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[Kobold]

More here: (also info for the dutchies)

http://www.xboxworld.nl/news/7842/

 

[BenjaminBirdie]

Jesus, that's adorable.

Just realized how well this is going to bounce off of Dora The Explorer's popularity. Multiculturalism FTW.

 

[u_neek]

Aaaaaw! Bet that looks good in motion!

PS. SPANNUNND!!!

 

[Agent Icebeezy]

Reminds me of Yoshi's Story. Very distinctive graphic style. Looks pretty.

 

[OatmealMu]

Crazy. I'm really digging the grass.

 

[explodet]

I can't wait to take a baseball bat to all those adorable motherf*****s.

 

[belgurdo]

So, like, am I supposed to fall in line with the typical groupthink and say stuff like "shit sucks," "bad art," etc., or can I openly admit that I think the game looks neat?

 

[gofreak]

Looks lovely. A bit of a sensory overload in some shots, but still, very cute.

 

[SteveMeister]

Beautiful. And the character design looks different -- new art director at Rare maybe?

 

[Teasel]

[sarcasm] too bad we will see this game on PS5 (PS4 if we are lucky) and it will be totaly different from those screenshot [/sarcasm]
look nice

 

[Uncle]

Can someone summarise the info?

 

[Rocked]

What kind of game is it? A platformer? It reminds me of Billy Hatcher and his Giant Egg.

 

[Roders5]

Beautiful. And the character design looks different -- new art director at Rare maybe?

Is it not based on a cartoon?

Spoiler

That is gonna be bigger than pokemon!

 

[Tiktaalik]

Wow I really like it! I hope when you kill baddies lots of candy comes out.

 

[BenjaminBirdie]

What kind of game is it? A platformer? It reminds me of Billy Hatcher and his Giant Egg.

Looks almost Animal Crossingy, if you notice each Pinata has its own ship (see the duck one standing infront of a ship with a duck flag).

 

[Hyoushi]

What kind of game is it? A platformer? It reminds me of Billy Hatcher and his Giant Egg.

Collectathon / Virtual garden / breeder

 

[bloke]

Cute.
'Bad art' tag Rare usually gets for their XB/360 games might stay at home this time around.

 

[Wollan]

Cool artstyle but personaly I think Kameo has better graphics than this. This doesn't look much better than Xbox to be perfectly honest.

 

[thorns]

nice "fur" shading!

 

[Ghost]

Im getting an animal crossing kinda vibe.

 

[superfly]

beautiful, but u know, im worried how much collecting there will be

 

[Prine]

I hate it



Looks great. Trademark big EYES all over the place though. Go Rare!

 

[jet1911]

I don't really care about the game but it certainly look nice. Good job Rare!

 

[Kobold]

OK here's some info:

You are a gardner and you start out with basic tools and land. you can develop the land, build ponds, makeflowers, trees, grass, slopes, etc. and it will attracht 'pinata's'. There is 60 pinatas species all with their own prerequisites.

So you collect them, then you name them and customize them, but there is also bad pinatas. They will make trouble and you will have to fend them off, if you cant do this alone, you can get help from people in towns they also sell you goods, or you can go on xbox live and ask your friend to help you and you can landscape together or drive off the bad pinatas together.

Damn, is this CUTE or what? I love it.

EDIT: so the game is about collecting, interacting with the pinatas and harmony with the enviroments you create. it's a changing world.

Also the gardens are in a persistant world so you can leave your garden to roam someone elses, it seems.

Holiday 2006 worldwide launch.

 

[Tiktaalik]

Animal crossing? Trading? If you can't bust these cute little guys open and feast on the delicious candy inside I'm not buying!!!

 

[Ghost]

So its like Harvest moon on acid?


Not my kinda thing but it sure is cute.

 

[robo_robo]

What is that.

I mean I don't understand what is going on in those pics, except that alligator sure seems to feel good.

 

[Sho Nuff]

Oh man I've never seen so much saccharine in my life, RUN

 

[CurseoftheGods]

Wow. That looks great.

 

[hadareud]

Really cute and beautiful - Rare ftw!

I can't believe that there has not been any haters in this thread yet.

 

[Tiktaalik]

if you cant do this alone, you can get help from people in towns they also sell you goods, or you can go on xbox live and ask your friend to help you and you can landscape together or drive off the bad pinatas together.

I can't wait to go to someones town and smash all their cute pinatas with a bat!

 

[MrSardonic]

Cute.
'Bad art' tag Rare usually gets for their XB/360 games might stay at home this time around.

ironic that it's based on a cartoon series then isn't it...but I still think it looks pretty nasty

I predict bombage

 

[PanopticBlue]

Wow, this does NOT look like a Rare game, and that's a GOOD thing.

I can't believe I'm seeing something so original looking from Rare. I'm interested.

 

[thegodsend]

Really cute and beautiful - Rare ftw!

I can't believe that there has not been any haters in this thread yet.

I think it looks terrible ^^

 

[Kabuki Quantum Lover]

Ha! I didn't expect that.

 

[lancubap]

ironic that it's based on a cartoon then isn't it.

I predict bombage

Agree. It is beautiful, but we are not on a Nintendo's console. A game like Animal Crossing will NEVER sell good on others platforms.

 

[Hyoushi]

nice "fur" shading!

OMG I'M BREAKING ALL MY NDAs

impirius wins!

 

[n-off]

This will surely appeal to the xbox gamer

 

[Days like these...]

I can't wait to take a baseball bat to all those adorable motherf*****s.

You use a broom stick (ask any self respecting latino) get it right. Game looks interesting. Will this appeal to the core 360 audience though?

This makes 3 games on my interested in list

Oblivion
Dead Rising
Viva Pinata

 

[Ghost]

I just noticed that all the Piñatas have tags on them (like beanie babies) you can see it in the ducks/crocodile shot.


merchandise tie-ins ftw.

 

[Blimblim]

Someone got it right in the other topic

Nice scoop Kobold.

 

[Joseph Merrick]

great rape time alligator, but other than that.. looks and sounds as non-interesting as animal crossing. any word/rumors on what else rare is up to at the moment?

 

[aoi tsuki]

Nice "pinata shading", but the overall look is inconsistent. The characters and grass look like they were copied out of another game.

 

[madara]

Looks very interesting, definitely a breath of fresh air from the typical 360 look.

 

[Kobold]

Concept arts a few:

more here logically, now with logo too: http://www.xbw.nl/news/7842/

(this dude, named Beezlegum is my new main man, he's so cute.)

 

[arne]

ironic that it's based on a cartoon series then isn't it...but I still think it looks pretty nasty

I predict bombage

More news will be coming out via official channels later, so I'll let them have their time in the spotlight.

However, the one thing I've noticed is that this notion is incorrect. Rare actually came up with this first and 4Kids then joined to do the series, I think they liked it enough to tackle it. There should be some info in that vein later when more news breaks... I hope.

 

[Prine]

there are more screens on that dutch site that look great

 

[Kleegamefan]

I like it

 

[7Th]

impirius wins!

Indeed. Awesomely close to the real thing.

Looks good and the concept may be fun, not so childlish though. Too bad "Mucha Lucha" is the perfect example most "multicultural" kid-focused products with huge ambitions end up disappointing their creators.

 

[Craig Majaski]

First commercial!

http://gameads.gamepressure.com/tv_game_commercial.asp?ID=1108

Oh Yeah!