illdill1987 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. |
... Link is a quiet hero but hes obviously always been a boy who saves a princess its a tale as old as time. And its a fundamental part of Zelda. They should never change it or it would be a completely different game.
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You're going to have to explain to me why Link being male is absolutely fundamental to the game. Especially with a mythos as amorphous and abstract as the one in Zelda, where the lore is rewritten and changed all the time. Does "seven wise men" being changed to "seven sages" ring any bells?
