You people.
Listen.
It's not laziness. It's not the sole reason that they did it.
What happened was somebody said, "Hey, how about having a Zelda sidekick?"
"Well, John, I don't know if that'd work. The skirt would be hard to animate, and we'd have to build whole dungeons around the co-op between the two of them."
"I guess."
"Shame she isn't like one of the Phantoms."
"....Saaaaaay"
Nobody is allowed to call Nintendo lazy for this until they actually beat Spirit Tracks. BEAT IT. Do you hear me? God, I'm so close to screaming out spoilers it's making my eyes water







