Viva Pinãta: Trouble In Paradise: Final Opinion.

While I haven't completed every last thing there is to do in Viva Pinãta I'm going to give my final opinion on the game. I've made every last species of pinãta resident in my garden. That's the equivalent of catching them all from that other game. I'm not finished with the game as of yet. I'll be putting in a little time each day knocking out the challenges and chasing the more obtainable achievements in the game. As for the game itself. It's still very much the same game as the original only expanded with new pinãtas and co-op online play and some interface improvements and a means of dealing with any sort of glitches that could have happened in the first game. Trouble in Paradise is an infinitely more stable game in that regard to begin with. The game is still great looking. The art direction is still so very Rare, which means you'll either dig it or it will annoy the hell out of you. The Rare humor is also very prevalent. As they're British you get a very cheeky bastard sort of humor throughout the game. The voice work is great. The music while seemingly sparse is also very well done. I say seemingly because you're not hearing a lot of it for most of the tending of the garden. But there is a lot of it when you consider the romance dances for each of the eighty-eight pinãta types and all of the incidental themes. The core gameplay is still based on experimentation and reward. You'll change your garden around causing all kinds of six degrees of Kevin Bacon like chain reactions. Having this many bluebell flowers in the garden attracts such and such a pinãta which causes something else to react in the chain in a wonderfully interconnected way. Once it gets going you'll often find yourself blissfully lost and off your intended path with all the new coming at you. I wanted to work on those Walrusk but this came up and that led to this and before I knew it days had gone by and the Walrusk were still waiting. Viva Pinãta offers truly addictive gameplay. The kind where you'll be thinking about it when not even playing the game. It stays in your thoughts. Viva Pinãta is an all around improvement over the original. I'm giving Viva Pinãta a 9. Hopefully, like the original, strong word of mouth results in a slow burn of good sales and we'll get a third game in the series. I want more.