Viva Piñata: Pocket Paradise is a simulator developed by Rare, released 5 September 2008 on Nintendo DS.
What Viva Piñata: Pocket Paradise is
Viva Piñata: Pocket Paradise is a simulator game developed by Rare and released in 2008. It was published by THQ. It is available on Nintendo DS only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Viva Piñata: Pocket Paradise is a life simulation game developed by Rare, for the Nintendo DS video game console and based on Viva Piñata. Released days after Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise for the Xbox 360 in the fall of 2008, Pocket Paradise was developed by Rare's handheld team, as opposed to Viva Piñata: Party Animals and the PC version of the original game, which were developed by separate third-party developers. It is currently the latest game Rare developed for a Nintendo system, as well as currently the final game in the series and is also the only game of the series as a whole to be handheld.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are sandbox. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Viva Piñata: Pocket Paradise holds a critic score of 85 out of 100. That places it above 85% of the 2,882 rated simulator games in our database, which average 71. Games released in 2008 averaged 65, so it scored 20 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Viva Piñata: Pocket Paradise launched on 5 September 2008, within three weeks of The Witcher: Enhanced Edition Director's Cut, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky, Rock Band 2 and The Witcher: Enhanced Edition. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.
Released around the same time: The Witcher: Enhanced Edition Director's Cut, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky, Rock Band 2, The Witcher: Enhanced Edition.
Cheats and codes
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