archer9234 said:
burninmylight said:
There have been about a dozen different canon versions of Link. Link is more than a single person; Link is a vessel for the forces of good. Samus is a single person.
Link has virtually no personality. He has never been overtly macho, sexual, cocky or show any traits that define a gender either. The only time you get to see him speak (not hear) is during interactions with NPCs, and these conversations tend to be pretty gender-netural anyway.
When you see people asking for a female Link, are they asking for the option to play as a female character, or to make Link officially female in a new iteration? Because I see nothing wrong with the former, based on what I said above. Until Nintendo gives us Zelda: Other Z, when Link is given the voice and personality of Justin Bieber, there isn't a strong argument for a largely silent character with few defined traits and is ever changing to not give players the option.
As a minority gamer, it is an extremely big deal to me to be able to create MY avatar in a game with a customizable main character. Being forced to play as a white male character in such games tends to be a big turnoff to me. Therefore, I can see why there is a crowd out there that want to be represented better. |
Basically, you want what Pokemon/Mass Effect does. Lets you choose the sex. But you aren't playing as the same character. Basically Nintendo has it in place. All future Zelda games could just have Link and Linkle be choices for now on. The rest of the story is unaltered. Except for gender terms being changed.
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Exactly. Coincedentally, Pokemon and Mass Effect are the two games I primarily thought of when typing that post. There are a lot of things to dislike about XY, but character customization ain't one. It felt good being able to finally play as a black kid, and going back to having to play as Brandon or May is ORAS is a big reason I don't feel the need to acquire one of those games.
Mass Effect has hours and hours of dialogue and character building/definement, yet that doesn't stop the game from providing a female option. In Zelda, the closest thing you can do to give Link a defined personality is to choose different dialogue options with NPCs. And even then, most of them really aren't optional, they really only leave you with one option if you want to progress the game.
