A female Link?
- Thread starter Demon_skeith
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Flarence
Noble of Flames~!
Towns Folk
No. Link stays male and Zelda stays female. That's like trying to change other iconic characters to another gender. It just wouldn't work. (Although, it could with Zelda in all honesty. . . if Zelda wasn't in the game. . .)
Just no. Next thing you'll be asking to make Samus Male and Master Cheif Female.
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Lime Pawpaw
Towns Folk
Which wouldn't make a bit of difference
As for Demon_skeith's question - hell no! There will be a massive backlash from fans, there'll be massive articles by feminist gaming journalists (trust me, it's happened a lot of times on GameSpot thanks to one Carolyn Petit) about stuff like 'transgender characters, give transgenders adequate representation in games, there should be more female characters, the gaming industry is dominated by males, kill them all'; trolling and insulting every single transgender in existence by trolls, flamewars between trolls and suck-ups who want to get into the site administrators' good books, articles by feminist gaming journalists that females have been locked up in windowless rooms by males for centuries, heartbreak, divorce and then you know what, cats and dogs will be getting together to produce all sorts of mutant aberrations!
In short, no.
I know my response may seem extreme. But to reiterate, it's happened on GameSpot before.
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Flarence
Noble of Flames~!
Towns Folk
Flarence
Noble of Flames~!
Towns Folk
Yeah, I guess. I honestly like his appearance in Twilight Princess the best though. Skyward sword was really comical, just like Wind Waker. I don't mind it, but the more masculine he looks, the more epic his actions are to me. xD
He wouldn't look really good more masculine than he already is though, maybe. =P
Kaynil
Nintendo 3DS Legend
Towns Folk
So, why does a Female Link must make Zelda automatically a prince?
More than simply turning Link a girl, I think it would be interesting to have the option to set the gender of our character similar to Pokémon, after all Link is the avatar in which we immerse into the game. Link is our Link and such an approach could be quite interesting.
I am sure I read somewhere a guy edited a ROm for WW to make the dialogs refer to Link as a girl, this because her daughter was playing. I think the core of tWW probably wasn't affected for this dialog changes. Subtle changes like that without turning Link into another girly damsel could work.
On the other hand I agree that this decision would definitely cause knee jerk reactions and a lot of backlash as for many male Link is part of the core of the Zelda games, it is not like we have ever seen something like that before... except for Japan, that during the SNES days with the Broadcast Satellaview (BS-X) attachment saw light of a Zelda game without Link: BS The Legend of Zelda. While Link was away someone else had to cover the hero spot. This game allowed you to chose the gender, it is to note though, that just like with the CDi games, Nintendo wasn't the main man behind, but the point still stands that this approach could work.
The CDI games failed not because in two zelda was the protagonist, but because they were bad in controls, confusing, with night-mare inducing cutscenes and the BS Zelda was for an accessory that never saw light outside of Japan and was shortly discontinued. Nintendo still brushed this game under the carpet and pretend that nothing happened.
Finally, while interesting I doubt Nintendo will risk to pull a movement like this one anytime soon and like many of you I have grown picturing Link as a male hero and as a character of his own more so than a mere shell.
More than simply turning Link a girl, I think it would be interesting to have the option to set the gender of our character similar to Pokémon, after all Link is the avatar in which we immerse into the game. Link is our Link and such an approach could be quite interesting.
I am sure I read somewhere a guy edited a ROm for WW to make the dialogs refer to Link as a girl, this because her daughter was playing. I think the core of tWW probably wasn't affected for this dialog changes. Subtle changes like that without turning Link into another girly damsel could work.
On the other hand I agree that this decision would definitely cause knee jerk reactions and a lot of backlash as for many male Link is part of the core of the Zelda games, it is not like we have ever seen something like that before... except for Japan, that during the SNES days with the Broadcast Satellaview (BS-X) attachment saw light of a Zelda game without Link: BS The Legend of Zelda. While Link was away someone else had to cover the hero spot. This game allowed you to chose the gender, it is to note though, that just like with the CDi games, Nintendo wasn't the main man behind, but the point still stands that this approach could work.
The CDI games failed not because in two zelda was the protagonist, but because they were bad in controls, confusing, with night-mare inducing cutscenes and the BS Zelda was for an accessory that never saw light outside of Japan and was shortly discontinued. Nintendo still brushed this game under the carpet and pretend that nothing happened.
Finally, while interesting I doubt Nintendo will risk to pull a movement like this one anytime soon and like many of you I have grown picturing Link as a male hero and as a character of his own more so than a mere shell.
