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Here we have one of the oddest Legend of Zelda spinoffs out there. Tingle debuted as a character in the Nintendo 64 hit The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask, as a quirky map salesman who floats with a balloon that Link must pop in order to bring him down to earth to do business. Rather than keep him as a one-off Majora’s Mask character, he started appearing in more Zelda games in different forms, such as Wind Waker and Minish Cap. Nintendo eventually decided that Tingle had enough of a following to merit his own game, and this odd one was the result. The story starts with a main character who must be named by the player, a 35-year-old man who lives alone and doesn’t seem to have much of a life. He hears a mysterious voice calling out to him, which leads him to a well outside of his house. There he meets Uncle Rupee, who promises Tingle a better life in a magical place called Rupeeland if he can simply bring enough Rupees to the pool. Uncle Rupee casts some kind of spell on him, giving hi...