Actually I think one of reasons why Zelda U is delayed to 2016 is NX, and I am pretty sure they will use that extra year to make better and polished game than it if was released in 2015.

Link has more often been an avatar than not (the 3D Zeldas are an exception), and he's always been voiceless (has no text dialogue in the games.) The only thing new is that we can choose their gender. 

Honestly, after seeing what Nintendo did with Samus, and she had past of being voiced in Metroid Fusion before Other M, I am glad they don't choose to make Link have a dialogue. 

It may sound mean, but not every game needs to be for everyone.Thats why I dont understand you feel that is important to make everyone included.Its important to sell game sure, but if the director original vision was for the game to be hard and be know as such, it should remain so.And as I said earlier, making a game easier dosent imply just nerfing enemies, but changing the game design too.And since that could potentionally hinder my enjoyment of the game, of course it pisses me a bit.If mods want to do so, let them do.Its their own time and effort, and its not part of the game itself.I dont know your tastes in game so its hard to give a good example, but wouldnt you get a bit mad if your favorite platformer became less of a platformer and more of an action game for example?Sure the game could turn out to be excellent in the end, but the announcement at the very least would be a bit maddening.

"You want a harder mode for Zelda games, but I'm fairly sure some people find Zelda games too hard already and would like an easier mode. " Again as stated above, you need to accept that not every game is for everyone.And its not like I got my wish.Zelda games were originally much harder than they are now.So other people got their wish, not me.I mean, I cant do nothing about it, but I can get angry at it if I feel that the game would be better "my way", cant I?

And I do trust Nintendo.But even Nintendo screw up sometimes.Well, hardly with Zelda or their mainlines franchises, but happens.But my criticism is to the industry in general, not just Nintendo.There are many examples of games that try to be ambitious and try to make many things, but never fully realizes them, when a "smaller" game could have made wonders.

And that last setence makes me giggle.You are criticizing me for generalizing based on my own vision, but then you go saying that fans wont be angry about it just because you like it and Zelda fans are like you?To the point in hand, when I said that fans will get angry at it, of course its not everyone, but a decent amount.Dont ask me to give numbers because of course I dont know.But I would say that it would be enough people to make the group vocal enough.Just see the number here on this thread of people that dont approve and you have a general idea.

Most likely, though I'm not sure if they are aiming for a simultaneous release or not.. is a bit strange to delay the Wii U version for the NX if you ask me

Not really, Wii U is failure and Zelda U wouldn't change anything, but it could be huge thing for NX like launch title, Nintendo already done something similar with TP.

Slarvax said: Lol at people doubting emily. Female Link is a problem for me. I like choosing female characters, but the Hero of Hyrule and the name Link wont fit with a girl. But I like playing as girls Besides that, she also said Zelda U news will be coming soon. Hype?

She is most likely talking about E3 so yeah, hype!

In Ocarina, Link was a child. The reason he transformed into an "adult" was directly tied to the self-contained narrative of the game. Before this, Link had never been older than a child, arguably outside of direct chronological sequels like Zelda II and maybe Link's Awakening (though I still think he's a child there). Link was always meant to be a child.

After OoT, Link went back to being a child in MM and more importantly the separated WW. This is because Zelda was fundementally a tale of youth. The problem is that with OoT, people conceptually misinterpreted the function of adult Link in that game, which was forcining to Link grow up before his time. He is still a child in that body because he never gained the experience, maturity, and time that is supposed to come along with that body change.

Again, this was largely misunderstood (I'd even argue that it is universally misunderstood), and people began to look at the adult version of Link in that game as the form Link was supposed to take. As the primary Link of that game. As if it wasn't just a physical vessel for child Link. As if it wasn't, in literally every way mechanically, narratively, and techically, a direct parellel to the mask transformations in the sequel game Majora's Mask. That Zelda as a franchise needed to "grow up" with it's audience "like OoT did." But it didn't. It was about the exact opposite. It was about the trials and tribulations of growing up, how it's scary and undesirable, and the player is literally the to be allowed to experience childhood the way it is supposed to be experienced.  It's literally the Peter Pan "I don't wanna grow up," except it's if Peter Pan was actually forced to grow up. It's meant to make children appreciate their childhood and appreciate youth while dressing grand heroic experiences of adulthood in a way that is simple, embellished, and palletable for them.

What they "demanded" more of was adult Link. After WW's reception in the west, Aonuma made TP as a response to a loud minority of people who frankly don't know what the hell they are talking about and made Link older for no reason other than "he looks cool" and betrayed a lot of the narrative themes that defined the franchise prior. Link being an adult had nothing to do with the game being bad, like I said, but it's always personally aggrivated me regardless. Same with SS, but arguably worse.

Thats all fine and dandy but can we make Link lefty? ;-;

Link might have always been male up till now, but the very purpose he serves is to be a link between the game world and the player. Hence the name. 

Having the choice between female or male reinforces this aspect and purpose of the character. If you want to keep with that "tradition" of yours, just choose to play as male link. You get to stick to the tradition while others, more open-minded people, get to choose. No need to make a big deal out of nothing.

He wasnt lefty on the footage we have so far?