Tingle is a small, masculine fairy who shares a name with a common auto-erotic accessory aimed at women. His game is called Tingle's Freshly-Picked Pink-Coloured Rupee Land... a clear euphemism for Tingle's Freshly-Picked Clitoris. You'd have to be a lunatic to ignore all that and come up with the notion that Tingle's gay.

Still, Nintendo has apparently been keeping abreast of the whole "Is Tingle A Homosexual?" debate and has decided to more scientifically gauge American gamer's reactions to Tingle via a poll on their website. "Do you think he's gay?" is not a question on their politically-correct questionnaire. But here's an unrelated question:

Rupee Land incorporates a unique gameplay system in which everything costs Rupees — the trick is that you never know how you need to pay. What do you think of this system?

I think the exact same thing of it now that I thought as a backpacker of a similar system being employed all throughout the Middle East: it totally sucks. Florian Eckhardt