Yeah. It's really ridiculous. Don't even try arguing with him either because he'll find something to "nullify" a differing opinion (like having an anime or Nintendo game related profile pic and what videos someone may have on their channel).

I call bullshit. Voice acting is not fitting to Zelda games and gender chosing is useless horsecrap.

Matsuka is an artist for the series and Sakamoto is the co-creater of the series so the creators word is much more relevant and important to the seies than the artist but hey you are free to believe in any fantasies that you wish so don't spread it like it's the truth

Honestly too many to list. She's very reliable.

The artist that made possible the character. In Japanese gaming development, artists are widely-regarded as a vital component of the team. There's the reason why the main Final Fantasy 7 artist ended up being the director of the following games.

You were quoting the Wiki like it was the complete truth, but now you're disregarding it altogether because the Wiki itself states that there's a debate about it.

All these rumors are fine with me if they come true.. would have preferred Zelda U to stay Wii U exclusive, but it's becoming apparent that it will most likely get a NX port

The gender choosing to me is Aonuma looking at Skyrim and thinking "why not?".  On the surface, I have no problem with it but I don't like it because I know social progressives will interpret it as getting a foot in and then demanding more from Nintendo like "MAKE LINK A BLACK MEXICAN GAY MUSLIM OTHERKIN TRANSSEXUAL FURRY!" and whinig like petulant children (media progressives included) if they don't get what they want.   As for voice acting, oh god, I hope there's dual audio if it's true because NOA tends to cheap out when it comes to voice acting and typically has horrible VA directors handling the sessions, leading to wooden, uninspired performances.

Where is this from?

Oh yes... it was about time. I am OK with Link/Linkina remaining a silent protagonist, but the world inhabitants need this.

Now you are starting to talk nonsense.Why would I be mad with a Hero mode?I just said that I find Zelda games too easy.Having a harder mode would be great.I mean, the problem with Zelda difficulty in general is not only the ammount of damage or health that you have, but the design itself.Im currently playing through A Link To The Past now, and lord gracious, it is MUCH harder than other zelda games.Not only you have less health in general and enemies does more damage, but you need much more skill than in lets say OOT, Wind Waker or even A Link Betwenn Worlds.If you want to appeal to a more casual audience it WILL come at a cost.After all, you cant just put the desing of the game into easy mode and make a labyrinth into a straight line without fundamentally changing the game.The same would apply to Dark Souls.Dark Souls is not only hard because of the amount of damage that you receive.Its designed from the ground up to be hard, from the positioning of enemies to the how the envirioment if done itself.You cant tone down everything, unless you essentially make a new game altogether.

And I dont get mad with changes.I welcome changes.What I get mad at, which seems that you didnt get quite well, are with changes that are completely unnecessary, or that just have a much better solution.The jump from 2D Zelda for 3D was wonderful.Did it break the tradition?Of course.All games so far were 2D.But it was a wonderful change.And 2D Zelda games kept being made.Spin-off games, more than welcoming.While I dont like musou games, Hyrule Warriors is a good game.(Im completely fine with Linkle in that game for example.Because, you know, she is not Link and is a completely new caracther)

Spoilers for OOT ahead:

And there is one bad scenario In a Zelda game, even though it is never shown.In OOT, in one of the possible futures, Link is defeated by Ganondorf, which leads to the games like Zelda I, Zelda II and so on.And I found that explanation quite good to be honest.

Not only that, but having multiple genders for the main caracthers(Not being a fixed one) can result in a weaker story( I emphasize that can).Unless you invest more than you need, your dialogue will need to be more vague, since you could be either a boy or a girl, so the option to make romantic interests could be severely limited for example.Unless again, you make different dialogues for different genders, but that would need a higher investment for the game, and may give problems to the overall story of the franchise, since Nintendo would need to determine which would be canon and not.Like I said, giving the games more "choices" can come with sacrifices, or consequences, in other areas.Its not as simple as you want to think.

What pisses me is doing changes for the sake of changes.Making a female Link will gain nothing, and will just make fans angry.Sure Nintendo could just do it anyway, but why the hell will it do something considered by many negative when there is a better solution elsewhere?

Back to the Samus discussion, yes I have read it, and as I said, she is just theorising like I said.And she has weak arguments to be honest.I mean like I said, the possibility is always there for all caracthers that dont have the past 100% explained.Hell, for all I know, Mario could be a transgender!!And Hirofumi Matsuoka didnt say she was transgender.Even the author of the herself admits that the translation may not be accurate and if it was, the meaning of the word could be different for the east.Or he has a fetish about it and wanted to make a comment like that, I dont know.And again, before developing the carachters, developers think about all the possibilities.Maybe Samus was at one point in development a man, who knows?Not to mention all the other evidences other users already post before me.To summarise:its fanfic, not true.