Freshly-Picked Tingle's Rosy Rupeeland
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Freshly-Picked Tingle's Rosy Rupeeland is an adventure video game developed by Vanpool and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo DS handheld game console.
It was first released in Japan, and was released in Europe on September 14, 2007, a year after its Japanese release.
Why It Rocks
- You can play as one of the Zelda franchise's ironically iconic characters, Tingle.
- The game features traditional Zelda dungeon adventuring and puzzle elements, as usual.
- Lots of fun and humor, even for a Zelda game.
- Many sidequests to choose from.
- Like New Super Mario Bros. 2, the game is entirely focused on one single thing: MONEY.
- For starters, the main goal is to collect as much money as possible to continually build up a tower found west of Tingle's house.
- Exciting combat and boss battles.
- Except Tingle, the game features an entirely new cast of characters.
- Even better, Tingle can hire bodyguards for protection.
- Many characters and NPCs can be bribed to allow Tingle access new areas or join him.
- The game is quite lengthy and can take up to 30 or more hours to complete.
- More and more locations and dungeons become available as you build up the tower.
- Many items can be collected and also be mixed together to create different variations.
- Just like Wario, Tingle's life meter is his gathered money; if he loses all his money in combat, he dies.
The Only Bad Quality
- The game can sometimes be a rehash of the Wario Land franchise as they both have money-hungry characters going on an adventure.
Reception
Freshly-Picked Tingle's Rosy Rupeeland has received mostly positive reviews from the few outlets which have reviewed it. Official Nintendo Magazine gave the game a score of 76%, praising the game's uniqueness, humor and "fantastically stylized graphics". Nintendo Life praised the game as well, noting the boss battles in particular to be surprising and exciting. Furthermore, Nintendo Life commended Nintendo of Europe for showing the courage to localize the game into English.