[quote name='Nintendonly']
I'm stuck at a part where I have to have a bridge made by an effeminate YMCA-looking dude, and no matter what my offer is, it ends up being wrong, so ALL of my rupees have to be given to him.
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If I recall correctly, making low offers to the bridge guy is cumulative: He keeps what you offer, but adds it toward the hidden total amount at which he'll start working. It's the same when you have to pay to get into a dungeon. Some of the NPCs work this way, others simply take your lowball amount and it is lost. The worst is if you get a monster chest in a dungeon, and you don't have enough rupees to pay it - you're pretty much F'd.
[quote name='Nintendonly']
That's what I call an effed-up gameplay mechanic, and is archaically akin to a poorly-developed NES-generation title (which were rampant). If you make an offer and it ends up being wrong, you shouldn't have to give all of your money to the NPC.[/QUOTE]
I think the point of this was to show how much of a loser Tingle is. Anyone, even a child, can take his money and there's nothing he can do. (The guy can barely fight, and needs to hire bodyguards for 99% of the enemies in the game.) But yeah, it definitely doesn't make for fun gameplay. Just go back home and save before you make any offers... assuming you can; sometimes you can't. Or just use a walkthrough for those parts.
I finished the game, enjoyed the exploration parts of it, but not the trial-and-error guessing games. Didn't bother finding all the hidden Rupee Goods. Can definitely see why Nintendo didn't release it here (as opposed to, say, Xenoblade). Worth playing if you have a little patience and/or a willingness to look things up online to make the annoying parts easier.
unless you have an English FAQ in front of you, and so far, there aren't any complete ones available. Essentially, you have to make some offers with your own batch of rupees, and if you don't at least offer the minimum amount, you STILL have to give the rupees to the seller.
