Bash brains! Eat their guts! Viva Pinata video

Posted Oct 26, 2006 at 2:20PM by QJ Staff Listed in: Xbox 360 Tags: Microsoft
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This shows a cute living and moving animal hanging from the ceiling. Then a brightly-colored-paper-covered stick appears and bashes it to pieces! Then the other animals come in and eat its guts. I screamed louder watching this video than I did watching "Dawn of the Dead".

When you whack a piñata, it explodes and tosses its innards around it. Then, because it's part of the great circle of life, a magical glow appears from the heavens and a new wild piñata appears to take the place of the piñata you just bashed to bits. Such is the existence of the piñata. We watched this gameplay tutorial video and some of us said "Oh how cute", but I am just overwhelmed by how frightening this is, hehe.
  • You go to Piñata Island. You are a god among piñatas, a conqueror of crepe paper. You take over a patch of land. You set up a garden, and the nicer the garden, the more animals are attracted to it.
  • But there are these horrific-looking monsters that try to destroy your garden and hurt your piñatas.
  • There's a double-headed snake.
  • A shady-sounding fox tells to you about how piñatas fall in love on the dance floor and make baby piñatas.
  • A forgetful elephant (bright green eyes, lovely voice) has no idea what's going on.
  • There's a bear that's waaaaay too stoked. We're guessing this is one piñata that's been in the peyote patch much too often.
  • A pink gremlin that we're sure was swearing at us (for a game based on a colorful, fun, and child-friendly Central American tradition, we're surprised we kept hearing a lot of put@-put@ sounds coming from it, hehe).
  • And in the end the piñatas lynch the horse piñata. No kidding. LOL.
Viva Piñata is a strategy game from Microsoft and Rare isn't just for kids. Release date: the DAY AFTER HALLOWEEN! Yup, November 1, El Dia de los Muertos, the Day of the Dead. Excellent timing.



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Comments [refresh]

by Billy Talent - 2006-10-26 09:47
» Retaliation or Harmful If Swallowed?

Fantastical? I think someone at Rare is a Dane Cook fan.

by Nacho - 2006-10-26 10:31
» not a good game ( the way i think )

this game is just trying to follow the whole katamari, loco roco, Work time Fun, or other wierd games. Come on people, its just sim vilige ( or something) with pinatas, ????.

by Max F. - 2006-10-26 10:57
» But the concept is cool...

I do admit that the concept is cool. I'll probably cave in and end up being a big fan when I finally get my hands on this game, but for now, it is a bit strange. LOL And even though you are right (because you have a good point), a game could do much worse than follow in the footsteps of Loco Roco. :)

by looksgood - 2006-10-26 15:43
» hmmm

this game looks really nice, i cant tell from this low res. but the graphics look spectacular.

by Shini - 2006-10-26 18:10
» um

I dont think so....this game looks



NOTHING like Loco Roco, or Katamari...those are japanese games, this game is American, and resembles more of a Pixar movie than that...



Its for the 8-14 age group, Its not directed toward older audiences.

by WC - 2006-10-27 00:10
» lol

I think the most disturbing thing is the xbox controllers that are GLUED to their hands. That's pretty sick.

by badam - 2006-11-14 11:32
» I

Think the little pink said a bad word in spanish to the big brown bear thing,right when it hit it.

by lol - 2006-11-14 15:23
» !

That voice actor is dan green. the guy who did yugioh

by majesty - 2006-11-14 16:17
» LMAO for 15min. lololol

"Then the other animals come in and eat its guts. I screamed louder watching this video than I did watching "Dawn of the Dead"."



that sentence alone had my crying with laughter for almost 20mins.



"A pink gremlin that we're sure was swearing at us (for a game based on a colorful, fun, and child-friendly Central American tradition, we're surprised we kept hearing a lot of put@-put@ sounds coming from it, hehe)."



that one was funnier than the last sentence. lolol



'And in the end the piñatas lynch the horse piñata. No kidding'



you guys are soo crazy, you need to get out more. LMAO again!!!

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