Today's trapped-at-the-U.S.-border video: Tingle DS

by Zack Stern { Aug 31st 2007 at 12:00AM }

European and Japanese game, Freshly-Picked Tingle's Rosy Rupeeland has a new trailer showing the too-hot-for-America RPG. While no U.S. release has been mentioned, Tingle importers should at least be able to read the English in the European version, due September 14. That's assuming fans of Tingle can read.

We can't imagine Tingle not getting a U.S. release after the work has been done for the European localization. But maybe our myopic tastes make Nintendo nervous. (See the last sentence of the previous paragraph for an example.)

Watch the new trailer after the break.

Tags: ds, hottestvideo, import, rpg, rupeeland, tingle, tinglesrosyrupeeland, trailer, video, zelda

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

mr nimblewick @ Aug 31st 2007 12:06AM

I actually kinda thought that looked fun. I think I'm going insane.

hvnlysoldr @ Aug 31st 2007 12:07AM

SPOILER

Tingle gets cursed. And there's a plot twist on the final bad guy.

Still don't like him.

colin @ Aug 31st 2007 4:45AM

SPOILER!!!

tingle goes around putting ecstasy in young boys' apple juice. he then teaches them about the birds and the bee-hinds. hence the name tingle. he has been acquitted in 16 states, and has had his case thrown out of court numerous times for lack of evidence ... now he's publishing a book entitled, "why i didn't rape those little boys in the ass: if i would have done so, i would have made sure to groom the children, therefore we could have developed a trustworthy relationship where the child would have kept our secret so that his parents wouldn't have taken his pocketknife away if he told on me; so i assume ... the novel: a work of fiction; i promise."

/spoiler

Jerk Face @ Aug 31st 2007 11:35AM

Colin, you son of a bitch, I just laughed so hard that I spit my coffee out.

And it was good coffee too!

Fernando Rocker @ Aug 31st 2007 12:11AM

Really, it doesnt look that bad. Im gonna buy it if the game is release here in US...

I mean, poor Tingle... he have a stupid face... he deserve a few dollars from me (or rupees)

Word of the street. @ Aug 31st 2007 12:15AM

Ok I don't know what that trailer was about, there was a stereotypical-French looking elf, balloons and I guess that at the end was the evil f*ck monster.

It looks too weird. The music was great tho'.

Neebs @ Aug 31st 2007 12:19AM

mr nimblewick @ Aug 31st 2007 12:19AM

Hvnly, Fernando, Word, it's 9:18 pacific time. We spend too much time here.

Word of the street. @ Aug 31st 2007 12:22AM

Tell me about it,Is 11:21 in here.

Fernando Rocker @ Aug 31st 2007 12:29AM

11:29 here

Damn... we are all geeks...

Fernando Rocker @ Aug 31st 2007 12:32AM

Seriously... I hope someday we Joystiq reders can meet in person.

It will be cool. Like, in las Vegas.

hvnlysoldr @ Aug 31st 2007 12:36AM

We're not spending enough time.

3cubed minus 3squared plus1 @ Aug 31st 2007 12:41AM

Well you and me live in Texas so we could meet some day.
I've been to Vegas twice.
Going again once I turn 21!

Fernando Rocker @ Aug 31st 2007 12:46AM

Joystiq... make a reunion in Las Vegas, starting the year, you put the food, the beer and the games... we put our presence.

Seriously, that will be a nice gift for your loyal readers.

Word of the street. @ Aug 31st 2007 12:47AM

Nah Fernando, It would suck. For some reason live meetings always suck, also I don't think we would have anything to say to each other.

The only circumstances in which Joystiq readers could meet would be via Halo 3 and I'm sure someone would screw that, yet it would be interesting.

Joshua @ Aug 31st 2007 12:47AM

12:47 here. ~_~

Fernando Rocker @ Aug 31st 2007 12:51AM

maybe we wont talk a lot to each other, but at least I can give a punch to Curmeo.

Vexorg @ Aug 31st 2007 2:50AM

a Joystiq get together sounds like a great idea... At least until someone says something about either the 360 or the PS3, and before you know it they're sending in the riot police...

blooh @ Aug 31st 2007 12:30AM

west coast 4 lyfe

Philpott @ Aug 31st 2007 12:51AM

yeah dawg!

Fernando Rocker @ Aug 31st 2007 12:50AM

maybe we wont talk a lot to each other, but at least I can give a punch to Curmeo.

xtremeholymuffin @ Sep 9th 2007 4:45PM

MEH?

Philpott @ Aug 31st 2007 12:51AM

Huh?

Word of the street. @ Aug 31st 2007 12:58AM

Wha?.

Backslash @ Aug 31st 2007 2:27AM

BUH?!

Kevlar @ Aug 31st 2007 2:48AM

GAH!

The Boo @ Aug 31st 2007 9:53AM

Wie?

The Boo @ Aug 31st 2007 9:53AM

Wie?

Sean @ Aug 31st 2007 10:37AM

Wii?

Xeno Mezphy @ Aug 31st 2007 1:00AM

I'll admit it, I want this game... enough that my brain, during the trailer, was actually thinking "Hmm... I wonder how much that would cost to import..." Yeah... I'm insane though, so *shrug*

Fernando Rocker @ Aug 31st 2007 1:03AM

Looking you avatar... you dont have problem to import this game... I mean... you have a monocle!

Philpott @ Aug 31st 2007 1:02AM

Not Exactly sure what the eff is going on in that trailer but the character looks like Walter Matthau in a Noid outfit.

Covarr @ Aug 31st 2007 1:06AM

Due to his Triforce Chart extortion scheme in The Wind Waker, many will never like or respect Tingle. In addition, anybody who has played Four Swords Adventure probably has experience with Tingle stealing hard-earned force gems. Add that to his overpriced maps in Majora's Mask, and you have what may be the most annoying NPC in video game history simply because of his ability to piss players off with his own greediness.

Xeno Mezphy @ Aug 31st 2007 1:10AM

Thank god we could make him fall on his face in Smash Bros, eh?

Word of the street. @ Aug 31st 2007 1:11AM

IMO if Link makes a Cameo stealing or messing with Tingle stuff that would make the game worth buying.

*Link stealing an important item from Tingle :"This is called karma b*tch".

Philpott @ Aug 31st 2007 1:17AM

While I know enough to know that you are referring to Zelda games, outside of that, your reply sounds like some deranged hippie diatribe. Sorry! This is because I haven't played any of those games, because I am not a fan of Zelda (you can kill me).

blooh @ Aug 31st 2007 1:35AM

i don't wanna kill you. the only time i've ever seen tingle is in smash brothers too. i thought this guy was from katamari, because of his style, until this thread, when ppl reminded me he's in the zelda level of smash bros.

only zeldas I've played were about 7 hours of link's awakening (decent game, for it's time period) and about 5 hours of the new one on wii. decent games, nothing that special though. and i got real tired of being a dog, hence why I didn't go further in the new one

bm @ Aug 31st 2007 6:10AM

"(decent game, for it's time period)"

lol more like, better than 90% of the childishly shallow, mindnumbing, near-automatic shitpiles trying to pass off as adventure/rpg/whathaveyou that come out these days.

I'm sorry if you can't take it, but it's the truth.

blooh @ Aug 31st 2007 1:32AM

the bear in spyro 2 (moneybags iirc) was more annoying. I think he was in spyro 3 as well

damn that man. Couldn't swim or wall climb without him. at least ripto beat him up

BPM @ Aug 31st 2007 3:41AM

I want this game. If NOA doesn't announce a release, I'm importing a European version (even if it costs a lot).

benjamin @ Aug 31st 2007 7:48AM

If you want the game so much, why not just import it? It's not as if they're region protected.

I've imported every Gyakuten Saiban game, for instance, so I end up having them well in advance of when they're put out here in the US.

Moreover, you can be all pretentious and tell your friends "Oh, buying games from a Best Buy or Gamestop? Well *I* import!" And then you can smoke a fancy cigarette on the end of one of those long holders.

BPM @ Aug 31st 2007 2:32PM

1) Importing games cost more than domestic releases (well, unless you're European or Australia, I think).
2) You're not giving your money to the American publisher! How are they supposed to know whether or not you want any upcoming sequels in English, too?