Should There Be A Female Link or Maybe a Game Starring Zelda?

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Torillian said:

Ajescent said:
No, no, No!!! Exactly the same way I don't want to see a male Samus,
a male Lara Croft (no not Drake, like Larry Croft)
A female Sherlock Holmes (Yes Shirley Holmes, that was a direct dig at you)
A female/black Doctor who
A white Othello
A female James Bond
A female (Janette) Bourne

why? Because it's pissing on an originally agreed set of principals, it's an affront to what has already been established, this is one path of PC equality I'll be happy to live without.

The difference though is that all of those are singular characters, but Link is not the same person everytime, he's more of an archetype.  And since he isn't going around Hyrule slinging his dick around or screwing anything that moves I don't think changing the character to a female would really change much of anything.  Not like he's a burly muscleman anyway, half the time I see a person dressed up as Link it's a woman.  Only reason I can think that they shouldn't make a game with Link as a woman is because it wouldn't change anything and would therefore just be an attempt to look controversial, but I disagree with the idea that it pisses on Link's set of principles.

pretty much this.

Link is never the same person in every game. He is a reincarnation of the Hylia's chosen hero. Games can come 100s of years apart of eachother story wise. Also it has never been stated that Hylia's chosen hero HAS to be a man or that he will always be reincarnated into a men everytime. Im up for female link as long as it isnt a ''main home console game'' otherwise it it would create to much anger with fans, fans tends to get rly angry when ppl change something about theyr beloved franchises (see Metroid: other M or the next devil may cry for example). A handheld game would be a nice fit, but now 3ds games are looking alot more like home console games, theyr is no more 2d zeldas. But i could imagine a female link in games like Minish Cap or Phantom Hourglass.

OR they SHOULD give us the option to CHOOSE between making a female Link or a male Link at the start of the game, abit like they did with Pokémon. That way they would be no reasons for fans to complain, if you hate it then just make your link a male, if you are the kind of person who likes playing females in video games you create yourself a female link(theyr is nothing wrong or weird with that, theyr is so many male characted in gaming, playing a female can feel fresh for some). A other reason why I think this would be a good thing is that Nintendo keeps saying that Link doesnt talk because he is supposed to be a extension of yourself and that they want the player to feel like they ARE link and not just playing him. Then for the same reason we have the option to name our link, it is only logical that nintendo should let us choose between a male or female link, theyr is ALOT of female fans of Zelda, and i'm sure alot of them would feel alot more like they ARE link and not just playing him if he was a girl.

And again, we should get the option to CHOOSE, I dont want Nintendo to FORCE us a female link. Those who hate the idea of a female link should be able to just check the option ''male'' when you create your save file and move on and forget that the possibility of a female link even exists.

For Zelda as a playable character, maybe im up for her being playable for a quest somewhere into a game, but nothing more. She should be playable for like15 or 20min once or twice into the game just for a breeze of fresh air but a entire game with her playable sounds terrible IMO and she should never have nowhere near as much gametime as link.