Langston Lickatoad

Langston Lickatoad
Langston Lickatoad
Langston is a master Piñata wrangler for Piñata Central. He'll set the challenges and then sell you the traps you need to capture Piñatas from the far-flung parts of Piñata Island.
Role	Head of Piñata Central Shopkeeper
Relationships	Jeffe (Enemies) Professor Pester (Enemies)
Voiced By	Mike Pollock

Langston Lickatoad is a Lickatoad piñata who runs Piñata Central. He will often contact the player, issuing out Factory challenges to be completed. In Trouble in Paradise, he also runs Langston's TrapEase.

Despite being a piñata, Langston is fully capable of human speech, and is the only piñata in the games seen doing so. This oddity is never acknowledged in-game.

Biography

Appearance

Langston looks exactly like the average Lickatoad, and bears the default green coloration. He wears a small orange hardhat on his head. The hat has a sign sticking up from it, emblazoned with the Piñata Central logo.

Like a normal piñata, Langston also has a label. It is of the Piñata Central logo, the same as on his hat.

Personality

Langston is a go-getter and will stop at nothing to meet Piñata Central's ever-increasing demand for piñatas at parties. He is highly motivated and issues challenges with impetus and excitement.

Gameplay

Viva Piñata

Langston plays a minor role in the original Viva Piñata. On occasion, he sends the player a pop-up message requesting that piñatas be sent to parties. These requests may specify one or more piñatas of a particular species, or may accept piñatas of any species. Requests often include a time limit.

Participation in these requests is optional. If a challenge is accepted, Langston provides a crate to be placed in the garden, similar to those used by the Post Office. The crate will only accept piñatas that meet the request’s criteria. Once the required piñatas are packed, they are sent to Piñata Central. Completing a request rewards the player, typically with sweets, and the sent piñatas return to the garden after a short period of time.

Langston is never seen in-person in this game, and is only ever represented by his icon.

Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise

Langston's role was significantly expanded in Trouble in Paradise. He is now available for face-to-face interaction, and he plays several important roles in the game.

Upon first starting the game, the player is pointed toward Langston, who gives 3 challenges that act as the game's tutorial. Langston himself takes a backseat in this, with the player mainly being guided by the game itself and by Leafos. Completing each tutorial challenge triggers a cutscene of the piñata's crate being launched from the Cannoñata and a congratulatory message from Langston. These tutorial challenges can be skipped, but only when the game is first started. Once the tutorial is accepted, it must be completed.

Once the tutorial is complete, Langston will now offer global challenges. These have been completely overhauled from the first game, and are no longer random. Instead, there are a total of 120 challenges to complete, divided up into 7 regions. Requests come in from all across the world, with additional information on the nature of the request. Early challenges only require a certain species, but the difficulty quickly ramps up as people begin to order piñatas of a specific color variant, wearing specific accessories, or even knowing tricks.

Completing a challenge and sending a piñata to a party will reward the player with chocolate coins. This is a great method to fill out the computer records, and doing so will also grant experience.

Traveling to the Piñarctic or the Dessert Desert will allow the player to visit Langston's TrapEase. This side business sells traps and bait needed to bring the piñata native to these regions back to the central garden. All traps must be purchased here, but bait can also be bought using the bait bag. More advanced traps and bait will be unlocked as the player levels up. This shop features a unique interior, with Langston at the Piñata Central computer seen in the game's introduction cutscene.

Mini-Games

Langston in The P Factor

Langston can participate in the mini-games introduced in Trouble in Paradise. As an opponent, he will use a Lickatoad. It is unknown if this is meant to be a separate Lickatoad, or Langston himself.

As a judge in The P Factor, Langston will prefer piñatas with high Candiosity. Making piñatas happy, such as by giving them food they like, giving them accessories, or naming them will all help raise their candiosity. A joy or happy sweet will also work. Langston has opposite preferences to Jeffe, who likes piñatas with low Candiosity.

Trivia

• Langston is a character originally from the Viva Piñata animated series. He was included in the game series to better tie the two sides of the franchise together.
  • This fact is referenced in-universe by Jeffe, who was originally designed as the head of Piñata Central before it was decided to include Langston instead. It is stated by Jeffe that he was fired from that same position and replaced by Langston, leading to him holding a grudge on the frog.
• Langston is the only non-human NPC in the games, and the only piñata fully capable of human speech and thought.
• Due to his unclear game icon and lack of in-person appearance in the original Viva Piñata, many players thought he was a man wearing some sort of frog mask.

Gallery

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  Langston's in-game icon