was like 15 years ago? what a gem!
I'am really happy that there is a community willing a new chapter of this game
Yeah it's great, and I don't know if it's just because I've revisited it but it does feel like to me that it is having a little resurgence in these last couple years.
yeah its one of the games i passionately ever played in the sense of it never leaves my memmory either. i think this game, rainbow six 3, shadow the hedgehog on the original xbox as well, banjo kazooie nuts and bolts, black ops 2, old school minecraft, just dance 3 from the wii, black ops 1 zombies which ive only played on the wii and boom boom rocket from the 360 arcade and oh wait alex the kid and uno and feeding frenzy 1 and 2 make it into my mind as well, are all close to my heart that i keep coming back to or will never forget.
im happy that activision is now partnered with microsoft as well now because the older black ops games are potentially being revived now after 15 years because they have mostly fixed the matchmaking problems on those games.
you might hate the TV show but you cannot lie that the theme song was a BOP
Ok yeah I can agree with that even though I did not enjoy the show the theme song has not left my head since I first saw it many moons ago.
nah man it kinda sucks lol
filled with fun
@@galatechsuts8877 filled with fun
Viva Pinata feels a lot like a Disney Channel show similar to Emperor's New School
As a longtime VP player, one of the other things I've always loved about the franchise that I don't see many people talk about is the character drama and lore. Dastardos secretly being Leafos' brother, (Why is that never mentioned by anyone in-universe???) Costalot and Leafos being sassy ICONS, Miss Petula constantly being disgruntled about having to work at her shop and not giving a shit, Bart and Fannie having a thing for each other, Doc being an absolute disaster, and Seedos just being... Seedos. Every character, journal entry, and bit of gossip really makes the world feel rich and vibrant. As a kid, I often wished I could interact more with the characters, and journey into town to help them resolve plotlines. :) Besides that, the aesthetics of the game are some of my personal favorite with the vibrant masks, rich Incan imagery, and calming soundtrack. (which I am PISSED is not on Spotify, by the way)
cause its practically illuded to in the game anyway if you talk to leafoss enough times. she basically gives you hints to every stage of the game. i do get what you mean though, its something i feel like matpat could get onto because it is actually quite a complex story and lore to such a childish simple game meant to have fun look cute and have a progression system there for replayability. the main reasons why i managed to know pretty much everything about the game was thanks to talking to leafos. when i was stuck i would just chat to her to see what things shed come out and give me clues to. "have you ever fed a whirlm a turnip?" type of dialogue.
Yeah this game has a shocking amount of depth under the surface. Not just in gameplay mechanics but also stuff like that behind the scenes drama
Also a reason why I preferred original to TiP
not a joke: leafos was my sexual awakening
I LOVED viva piñata back as a kid. It was fun how you could feed them random shit to change their colors, not sure if that was in both games
Yeah that's in both games yeah. Like give em a turnip and you'll get a purple variant n shit like that.
@@w00faYT yeee, i was obsessed with the bee piñata and even had all the wildcard variants of them
The thing i didnt like was that the garden felt small especially when you had the huge dragon fella. And how some piñatas kept fighting each other, kid me just wanted the goshdarn cat and dog at the same time
@@Ihazfunkitty Yeah I get that. Like any time you wanted to have hippos in your garden it felt like you had to evict a bunch of other pinatas to make room
i do believe it was, i played the second game at some point although not long as i didnt really like it and it was one of the 1st things i had ever checked.
did you know how to get a redhott early game though?
@@Ihazfunkittytrue, once I tried to keep the frogs and the Axolotls in the same garden (I hate the frogs now, I kept the Axolotls)
Theres a REALLY high quality fangame being made called Return to Paradise that is so faithful to the original games. I highly recommend checking it out
Oh damn never heard of it (I'm not particularly active in the community just a childhood fan). I'll definitely check it out.
is there a trailer for it? or a steam page? all I can find are some videos with like 2k views
@Scroolewse yea its still early development, not even any full gameplay yet, only really a discord server
i’d do ANYTHING for the second coming of this game
So many of us would 💔
Viva Piñata was a really underrated classic. I really loved the show and always looked forward to watching it every Saturday morning.
even though it is not very possible for the next game to happen, this franchise will always play a big role in my heart and watching all the smaller ytubers saying the same thing is heartbreaking.
Yeah it feels like the game really impacted the community a lot considering it is somehow considered obscure.
could all try to ask rare ltd if they could or if we can get some petition going for the game to come out, its probally a perfect time for them as weve grown up and want a new game of it and theres a ton of new kids they can cater to in which theyve not even heard of 90% of the older games before from 10 to 15 years ago.
@@unboxing_legend7708oh my gosh yes I need a new Viva pinata game, I want Noot the wizard to be in higher resolution
@@NootandBoots idk who noot is. i only played the one in this video. i did touch the other one but i didnt enjoy it as much with the exploring multiple biomes of to find certain pinata's.
@@unboxing_legend7708 I just slapped a wizard hat on a newtgat, named it Noot and made it my UA-cam pfp
I've literally never heard of Trouble in Paradise wtf, it looks gorgeous
It is stunning and adds so much to the game. Could not recommend it enough if you liked the first one
@@w00faYT aw man, when I was around 10 in my Xbox 360 days, I absolutely loved viva piñata but my disc broke. My mum bought me a new one but it was the wrong one, it was trouble in paradise. Tried it out and it was way too different to stomach, and rlly wasn’t a fan of the dessert or the different mechanics… maybe I should have given it a chance. 😭
@@brydie191 Yeah tbh it is very very similar just with more stuff. The early game is quite different cos it's introducing you to all of the new stuff, but once you get into it it's really the same thing but with those extra biomes to bring a whole load of new stuff to your garden.
If you have an xbox 1 it's on gamepass! ^^
its basically when the cusp of games having fully fledged and long drawn out stories started becoming popular. it was a game that essentially has no end but kinda does, all the pinata's are moreless meant to be named after sweets and the animal/insect they are, it has a full hidden story and backstories to characters in the game and like you said looks gorgeous which is imo still the best looking/pleasing game ever or at least in its genre. at the time, it was the only game like it that stood out but people never really knew about.
I didn’t play these games as a kid bc no guns or blood but as an adult... wow it is so satisfyingly relaxing. In a world that never stops turning, games like viva piñata are my new Halo
Yeah as someone who wasn’t allowed to play shooters at that point, I was happy enough with Piñatas
The wait for the next Viva Piñata game feels like waiting for the second coming of Chris.
It seriously does. At least in the way that it will probably never happen :(
As a Pikmin fan I'd say first time but we have our savior returned to us
Chris Chan?
Who tf is Chris?
Bahaha I was thinking the same thing. This game has Chirs Chan lvls of obsessed neard written all over it.@@angelrosas3724
when i refound this game, I was just hit with the biggest wave of nostalgia! Viva Piñata, Spore, and Pikmin are all underrated old gems, and all of which I'd love to see current day remakes of
although i was around for skylanders pikmin which is one ive never heard of, spore and another game called spyro, i never played any of those games, never got the chance and didnt ever seem like my kind of thing either. maybe one day.
The day we get another viva pinata game is the day the world is healed. I played this game for liek 2 years straight, and I remember finally finding out how to make the chocolodacus. good times man
I wish for that day, though unfortunately I doubt the world will ever be healed.
I absolutely love Viva Pinata. It's one of my favourite games. I was playing it as a child and I still do from time to time on my Xbox 360. I always wondered why such a lovely game was completely forgotten and all of it's potential has gone to waste. Personally I think that it could have been as popular as Animal Crossing if only the people responsible cared enough to continue it.
I think a big part of it is cos it’s an Xbox exclusive. It’s the type of thing that would really appeal to the Nintendo audience or even if it was just more accessible on PC.
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What the actual fudge!? I made that!
NO WAY! Seriously? You actually made that image?
@@w00faYT
Yep! That was actually a cover from a scrapped Viva Piñata Fanfic on Wattpad that explores what would happen if Fergy lost his memories and thought he was a Cluckles due to having the same Cluckle Legs he had in the episode Legs.
That’s incredible. I’m glad I was able to give you the surprise of seeing that pop up outta nowhere and thank you for making this work of art.
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You're welcome! Between you and me, I prefer Fergy Fudgehog's design in Legs. I don't know why, but something about Fergy having different legs just makes sense to me for some reason. XD
@@chippy2023 I think I read that fic actually lol, it was called Fergy Cluckles
Ayyy another Viva Pinata enjoyer, you love to see it
I will pass out if they ever announce a new one.
Finally a youtuber who covers a series in less than 5 minutes and not just 50 minutes like we keep on getting all the time.
In my mid teens to early adult years I was really into Viva Pinata series ALL OF IT! I doubt I'll ever like this series as I used to personally especially the TV show (yes I liked that... I should be crucified for that).
Ngl I must confess I enjoyed the TV Show when I was a kid and was maybe a little harsh in this vid. And yeah thanks appreciate it, I tend to find I personally don’t have the time to watch long ass videos so that ends up being the sorta length I make.
I friggin’ loved the TV series! I miss those days…
I loved the music of this game the peace Id feel listening to the night time music as I watched plants slowly grow or a pinata scurrying around is deeply ingrained in my psyche
Oh yeah fr I still chuck on the OST when I gotta do work that requires too much attention for a podcast but not enough for silence
The fact this came out 8 days ago, and I restarted the game a few days before that is ... interesting. 🤔
And I'll admit, I'm one of the freaks who likes the show. It still makes me laugh with how damn goofy it is.
Oh it is goofy as hell and I can understand falling on it's good side but personally it really sours my shellybean.
I STILL actively play viva pinata to this day (Xbox version) About to play it as I write this and have played it since I was 4. I’m absolutely in love with this game and it’s rather sad to see SO MANY GLITCHES that I have to WORK AROUND to play it. Even still I will never give it up. It always has a place in my heart.
You might already know but some ppl in the comments for my vid have mentioned a Trouble In Paradise “ultimate edition” type thing with some potentially new content coming for current gen consoles in 2025. Idk if it’s confirmed yet but it seems very possible.
omg really?! no way that would be absolutely amazing!@@w00faYT
Dude, I still have my copy of Trouble In Paradise and has more than wheelbarrows worth of gardens, wildcard pinatas and dragons in my posession. Glad to see someone else still showing appreciation to one of my favourite childhood games
Yeah it's got a really really strong core community of people with such great memories of it. It's just a shame it didn't reach as wide an audience as similar toned games like Animal Crossing, otherwise who knows maybe we'd have more of them... :(
@@w00faYTyea, I do agree with ya. I honestly thought the franchise would be more popular ngl. :o
@@V3r0nicle To be honest I always assumed it was way bigger as a kid, and only now looking back as an adult and talking with friends have I learned it was actually pretty niche.
I dont think Ive ever had anyone who has expressed my thoughts on the TV show so simply and exactly. This is a great video, I'm loving the small wave of creators showing love to Viva Pinata
Also, I must know, as a HUGE vp fan but also sort of the community loremaster/biggest vp nerd, where did you get this TIP cover promo from? 2:25
Thank you for the kind words! Yes the game deserves some more exposure hopefully it can have a bit of a resurgence. The clip at 2:25 is from the E3 2008 Trailer (2), about fifteen seconds in. Also glad to hear a shared opinion on the show.
@@w00faYT Ive been trying for a while to give the game a proper one, Ive got a few big videos in the works myself to hopefully point some people in the right direction.
thanks for the tip on the clip!
@@SlurpyTheDog Yo I'll chuck a sub and keep an eye out for those vids.
@@w00faYT ill sub to you as well, your stuff is seeming pretty damn nice
@@SlurpyTheDog Much appreciated. What sub count I gotta get to to earn a collab? aha
If they make a sequel they could easily top it by adding things like weather changes and seasons, making some Piñatas much more easier to get in Summer but rare in Winter, maybe adding enviromental disasters like storms and tornados (which can also atract rare Piñatas) and so on.
Yeah that all sounds sick. Tbh I’d be happy with just a PC re-release of TIP but that all sounds so good.
This game was a masterpiece and I so, so desperately want a remaster. At the very least what we got was truly incredible, so I'll stay happy about that.
So many of us dream of living to see that day.
Didn’t look down at the creator and assumed this was like a 300k subscriber channel because it flowed that well. Nice job!!
Yo thank you much appreciated!
I remember viva piñata and now it’s my favorite game trouble in paradise is my comfort game now and I’m flipping 10 in 2024
If it gets a Steam release I’ll 100% be returning to it
I still have TIB and play it all the time, a forever comfort game
Damn this is a trip down memory lane, I remmeber how addicted as a kid I was to the first one and then finding out the second one was coming out with that trailer of showing off camels etc. I was addicted to taking turns breeding different animals and getting the rarest variants. Then i'd make an online garden and sell them to other people. The nostalgia watching any of these vids is crazy. So sad it's been abandoned, pray for the day they make another.
Idk how real it is but ppl in these comments do talk of a next gen re-release of TIP coming in 2025
@@w00faYT Really? Im gonna look into it. I hope if it does it also goes on PC
@@0xmoo Yeah you'd think it would. I haven't seen anything solid about it but enough people have mentioned it in the comments for it to at least be considered a rumour.
I LOVE Viva Pinata and Trouble In Paradise! They are one of my favourite games!
I adore this game, Im getting an xbox series just to play the enhanced version on Rare Replay.
It was my childhood and I have fond memories of it. Im glad to see you're video getting more views, we need more people to know of this game. Hopefully Microsoft gets a hint that it would do well with the same market where games like Animal Crossing, Stardew Valley, etc, are well received. Happy to see others who share the same fondness for this gem! 😊
Yeah this has been my best performing video by a mile just consistently getting 50 or so views a day for the past 9 months, and it’s been very clear from all the comments that a new Viva Piñata would be cherished by at least this small community
I love viva piñata I still play it to this day. I wish I could send boxes to more players.
Yeah same. Hopefully some day we'll get another installment or even just fanmade servers opening for the original games when they become abandonware 🤷♂
First one I played was pocket paradise. A couple years back I got an xbox and saw Trouble in Paradise was in the library. I love it, definitely has a lot more meat to it compared to the DS version.
thank you for making a video about this. this game was a huge part of my childhood and i’m glad i randomly remembered about it today. id do anything to be able to fix my old xbox 360 and load my game up again.
Yeah same here, my 360 has passed away too :( Glad that it’s backwards compatible though
@@w00faYTno way i didn’t know that. maybe i’ll see if i can play it again!
Yeah stick the disc in a later gen console and it’ll work
I played it on release day with my dad. I still think the early Xbox rareware games hold up so well they look great still
Yeah they do. 360 Rare was so good with things like this and Kameo.
Viva Piñata was my first Xbox game and I played the shit out of it as a kid! I loved it to pieces. Even my dad ended up addicted to breeding and collecting the little piñata. I’m so sad that they didn’t do more games for it.
There’s been some talk about a Trouble In Paradise re-release coming in 2025 so who knows maybe it’s not over
My dad bought the first gardening game when I was ten and I sank so many hours into my garden. I still kind of wish I completed everything in the game before my Xbox 360 died
It is backwards compatible on Xbox One and current gen consoles if ya still have the disc
I remember watching a couple episodes of it before it never showed up again, and well that changed my life for better or worse. I’m blanking on which Xbox version I borrowed but MAN did I love the game so much
Eh I don’t know if it’s for better or worse. The show was enjoyable enough as a kid but looking back on it and reflecting, the quality was not high. Still yes the games are great
I never played this game but I remember being very impressed by its colors and graphics when it came out.
Yeah honestly it still looks really nice, just has such a strong art style.
I played th demo mode so much on an Xbox 360 acade demo pack, I only had the demo until I was 14-15 and I've been playing viva pinata since I was 6, I was so unbelievable happy when I got the full game and played it for months, now I can play both as well as the sequel
We all had that one game demo we played way too much before actually buying the game. For me that was Wall-E 360.
I will always support viva piñata and make any point to show people how good it was for its time and how much it still holds up
Yeah tbh TIP it could release today on Switch exactly how it is, completely unchanged, and would probably be received really well
Viva Pinata 1 was one of the first 360 games I experienced when I was playing it with my best friend on his xbox before I even owned a 360. I wasn't able to buy a 360 until High school a year before the xbox One released. I bought viva pinata from gamestop got a weird look for the clerk and went home to play it. After playing it for a couple hours my friend from high school (different person from the friend from earlier as he moved two states away a year after I met him) called me "gay" for playing it. So whenever I wanted to play that game I always put myself to Offline and played for a little bit but eventually I stopped playing it entirely. What changed was when the Rare Replay released and I was able to play it again as a college student but a part of me always felt some sort of shame in playing it so Rare Replay was abandoned. Yet MORE time passed and I graduated from my university with a Masters Degree and I finally reinstalled Rare Replay with the plan to get all achievements. I plan on 100% 1 arcade game for 1 3d game. I 100% jetpac first completing all milestones and all snapshots as well as any achievement related to it. Then I turned my eyes to Viva Pinata a game I was always ashamed to play but this time I didnt care. I am currently sick with Bronchitis right now so I have been isolating myself and playing Viva Pinata non stop. I tamed a Dragonache for the first time, I encountered professor pestor who made my life hell for a time, I tamed every sour pinata and I am currently 8 achievements away from 100% the game essentially earning the xbox equivalent of the platinum. It has been an enjoyable experience and I am really sad I let the judgement of others get in the way of enjoying this game. I wish they would make another viva pinata...
Yeah but hey on the bright side you got to experience it all for the first time now. Does suck that that sorta chat stopped you from playing it before tho
@@w00faYT yeah when I was in high school my friend refused to participate in anything that he deemed anything to be "not manly." I tried to get him to watch a musical one time and he called the thing gay because I guess he didn't like the idea of guys singing on stage. Now he is older, married and has a daughter and claims he doesnt care what peoples interests are and I have reached a point in my life where I stopped caring about what people thought of me. We both matured in our own way but a part of me is still upset I let other peoples perception control what I did.
I'm one of the few who loved the Viva Pinata cartoon. Rest in piece 4kids TV, you went too soon.
If it’s true that there are only a few of you, then this comments section must be the secret hideout cos it seems to have a hell of a lot of traffic from the show’s admirers.
i had this game on 360 as a kid, and then one day the cd got scratched and i was so, so devastated. This game was so good
Shoulda used this as an excuse to get TIP
@w00faYT the scratched cd was TIP, and even if i wanted to play it again im a pc gamer now 😭
I feel like I'm the only person who genuinely enjoyed the TV Show growing up. Although it might've been because I had a crush on Paulie 😅
Based on a decent chunk of the comments for this video, I'd say you're definitely not alone in liking the TV Show, and probably not alone in your liking towards Paulie just sayin
I know that I’m late to the video but I wanted to say as well all the hours I spent playing viva piñata and the amazing time I had. Due to loving dinosaurs as well, after I saw a sketch of a velociraptor in piñata form when I was a kid, I have always dreamed of a game that would probably never come to fruition. Sorry for the ramble but I love this franchise even if I started late!
Yeah it does feel different to anything else I’ve played. Someone said we’re getting a TIP “Ultimate Edition” type release in 2025 but idk how true that is
Bro you should fr send rare a letter or something and be my hero. Viva piñata has been on my mind for the past couple months and I need to play it but I don’t own my Xbox 360 anymore. We need a new game RNN!!!
There’s a solid little community begging for a new one. While I doubt it’ll ever happen, there’s always a chance. We can hope.
there's a group of people that have been working on a fangame (that abides by the Terms and conditions laid out by Microsoft) for a few years now called "Return to Paradise". They Have a lot planned including around 300 new pinatas with a new jungle biome to trap species in along with a second garden you can create in the ocean with a lot of new aquatic species. Both the land and ocean garden's max size is going to be iirc 2.5X the size of the old game's max garden space to accompany all of the new possibilities. New plants and decorations. A brand new story. A game made by fans for fans.
Despite seeming like a lot of content, they plan on releasing the game with only a fraction of what's planned and slowly releasing more content over time.
Damn this is exciting. Any idea when it could be out?
@@w00faYT It's open source so there's no real ETA, BUT they are also releasing the engine for people to use either for mod or their own fangames. The engine consists of a lot of options for how you want items, shops, and even pinatas to work. Plug in what you want and the assets you've made, and allow the engine to do the rest. Little to no coding required.
Wow, I love this game and definitely thought it was based on this show that I changed the channel from whenever it came on.
When you say that you mean when the show came on you would switch to another channel cos you didn’t want to watch the show?
THE MUSIC in these games. Still makes me emotional
Yeah fr it’s a nostalgia hit but then also beautiful music regardless of the connection we have to it.
Man a game where you just smash pinatas would probably be fun. You could upgrade your bat for faster smashing. The pinatas would get harder and harder
Pretty much Cookie Clicker?
Such an amazing game, even now Ill hook up the Xbox just to play. Because of the unique style the graphics still hold up wonderfully. I know a new game will likely never come, but it is nice to imagine what crazy mechanics and designs they could put into a game built for newer consoles.
A months ago i was taken aback when I turned on the radio and the station was doing a tribute to winter themed video game music. I was nearly in tears as VP's "Winter Shinies" played. From the animations to the music, Viva Pinata was such an incredible game, Im sad that it doesn't didn't get very popular, but still thankful that it was such a fun part of my childhood!
Yeah it definitely holds a special place in a lot of hearts and tbh I think if they dropped one during Covid even if it was just a re-release of TIP, it coulda exploded
Yeah this game ate my hours, I served myself up on a plate for the first, and then when TIP came out, it was over, solidifying it as one of my all-time favourite games. Nothing will ever bring me joy like tending to my paper mache friends, and nothing will bring me greater fear than Dastaros' slow, ethereal float over to claim one of my friends for the candied afterlife.
Yeah the original was great and then TIP just became life-consuming.
I think about this game from time to time, that thing really had heart, Something most AAA games today lack. Crazy to think it came free with forza2 buying the xbox 360 bundle.
Damn that's a sick bundle. Could go months on just those two.
im probally one of the more knowledgable people out there that know about viva pinata (the 2006 game) so if anyone has questions i should be able to answer them. i may have missing parts of my memmory though about the game. havant played it actively enough for alot of years.
As a kid, Professor Pestor reminds me of Lord Farquaad
Got that same cuck energy.
I really wish the second game had a similar start to the first. There was a lot of fun potential when wacking the soil/statues to keep some broken stuff for decoration
Yeah I also feel like that start feels more satisfying to grow your garden from. Still, I am definitely a believer that TIP is better by a mile
Both the original game and Trouble in Paradise are included in Rare Replay. There's also a free-to-play fangame currently in the works.
I’ve also been told an official TIP next-gen re-release is coming in 2025 but I don’t know how much truth there is to it.
Viva piñata is still available to be played on PC via cloud gaming on Xbox though u need a membership subscription
I remember always wanting to play this
Trouble in paradise one of my top games such a gem
For sure it feels like such a complete package
I can proudly say, this was my first ever game series I've ever played.
It’s my fourth behind American Wasteland, Lego Star Wars and Kameo. All great games.
I hope there will be a new viva piñata game one day. I would play this game for weeks on end. The best piñatas to me is the sherbat and robean 🦇🐦.
Same. My favourite has gotta be sour macaraccoon. Love those fellas
not me getting hella heated when prof pester would come and kill my pinatas
Just replayed the first part, the only part I played as a child back then together with party animals and what should I say. The current version you can find for download is just as amazing as it was in my memory the game even today on a 4k screen looks really good. If you wanna go all in start from the first game its really worth it.
Yeah it slaps. Personally I'd recommend starting with TIP just cos a lot of it is the same but with more content and features, but yeah also someone who would enjoy TIP would definitely enjoy the original as well. Great games.
I am late but im almost crying because i used to not be able to play my childhood favorite game viva pinata i remember playing it i love it it needs to come back its so good and im checking 10-15 dollars for it
Good luck. I hope you find a way to cop it.
thanks for encouraging me to bring out my xbox 360 again after 4 years
also i'd love a sequel with more garden space, piñatas and less "yOuR GaRdeN iS geTtIng tOo CroWDed" when i still have half of the space in my garden remaining
Yo good to hear a 360 still alive. And yeah if we ever get another one I feel like all of the garden restrictions being a lot more open would be massive
I lived this game so much on the DS! Played it nonstop until i got all achievements and 100%. Took ages to get the 2 Yetis so i could breed them lol
Loved the Unicorn, Wolf and Dragon
Bruh u just realised... i was 9 years old when i played it... i am 24 now😭😭 i feel so old now lmao😂
Yep I’m in the same boat realising I was 6 when I first played it and am now 21. It still holds up so well for how old it is.
Listen to the soundtrack of this game and I promise all the memories and childhood peace will come back, you'll almost cry
Yeah it hits just as hard as the Minecraft OST
I played a surprising amount of Viva Piñata as a middle school boy, looooool. It was seriously good. Still praying for another.
Yeah it’s such a nice time sync. There’s a fanmade one happening that’s supposed to be pretty hype but yeah I doubt we’ll see another one from Rare sadly.
I played this game a lot when I was a kid! Me and my friends still wonder what happened to it, and think another game should come out, the old console we play it on won't last forever
Unfortunately my 360 has passed away :(
Hey, Everwild could be the new Viva Piñata from Rare. Might be revealed the 11 of June if we're lucky enough. ❤
If this is a true I’m gonna lose my mind
As a kid I had the PC version and couldnt save so I started a new file like every day and was excited how far I'd come every time oh man I miss it 😭😭😭😭
Bruh idk how to say this but there isn’t a PC version. Other than emulating a 360 on PC idk what you had but I doubt that’s what you were doin and idek if it was possible at the time.
@@w00faYT I own "Games for Windows Viva Pinata PC DVD" that's why I couldn't save since you needed an account :( (from my memory as a kid) maybe it just came out in Europe? since mine is German idk :V It's 16 bucks on Amazon
Viva piñata party animal was my favourite and i respect you opinion 0:12
I loved this game as a kid. I used to play it all the time with my brother. Trouble in Paradise even added multi-player which was great if you had siblings. I never have seen the TV show but I couldn't stop laughing when I saw that clip. My brother and I used to watch the stranger danger video in the game as kids a ton because we thought it was a fun short film. Rare is actually making a viva pinata trouble in paradise deluxe for the Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and PlayStation. It's supposed to be released in 2025.
Oh for real? That’s insane so good to hear. I’m definitely gonna be buying that when it comes out. Hopefully they add more stuff to it and it isn’t just a remaster cos the game still looks great as is tbh. Would be sick.
The Viva Piniata franchise is like the spore franchise, one abandoned because of low sales (though with Spore it was also because EA rushed Maxis to make the female which resulted in a worse product).
Also love Spore and it's been sitting on the list of things to make a video about for a couple months now.
@@w00faYTThere is no game franchise that hurt me more when it died than Spore. I put hundreds of hours into spore and it's Galactic Adventures variant of the game, specifically the Space Stage. No game feels the same as spore, it was built different in a good way. EA did Maxis real dirty with this one.
If I can have Trouble in Paradise without getting kneecapped by the garden space system, I would be in cloud nine
Well apparently we might be getting a next gen console re-release in 2025, and I'd imagine if it's not just the exact same game again, that would be one of the easiest/first things changed
@@w00faYT I can imagine it now, a Viva Pinata that isn’t all “you have 8 pavement tiles and Seedos in your garden, you have no more space for piñatas”
…One can dream, right?
@@AtillaTheFun1337 Yes, we can dream.
ok ngl the party animals game was fun for what it was trying to be, i remember my entire family competed in that game, i still own a copy.
Yeah I have fond memories of it as a child. I revisited it recently and couldn’t really get into it but it was fun as a kid actually
Few months or weeks ago…I tried to play this game again a few times……i just couldn’t continue…..I did manage to get some piñata’s and level up a little bit…..but I just couldn’t continue……..I’m guessing that’s the result of growing up.
Yeah I get that. It’s a pretty sad feeling. Had the same experience with Lego Star Wars
I've never played this game I had a classmate in elementary school once that had this guide book on the game that she would read during class I read a few pages out of it when she wasn't looking because I found it fascinating I wish this game had a pc port so I could play it I've seen it be compared to wobbledogs which is another game I'm really into
I’ll have to check out wobbledogs. Never heard of it.
I remember when I was like 8 I loved viva pinata 1 xbox 360 and brought me back when I watched this it was such a good interesting memory.
Yeah I was obsessed with these games when I was around that age and then forgot about em for like 10 years until recently. One of those rare franchises from childhood that actually holds up upon revisiting.
damn, i remember watching this game a long time ago at some small yt channel. Nostalgy
1:24 dude wtf the show was amazing
You’re not alone in thinking that. Probably the only two comments this video gets are either “they better make another VP game” or “bruh the show was good.”
As long as we keep reminding Rare we could get the golden third game soon
Honestly
when i ran the original Viva Pinata after suffering to download it somehow for so long
I was suprised by how good the Graphics were
And then i realized there was a Sequel
And that Sequel was the Thing i used to play as a Kid
I couldnt read yet but like
Yeah in my opinion there’s no real reason to play the original with TIP, cos TIP is just more a less a more dense version.
I Adore TIP with all my heart. Its ny go to chill game and the fact its not on steam is heartbreaking
Yeah probably the most chill game I’ve played for sure
I think the games were just ahead of their time. I think if they were to have come out in the mid 2010s they would've done much better. Fantastic games, I need to play them again
Yeah they were a decade or two early on the whole comfort games trend
As a person who also looooooved the first Viva Piñata….I’m so upset! I didn’t know anything about Trouble in Paradise until JUST NOW 😭😭😭!
Yo, this is a good thing. Now you get to experience a brand new bigger, better VP game years later.
@@w00faYT very very true! Thanks for bringing it to my attention 🙌!
I only had the free trial, my Xbox was left on 3 days at a time. I loved this game
I didnt even know it was a game originally 😭
😭 comments like this are why I am willing to be overly negative towards the show
Game is so good, but it needed more space in every garden. Hated that it boiled down to having an empty garden to fit your pinatas
Yeah I feel like that’s one of the big things that would be different if they made a new one today with current tech capabilities.
ngl i didnt know the show was based on the game. i really liked the game.
I love this game. Currently playing TIP
Love to hear it. TIP is top tier.
Viva pinata is amazing. I love it due to how Pokemon-like it is, and just how much effort and love was put into the games. I saw a bit of the show too, which was cursed but clearly had passion put into it. Amazing what an underrated gem this is.
(p.s. thanks for reminding me to revisit my Trouble in Paradise island)
No worries, glad to get you back in the garden. And yeah the show is no doubt cursed but I will agree the people behind it were clearly having a good time
@@w00faYT haha yeah, no doubt
I was unfortunately one of those kids who thought the videogame was just an adaptation of the tv show, which put me off playing the game, until one day I got a hold of the demo for the game, played it and thought it was... Ok? In all honesty, viva pinata is obviously not my type of game, but the fact I even got any enjoyment out of a game from a genre I'm completely uninterested in, speaks volumes to how good the game must have been. After watching this video, I kinda wish they'd make a new entry in the franchise for next gen consoles. I'd buy it, just to give the game another shot and see if my adult self would like it more than my kid self did.
Honestly if you have game pass, Trouble In Paradise is on there and imo still holds up great (and I’m pretty sure as next-gen enhancements) so if you have any interest I’d recommend checking that out cos who knows, but I do not feel hopeful about ever getting a new game in the franchise.
You know what though as a 8/9 year old party animals was my shit bc it was one of our only games that really had multi-player (plus iirc if the first game had multi-player it was too annoying to deal with to be worth it)
Yeah that's fair. I always enjoyed racing games for multiplayer but yeah Party Animals was probably one of the only party-game style games the xbox had.
Me! I enjoyed the show it's why I wanted the game as a kid. And then subsequently bought the original and it's sequel twice as an adult
Yeah the game’s so good and tbh I did enjoy the show when I was a kid but in retrospect it doesn’t hold up compared to other shows I enjoyed at that age.
@@w00faYT oh fully agree. I just remember enjoying it as a kid. Which means I'll probably never revisit the show and keep that memory untainted