Bash brains! Eat their guts! Viva Pinata video

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.

Pre-order: [Viva Piñata]

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.

Pre-order: [Viva Piñata]