Overview:
- Estimated achievement difficulty:3/10 [1/10 with Vision Camera]
- Offline: 48 [970]
- Online: 2 [30]
- Approximate amount of time to 1000: 30-40 Hours (10-15 Hours with Vision Camera)
- Minimum number of playthroughs needed: 1
- Missable achievements: No
- Does difficulty affect achievements?: No Difficulty Settings
- Unobtainable/glitched achievements: None
- Extra equipment needed?: Xbox LIVE Vision Camera and Two Controllers
Introduction:
Welcome to Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise. This game has you raise and send piñatas to parties while protecting them from Professor Pester. This game requires the Xbox Live Vision Camera to obtain the full 1000 and using the vision camera will greatly decrease the amount of time that it will take to complete the game.
Walkthrough:
Most achievements in the game will come naturally while getting different piñatas to reside in your garden and sending them to parties for the different challenges. To cause a piñata to reside in your garden you must meet its appear, visit, and resident requirements. These are usually to have a certain amount of a specific item, plant, or piñata in your garden. Higher level piñatas will also require to eat certain piñatas and items.
The challenges require that you send a specific piñata, sometimes with additional requirements like knowing tricks or wearing specific clothing, to a party. You will need to complete all the challenges for "Master Challenger". You will also need to send some piñata to parties that are not required for the challenges for "Expert Records Keeper".
Romancing your piñatas requires that the romance requirements be met for two piñatas of the same species. When this occurs there will be a pink heart above the heads of the piñatas. You will need to direct the two piñatas toward each other. This will cause the romance minigame to begin. In this minigame, you need to collect enough hearts for the piñatas to successfully romance. If you finish fast enough you will receive twin piñatas as a result. When you romance with 6 pinatas of the same type in the garden and collect all the hearts in the minigame you will receive a wildcard piñata. You will need 10 sets of twins and 10 wildcard piñatas from different species for "Twin Birth Master" and "Wildcard Variant Master".
Miscellaneous:
For "Yakity Yak", you will need a Flapyak that is ready to be sent to a party and a Milking Shed. You will then need to direct the Flapyak to the Milking Shed.
"Master Speedfreak" and "Master Exhibitor" are earned by winning contests with your piñatas. Pinatas with high values do well in the Show contest and faster piñatas in the Race Contests.
For "Come And Have A Go" one of your piñatas will need to win 17 fights against a different piñata. You can use the trick stick to anger a piñata so that it will go and find another piñata to fight.
"Master Couch Socialite" requires that you play 3 hours of co-op on one xbox.
"Candied Camera" and "Master Candied Camera" use the in game camera. You will need to take 10 photos total and one special photo. The special photo will unlock concept art for the game.
List of Concept Art
Xbox LIVE Vision Camera:
You will need to use the Vision Camera to scan 10 cards for "Master Card Sharp".
You can, however, use the camera to make the game significantly easier by scanning cards that will give you necessary piñatas and items for the challenges. This will save you the time to get the necessary piñata yourself and in if you use the correct cards you will not need to do anything to the piñata besides send it off to the party. You can also scan cards of evolved piñatas to gain the achievement for evolving the piñata immediately or cards of wildcard or twin piñata eggs for the "Twin Birth Master" and "Wildcard Variant Master".
Note: The vision camera does not always like to accept the card that you are trying to scan. Some ways to fix this are to print out the card in color or to move it to a paint program with an all white background.
Online:
You must play for one hour in 4-player co-op online for "Full House". This amount is cumulative, so you do not have to do it all in one sitting.
For "Famous Piñata" you will need to visit the garden of someone who has a famous piñata and watch the piñata be unpacked. Alternatively you could have someone send you a famous piñata and unpack it in your garden. Use this thread to find help for "Famous Pinata".
Note: The method to gain your own famous piñata was to be sent one by Rare for either completing all 841 awards in the game or for some other reason that Rare deemed worthy. Rare can no longer send out famous piñatas, so this method will no longer work.
Useful Links:
Pinata Island
Piñata Vision Cards
Conclusion:
With a little bit of time and patience, you should easily complete this game and have some fun while doing so. Using the vision camera will make this an even easier completion.
[XBA would like to thank exit9500 for this roadmap]