Viva Pinata - GOTY. And I'm not kidding.

[TVC15]

Rare has finally made a great game worthy of their reputation!

Viva Pinata is like a mix of Sim City and Animal Crossing with some very light RTS-y type of stuff going on.  The controls work really well for how much there is to the game, but I still doubt this would make a great kid's game, unless the parent was helping them play.  Also, there's the content.

There's fucking.  There's lots of fucking.  And you can sell the spawn of said fucking to the Pinata Island black market.  Selling children, no shit!  What else can you do with your children?  You can fuck them and make more children.  Then you can sell those or maybe fuck them too.  When your Whirmls fuck, funk music plays, no joke.

So the game's got fucking and selling children.  What else does it have?  Lots of fighting.  You see, the pinatas don't like pinatas of other species. . .well, there is interspecial fucking, but that could just be hate fucking, like every inter-racial human relationship.  Anyway, the pinatas like to scrap with each other.  What happens when another pinata bites the curb?  He explodes into bits of candy which the other pinatas in the area rush to feast on!  Yes, this children's game features feasting on the entrails of the dead!

But Viva Pinata's cannibalism doesn't end there, oh no.  Some pinatas will only get in the mood if they eat another pinata (or a few) before the act.  Ritualistic cannibal sex!

Anyway, the game is fuck all awesome.  It's filled with fucking, cannibalism, ritualized sex, violence, and euthanasia.  Oh, I didn't mention the euthanasia?  Sometimes pinatas get sick.  When this happens, you can pay a doctor to come nurse them back to health.  That costs money, and some pinatas are so ubiquitous that it's not worth spending any money on them.  SO what are you left with?  Taking your trusty ol' shovel and beating them to death.  They explode into bits of candy and their siblings come and gladly devour their relation.

The game also features prescription drug abuse.  If certain animals require too many steps to get them to mate, you can go to the store and buy ROMANCE CANDY which puts them in the mood right away.  Yes, the game features viagra for pinatas!

So I've gotten two animals that produce offspring that fetch a high price, and I am constantly feeding them Viva Viagra to keep them screwing non-stop.  And then I sell their children and use the funds to purchase lavish clothing for my favourite pinatas.

Overall, game of the year.  Although I drew inspiration from other games above, that was only to point people towards common touchstones.  This game is unlike anything I've ever played, and I urge anyone that digs strategy and cute shit to give it a shot.   

[brawndolicious]

That's awesome.

[TVC15]

My Garden's name.


A Pinata with a special name.

[Oblivion]

You liked Animal Crossing?

[TVC15]

You liked Animal Crossing?

Not at all.  No real goals.  Viva Pinata keeps you moving forward with minigoals - like how to make certain pinata appear, or figuring out their mating requirements.  There's also leveling up in Viva Pinata.  Animal Crossing laid all it had out right from the start, and it didn't leave for a very interesting world to explore.

[Van Cruncheon]

This game sounds pretty fuckin' awesome -- as long as you reassure me that it's nothing like the godawful Animal Crossing games, I'm sure I'll dig it. Beating cute animals with shovels is GOOD GAME DESIGN in my book!

[MrAngryFace]

Hahah demifuck. I wanna get this game so I can name a pinata demifuck

[TVC15]

This game sounds pretty fuckin' awesome -- as long as you reassure me that it's nothing like the godawful Animal Crossing games, I'm sure I'll dig it. Beating cute animals with shovels is GOOD GAME DESIGN in my book!

Nope there are goals - and even better LEVELING.

It's kind of like a sandbox strategy game.  You figure out how to make them mate, and then you make the money. 

There doesn't appear to be any overall goal.  Like old god games, I'm not sure the game ends, although in the beginning, and old gardener mentions that there's this one Pinata he could never tame.

My garden is getting wild now.  The pinatas all hate each other so I'm fencing them off and building them pens. I've had to sacrifice a few because I had too many heads, but luckily there were other pinatas there ready to eat and fuck.  It's kind of like a sexier Auschwitz with candy.

[Van Cruncheon]

[Himu]

wtf

this sounds awesome and it was never ever on my watch list.

PINATA FUCKING OMG DOES CANDY COME OUT WHEN THEY COME?

[TVC15]

Some species of pinata just don't like others.  And nobody seems to get along with fudgehogs.  They are the black people of the game;  they even attack each other.  I just want them to make fuck so I can sell their babies!

[Vizzys]

This sounds AWESOME.

[BlueTsunami]

This game looks like it will be teaching kids important social issues

[MrAngryFace]

About SEX.

[Van Cruncheon]

especially that if a girl isn't horny, beat her brother with a shovel and make her eat the candy that falls out of him.

[cubicle47b]

What the fuck?  Hmmm, maybe I'll actually check this out.

[TVC15]

So late last night, I reached level 11 or so and my garden grew in area.  I knew this was going to happen eventually, so I had Camp Demi's Crauschwitz built up in a modular fashion so the coming expansion wouldn't throw things into chaos.

Unfortunately, the expansion added to the perimeter of the garden, a bit of land on each side.  My build plans only took into account the possibility that the land would be given to me in one big chunk, like say another lot to the north.  The expansion along the perimeter did throw things into chaos since I was using the original boundary points on the map as the back wall of some cages and pens.  In other words, a lot of the friskier and more deranged pinatas escaped.  Within moments of the expansion, Demi's Crauschwitz went from respectable to much, much worse:  something resembling the near-future race wars that will take place in LA.

I feebly tried to mediate.  I beat some of the worst offenders to death, but I had to face the facts:  the garden had fallen and would require massive changes.  Since so many pinatas were dead and wounded and in the midst of violence, I decided to move into less chilling territory for a pinata day or two - landscaping.

The new land had to be flattened and seeded, and the junk on it had to be busted up for chocolate coins.    This got me some much-needed capital for the future rebuilding.

Then the last thing I did was destroy that iteration of Demi's Crotch and sell off its inhabitants on the pinata black market.  It was a brilliant, beautiful failed social experiment.  Now the field where Demi's Crotch had been lies barren but bigger than it was when I first began, and now I shall start anew.

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[Phoenix Dark]

Wow you just sold me on this game. Impressive

[Human Snorenado]

Man, I need to get a job for sure now.  This game sounds like something I could sink untold happy weeks and months into.  Sexing captive pinatas only to beat them to death with shovel and then feed their innards to their progeny?  Where do I sign up?

[The Miles Trahan Burger Experiment]

"A sexier Auschwitz with candy."

 

[DJ_Tet]

I'm glad the game is every bit as fucked up as the cartoon.  I had never heard of Viva Pinata until this summer, when I stumbled upon the saturday morning FOX show.  I watched about five minutes of the show, which I was able to deduce the elephant pinata was sick.  A monkey pinata apparently sensed blood, and went to check up on his friend.  As the monkey looked in the window, the elephant rared back and sneezed a load right out the window.  This gooey load was candy of course, the monkey had an idea!  On the next sneeze, the monkey jumped up and caught a warm blast of candy right down his throat.  As he swallowed that, he was hit bukkakke style with excess sneeze/cum/candy that was too wide for his mouth.  I changed the channel, although I may one day go back.  I wasn't ready for all that with pinatas, and certainly not at 10 am.

[Mupepe]

I'm kind of embarassed to be excited for Viva Pinata.  It looks awesome. 

[Melissa]

TVC - Can I come visit your garden?  I can't wait until lvl 11 so I can drop a house for the illegals I've hired.

[MrAngryFace]

I CANNOT FIND THIS GAME I WANT IT

[Saint Cornelius]

This game increases my desire for a 360.

Phantom Dust BC would really make me go out and get one though

[a bell will ring]

It's definitely quite close to the 360 GOTY if nothing else.  Great game if not a little frustrating at times.  The pinata number limitation is annoying. 

[MrAngryFace]

Phantom Dust BC would be like a holiday.

[The Fake Shemp]

I never played Phantom Dust - I don't even know what it is.

[Human Snorenado]

I never played Phantom Dust - I don't even know what it is.

One of the best, most underrated Xbox games of all time EVER.

[Himu]

I'm glad the game is every bit as fucked up as the cartoon.  I had never heard of Viva Pinata until this summer, when I stumbled upon the saturday morning FOX show.  I watched about five minutes of the show, which I was able to deduce the elephant pinata was sick.  A monkey pinata apparently sensed blood, and went to check up on his friend.  As the monkey looked in the window, the elephant rared back and sneezed a load right out the window.  This gooey load was candy of course, the monkey had an idea!  On the next sneeze, the monkey jumped up and caught a warm blast of candy right down his throat.  As he swallowed that, he was hit bukkakke style with excess sneeze/cum/candy that was too wide for his mouth.  I changed the channel, although I may one day go back.  I wasn't ready for all that with pinatas, and certainly not at 10 am.

 

[MrAngryFace]

Its funny my bird pinata ate some sour candy from another pinata that was killed, and it just laid on the ground face first and a sickly shade of green till I called the doctor lol.

[VALIS]

Rare has finally made a great game worthy of their reputation!

Viva Pinata is like a mix of Sim City and Animal Crossing with some very light RTS-y type of stuff going on.  The controls work really well for how much there is to the game, but I still doubt this would make a great kid's game, unless the parent was helping them play.  Also, there's the content.

There's fucking.  There's lots of fucking.  And you can sell the spawn of said fucking to the Pinata Island black market.  Selling children, no shit!  What else can you do with your children?  You can fuck them and make more children.  Then you can sell those or maybe fuck them too.  When your Whirmls fuck, funk music plays, no joke.

So the game's got fucking and selling children.  What else does it have?  Lots of fighting.  You see, the pinatas don't like pinatas of other species. . .well, there is interspecial fucking, but that could just be hate fucking, like every inter-racial human relationship.  Anyway, the pinatas like to scrap with each other.  What happens when another pinata bites the curb?  He explodes into bits of candy which the other pinatas in the area rush to feast on!  Yes, this children's game features feasting on the entrails of the dead!

But Viva Pinata's cannibalism doesn't end there, oh no.  Some pinatas will only get in the mood if they eat another pinata (or a few) before the act.  Ritualistic cannibal sex!

Anyway, the game is fuck all awesome.  It's filled with fucking, cannibalism, ritualized sex, violence, and euthanasia.  Oh, I didn't mention the euthanasia?  Sometimes pinatas get sick.  When this happens, you can pay a doctor to come nurse them back to health.  That costs money, and some pinatas are so ubiquitous that it's not worth spending any money on them.  SO what are you left with?  Taking your trusty ol' shovel and beating them to death.  They explode into bits of candy and their siblings come and gladly devour their relation.

The game also features prescription drug abuse.  If certain animals require too many steps to get them to mate, you can go to the store and buy ROMANCE CANDY which puts them in the mood right away.  Yes, the game features viagra for pinatas!

So I've gotten two animals that produce offspring that fetch a high price, and I am constantly feeding them Viva Viagra to keep them screwing non-stop.  And then I sell their children and use the funds to purchase lavish clothing for my favourite pinatas.

Overall, game of the year.  Although I drew inspiration from other games above, that was only to point people towards common touchstones.  This game is unlike anything I've ever played, and I urge anyone that digs strategy and cute shit to give it a shot.   

You forgot the incest! My first 30 minutes into the game I breeded two Whirlms, obviously leaving me with three.. "and now to make more I have to... have to.... make the mama fuck her own baby?! Oh my!" It's awesome. A kid's game on the surface, but all manner of perversity and potential cruelty just barely below that.

[Mupepe]

I went looking for it last night and I couldn't find it 

[Melissa]

Post pics or videos of your garden if you're playing!  I want to see what other people are doing.

Koala Bear put up a video of his on OA, then I made a MUSIC VIDEO of mine: http://www.kirbyenthusiasm.com/vivapinata.wmv 21.5MB (2:28)

[Mupepe]

I just bought it!     I'll be online with it later, dode.

[Saint Cornelius]

I never played Phantom Dust - I don't even know what it is.

One of the best, most underrated XBOX games of all time EVER.

Watch THIS shit (youtube link). You won't understand it at first but it makes a seasoned PDer like myself totally wet.

Basic gist is this: before you go into battle, you assemble your "arsenal" (your deck, whatever) with attack, defense, special, erase, status & environmental skills (the game also has pre-made arsenals that people can agree to use, but the heart of the game is the modular aspect of arsenal building). Just about everything costs a little "aura" to use, and you have to have "aura particles" in your arsenal so that you can do shit! Like mana, if you're a Magic geek. So you have 30 slots to fill up with all the skills & aura particles you have aquired - out of over 240 skills altogether - and then you're ready for battle.

Then you have the options of 1-on-1, team (any combination up to 4P) and battle royale (every man & woman for themselves, up to 4P). There's variations on those games as well but for the sake of brevity, I won't get into that. The battle starts, and you have to pick up those floating orbs (assuming you've watched the video) so that you can DO shit - white orbs being aura, colored ones being skills. Once you get aura, it keeps replenishing (unless someone fucks with you but again, that just makes things longer) so if you have like, a laser that costs 2 aura, you have to get 2 of the aura particles, get the laser, then you can shoot the laser at your opponent, wait until you get 2 more aura, and do it again. In the meantime, you're picking up more skills and more aura, or you're rushing your opponents, or whatever. Many ways to play.

I will admit that I've been a Magic: The Gathering fan for a long time so this kinda shit appeals to me, but the ACTION is fucking intense, no matter WHAT kinda games you're into. The learning curve is a bit steep but the 1P game definitely takes you through all the different aspects of the game.

And it's only $20 NEW

The 360 HAS to get BC for Phantom Dust, so it can live on forever. It's just too ridiculously good to be some fringe game.

[GilloD]

This fucking game.  I have this garden and it's a little crazy, lots of romance candy going on, forced breeding. Whatever. But it's mostly under control. I have a couple of species hangin' out, Whirlms breedin' to be sold, Sparrowmints a fuckin' the trees. It's all good. I even have a pretty diverse flower population. Got a little pond, too.

And then 90 fucking shits start showing up and everyone wants something different and there are like 11 Sparrowmints and the Fudgehog is fucking killing everything it sees, the Moth-y bitches won't eat and the snakes hate romance candy, so what the fuck. I need like 19 fuckin' arms to play this game. Shit would drive Deep Blue crazy.