Why Rare’s Viva Piñata is just as essential seven years later
Sean Bell digs up someone else’s garden and forces the worms to mate.
As a 28-year-old man, it probably says a lot about me that I see absolutely nothing wrong with spending a lot of time playing a videogame that’s largely aimed at children, where you look after a load of plants and cute little animals in a nice, colourful garden. Only when I find myself talking to other people about this game do I realise that maybe it’s not totally normal. But I love playing Viva Piñata because it’s the perfect antidote to everything people assume we’re supposed to like.
