| Kasz216 said: Link in many games has no personality. |
I find that with a lot of Nintendo games not just with Link and I think it's part of the reason why I find it very hard to get into their games other than just in a pick up casual way. I mean when I played Ocarina of Time the atmosphere was brilliant but Link seemed to have no personality and it was hard to identify with anyone in the game because they all seemed so one-dimensional. Take the Mario games as well, do you ever really know what Mario is thinking or even what kind of personality he has? Has there ever been a time in any Nintendo game in which you felt real anger or sadness like in Final Fantasy 7 with it's famous scene that shocked gamers and made them feel horrified, angry, and grief?
I think a lot of it is because of Nintendo's philosophy of wanting their games to make people feel happy all the time they're playing them and also because they're aimed at everyone (which includes children) which makes it basically impossible to have characters with any real depth to them.
