Tingle was going to play in a horror game until he was axed and replaced by Dillon Rolling Western

As much as Tingle divides The Legend of Zelda fanbase, the stories that he continues to provide to the Nintendo community are priceless. During a conversation with Kotaku about Dead-Heat Breakers by Dillon Nintendo producer Kensuke Tanabe revealed that the eccentric fairy – debuting in Majora's Mask – was going to be the star of a horror game Eight years ago we were developing a horror game with Vanpool that featured Tingle as the main character, but this project was canceled for various reasons.

Nintendo kept in touch with the Tokyo-based studio that had previously worked on Rosy Rupeeland of Tingle freshly picked for DS. This led to the development of a prototype game where the main character rolled and was controlled by a "slingshot" control method using a stylus and a touch screen.

Tanabe explained how the character was created:

a discussion and came up with the setting and the main character through the badociation of Rolling => Armadillo => Texas => Western, and Vanpool has also liked this idea. So, a new IP address, 'Dillon & # 39; was born

If it was not for the annulment of Tingle's horror game, we may have never had the Dillon series on the 3DS. Are you happy to hear this, or would you have preferred a horror game with Tingle? Tell us below.