History VideoGame / FreshlyPickedTinglesRosyRupeeland

* BreakingTheFourthWall: Part of the overall humour and [[AnAesop messages]]. Notable cases are Tingle's uncle and the Port Town kids.

* BossSubtitles: [[spoiler:Beetle Lord Death Bug, Captain Stalfos, Tri-Force Colored Plant: Bana Bana, Beetle King Ultra Death Bug, Undiscovered Parasitic Insect Gargantu-Bug, Fire Monster Dora Dora, [[spoiler: Ultimate Boss Uncle Rupee, and Super Powered Uncle Grand Rupee. In ''Legend of Zelda'' tradition, Uncle Rupee's final form lacks subtitles, simply being called Rupee.]]]]

* EleventhHourSuperpower: [[spoiler Pinkle]] gives you extra support in the final battle if you've found all the Rupee Goods and freed [[spoiler: her]].

It was released in Japan in 2006 and in Europe a year later, but not in North America because AmericansHateTingle (if you want to play it, import it - it's region-free!). It received a sequel in 2009, ''VideoGame/RipenedTinglesBalloonTripOfLove'', which revolved around women instead of money; this was never released outside of Japan, but fortunately(?), an English-language FanTranslation [[https://tingletranslation.blogspot.co.uk/ is now available.]] There was also ''Tingle's Balloon Fight'', a ''VideoGame/BalloonFight'' [[DolledUpInstallment Clone]]-SpinOff featuring Tingle released in 2007, in-between the two.

* AliensStealCattle: Aliens had abducted the cows of Lon Lon Meadow and brought them back (a possible reference to ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask''). The cows Tingle encounters all sport grey alien heads.

%%* BigBallOfViolence: Every battle except for the bosses is this.

* BossSubtitles: [[spoiler:Beetle Lord Death Bug, Captain Stalfos, Tri-Force Colored Plant: Bana Bana, Beetle King Ultra Death Bug, Undiscovered Parasitic Insect Gargantu-Bug, Fire Monster Dora Dora, Ultimate Boss Uncle Rupee, and Super Powered Uncle Grand Rupee. In ''Legend of Zelda'' tradition, Uncle Rupee's final form lacks subtitles, simply being called Rupee.]]

%%* BubblegloopSwamp: Gooey Swamp and a bit of Steamy Marsh.

* ClamTrap: Oysters give you a valuable pearl in Sunshine Seashore and vitamin plants in Deku Forest give you forest vitamin, which is both valuable and a good medicine. It's unavoidable for the trap to close, so it's a matter of getting out as soon as possible and keep the damage low.
* ContinuitySnarl: Being a spinoff, it wasn't included in ''Hyrule Historia'''s official timeline, and with references to the rest of the ''Zelda'' series being sparse, it's clear that a relationship to other ''Zelda'' games was not a priority of the developers. Still, CanonDiscontinuity has not been established, so it's been postulated by fans that it takes place somewhere after ''The Wind Waker'' after the Deku Tree from that game succeeds in {{terraform}}ing the Great Sea and creating continents.

** One where people charge Rupees for advice, opening a shop to them, and letting them enter a town, and where people haggle and keep the money if they don't like the offer... It's no wonder that you succumbed to Uncle Rupee in the beginning. And there is no sign of any hero like Link... The few heroes charged Rupees to be heroic!

-->'''Old book:'''[[note]](when read backwards)[[/note]] Mount Desma is also known as the Mountain of Death.

%%* EleventhHourSuperpower: Pinkle's support.
%%* EnigmaticEmpoweringEntity: The Grand Fairy [[spoiler:and her daughter Pinkle.]]
%%* EvilMentor:[[spoiler:Uncle Rupee.]]
%%* {{Expy}}: Oinkers to Moblins. Dora Dora to Volvagia.

%%* FairySexy: Pinkle.
%%* GaiasLament: The Deku Tree.
%%* GirlsWithMoustaches: Duko.

* GuideDangIt: A frustrating example would be the phases where you have to pay [=NPCs=] or vice versa. Another would be finding the recipe for Tasty Stew.

* HelloInsertNameHere: Played with: You can name the protagonist everything except Tingle, because that's the name he'll be given less than five minutes into the game. There's a few special [=NPCs=] that call you your real (i.e. your chosen) name.
* ImagineSpot: When the Grand Fairy reveals to Tingle [[spoiler:what [[{{Dystopia}} Rupeeland]] will be really like, Tingle has a brief hallucination of a BadFuture called "Bad Uncle Rupee's Ashen Rupeeland".]]
%%* ItemGet: Yep, Tingle does it too.
* KarmicDeath: The final boss of the game gets one of these. [[spoiler:The avaricious Uncle Rupee is killed by Tingle shooting him with all of the rupees that Uncle Rupee tricked him into collecting]].

%%* LargeAndInCharge: The Grand Fairy, Captain Stalfos, the Yamatami chief and the Oinker boss. [[spoiler:Uncle Rupee's final form, too.]]
* LonelyRichKid: Paul Moneybags, because he thinks showing off his expensive possessions is a good way to make friends with the locals (the children in Port Town). It isn't, but when Paul leaves crying for being rejected, one of the kids does follow him to reveal money is for grownups and not interesting to them, but that they'd love to hear the stories of his travels around the globe and what it's like to fly in a balloon. Paul subsequently befriends them on those terms.
%%* LovesTheSoundOfScreaming: Captain Stalfos and crew.
%%* MachoCamp: Duke, Judge, Duko and their father, the Foreman, all are based on this image. Just watch them thrust their pelves.
%%* MagicMusic: The Bone Ocarina.

%%* TheMedic: Missy at Hometown Prairie, the doctor at Steamy Marsh and the Shaman at Desma Mountain.

* MultipleEndings: There's a bad ending and a good ending. Oddly, the bad ending is actually much more interesting and thought provoking than the good ending, although you'll still feel cheated out of your victory.
* MythologyGag: A few locations in the game are homages to the main series (Deku Forest, Lon Lon Meadows, Desma Mountain), and the Salona also look a lot like the Subrosians.
* {{Ninja}}: Yamori, one of the Drifter Bodyguards. Being able to hire him involves a miniquest of finding him a bunch of times and eventually explaining him [[HighlyVisibleNinja why he fails his ninja-ism]].
* ObviouslyEvil: [[spoiler:Uncle Rupee, who tells Tingle that throwing rupees into the pond will grant a life of luxury and comfort, isn't that clearly the villain when you first meet him. By the second story-proceeding donation though, you'll notice that Uncle Rupee's living more luxurious than when you met him.]]

%%* PlayboyBunny: One of Uncle Rupee's servants during the final fight.

* ThePromisedLand: Rupeeland is described as a paradise by Uncle Rupee. [[spoiler:It's not. In fact, it's even worse than the Rupee-driven Crapsack World Tingle lives in — those who live in Rupeeland have to gather Rupees or die, and most of the Rupees go to Uncle Rupee, who wants to get filthy rich and make Tingle and everyone else a slave]].

%%* SavePoint: The computer at Tingle's house.
%%* SelfMadeMan: Tingle upon getting the good ending
* SequentialBoss: [[spoiler:Uncle Rupee]] has a normal form, a green powered up form, an orange powered up form, a red powered up form and finally a giant [[spoiler:rupee head]] form.
%%* {{Sexophone}}: Pinkle's theme.

%%* SpikesOfDoom: Particularly bad in the Insect Cavern.
%%* StalkingMission: A recurring sidequest to find out what Big Bro is up to is this.
%%* {{Stripperiffic}}: Pinkle. There's also one (scantily clad) female warrior in each set of Bodyguards one can hire.

* TreacherousAdvisor: [[spoiler:Uncle Rupee, who advices Tingle to collect Rupees to enter a utopia, but actually plans to get rich and make Tingle a slave.]]
%%* UglyGuyHotWife: Tingle and Pinkle do seem to fit this trope. Otherwise, the good ending certainly does.
* UncannyFamilyResemblance: Pinkle and her mother can only be told apart by the fact the mother wears a crown. And [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker as per tradition]], Tingle's uncle is pretty much him with glasses.

* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler:Tingle, who is promised riches and a utopia by Uncle Rupee, who wants to get Rupees for himself and at Tingle's expense.]]

* ButThouMust: Two significant iterations in the game: declining Uncle Rupee's offer at the beginning will make him explain once again Rupeeland's utopia. [[spoiler: In the same vein, refusing to help the Grand Fairy will make her explain once again Rupeeland's ''dys''topia]].

* DestructibleProjectiles: The FinalBoss [[spoiler: also shoots black Rupees at you which you often have to shoot to not get hit by them.]]

%%* EvilMentor:[[spoiler: Uncle Rupee.]]

%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.

* GraveRobbing: [[spoiler:Want the Icy Bouillon recipe?]] Start digging! There's also a couple of dead adventurers' bodies to take loot from, but they aren't in graves.

* WidgetSeries: These are without question the weirdest ''Zelda'' games, as they have Tingle of all people as the hero, there are anachronisms left and right and currency is in the center of the plot, to name some of the less weird examples.

%%* ThePromisedLand: Rupeeland.

''Freshly-Picked Tingle's Rosy Rupeeland'' is a quirky little game for the DS, starring [[Characters/TheLegendOfZelda Tingle]] from ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda''. In it, Tingle is an [[BlatantLies ordinary]] 35-year old man living in what may or may not be Hyrule. One day, a mysterious Rupee-shaped character promises him entrance to [[ThePromisedLand Rupeeland]] if he collects enough Rupees, and changes his name to Tingle, giving him his classic green suit.

Despite being generally well-received, it was only released in Japan and Europe because AmericansHateTingle (if you want to play it, import it - it's region-free!). It received a sequel, ''VideoGame/RipenedTinglesBalloonTripOfLove'', which revolved around women instead of money; this was never released outside of Japan, but fortunately(?) an excellent English-language FanTranslation [[https://tingletranslation.blogspot.co.uk/ is now available.]] There was also a ''VideoGame/BalloonFight'' [[DolledUpInstallment Clone]]-SpinOff featuring Tingle released in-between the two.

!!This game contains examples of:

* ArtificialStupidity: Bodyguards come in three flavors: "Passive", meaning they won't initiate combat except in self-defense or (sometimes) if ordered to; "Agressive", meaning they will simply attack everything nearby, even if it's beneficial not to do so; or "Assertive", meaning they'll only attack if ordered to, or if Tingle initiates combat.

* BigBallOfViolence: Every battle except for the bosses are this.
* BigEater: Dave, the son of the Chef.
* BonusBoss: Baron, who can only be fought if you have one of the wandering bodyguards with you.

* BubblegloopSwamp: Gooey Swamp and a bit of Steamy Marsh.

* CrapsackWorld: One where people charge Rupees for advice, opening a shop to them, and letting them enter a town, and where people haggle and keep the money if they don't like the offer... It's no wonder that you succumbed to Uncle Rupee in the beginning. And there is no sign of any hero like Link... The few heroes charged Rupees to be heroic!

-->'''Old book:'''[[labelnote:*]](when read backwards)[[/labelnote]] Mount Desma is also known as the Mountain of Death.

* EleventhHourSuperpower: Pinkle's support (see And Your Reward Is Clothes).
* EnigmaticEmpoweringEntity: The Grand Fairy [[spoiler:and her daughter Pinkle.]]
* EvilMentor:[[spoiler: Uncle Rupee.]]
* {{Expy}}: Oinkers to Moblins. Dora Dora to Volvagia.

* FairySexy: Pinkle
* GaiasLament: The Deku Tree.

* GirlsWithMoustaches: Duko.

* GuideDangIt: A frustrating example would be the phases where you have to pay [=NPCs=] or vice versa. Another would be finding the recipe for Tasty Stew

* ImagineSpot: When the Grand Fairy reveals to Tingle [[spoiler:what [[{{Dystopia}} Rupee]][[CrapsackWorld land]] will be really like, Tingle has a brief hallucination of a BadFuture called "Bad Uncle Rupee's Ashen Rupeeland".]]
* ItemGet: Yep, Tingle does it too.

* LargeAndInCharge: The Grand Fairy, Captain Stalfos, the Yamatami chief and the Oinker boss. [[spoiler:Uncle Rupee's final form, too.]]

* LovesTheSoundOfScreaming: Captain Stalfos & crew.
* MachoCamp: Duke, Judge, Duko and their father, the Foreman, all are based on this image. Just watch them thrust their pelves.
* MagicMusic: The Bone Ocarina.

* TheMedic: Missy at Hometown Prairie, the doctor at Steamy Marsh and the Shaman at Desma Mountain.

* MineralMacGuffin: Aside from collecting the regular rupees, you also have to get the Super Rupees, that act as the games dungeon counters, and the final Master Rupee.

* OffToSeeTheWizard: ''Balloon Trip of Love'' is one with Tingle in the Dorothy role.

* OurFairiesAreDifferent: They're the spirirts of altruism and generosity, or simply the anti-Uncle Rupee(s).

* PinkGirlBlueBoy: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Pinkle]]. Duko too, but that one might be for parody purposes.
* PlayboyBunny: One of Uncle Rupee's servants during the final fight.
* ThePowerOfLove: That which enables the Guard to thwart the evil lurking in the cemetary and save his wife.
* ThePromisedLand: Rupeeland.
* PuzzleBoss: Dora Dora
* SavePoint: The computer at Tingle's house.
* SelfMadeMan: Tingle upon getting the good ending

* {{Sexophone}}: Pinkle's theme.
* ShoutOut: One of the boss battles a parody of ''VideoGame/PunchOut''.

* SpikesOfDoom: Particularly bad in the Insect Cavern
* StalkingMission: A recurring sidequest to find out what Big Bro is up to is this.
* {{Stripperific}}: Pinkle. There's also one (scantily clad) female warrior in each set of Bodyguards one can hire.

* UglyGuyHotWife: Tingle and Pinkle do seem to fit this trope. Otherwise, the good ending certainly does.

* {{Tomboy}}: Aba

* TheChosenZero: Tingle.

* TreacherousAdvisor: [[spoiler:Uncle Rupee]]

* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler:Tingle.]]
* WidgetSeries: These are without question the weirdest ''Zelda'' games

[[caption-width-right:300:If you're still here, [[AmericansHateTingle you're not American.]]]]

* SpiritualSuccessor: Could be considered one to ''VideoGame/ForTheFrogTheBellTolls'', as both have a similar automatic battle system.

* VendorTrash: Nearly every item is this. This is a good thing, however, due to the game's premise.

* {{Meganekko}}: Missy

[[caption-width-right:320: If you're still here, [[AmericansHateTingle you're not American.]]]]

Despite being generally well-received, it was only released in Japan and Europe because AmericansHateTingle (if you want to play it, import it - it's region-free!). It received a sequel, ''Videogame/RipenedTinglesBalloonTripOfLove'', which revolved around women instead of money; this was never released outside of Japan, but fortunately(?) an excellent English-language FanTranslation [[https://tingletranslation.blogspot.co.uk/ is now available.]] There was also a ''VideoGame/BalloonFight'' [[DolledUpInstallment Clone]]-SpinOff featuring Tingle released in-between the two.

* AliensStealCattle: Aliens had abducted the cows of Lon Lon Meadow and brought them back (a possible reference to ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask''). The cows Tingle encounters all sport purple alien heads.

Despite being generally well-received, it was only released in Japan and Europe because AmericansHateTingle. (If you want to play it, import it- it's region-free!) It received a sequel, ''Videogame/RipenedTinglesBalloonTripOfLove'', which revolved around women instead of money; this was never released outside of Japan, but fortunately(?) an excellent English-language FanTranslation [[https://tingletranslation.blogspot.co.uk/ is now available.]] There was also a ''VideoGame/BalloonFight'' [[DolledUpInstallment Clone]]-SpinOff featuring Tingle released prior to both games.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Pinkle's initial reward to Tingle for freeing her. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0j6QGyoMEjo "Kooloo-Limpah!" will never sound the same again.]]

** DestructibleProjectiles: The FinalBoss [[spoiler: also shoots black Rupees at you which you often have to shoot to not get hit by them.]]

** GaiasLament: The Deku Tree.

* [[spoiler:EvilMentor: Uncle Rupee.]]

* ElementalPowers: The ''SuperSentai''-ish fairy squad corresponds to the elements of Metal, Aqua, Leaf, Earth and Magma. There's also a collection of Super Rupees based on these elements.

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* BadFuture: After the Grand Fairy reveals to Tingle [[spoiler:what [[CrapsackWorld Rupeeland will really be like]], he has a brief hallucination titled "Bad Uncle Rupee's Ashen Rupeeland".]]

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Pinkle's initial reward to Tingle for freeing her. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kjd2DRXskY "Kooloo-Limpah!" will never sound the same again.]]

Despite being generally well-received, it was only released in Japan and Europe because AmericansHateTingle. (If you want to play it, import it- it's region-free!) It received a sequel, ''Ripened Tingle's Balloon Trip of Love'', which revolved around women instead of money; this was never released outside of Japan, but fortunately(?) an excellent English-language FanTranslation [[https://tingletranslation.blogspot.co.uk/ is now available.]] There was also a ''VideoGame/BalloonFight'' [[DolledUpInstallment Clone]]-SpinOff featuring Tingle released prior to both games.