Yeah, I'm sure the internet will churn out a lot of images of a female version of Link from this game in compromising situations.  So those people begging for a female Link will always have that.

Seriously, who cares?

Are people going to be getting upset over not being able to play as a man in Metroid or something?

No one is getting upset.

WOW, that's sexist. Now see how I destroy Nintendo with my Tumblr powers.

Honestly, for a lot of people I see complaining, it comes off like virtue signaling in the sense that they don't care but they want people to see that they care about these sort of things in a vain attempt to earn brownie points like how some people change their avatars after a tragedy for the sole purpose of trying to show that they care or that they're helping.

Of course it's a shame. So many games still make the mistake of having male characters in it. It's a sad world.

Them already having princess Zelda as a potential lead character was my main gripe with the concept of a female Link so I'm glad they're on the same track. And I can understand why they want to stick with Link but I do hope we get to see a spin-off series, or an expansion, where you play as Zelda instead.

Agreed I don't care about what gender my character is. I do care about game devs being forced to change things in games because of societal pressure. These guys are the artist let them create their work of art the way they want to. For instance Horizon looks amazing and is my most wanted game from E3. It has a female protagonist and that's fine with me. I dont' want them to change it to a male. Keep it female cause that's what the devs wanted.

So Emily Roger is wrong. I guess her comment about NX spec could be wrong as well and the Mother 3 tease as well.

The Gamespot comments section begs to differ.