Yesterday, I jumped back into Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker. It’s the fifth game I must beat before I can finally play Wonderful 101 with a clear conscience. I’m pretty far into it, but I never found the jail until this go-around.

I knew Tingle was in custody and that I needed him to decipher Triforce maps, but I never thought to check a door built into the side of a hill. So I broke him out of jail and got a shudder-inducing reminder that Tingle might be the creepiest thing Nintendo has ever created.  Link really needed an adult.

I suppose Tingle gets a bit of a bad rap. Even though he’s a camera thief, he will prove instrumental to my finding the pieces of the Triforce. I guess even creepy imp-men in spandex get a pass when they help you save the world.

Hey, wait. Tingle is clearly the camera thief, but he managed to hide it in the tunnel in his cell. It wasn’t confiscated by whatever passes for police on Windfall Island. Either he managed to hide a rather large camera somewhere in his tights so the arresting officer couldn’t find it or that’s not the crime for which he’s in jail. What have you done, Tingle? WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!?