Eiji Aonuma may consider Linkle for future Zelda titles

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JRPGfan said:

Would ruin what zelda is I think.

My preceptions of a link, is a boy kid who goes on a adventure to save the princess.
Part of that, is as a kid your told "dont bully the girls" "dont hit girls" ect, you grow up takeing "care" / "being mindfull of girls" and its natural to want to protect them. I think its like a basic human instinct to want to care for girls (something we re born with), the same way most girls are more maturnal (want to take care of kids).

Zelda is that kid that has to go do the saveing. Part of it is hes a boy, and the one in need is a girl.
It wouldnt be the same game, if it was a female link, saveing her "friend" zelda, or a linkie saveing a guy zelda.

Theres reasons for Link being a guy. Makeing a zelda game wiht a female link, would not serve any reason, other than just because... we need a female hero, in a zelda game.

Imo just have zelda go on her own adventures without any link there, if you want a female hero game, set in the zelda universe.

 

 

*** whats next?

Female version of Mario as main character? (this actually makes more sense than a female link)

Male version of Samus Aran main character?

and why?

You said this amazingly well.

The indeterminant gender idea works well in games like Pokemon and Splatoon where your character is basically just an avatar for yourself as the gamer. In the case of Zelda, Link's personal struggle and quest is a big part of the Zelda storyline and while we, as gamers, get to participate in his story we are not central to it.  It's the same reason why customizing Master Chief's gender or Solid Snake's gender would be silly... It would hollow out these character's personalities and would make the games about "us" instead of about "them."