With virtually no rupees left at all, I needed some quite badly. I went back to the Deku Tree and filled all my bottles with Life Dew, hoping to make BIG CAHS MONEY$, only to find they’re worth just 80 rupees each. Pff. I then made a few new foods, selling one to the creepy fat trader on the pirate ship for quite a lot of money, and the others to people in the town. This netted me quite a …
I seems I only needed a couple of thousand more rupees in the pool for it to grow another level – to so high I’ve opened up a whole new continent. There, I found an island covered in marsh gas, and spent a fair while blowing up the vents spewing the gas into the air. With that done, I’d pleased a queen bee (as the flowers could grow again). I also found a hole to fall in, to find it …
Just a bit more wandering on this today, and went off to find the kid who’d gone walkabout. Made some more money selling things I’d cooked as well, but despite chucking all my rupees (almost 15,000 in total) into the pool the tower didn’t actually grow any further.
Had a wander around the Deku Forest for a while, digging lots of holes, and finding Junglo – an aging Tarzan type who, although advertising himself as strong and brave, needed rescuing from some dung beetles. No, really. I then went back to some earlier areas to stock up on some more ingredients, made some more things and sold them.
After eventually figuring out how much Duke the Gay Workman wanted for his spade, I could start digging stuff up. Stuff like sweet potatoes and rupees! Well, OK – only sweet potatoes and rupees. Although I did dig some holes I could fall through and found some treasure chests with more rupees in. Then the tower shrunk! I didn’t know it did that! It seems if you don’t keep chucking rupees in, it shrinks again, undoing all your rupee-earning. Rubbish! …
First off today I went and cooked a load of stuff using up most of my ingredients. Then I wandered round the map for a while picking more ingredients, and collecting some Snatched Pearls and other stuff of value. Selling these things, and more food, I scraped together enough rupees to make the tower grow another stage. This gave me access to Lon Lon Meadow, which is full of evil cows and mushroom things. Wandered round there for a bit, …
The pirates are amazing. They’re all dead, and as a result are skeletons. And they act all hard and they’re not scared of anything, until a dog appears, anyway… So found may way into their hideout, did some mundane tasks for them (including killing cockroaches), and then beat up their boss. I found a load of “swag” too, although I’m not really sure what to do with it yet – it just sort of sits in my loft. Oh, and …
Really getting into this now, even though it is almost entirely guesswork. I think it’s the high rating it scores on the Quirkometer. And I do like games with high quirkery. My bodyguard died, and I hired another (a clown) who was totally useless. Hurrah! And I found a load of pearls, sold them, and made loads of money. And paid the Village People construction worker bloke to fix a bridge. And mapped some stuff. Amazing scenes!
With the first boss dead, I went over to the pool near my house and chucked pretty much all my rupees in. This made the pool rise into the air, as a tower, and the bloke-in-a-nappy reappeared – now in a suit. Hmm. Get the impression he’s making you work for him? The tower allowed me to access the next area (or continent, as the game calls it, although they’re a bit small for that, I’d say). I wandered round …
I had some time before bed, and my DS was out anyway (for the brain games), and so I thought I’d have a quick go. So I’ve done the first dungeon, along with a bodyguard I had to pay (twice!) which was pretty easy. I’m not sure I like the combat (run into baddies, hammer the screen), but the dungeon puzzles – and sound effects – are suitably Zelda-esque. Which is good! The boss was pretty good, if a little …
It’s the campest game in the world! And that’s before you even open the box! Amazing scenes. So, needing a break from Assassin’s Creed, that I’ve played rather a lot today, I’ve gone for Something Completely Different. I wasn’t really 100% sure what to expect of Tingle, assuming it’d be some sort of Zelda-lite. Well, it isn’t. So far, it’s been mostly about giving money away to dodgy geezers. You see, the aim is to earn an unspecified amount of …