Tingle is a matter of cultural misunderstanding. The Japanese seem to understand his appeal quite perfectly, and i never, ever understood the Waluigi hate. If Mario has the twisted counterpart, why not Luigi? What exactly is the problem with Waluigi?

The Pikmin i'd argue are quite good characters from a gameplay perspective. You're meant to empathize with them, from what i understand (the threat of the ticking clock turned me off of Pikmin 1 and i never got around to Pikmin 2), and like what Moreno said, you feel bad when you let them die, and this encourages the player to be more conservative. Similar to how Fire Emblem does it (guilting you over dead player characters) really, and it shows how art works to supplement gameplay

Don't feed the Malstrom, folks.

Enlighten us, o'Khan.

I only play as Waluigi on Mariokart because he is freakishly awesome.

I don't know the details fully, but the existence of Tingle's Rosy Ruppeeland seems to attest to this, as well as bits and pieces of info i've scraped from around the internet.

It could have something to do with the fact that Japanese appreciate the humor of bizarre and off-putting characters as a thing funny in and of itself. Tingle makes a lot of Americans uncomfortable, but it is precisely that nature (that he is weird and off-putting) that makes him funny over there. Take as another instance the Okama of One Piece (if you follow that series), where we have an island full of hideous cross-dressing men (who are over-the-top manly in physique even as they wear dresses and profuse lipstick and makeup and such), whereas in America the notion of cross-dressing is not funny in and of itself (the humor being generated by the situations spawned by cross-dressing). Perhaps that is the root of his appeal, though i have not done extensive polling or interviewing of the Japanese community

If anyone would kindly donate 2820 yen, i could go stand in Akihabara for a day and conduct live interviews and pool some data from Japanese gamers.

what a stupid, silly, inaccurate and futile article...

Malstrom likes to hate Miyamoto, which character created during his creative direction at Nintendo he attacks is basically irrelevant.

About Waluigi and Tingle I still agree with him, even after manuel and Mr Khan explained them, as Waluigi is still a a blatant Dick Dastardly rip-off light years away from the original regarding fun, and his name still works only if you know Japanese, and while normally I like Japanese humour even when I don't understand it, I just hate Tingle, but personally I haven't got anything against the Pikmin, really, even though they remotely look like Teletubbies, I deeply hate the latter, but I quite like the former.

(*) heck, I used to hate both Teletubbies and Spongebob, but while I eventually started liking Spongebob, I still deeply hate Teletubbies!

Wow! Malstrom's gone way downhill. I used to laugh at some of his stuff, but this is just mean spirited. I admit that Tingle, Waluigi, and Midna all, suck but just calling them names is not humorous in the least.

If I wrote a thread called Slippy the Toad is a f****wit! I'm sure that it would get some replies, but no one would claim that it was quality entertainment.

Boo!!! Give it up you hack.
















Start trolling the 3DS again, and I'll be back on board. :p

I don't really care about Waluigi but how DARE he speak ill of Tingle and PIKMIN!!!! D:

Malstrom's secret mission must be to get mad the minority of Nintendo gamers Reggie didn't manage to piss off.

I am the only one that liked Midna?

btw, that article was crap