To be perfectly honest I haven't actually played SS yet so I had look up the controls and hold a Wii controller to see what you mean. The remote has to point at the screen so you mimic using a bow as if you're left handed. I get what you're saying now, but I still stick by the Wii games being the exception not the new rule.
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Eiji Aonuma: No one explicitly said that that was Link.
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To be perfectly honest I haven't actually played SS yet so I had look up the controls and hold a Wii controller to see what you mean. The remote has to point at the screen so you mimic using a bow as if you're left handed. I get what you're saying now, but I still stick by the Wii games being the exception not the new rule.
Oh god, this would open more than one more timeline. I hope there's no more time traveling.
Female confirmed.
That looks really convincing. Thats probably how long her hair would be without the ponytail too
No, the remote doesn't have to point at the screen. IT doesn't use the pointer, just the gyro controls. I think it used the pointer to calibrate, but not for the bow.
I remember playing using the "bow" and holding it vertically, and pulling back with the nun chuck by holding, pulling back and releasing).
This is a Zelda game. A descendant of Link who looks like Link is still Link
I think we're saying the same thing. The nunchuk is in the left hand mimicking drawing back the string with the left hand.
Dagobert Duck
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Oh my, it could be..
BasketCasket
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Much like everything else out of the East... it's androgynous.
I'll take that over the craze the West has with MC being uber Male.
I'll take that over the craze the West has with MC being uber Male.
Probably. I was just saying all this handedness stuff means nothing in regards to who that character in the reveal is. Link or otherwise.
Just a bit of input. As far as I'm concerned (with my grasp of the Zeldaverse), "Link" is just a name. The legend itself is nothing more than a moniker. It's completely with the realm of the Zeldaverse that Link can be female. Also, it would be pretty cool.
eyeball_kid
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The Legend of Link.
...Either way, I dig the character design. Whether you think the features are feminine or not, they've toned down the Peter Pan man-boy look, which IMO is a great thing. This person looks in their early 20s...young, but definitely adult and serious.
...Either way, I dig the character design. Whether you think the features are feminine or not, they've toned down the Peter Pan man-boy look, which IMO is a great thing. This person looks in their early 20s...young, but definitely adult and serious.
Old quote:
"Rather, the more we change it, the more I get fired up. Having someone think 'Huh? Is this Zelda?!' at first, then 'Oh, it is Zelda,' is what we're going for. Something that wouldn't make it matter whether Link or Princess Zelda appear in it or not. Something where it wouldn't even matter if Zelda is actually a princess, or not."
Link and Zelda might not appear. Zelda might not be a princess.
Sound like this character might be Zelda or someone new. Eiji Aonuma isn't trolling, he's always hinting at the "twist."
"Rather, the more we change it, the more I get fired up. Having someone think 'Huh? Is this Zelda?!' at first, then 'Oh, it is Zelda,' is what we're going for. Something that wouldn't make it matter whether Link or Princess Zelda appear in it or not. Something where it wouldn't even matter if Zelda is actually a princess, or not."
Link and Zelda might not appear. Zelda might not be a princess.
Sound like this character might be Zelda or someone new. Eiji Aonuma isn't trolling, he's always hinting at the "twist."
HolyBaikal
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Just because Link is a little bit androgynous doesn't mean the character is a girl.
But that would be really neat. I've always wanted to play as a female character in the Legend of Zelda.
But that would be really neat. I've always wanted to play as a female character in the Legend of Zelda.
RMS Gigantic
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Hyrule Warriors, then?
Only official Zelda game I know of where less than 30 seconds separates the Great Fairy's great dairies and the Majora's Mask moon smacking a dragon out of the sky.
I love that quote. I thought it only applied to SS Zelda or something but holy shit if that means we're getting female Links in blue-gray riding hoods
Zelda wasn't so much a princess in Skyward Sword, but the basics were all still there. Link, Zelda, and the bad guy. That's all I want to not change. Hardworking oversleeping young man who eventually becomes a hero, stately young woman at the center of it all, and bad guy.
HolyBaikal
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That would be so amazing.Aryll
Sniper McBlaze
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Time to buy a Wii U I guess. Atleast 5 games I want now.
ElectricKaibutsu
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So here's an updated list of why this is not Link:
- That's not Epona
- Character uses the bow as a right handed person
- No green tunic (meh)
- Aonuma being shifty
- Propensity for arrows vs. sword
Why the character might be a girl:
-Looks like a girl
Why the character is Link:
- It looks like Link
- It's a Zelda game
What am I missing?
- That's not Epona
- Character uses the bow as a right handed person
- No green tunic (meh)
- Aonuma being shifty
- Propensity for arrows vs. sword
Why the character might be a girl:
-Looks like a girl
Why the character is Link:
- It looks like Link
- It's a Zelda game
What am I missing?
Screw this. Link's Awakening didn't make Marin important in the same way as Zelda and there wasn't really that sort of female figure in Majora's Mask, and they were two of the more memorable entries in the series. The real allure has always been adventuring a fantasy world to me, dogmatically following such archetypes is what is actually bringing down Zelda stories in my eyes.
Paracelsus
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They should just make a RE0 kind of thing, where the two cooperate to overcome dungeons and depending on the type of enemy one takes over the other to defeat bosses.
A very prominent exploding "light arrow," Zelda's signature weapon since the first game on NES.
ElectricKaibutsu
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True. Though Link has used light arrows before too.
TheFLYINGManga_Ka
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Anyone want to play a middle aged 36-45 year old Link one day?
I think that'd be another way to shake up the Zelda formula!
I think that'd be another way to shake up the Zelda formula!
Lynd7
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On a side-note about the possibility of a female lead in Zelda. Do any of you think that making a female character with almost zero characterisation and also a mute would be the ideal way to introduce a female Nintendo main?
Of course thats the way Zelda has always been, but I could see people arguing that its bad.
Of course thats the way Zelda has always been, but I could see people arguing that its bad.
Zelda gives it to him in some very notable cases. I think it's really her signature move, without a doubt.
Aryll
A full sequel to Wind Waker set 8-10 years in the future?
XANDER CAGE
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"I gotta get back into the game, Impa. One last time."
Lynd7
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Yeah, an older, gruffer Link could be interesting.
kunonabi
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worked for Samus.
Great point!
Jorok Goldblade
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It looks like a slightly younger Link than what we've seen recently. a 13-15 year old version, rather than the 8-10 and 17-20 year old Links from the other 3D Zelda's.
ElectricKaibutsu
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Megatron
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Not similar in the (ahem) chestal area...
Wonder how the sea sank again and horses reappeared...or am I forgetting major plot points of Wind Waker?
She points with her left index finger here too.
It's pretty standard for archers to do that... you're looking WAY too much into this...
ElectricKaibutsu
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They sailed to a new land in the DS games. If this isn't set in Hyrule it could work.
As others have said, could also work as a sequel to adult timeline OoT, but before WW. Zelda trying to hold shit down while the hero of time never appears, before the rise of the ocean.
If they're going for co-op, it would be cool if it's Aryll.
If they're going for single player, it would make sense if it's Link and Zelda's descendant so she could be both the princess (since the Light Force passes down the female side of the royal family, IIRC) and the hero (inheriting the Spirit from her predecessor).
If they're going for single player, it would make sense if it's Link and Zelda's descendant so she could be both the princess (since the Light Force passes down the female side of the royal family, IIRC) and the hero (inheriting the Spirit from her predecessor).