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Viva Piñata: Pocket Paradise (DS) Status: Stopped playing - Something better came along I started playing this game on Tuesday 22 November, 2022 // I stopped playing this game on: Wednesday 30 November, 2022
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November 30, 2022 02:44:02 PM
Here's another game I didn't spend too much time on, but enough to get a general vibe. It's definitely a "sim" game - you need to manage a bunch of stuff and so on, but it is structured in a way that seems rather straightforward - as in, the piñatas that appear have certain needs and will appear in a certain order. I recall that there was a TV show, but I was surprised that the game has lots of footage from what might be that TV show? Or maybe that was all in the original 360 games? Anyways, I was surprised by how much footage (it doesn't look great, tbh) there is in the game - and this is only for the tutorial missions and a little bit more. As I write this I guess I'm even more surprised that the IP seems to have disappeared entirely? As for the gameplay? Well, it's not the sort of thing that gets me excited, and I was think it's interesting how the savagery that's a part of the game (kill piñatas to feed the ones you have) remains front and center in the game. There's also some of that in how you can knock critters around with the spade and stuff.