Surprise after surprise has rolled out as Rosy Rupeeland wraps up. The two biggest ones are related to sidequests, but the game's rupee-based play greatly rewards such quests, so they're much closer to the game's main line than such things can be in other games.
The first surprise came with the discovery of Duke, Duko, and Judge's dad - the Foreman. He demands that his sons pay you back the rupees that you paid them to build bridges, and they pay out handsomely. A nearly 80,000 rupee boost made the battle with the Oinker Boss absolutely no problem. It was a battle that relied more on evasion than anything else, but as mentioned before, Tingle's not the most agile of video game heroes. So it was a challenging bout nonetheless.
The second shock came as I bought back the final finished map. The map making shop in the game's hub town is run by the map maker's widow. Each time you buy back a map you've finished she mentions that it was their dream to map the whole world. Well, once you help them to accomplish this they reunite.
The mapmaker's widow dies on the spot, her ghost appears on the top screen and then she says that she's going to her husband's grave. A phantom map drops into her grasp from above, she says that she won't get lost thanks to it, and then she vanishes. This sequence slackened my jaw pretty successfully - you don't expect such emotional scenes in a game about a guy in a green one-piece leotard running around collecting cash, jewel by jewel.
Now, with the game's maps being completed, I'm now going to get all of the Rupee Goods before I bring down a rain of pain upon Uncle Rupee.
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