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* PaletteSwap: Each Piñata has three color variants obtainable by feeding them a certain object. The Flutterscotch variants have different models in the UsefulNotes/Xbox360 games, but they're just palette swaps in ''Pocket Paradise''.

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* PaletteSwap: Each Piñata has three color variants obtainable by feeding them a certain object. The Flutterscotch variants have different models in the UsefulNotes/Xbox360 Platform/Xbox360 games, but they're just palette swaps in ''Pocket Paradise''.
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* CallASmeerpARabbit: The Newtgat isn't based on the newt, but rather on the axolotl, the Bonboon is based on the mandrill as opposed to true baboons, and the Profitamole more closely resembles golden and marsupial moles (neither of which are true moles).

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* CallASmeerpARabbit: The Newtgat isn't based on the newt, but rather on the axolotl, the Bonboon is based on the mandrill as opposed to true baboons, and the Profitamole more closely resembles golden and marsupial moles (neither moles, neither of which are true moles).moles.
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* CallASmeerpARabbit: The Newtgat isn't based on the newt, but rather on the axolotl.

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* CallASmeerpARabbit: The Newtgat isn't based on the newt, but rather on the axolotl.axolotl, the Bonboon is based on the mandrill as opposed to true baboons, and the Profitamole more closely resembles golden and marsupial moles (neither of which are true moles).
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* MultipleHeadCase: Twingersnaps, whose waiting animation involves the heads attacking each other.

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* MultipleHeadCase: Twingersnaps, Carefully smack a Syrupent’s egg with your shovel and it’ll come out as a Twingersnap, a two-headed snake whose waiting animation involves the heads attacking each other.other. If you manage to do the same thing to a Twingersnap egg, then it’ll double up and become the aptly named Fourheads.
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* AllDesertsHaveCacti: Most of the Dessert Desert's [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic accompanying soundtrack]] and native piñatas (as well as their homes) have clear Old World inspiration, but there are also cacti, plants endemic to the Americas. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] because it's set in a fictional island.

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* AllDesertsHaveCacti: Most of the Dessert Desert's [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic accompanying soundtrack]] and native piñatas (as well as their homes) have clear Old World inspiration, but there are also cacti, plants endemic to the Americas. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] because it's set in on a fictional island.
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* AllDesertsHaveCacti: Most of the Dessert Desert's [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic accompanying soundtrack]] and native piñatas (as well as their homes) have clear Old World inspiration, but there are also cacti, plants endemic to the Americas. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] because it's set in a fictional island.
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[[caption-width-right:349:Sure, it's all smiles and cuteness now. But then comes the ''[[SurpriseCreepy cannibalism and inbreeding...]]'']]

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[[caption-width-right:349:Sure, it's all smiles and cuteness now. But then comes the ''[[SurpriseCreepy ''[[SurprisinglyCreepyMoment cannibalism and inbreeding...]]'']]
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The series was a SleeperHit on the Xbox 360. Microsoft wanted the game to be its answer to ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'', but it didn't work out. Why? Well, the game ''looked'' like a children's game but actually comprised challenging Sim management tasks that kids just couldn't handle. At times, the games dip into NintendoHard or GuideDangIt, with the in-game ExpositionFairy actually ''[[TheComputerIsALyingBastard lying]]'' to the player at points to mislead them. The original game was also launched with [[WesternAnimation/VivaPinata a tie-in animated series]] (featuring TalkingAnimal Piñatas throwing parties) that wasn't even slightly representative of how the games actually play (although occasionally a reference to a game mechanic is made, and is even the main plot point of a few episodes). The game was also much more morbid than it seemed at first appearance, with a food chain of Piñatas killing each other and feasting on their candy innards being required to progress in the game.

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The series was a SleeperHit on the Xbox 360. Microsoft wanted the game to be its answer to ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'', but it didn't work out. Why? Well, out for several reasons: the game ''looked'' like a children's game but actually comprised challenging Sim management tasks that kids just couldn't handle. At times, the games dip into NintendoHard or GuideDangIt, with the in-game ExpositionFairy actually ''[[TheComputerIsALyingBastard lying]]'' to the player at points to mislead them. The original game was also launched with [[WesternAnimation/VivaPinata a tie-in animated series]] (featuring TalkingAnimal Piñatas throwing parties) that wasn't even slightly representative of how the games actually play (although occasionally a reference to a game mechanic is made, and is even the main plot point of a few episodes). The game was also much more morbid than it seemed at first appearance, with a food chain of Piñatas killing each other and feasting on their candy innards being required to progress in the game.



* TheArtifact: In ''Trouble in Paradise'', dry earth is removed. Despite this, Leafos still claims that a Whirlm turned up by the player uncovering soil.

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* TheArtifact: In ''Trouble in Paradise'', dry earth soil is removed. Despite this, Leafos still claims that a Whirlm turned up by the player uncovering soil.
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* TakeThat: The Pudgeon house is a statue of Professor Pester covered in poop.

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* TakeThat: The In-universe, the Pudgeon house is a statue of Professor Pester covered in poop.
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* TheArtifact: In ''Trouble in Paradise'', dry earth is removed. Despite this, Leafos still claims that a Whirlm turned up by the player uncovering soil.

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Added trope for Anti-Trolling Features and other stuff too.


* AmazingTechnicolorWildlife: ExaggeratedTrope. Not only every resident Piñata is extremely colourful, but each species has three colour variants obtainable by feeding them specific items.
* AnimalsLackAttributes: Averted only with Moozipans' cow udders.

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* AmazingTechnicolorWildlife: ExaggeratedTrope. Not only every resident Piñata is extremely colourful, but each species has three colour variants obtainable by feeding them specific items.
items. The Nintendo DS game only has one variant for each piñata, however.
* AnimalsLackAttributes: Averted only with Moozipans' cow udders.and Flapyaks' udders.
* AntiTrollingFeatures: There are three levels of permission that can be granted on network multiplayer games, each with various levels of restrictions on non-host players. Even the most permissive one, Full Permissions, blocks non-host players from selecting Wildcard piñatas to sell, breaking them with a shovel, or stealing them by trying to package them in a crate then sending them to themselves (the option to send a crate disappears if one is selected). Non-hosts are never able to access the Garden Store either, though this might be so that players can't get an extra Amber needed to acquire the normally SingleSpecimenSpecies Choclodocus.
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* FungiArePlants: The journal places the toadstool in the plants section, and it even grows from planted seeds! Strangely (and thankfully), its tinkered form, mushrooms, are excluded.

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