Navi or Tingle?

Tingle because I love and adore him.

Neither one, frankly. Navi is annoying, and Tingle looks like he offers children candy to go into back alleys with him.

He does.

And that's why you love and adore him?

Why am I not surprised...

I love him because he is creepy partly yes. I also love the fact that he is just so sad and pathetic. It makes me want to jab him with sticks and maybe occasionally say a nice thing before continuing to jab him with said sticks.

Navi, because she doesn't destroy your wallet several times over. There is a difference between annoying fairy who won't shut up and some creepy, delusional middle age guy who forces you into poverty multiple times.

Navi, because Tingle's Wind Waker quest was the dumbest fucking part of any Zelda game I have ever played.

Fuck, I hated that quest.

Aondeug, I appreciate your love of playing Devil's Advocate, what with your love of grinding and such, but Tingle is NOT likable. Not even a hate to love.

At the very least, he's pitiable. I feel more sorry for his father, though.

See, the great thing about Tingle is that he's irritating and seems like a child-molesting developmentally disabled serial killer. Like a less-charismatic, still-living Freddy Krueger.

If that doesn't appeal to you then I guess there's nothing to save him.

Only if he's entirely optional. For a purely cosmetic sidequest.

edited 5th Jun '11 10:28:28 AM by Schitzo

Oh he's plenty likable. I would not like him as a person, but as a fictional character he is highly amusing.

I have to agree with that. I just find his excessive creepiness hilarious, and last time I played Wind Waker, I had quite a bit of rupies saved up by the endgame, so his sidequest was a breeze.

He just Crosses the Line Twice to me. And in Majoras Mask, you're actually encouraged to shoot at him.

Neither, Tatl please.

I had an asston of rupees in all my runs, but this is because my hobby was finding treasure chests in the ocean...

Oh if we bring Tatl into matters then fuck Navi and Tingle. I'm taking Tinkerbell's cousin.

edited 5th Jun '11 11:38:53 AM by Aondeug

Is it even possible to stock up enough cash to afford everything in one trip? I thought the cap was too low?

edited 5th Jun '11 11:45:42 AM by Rationalinsanity

Navi. I think I might be in the camp that never considered her annoying (same goes for the likes of Alia). I always found Navi to be endearing, if anything.

Tingle is, for lack of a more eloquent pejorative, macabre. An extremely creepy middle-aged man who is so insane, he believes himself to be a fairy, has odd interactions with a little boy, and forces his brothers and a random guy who absolutely loathes him into extortion, oblivious to ramifications of such a deed. And yet, the Japanese love him. Values Dissonance, maybe?

What I know of Japanese morals doesn't make me think for a moment that that behavior would really be acceptable in Japan. I don't know much about their morals though admittedly. I feel their reasons for the love are generally similar to mine. "He's just so pathetically weird and horrible it's amusing!".

edited 5th Jun '11 11:55:49 AM by Aondeug

At least Navi is reasonably attractive (for a fairy).

Jackerel, for some reason I'm imagining Navi dancing to the Guile theme right now.

^^^^^ You need to have the first wallet upgrade to raise the cap from 200 to 1000 rupees. The second wallet upgrade raises the cap to 5000, and each chart costs 398 rupees to decipher. So if you somehow find the second wallet upgrade then you can save the required 3184 rupees and spend them in one go.

Otherwise you can only decipher them 2 at a time but hey, if you start early like I did then you'll have them done before you are even required to do so.

It's hard to say. I liked Tingle in Majora's Mask because he was extremely useful overall. Those maps were needed, and they didn't cost very much either. Keep in mind you didn't have to buy the maps either.

His appearances in Oracle of Ages and Minish Cap didn't bother me at all. As for Wind Waker, the only problem was the map decyphering to me. The Tingle Tuner, however, was actually a great tool to use. So I have a mixed reaction of him overall.

Now, for Navi, she was annoying, yes, but her advice was really good. And the lock-on she gave was useful against anything but flying mooks. Tatl was funny to me, but I will admit that she was a real jerk, no questions asked. Ciel was more of a bit of exposition, and her conversations with Linebeck were funny.

I think the thing that makes Navi more likable is that she was replaced with variations of the character, instead of remaking the same person completely for a new game. Plus, Tingle is creepy.

Navi. Tingle can go fuck himself with a chainsaw.

I've never really found Navi annoying, sometimes her advice was quite useful. And at least she wasn't a creepy-ass extortionist Man-Child.

edited 5th Jun '11 2:38:19 PM by MrPastry