Viva Piñata: TIP (2010)
Viva Piñata: TIP is a 2010 family video game made by Rare.
Trouble in Paradise drops you back onto Pinata Island with a new problem: Professor Pester has scrambled the pinata database and chaos reigns. The game expands on the original's garden-tending loop with two new biomes, the Pinarctic and Dessert Desert, each with species that only live in extreme conditions. You lure, tame, and send pinatas to parties while managing your garden's ecosystem, and a co-op mode lets two players tend the same patch. The series' quiet, unhurried pace rewards patience over speed.
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A few thoughts on Viva Piñata: TIP
The Viva Piñata animated series is the most natural companion, translating the same characters and island setting into an episodic cartoon aimed at younger viewers.
More Piñata Island, including the cartoon
Trouble in Paradise adds the Pinarctic and Dessert Desert to the 2006 garden, so luring and taming piñatas spans two more climates. This row keeps you on the island and near it: the first game, the party spin-off, the cartoon that ran alongside them, and the bright mascot platformers that shared shelf space in the Xbox 360 years.
Stories set on islands with their own strange wildlife
Every species in Trouble in Paradise wants a specific garden: the right plants, the right weather, the right neighbours, and the Pinarctic and Dessert Desert push that to extremes. These islands work the same way. Warren Fahy's Fragment drops scientists onto a coast whose food chain evolved alone, and the games and films here each hand you a shoreline to learn.
Collecting and raising creatures, from mobile games to cartoons
Piñatas arrive at your Trouble in Paradise garden one at a time, and each needs feeding, courting and protecting before it stays. Dragon Mania Legends breeds its roster the same slow way, Jurassic World Alive has you build a collection from the map outside your door, and SlugTerra turns the habit into a kids' adventure about trained creatures.
Silly-villain chaos for readers who enjoy Professor Pester
Professor Pester scrambles the piñata database and spends Trouble in Paradise stealing your sweets in a mask and a bad mood. He belongs in this company. Professor Poopypants runs the same kind of scheme in Captain Underpants, the Kids Next Door treat adults as a standing threat, and Gumball and Rex bring the same appetite for wrecking things.