Justagamer said:
jlrx said:
superchunk said:
http://venturebeat.com/2014/06/10/zelda-creator-teases-that-we-didnt-see-link-in-wii-u-trailer/
That trailer for the new Legend of Zelda for the Wii U sure looked great, didn’t it? But what was up with Link? He wasn’t wearing his iconic green tunic or hat. Why did Link look so weird?
“No one explicitly said that that was Link.”
That’s what Legend of Zelda series producer Eiji Aonuma told me when I asked him about Link’s, or whoever it is’, new appearance during an interview at Nintendo’s E3 booth. He said this with a smile and a laugh. Could the bow-wielding hero we just saw not be Link, the star of every game in the series history?
Earlier in the interview, Aonuma told me that he was always looking for ways to shake up the series conventions. We saw this in the recent A Link Between Worlds for the 3DS, which let you explore dungeons in any order you wanted while renting items from a store. But a Zelda game without Link as the main hero? That would be a huge blow to tradition.
So, who is that? The outfit actually looks like the same one Link wore in the beginning of The Wind Waker. Aonuma himself smiled when I brought up this connection. Could this new entry be tied to that universe? Of course, that doesn’t explain why this wouldn’t be Link. Maybe it’s a child of a Link we already played as, like the one from Wind Waker or Skyward Sword. Let the speculation begin. |
New character?! Was it a new version of Zelda?
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It was a young Ganon, going by the forearm covers.
Mayvbe we learn Ganon is a link who went bad!
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I think that would be a pretty cool twist to whole world of Zelda. There's so much they could do with it... I actually hope you're right.
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This is the best evidence I have ever seen regarding the issue.
Just because someone thought they are boobs, they think Link is now female?
Because of a redesign, some people think its not even Link?
Seriously, you people need to use reason.
You're acting like speculation and subjectivity are fact because you're blinded by you're fanatism.
They only thing we can tell from this trailer is that its an open world Zelda game, where the main character who looks different than Link prefers bows instead of swords. Remember, this is the MAINLINE Zelda game, not a spin off, not a sequel. What requires more explanation, a redesign or a completly lead change? Occam's Razor:
among competing hypotheses, the one with the fewest assumptions should be selected. Other, more complicated solutions may ultimately prove correct, but—in the absence of certainty—the fewer assumptions that are made, the better.
Aonuma literally didn't say anything, he's just being cryptic to build anticipation something that is Nintendo's MO at this point. Just like everything else regarding this generation, it is way to early to call, there is simply not enough information.
