Viva Piñata: Pocket Paradise

Viva Piñata: Pocket Paradise
North American box art
Developer(s)Rare
Publisher(s)THQ
Designer(s)Gary Richards
Joseph Humfrey
Paul Machacek
Artist(s)Dean Smith
Dermot Fanning
Chris Peil
Composer(s)David Wise
SeriesViva Piñata
Platform(s)Nintendo DS
Release
  • NA: September 8, 2008
  • EU: September 5, 2008
  • AU: September 25, 2008
Genre(s)Life simulation
Mode(s)Single-player

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.