| Tingle | |
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| Tingle series and The Legend of Zelda character | |
&sq=Envato&lang=en&file=File:Tingle_art.png) Tingle in Hyrule Historia | |
| First game | The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask (2000) |
| Created by | Takaya Imamura |
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Tingle[a] is a recurring character in The Legend of Zelda series, designed by Takaya Imamura. He first appeared in Majora's Mask, where he is a map salesman who wants to become a fairy. He has since appeared in several installments, including The Wind Waker, where he provides maps to help Link find pieces of the Triforce. He has gone on to be the star of Freshly-Picked Tingle's Rosy Rupeeland, where his origin as Tingle is shown as him tasked with collecting as many Rupees as possible. He also appears in its sequel Irozuki Tingle no Koi no Balloon Trip, where he is transported into a storybook and has to enter into relationships with women in order to escape.
He has been received negatively by western fans, who felt his role in The Wind Waker made the game worse. The negative reaction to him led to his being left out of Twilight Princess. On the other hand, the negative reception led to him getting his own game, with the belief that the hate for Tingle suggested they cared about him, and thus may come to love him. Despite the negative reception, he has developed a cult following in Japan and has been praised by multiple critics.
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- ^ "Nintendo's official Four Swords Adventures Website". Archived from the original on 2016-03-07. Retrieved 2016-02-23.
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