Freshly-Picked: Tingle's Rosy Rupeeland -- Initial Impression.

I'm going to try and fit in another game before Halo 3 and this time we're going back to the Nintendo DS with Freshly-Picked: Tingle's Rosy Rupeeland. The title was developed by Vanpool. Their other credit includes the Nintendo DS game Tingle's Balloon Fight which was a Japanese Mario Club reward only title. If you earned enough Mario Club points you could trade them in for the game. Anyway, back to the game at hand. Freshly-Picked: Tingle's Rosy Rupeeland is an adventure title. The game has you playing as Tingle, the mildly disturbing thirty-five year old man-child that likes to dress like a fairy and collect Rupees who first showed up in The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask. From the time spent with the game thus far I can tell that it's going to be a well-drawn and colorful adventure. And it's going for laughs. I mean it would have to be right? I don't even want to imagine a world where anyone takes this one seriously. I had to import the game from Europe where it just came out last week. It was released in Japan the week before that. This is the first game I've imported from Europe and I noticed it automatically started up in English without any language selection option. In Europe Nintendo games are released in five languages. English, Spanish, French, German, and Italian. The game will automatically load based on your Nintendo DS language settings. I found that to be a cooly subtle feature of the region free Nintendo DS. The game isn't on any release list for North America as of yet. Nintendo of America had an online survey regarding how much you liked Tingle. So they were clearly fishing around to gauge the title's viability in North America. It appears the results were less than favorable for old Tingle. We'll have to see if North America is actually missing out, or lucking out, in seemingly not getting Freshly-Picked: Tingle's Rosy Rupeeland.