Tingle RPG

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Zelda's leotarded oddball gets his first solo adventure - and it makes perfect nonsense

This is combined with the fact that nothing has a fixed price. To get anyone to do anything - offer some advice, sell an item, fix a bridge - Tingle has to make an offer. Too low, and the person will pocket it without obliging. Too high and you'll have wasted valuable health.

It's a fantastically lean piece of game design, but it does carry a few problems. The first is a risk of monotony, and the second is that resource management - that tiny terror every time an RPG asks you to decide whether to buy this weapon here, or save your pennies - is something many players already find tedious even when it isn't the main focus of a game.

Edge Staff
Edge Staff

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