I Spent 100 Days In Viva Piñata (The Forgotten Xbox Gem)

[@flegzo]

Here's 100 days in TIP!!! kzbin.info/www/bejne/aordeWCvl5KiebM

[@sasariwtf]

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.

[@zgamer45]

"It taught me about amarican healthcare and I cried so much because i couldn't afford medicine" Too real man 😭

[@silveramaryllis]

might be the funniest comment I've ever read

[@fredbrad2036]

It also taught me about capitalism. You could get easy money by mass producing whirlms.

[@Xeechu]

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.

[@wiremujohnstone574]

Galagoogoo and horstacio were my faves

[@valeriewilson7763]

Have you played trouble in paradise?

[@pearldoug4277]

​@@valeriewilson7763 I did 😁 it's so 😊

[@weststormborn]

galago*

[@graceholbert2126]

It's a galago

[@jilliajellyz9522]

Viva piñata is ez until you realize your addicted to it

[@flegzo]

That is very true

[@Geomaster97]

Preach

[@me_when_asd]

Gospel

[@slywhemwick8071]

The difficulty setting is about how you can put it down

[@iwinha8495]

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!

[@Ser_Matticus]

1. While this only works in the original Viva Piñata you could sell weed flowers for a profit, one time I just filled a garden with Venus piñata traps and sold the flower heads when they wilted, this won’t work for TiP but in the first game it was a good way to make some cash. 2.Ivor sells a universal fertilizer in his shop, and while it’s pricey you don’t need to go back and forth with Lottie for fertilizing. Come TiP the seed bag and fertilizer bag tools negate the use of this fertilizer. 3. Trees and bushes can be fertilized three times like other plants, increasing the amount of active fruit nodes, but the timing is tricky, you need to wait for the buds of the next phase to start growing. Planting the seeds in holes will make the process of waiting a bit more tolerable. Additionally tapping them so many times kills the tree/bush, best to let the fruit fall off naturally. 4. Cocoadiles have a hidden ability of being able to fertilize plants if you tell them to go to a growing plant. 5. Tafflies have the ability to make fertilizer by being told to interact with fruits, it will make a fertilizer depending on fruit color 6. Tafflies like to be watered despite getting scared, this is fixed in TiP. 7. Chillies are one of the better for profit plants you can make. Their fertilizer is cheap and they don’t take too much space up.

[@Saaahdood]

Yeah pro tip don't play it on a shitbox

[@Ser_Matticus]

@@Saaahdood good luck finding a PC copy of the game since it was part of Games for Windows live (Rip Universe at war) Plus Trouble in paradise is Xbox only with either the OG or rare replay

[@alexjewett7455]

The gas mask is probably a reference to the fact that canaries were used to warn miners of deadly gas leaks because birds are more sensitive to airborne toxins than humans.

[@IciStorm]

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!

[@babypower14]

i hope i can put a top hat and bow tie on my axolotl pinata and make him bright neon orange

[@potflower5118]

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

[@flegzo]

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❤️

[@jordananning5575]

Sooner rather than later would be amazing! Great video!

[@RobABankWithABagel]

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!

[@Trexaus30]

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.

[@graceholbert2126]

The random fickleness of the Pinata is a signature feature of this game

[@Smuglarian]

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!

[@Zebethel]

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

[@flegzo]

Really happy you liked it, thank you :)

[@destinymcintire2188]

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

[@feyrune3205]

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

[@oly6707]

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

[@flegzo]

I knew she was lying

[@chasewitcher128]

@@flegzo Her whole lore is that shes just a big liar…as a kid I tried to feed my Rashberry (Pig) pumpkins to turn it into a Chipopotamus (Hippo)…she caused me sm emotional distress

[@wyxitt]

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

[@poppyfrancis7338]

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

[@vintagestealth8802]

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

[@Muskillertank]

We need a new viva piñata game

[@Marginallyflailing]

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

[@Buffer131]

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

[@Blue-om9xn]

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!!!!

[@du5k.17]

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

[@ostaradiedrachin221]

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.

[@sadboiinasweater6104]

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

[@icetailgreg]

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

[@flegzo]

Oooooohhhh, I did not figure it out. That does make sense now. Thank you! This’ll come in handy for the sequel🙂

[@lostgalaxygirl7712]

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 😎😎

[@NylonGenesis]

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.

[@mewdyne]

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 😂

[@6Phat9]

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

[@BunBunBunery]

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

[@BumpusTwo]

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

[@flegzo]

Yeah I only learned this now…after replying it like way too many times😅

[@patrickpumpernickelbensonj9622]

@@flegzobro are you going to do trouble in paradise next I would like to see it

[@Chumstick]

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

[@Someting64]

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

[@nshnishi]

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

[@eggbuilder1559]

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

[@eggbuilder1559]

I found the game disk the other day and it reminded me of this so I looked it up on KZbin and found your video, good memories

[@ninchiru9225]

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

[@Nigarj]

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

[@necqiii]

omg i miss this game sm. this is the first time i have seen someone mention it in YEARS. everytime i say something about it to people they have no idea what i'm talking about lmao.

[@annalovebird707]

I remember playing the demo for this game on my Xbox 360 as a kid, always wanting to get the full game but never knowing the actual name because I was a child and didn't know it was an actual game. It popped up on my tiktok a few days ago with someone playing it on live, but this video is the one that made me look on gamestop and order it (for only $7 bucks too before shipping and tax! What a steal!) so now I'm getting it in a few days to finally play! Thanks for pushing me to finally buy it lol

[@MillieBoBilly]

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

[@pix9755]

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

[@CptBMac199]

Recently gotten back into these games, due to my severe depression, and loosing the will to game due to so many broken times I feel to online gaming... These games got me through my teen years, and it feels good.

[@uprising4c19]

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

[@DarkLore1992]

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.

[@flegzo]

Didn’t do it because I wanted to cover the first one first, TIP is going to be a future video sat some point :)

[@DarkLore1992]

@flegzo I only wish you the best of luck. TiP is a far larger undertaking. Obviously, the superior gane, but will 100 days even be enough? Make sure you really check the wiki. Requirements differ greatly with residents and sours.

[@BumpusTwo]

@@flegzo nice lets gooo

[@rbmanatee]

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!

[@mariedraws16]

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 😊

[@justintharp4210]

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

[@lazlazuli7934]

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.

[@endmy_misery2766]

An immediate subscriber after this fiya 🔥video bro, appreciate your efforts

[@Smuglarian]

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.

[@maystorm193]

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

[@MrMoxycotton]

This was the game that got me hooked on achievements and collecting things, the autism all started with Viva Pinata.

[@Star_Biscuit]

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.

[@bunnybug7668]

The lore is so dark dude!! ❤❤ I love that somebody talked about it!

[@mangotimeworms]

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!

[@flegzo]

Hey! Sorry for the late reply, I really REALLY appreciate the words. This is definitely a video im really proud of, especially since it’s super long. Im hoping to improve with every upload…probably same ish length because I have too much to say all the time😅 but again thank you!

[@Hotpotatogal]

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

[@v0idtea]

FINALLY someone with culture. viva pinata is such a GOOD game.

[@Kaggii]

I love it when the KZbin algo gives me a video from a small creator. Great vid dude keep it up

[@pacrat6271]

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😭

[@heroman1322]

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..

[@crocobot6083]

the first one has a pc port for sure !!

[@MatchaFurbies]

I hope done day there be a game similar to this but with balloon animals. If I knew anything about game development, I’d make it myself. Viva piñata was such a core game to my childhood, and was so much fun, and I love the aesthetics of balloon animals so a game combining the two would be peak joy in my life.

[@gatorfruit]

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 ❤

[@petthegiratina7829]

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

[@_TIO]

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...

[@lukeswift4160]

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.

[@Degnerate_Demigod]

Crazy that this popped up in my recommend, I was just thinking about this game for no reason the other day. I use to play it all the time on my 360 with my dad

[@delanienering1420]

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

[@leaholle6916]

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.

[@jace5848]

Leafos telling you that your garden is getting to full after Professor Pester eats Predro is so insensitive!

[@soapstar]

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

[@Felixicity]

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

[@Justaquest123]

Holy cow I didn’t think people still cared about this game I played it all the time growing up

[@lukeyboy9911]

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

[@frogslayer21]

Please do a 100% completion for this game! I really enjoyed this video and looking forward to more videos from you

[@BisFuraki]

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

[@FunkyJunkyArchives]

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

[@nowheredude4204]

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

[@tylernunes8248]

I WILL NEVER FORGET WHAT THEYVE TAKEN FROM US. VIVA PINATA.

[@mipsybell8155]

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 ❤

[@firegodessreiko]

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

[@ncdiscus6449]

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.

[@TheLoneWolfITA]

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

[@MegaSoniczone]

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

[@muxcki]

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

[@keybladeoracle3595]

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

[@amyleianne8038]

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

[@Thelostpinetree]

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.

[@sillybilly471]

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

[@SineanSaol]

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

[@flegzo]

I came across that one, really wanted to include it. But it didn’t fit (too many “fun fact” cut aways) I also had a different fun fact recorded that I might include in TIP 100 days…whenever I actually do it.

[@BlueLightRay]

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

[@disgust4941]

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

[@arisenpai3184]

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

[@alexjewett7455]

I remember watching the show when I was really young. I had no idea it was based off a video game.

[@dojo45789]

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

[@Smuglarian]

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.

[@w0lfdem0n]

I remember playing this on the DS and something you could do was kill the piñatas and a death character shows up and I’d try to mess with him

[@AdamMerlin]

Aah yeah this game was so good. I wish I wasnt so young when I played it, didnt get it at all and found it too complicated after a certain point

[@katherinel8661]

I had completely forgotten this game! It was so colorful and fun!

[@theERLANDOshow]

Good video, this game is so calm and nice to play, i really liked this series of video games, TiP and Party animals were also very fun

[@flegzo]

Thank you! Yeah it’s honestly one of my favorite games ever. I can replay it so many times