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Valdath on 21 June 2016

Link is male, don't like it? don't play it.

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MARCUSDJACKSON on 21 June 2016

Yeah I much rather have Zelda lead



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DakonBlackblade on 21 June 2016

Why do they need to explain this ? The devs wanted a male protagonist, deal with it. There won't be a male Aloy or a male Samus will there ? Ye the world needs more female protagonist but just making male ones into females is stupid and a diservice to women protagonists at the same time. The female protagonists need ot be tought from the ground up as females just as the male ones were when they were conceived. Gender switching male protagonists is not the right way to go. 

It is the Ghostbuster situation, the world didn't need an all female crew of Ghostbusters that will be copies of the male crew and do the exact same things in a similar story set in the same world. What we needed was an entirely new crew of fun/entertaining/bad ass/well developed women that were tought from the ground up as women on a new world ceated just for them. We also didn't need a female Thor but we sure as hell could've used an all new Asgardian heroine with some awesome powers that was conceived a woman and would always remain a woman.



Darc Requiem on 21 June 2016
DakonBlackblade said:

Why do they need to explain this ? The devs wanted a male protagonist, deal with it. There won't be a male Aloy or a male Samus will there ? Ye the world needs more female protagonist but just making male ones into females is stupid and a diservice to women protagonists at the same time. The female protagonists need ot be tought from the ground up as females just as the male ones were when they were conceived. Gender switching male protagonists is not the right way to go. 

It is the Ghostbuster situation, the world didn't need an all female crew of Ghostbusters that will be copies of the male crew and do the exact same things in a similar story set in the same world. What we needed was an entirely new crew of fun/entertaining/bad ass/well developed women that were tought from the ground up as women on a new world ceated just for them. We also didn't need a female Thor but we sure as hell could've used an all new Asgardian heroine with some awesome powers that was conceived a woman and would always remain a woman.

You speak the truth. Unfortunately, actually taking the time to create a new character requires effort. I'm so sick of this silly mentality.



0D0 on 23 June 2016
onionberry said:
Wright said:

Source is TheMarySue.com (Full article here)

Author is Jessica Lachenal

 

Explanation for Lack of Female Hero in Zelda: Breath of the Wild Doesn’t Add Up

 

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According to a chat with GameSpot, Eiji Aonuma, a producer at Nintendo, said that “We thought about it, and decided that if we’re going to have a female protagonist, it’s simpler to have Princess Zelda as the main character.” [...] Aonuma went on to explain, “…if we have Princess Zelda as the main character who fights, then what is Link going to do? Taking into account that, and also the idea of the balance of the Triforce, we thought it best to come back to this [original] makeup.”

The implication here is that the creative team worried more about Link’s story and identity rather than Zelda’s. It boiled down to a question that sounds a lot like, “But what about the man,” the inverse of which (“But what about the woman”) is a question that women have long since wondered to themselves. Even then, this reasoning doesn’t exclude the idea of a female version of the Hero, or Link. It might exclude the idea of Princess Zelda as a protagonist (disappointing), but how does this prevent them from creating a new character to play the hero?

The statement about “the idea of the balance of the Triforce” doesn’t make a whole lot of sense, either, and it’s hard to gather why that would also be a factor in why they didn’t include a female Link. [...] The reason just feels arbitrary, rather than thought-out or even considered.

During Nintendo Treehouse E3 Live event, much was said about defying past Zelda norms and tropes. If you ask me, one great way of actually defying those norms would be to add a female hero. [...] However, it seems like we’re a long way off from seeing a character like Linkle fronting her own Zelda game at Nintendo.

Considering most Zelda stories are non-gender-specific anyway (and given Link’s often much-parodied androgynous appearance), how much effort would it really take to build a female hero, someone that isn’t just head-canonically female but actually female?

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Thoughts on this?

By the CREATOR of the franchise Shigeru Miyamoto:

 

“Some people might wonder, you know, because the title is Zelda – it’s a female character – why isn’t the protagonist a female character? But really, to me, The Legend of Zelda, the main series, Link is the protagonist. So if you look at something like Hyrule Warriors, where there are multiple characters, then you know you can use different types of characters.”

 

Female link is bullshit, period. Sorry if my opinion is harsh but i'm tired of that subject.

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KingofTrolls on 23 June 2016

Why not ? U guyz take it bad way imo.

Create NEW female character, let the gamers to choose at the start.
Problem solved.



COKTOE on 23 June 2016

“But what about the man?” I ask this question every time a female interrupts my enjoyment of a movie or videogame by taking up valuable screen time.



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Jumpin on 23 June 2016

I am fairly sure the character Metroid is female. But you only find out at the end when Metroid removes her suit.



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Tmfwang on 23 June 2016

Link is a male and should stay that way, same with Samus, shes a female and should stay that way



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Pavolink on 23 June 2016

Link was always intended as a male. Good to see them destroying any irrational hope of changing Link's gender.



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