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.

Because they like the idea of a female link, I don't think its that complicated.

Link is not such a static character for his gender to be hugely relevant. He's largley asexual and 100% mute. The only relevance his gender plays is on a personal one with each respective player. If we're mostly concerned with the image of Link, this depiction of Linkel is closer to the original carnation then reinventions in Windwaker 



I mean when players were put in the control of a child in Ocarina of time/Majora's Mask and Windwaker, they could have chosen to loose their shit and complained it was lame. I personally prefer a male link and would like to see a slightly more more mature version of the character (late 20s), so I completely understand how people want to see their own ideas of Link realised. 

good example with triforce heroes... Do a spin off game like that with a female character. I dont play the spin off games anyway. Every main game is the same hero being reborn, reincarnated... If you were a male in a past life you are not reborn female thats not how reincarnation works.

I think it's stupid, and I think it shouldn't happen, but nothing can be worse than the "Zelda needs to grow up with its audience" phase we're finally out of.

EDIT: And to be clear, all gender swapping is stupid, not just this one. Unless it's played for laughs, or done explicitely to develop a character, it doesn't belong anywhere.

Is this parody?

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?

I'm going to need a reference for that last statement.  Since one can be reincarnated as a completely different species in some religions I doubt that gender is an uncrossable barrier.  

Thank you for saving me the trouble.

Because more females are gaming? At this rate Link might as well be a girl. It wouldn't stop me from gaming, but a game has got to make money right?

Link is a boy.

Saying he is not clearly a boy is fooling yourself and trying to fool others.

You can of course make a Zelda with a female main character, but she can never be Link, because Link is a boy.