evil monkey
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I'd say a couple of things.
I don't care if Samus became male. Changes don't get under my skin like it does many people here. For example, I gave no shits about the Dante redesign.
My major criticism of it would just be that there isn't a problem with a lack of male leads in games, so I wouldn't see what it would be achieving. Also, the scenario is a bit different since Samus is the same character in all of the games, while Link isn't, and there's a perfectly reasonable plot explanation for why Link would be male in one game, and female in another.
It may be reasonable to have an incarnation of Link be female, but it wouldn't make sense to have this particular one be female when he's been a male for over 28 years. And for all we know reincarnation could be gender-locked in the Zelda universe, not everything has to be the same as it is in our world.
Each Link is a different character, with no shared memory, personality, or body. They just wear the same clothes. No one is suggesting Link get lobotomized in the middle of a game and have his brain transplanted into someone else's body, even though this is still shockingly close to the beginning of Majora's Mask.
This is more like someone getting pissed because the reincarnation cycle in Avatar isn't restricted to men.
It may be a different Link almost every time, but you knew it was him from the beginning. There wasn't any time when you played a Zelda game and said "I don't like this Link he's nothing like [insert game here] Link." The differences between them were entirely cosmetic, like him having his hair on one side instead of the other. They're all essentially the same character.
First there is no lack of strong male protagonists. Second, Samus is not a mystic hero who is resurrected into a literal new body each game.
Stupid example with no thought put into it.
She may not be a mystic hero, but my point was that she's an established character that has always been female regardless of the game she was in. If you turn Link into a female, it won't be Link anymore, get it?