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Not only is Chris Kohler—Wired blogger, published author of fine video game books, and sarcastic game opener—a fine example of game writing and message board posting, he's also really good at reading things in Japanese.
Now he's taking that knowledge of Japanese and video games and finally doing something good with it. He's giving us impressions of the newly released DS game, Tingle's Freshly-Picked Rose-Colored Rupee Land.
If you thought the title was bizarre, you might not be prepared for the gameplay and the story. According to Kohler, Tingle's on a quest to get to Rupee Land where he'll gorge on food and spend time with tons of lovely ladies. Yeah, ladies. *cough*
There's a bizarre battle system and a bargaining calculator and all sorts of middle-aged fairy wackiness. Let's hope Nintendo of America brings this stateside so we can all get together in the desert, ingest copious amounts of hallucinogenic mushrooms, and sort out this whole Tingle thing.
