Tingle

Tingle the "Fairy"


Tingle is a 35 year old man who thinks he is a Fairy and first made his appearance in Majora's Mask. He wears green tights accented with red, and appears in various Legend of Zelda games to help out in usually bizarre ways. His spell phrase is "Tingle, Tingle, Kooloo-Limpah.", and he seems to be quite an apt cartographer considering the many maps he can give Link. In The Wind Waker, Tingle could be called upon using an item called the Tingle Tuner to give Link various forms of help, like the odd-but-fun hovering power-up called the Tingle Balloon. Tingle would also translate Triforce Charts for you so you could find the Triforce Shards. In The Minish Cap, Tingle and his brothers Ankle, Knuckle and David Jr. would fuse Kinstones with you and tell you how many Kinstone Fusions you had left to complete.

Tingle's Rupee Land
In the second half of 2006, Tingle's first game was released for Nintendo DS in Japan as "Mogitate Tingle no Bara Iro Rupee Land" (translated as "Fresh Tingle's Rose Colored Rupee Land"). The game explains the story behind Tingle: why he is the way he is, why he loves rupees etc.

In the game, you must pay characters in order to do specific tasks. If you pay too little, then they will refuse to help, but if you pay too much then you risk running out of rupees very quickly. The game includes some dungeon exploring and fighting, but the fighting takes place in a "cartoon cloud".

So far, there is no word on a North American release for the title, but Nintendo of America is running a survey to see whether or not gamers in America are interested in the game.