Hey everyone! Just wanted to say thank you for all the support with this video. I poured my heart and soul into it, and im really happy to have been able to rekindle some of your love for the game. Ill make a second video on TIP 100 days at some point…definitely before the end of the year. Also thank you all for the likes and subs! Really means a lot❤️

I haven't forgotten this game. It traumatized me. It taught me about amarican healthcare and I cried so much because i couldn't afford medicine for my sick piñatas that my mom took the game away.

Viva piñata is ez until you realize your addicted to it

As someone who put way too many hours into this game, here are some answers to questions and general tips I learned from the wiki: 1. The more of a piñata you have, the less amount of lives you get during the romance minigame. Having two of a piñata gives you 5 lives, three piñatas give you 4 lives, etc down to 1 life. That's why the Flutterscotch minigame only gave you one life. 2. The game considers trees to take up a LOT of space. If you are having space issues, consider selling/getting rid of a tree. You can also see what is taking up space in the journal. 3. The shovel head is meant to let you whack Dastardos with your shovel to temporarily stun him, giving you more time to deal with sick piñatas. There's also the Dastardos Scarer that you see at the end of the video, that also increases the amount of time it takes for Dastardos to enter the garden. Some piñatas can also help stall Dastardos, you can find a list of those online. 4. If you have a Candary wear a gas mask, they will go into the mine with the Diggerlings. I'm not sure if they increase Dragonache chance, but it's something to try if you're still trying to get the egg from the mine. 5. A lot of people have talked about Professor, so I'll quickly reiterate that you can pay him 500 coins as a "bribe" and he will leave your garden. There is also a Captain's Cutlass item for sale at Ivor's: having this in your garden will prevent the Professor AND all Ruffians from entering the garden. 6. I believe the visual bug is due to how Rare Replay emulates the 360 for Viva Piñata and TiP. I've found the best way to get rid of it is to completely close and reopen the game. If anyone knows any helpful tips I've missed, please post a comment! I'll also post if I think of anything else. Happy piñata hunting!

If you buy the stupidly expensive Cutlass that the beggar sells, it stops the ruffians and Professor Pestor from entering the garden. I was obsessed with this game as a kid, my favourite pinata was the Doenuts. Oh and the Galagoogoo is meant to be a Madagascan EyeEye. The small lemur with huge eyes and freaky thin finger.

Great video! Thank you for shouting out Return to Paradise, we appreciate it very much! The game is absolutely still in development, and we are excited to bring our ideas to life and share them with the community!

Having a Pudgeon eat a Dragumfly will never evolve into a Buzzenge.

Viva Piñata is a garden life sim that’s also a collectathon. A wonderful mix of genres that only Rare could make.

Man. Viva Pinata was so fun back in the early days. I spent SOOO much time trying to get Pinatas I wanted. Trying to befriend the sour Pinatas, while the smol bois ran around my area and harassed all of my Pinatas while spitting dirt onto the lakes just to cross. There were always Pinatas that would visit me, but I struggled so hard to get them to stay. I'd scream if I didn't get that stupid deer that would walk into my land, but leave after.

We need a new viva piñata game

You should play the sequel, Trouble in Paradise!! It has more pinatas and more areas and more stuff!! :3

I can’t explain how much I’ve wanted a video like this for viva piñata, like literal years! Great video! ❤

Miss playing this game as a kid. They need to reboot the series. Edit: I miss whacking Seedos with the shovel 💀

man i played the DS version of it, i was deffinitly lower quality but god damn i loved playing it. i wish i had the chance to play this version

I really like the lore about the game and the in-universe lore you interject with here and there. it's a lovely touch!

feaver dream game, i have so many weird memories about this game like being very traumatized when this weird music played when this one dude showed up who would kill my pinatas. It was so scary as a child and i only played it on my ds. I remember that the sandbox mode was bugged in my game after some time and i couldn't play sandbox anymore. I wrote a song about the macaraccoon because i loved raccons in my childhood (and still do), fitting the theme of their romance dance. I also animated a lil video for this song on my DS I back then, it was so crap, the sound quality was horrible since i played the theme song on my laptop in the background so i could sing to it. Oh god i loved this game. Yet it just all feels like it never really happened because it was so weird and sometimes creepy :') But nice to see someone playing this gem of a game

I played the DS version of Viva Pinata. I remember you needed a Mine and a Yellow Bird from the Sparrow and Buttercup. You give the Bird a Gasmask and send it into the mine, that gave me the Dragon.

This game in particular was banned in my household as a kid. My brothers and I loved this game and it caused chaos in my house. Happy to see others loving the oddity that is Viva Piñata

Haven't finished the whole video yet but I'll throw out a warning for those who might be interested in playing this masterpiece: there is an old bug that causes your save to corrupt at seemingly random. The game keeps NO backups of your save, so for safety you'll definitely want to manually backup your saves. It's extremely painful to have your save break after dozens of hours so it's worth the bit of effort to stop that happening imo. I think this also happens on the console version but I don't know if there's a way to prevent it there Anyway I absolutely adore Viva Pinata, it was my childhood game. So I love seeing someone else enjoying it after all these years!

very underrated video and creator, also if you give the professor greater than 500 money he'll just leave

Watching this after trying to play the sequel is making me soooooo salty because the sequel refuses to give me this perfectly good tutorial you have here and instead assumes I’ve already played the last game. I haven’t!!!!

This video was nostalgia pure- I played the DS version when I was little, never really getting far into it but having so much fun while playing :3 It makes me so happy to see that someone plays it nowadays as well 💕 ...I def need to dig this game plus my DS up again 😂

This is one of my favorite games of all time and getting a 2 hour long video in my recommendeds is just a blessing. Good stuff man

To think I would be able to find a video about one of my favorite childhood video games growing up in 2024, hell yeah. Love it 😎😎

Seeing this made me grin from ear to ear. Viva Pinata was one of my childhood games and seeing it get attention of any kind makes me SO happy. I’ve been dreaming of playing it again, and while I can’t do that yet, I will live vicariously through this video! Thank you for giving it the screentime it deserves.

Man 😂 he still doesn’t know that water makes piñata’s happy and makes them stop fighting

I used to play Viva Pinata ALL THE TIME back in middle school! I even got a Draganache at one point!

Used to love this game on the 360 back in the day

this brought back so many old memories of my old house and old xbox ty i loved this game growing up

I don't think anyone forgot about Viva Piñata. I think most had their minds purposefully forget the game after watching their beloved, cute babies get vored by another piñata and/or rage quit when the super late game piñatas would never visit when you had the requirements or would eat half the things/piñatas they needed and then walked away. I am definitely not still enraged by the Roarios and Chewnicorns only eating some of the stuff but never all. Not at all. Also, raisants for president.

Whenever I see this game it just brings tears to my eyes. Simple and lovely.

1:01:52-Tries to catch up Professor Pester: Bonjour

I just started playing this game again last week-- really glad to see other people still enjoying it ❤

I adore, and I mean ADORE, viva pinata so much. The only thing that traumatised me as a child was beating the pinatas with the shovel, and when they're near death how they cry out in sad agony...

Man I loved this game when I was a kid, I would spend hours just going around my farm looking at the little guys walk around or trying to figure out how to tame the sour pinatas

This is awesome that you covered this lovely game. There seriously needs to be a remake or rerelease that isn't on rare replay.

Amazing video! I played viva piñata non stop when I was a kid. It was fun watching trying to figure out which piñata you were going for next. I’m looking forward to TIP 100 days!

I'm at minute 25, so I have no idea if you figured it out eventually, but digging holes for the seeds is not just for better placement, but it lets the plants grow faster. :D

The holes for seeds help give whatever you planted a boost of growth! So if u want sm fast, make dat hole!

man, this game is like a tradition in my family. Everyone in my family has gotten every pinata on their own save file and its really nice, I even shared this game with my friends and they said "the game looks scary/weird but its good" lmao

Flegzo, do you plan on doing Trouble in Paradise next? Come to think about it, why didn't you do that instead? It's everything the first game was and much more.

I was obsessed as a kid, but also so poor. I would do the demo as much as possible... trying to collect as many pinatas for my garden1

1:33:05 I had to ask for some help on this one but I think I know why it’s a plane! Dumbo was the code name used by the United States Navy during the 1940s and 1950s to signify search and rescue missions, which were conducted by plane. It was named Dumbo after the flying elephant from the Disney movie!

It's not forgotten, just underrepresented! For real though, it hurts that Rare has not bothered to port the Viva Piñata games over to PC..

Duuuuuuuuuude, this game was my childhood. I tried talking about it to some of my gamer friends who were like "what was your first video game" and they somehow gaslit me into thinking it never existed, so instead of saying this game, I started saying Skyrim as it was my second but one that people wouldn't gaslight me into thinking it didn't exist. I remember very vividly one time when something happened, either my Xbox died, my controller broke, or something with the game itself but I remember screaming "THIS IS BULLS**T!!!" And slamming my controller on the ground. I was like, 12 or something and this wasn't just gamer rage, it was withdraw symptoms. After that tantrum, my dad got me a Playstation to prevent my addiction from getting worse...

The fact rare would rather fight with their own community with Sea of Thieves rather than make a new viva pinata is a war crime

When Pedro got sick at 39:43 I think it was because of the apple trees, they can get stuck and it’ll make them sick.

KZfaq algorithm blessed me this morning with this video 🙏

8:40 you mention that you don’t know why you can dig holes for seeds, but putting seeds in holes I believe makes them grow faster! Dunno if you figure it out later on though I’m only that far in haha

I love that every good version of the sours have an extra ability they can do to help. The cocadile can fertilise your plants the crowla can scare one of the invaders same with the mallowolf which I think chases Pester out the garden etc.

Underrated Game Series. Such a vibe; and a great way to pass time!

I’ve put hundreds of hours into this game and I still didn’t know some of these piñatas existed 😂

At 1:00:55 I think the piñatas are sad because the garden is crowded, the trees take up a lot of space and in the journal there’s a way to see the percentages of everything.

Filled with fun! I loved playing this game so much when I was younger and I still have my own copy and the ability to play it but man did I not miss some of the more interesting requirements for the love sessions. It gets addicting but also frustrating when they take so long to get in the garden and become residents.

I'd happily buy a copy of Rare Replay for PC, but for some reason we just have to emulate these old games. This game was definitely a gem.

I want this gameeee I remember watching my cousin play it when we were kids (we’re the same age I just preferred to watch rather than play) it was so cute😭

Thank you so much for the video. I was genuinely convinced that this game was a fever dream of mine.

My dad played this while super drunk one night and him, me, and my brother now have the inside joke of "dont drink and snake" from him fucking up the syrupent's romance maze 😂 I still love this game and play it when I can 😊

I absolutely LOVED this game as a kid. So much that I was literally attached to those little guys. I was really sad when they ate each other but learned the circle of life that way. Trouble in paradise was fun as heck too. I played this game from ages 4-10 probably and they gave me so so much joy. I'm honestly pretty sad that they didn't continue the series after like 2010. Edit: my favorite pinata was Taffly. I was a strange kid. But they were so friggin cute and I loved them sitting on corn.

Good work on this video! Can't wait to see how you grow as a creator!

loved this video so much and it was such a good and entertaining watch! watched it over the span of a few days inbetween my playing. this was so thrilling and entertaining honestly i thought you had more subscribers and was a bigger creator lol! this was great! u deserve sm recognition!!! good luck man!

this is one of the games i spent hours on as a kid, but got nowhere and was slightly terrified of

You sir, get my likes for reminding me of this Absolute gem of my past.

I remember playing this game on a sonic demo disc I felt so bad having to put my pinata animal down as a kid

i used to play viva pinata as a kid and somehow thought about wanting to play about it again, so I have been watching youtube videos about it. And only now i noticed that i kinda played the game "wrong". everyone is quick to sell their pinatas and other things to work on getting the next one. But i took sooo much time. I grew attached to the pinatas and didn't want to sell them that quickly and i think most of the time I just did "whatever". decorate the garden, grow all kinds of plants, trying to get the secret pinatas etc. But seeing it now with even more possibilites is very interesting and in order to really collect every pinata i would have had to change my playing style DRASTICALLY lol

i played this as a kid and had consecutive nightmares because the plant lady freaked me out so bad

Just in case anyone wants to play this pester is actually very easy to stop it's a shame he didn't know but pay him 1000 and he leaves just like that I hope this helps somebody

Best Game. 10/10. I bought the Rare Replay TWICE just to have my precious Viva Pinata

I played this as a kid (and all the other Viva pinata games) and I still play them to this day😂🎉🎉❤

i've had this on in the background while doing dishes the last few days and it made me get viva pinata working on my 3ds. the nostalgia just came flooding back, as well as my whirlm overpopulation XD

thanks for the video man, this game is my entire childhood

Digging holes for seeds speeds up the growth of the plants faster than if you planted them regularly.

I played this game so much it was crazy. I sold almost my whole garden for a Dragonache and he ended up DISAPPERING. I literally didn’t play after that and then I came back and randomly I found him again. I want to play this again so badly.

So cos i couldnt find it in the comments, the galagoogoo is based on a bushbaby, i believe its a small type of primate Also my own fun fact, aquatic pinatas were looked at, but not included because the devs couldn't work out how to add them in a way they were happy with Love Viva Pinata, cant wait for TIP and RTP

I also started playing again and it's so much fun ❤❤

I had the demo of this game on an xbox live arcade disk as a kid. I loved it and wished I could play it all for myself. Its now on the Xbox game pass, and it is as cute as I remember

Omg I use to play the racing game when i was little. 😭😭 I loved the characters designs and stuff so I was obsessed. I could only play it at my dad’s house tho…. Who lived ours away and I only got to visit like once every couple of years. My mom couldn’t afford an XBOX lol but I probably would have gone crazy on this game.

Childhood me beating the shit out of the seed guy for more seeds and then wondering why all my piñatas are ill

I've been after this video to scratch the itch of never completing it, thank you.

Now do 100 days trouble in paradise

This was my favorite 360 game, I rented it from family video all all the time

Viva piñata has been my favourite game since I was little

they are doing a fan remake of this game

I'm not even lying. when I first got the sweet tooth, I actually had a sweet tooth

I absolutely love this game! I use to play it all the time when I was a kid! It was one of the first games I had on the 360. So nostalgic ❤

unironically one of my favorite games

I'll never forget my first dragonache

I thought for sure Viva Piñata had a desert biome that you can go to and trap different piñatas to bring to your garden.

I loved this game so much growing up played it all the time! One of the things I learned was that if the workers aren't helping much give them a bunch of cash and they will work so much better after also I believe your pinatas were sad because of how little walking space there was they were probably getting stepped on by the bigger ones which will make them incredibly sad very fast

I FRICKING LOVE VIVA PINATA!!!!!!!!!!! Its my entire childhood… i still remember the fear i felt for the voodoo man, i was so young i didnt know how to call the doctor (idk) and bc of my fear for the voodoo guy i would just smash the pinata to death instead of having him come and kill them

1:45:37 that statue is of Mumbo Jumbo from Rare's Banjo-Kazooie if you didn't know :P

I would pre break pinatas for their soul candy and keep them in the garden to turn the outsiders to residents to avoid the hunting animation. Made it sooo much faster And hatching the dragon egg on different terrain will change the color! I kept a og yellow dirt patch to hatch it on and it was gold

I will never forget viva piñata

This game was my childhood! I need to replay it

One way that professer pester can be avoided by paying profester pester 1000 chocolate coins

I loved this game SO. MUCH. The little noises they make still fill up my soul~

I used to play the demo version of this game all the time, I had forgotten about it for years but this video brought back so many memories and so much joy. I’m definitely gonna have to play it again soon ❤

VIVA PINATA WAS MY CHILDHOOD, IVE BEEN SAYING IT NEEDS TO RETURN FOR YEARS!!!!!! I think it would be good with the Stardew valley people

I absolutely adored this game when I was little, my family had an Xbox 360 and one day, while i was playing, the red ring of death appeared:( i never got the chance to play it again

i bought trouble in paradise as a kid being so excited for it after the first one and instead was accidentally given the secret 3rd game viva pinata party animals, which is a weird minigame rotation game using the characters from the tv show i was so confused lmao