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Sorry Nintendo, we've decided that Link is officially a girl
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I really hope you are being sarcastic...
Fancy Clown
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Read the OP. Link is a girl
I can't find a good reaction gif to reply to you here.
you need to take very decent look at OP
Alex_Mexico
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Zelda WiiU needs a gender option. Embrace 2016, Nintendo.
UnemployedVillain
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What does this have to do with 2016? They've had gender options in their games for over a decade now. It probably more has to do with Miyamoto treating Link like an avatar vs Aonuma like an actual character
Not too many adventure games have a gender option so if they did that its not like it would be playing catch up.
The Real Abed
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I remember this thread.
So does this mean from now on all Zelda games will have female as an option? And I know Link and Zelda never get romantically involved in the games but will you be able to choose the gender of Zelda too?
They should patch female options into all their previous Zelda games. Especially Wind Waker HD and Twilight Princess HD when it comes along as well as all future Virtual Console releases of LTTP, Ocarina and Majora.
So does this mean from now on all Zelda games will have female as an option? And I know Link and Zelda never get romantically involved in the games but will you be able to choose the gender of Zelda too?
They should patch female options into all their previous Zelda games. Especially Wind Waker HD and Twilight Princess HD when it comes along as well as all future Virtual Console releases of LTTP, Ocarina and Majora.
I'd actually like that, it sounds like a great idea! Most Zelda games you could just replace a few "him"s with "her"s and "boy" with "girl" (and maybe "grandson" to "granddaughter" and "brother" to "sister", I'm not sure they ever call Link "nephew" in-game, but they could totally change it to "niece" if need be!) and the game would be exactly the same. Get on it, Nintendo!
No, but seriously having the option to have female!Link does not mean there needs to be a male!Zelda, since, y'know Link is supposed to be this blank slate of a character for the player to identify with. Zelda is normally a character in her own right.
odhiex
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Lol so Linkle is the best name they could think of?
So Link's distant cousin. :3
Linkle..linkle? Seriously.
Napoleonthechimp
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Nah. Link is a prepubescent boy. It just so happens women are better than grown men at cosplaying as Link in the same way that females often play the role of Peter Pan in theatre adaptations of that story.
bengraven
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Adjust your 1950s-era PR statements and internal development memos as appropriate. Print new editions of your ultra-important half page long Legend of Zelda lore pamphlets.
All your Links are girls.
All of them, from her landmark NES game onward. Thanks for understanding, Nintendo.
I approve of the OP.
That picture made me want a female Link for years.
sixteen-bit
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Linkle Liver Story
WrenchNinja
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Scrooge McDuck
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I just find it weird that you need to ascertain the jocularity of a post saying "I thought Link was always a girl" in a thread titled "We've decided that Link is a girl."
Wyndstryker
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Watch them make the male zelda named zel.
Just cause they're lazy with naming.
So we'll get legend of zel. Linkles awakening or something
Just cause they're lazy with naming.
So we'll get legend of zel. Linkles awakening or something
Or maybe Zelda can stay female so the games can pass the Bechdel test finally
theusedversion
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I'm glad Link is now officially a boy. 
soulassssns
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No Link is a male.
The Real Abed
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Yeah you're right. Link and Zelda were never a couple. People just shipped it that way. It's just a trope of a man saving the woman. Nintendo has changed things a lot lately what with Peach no longer being kidnapped every single time so why does it have to be a male Link saving a female Zelda? Let the player choose what they are at the start and make it the standard from now on.
I mean it's not like Link HAS to be male. It's just a story about a "hero". Not necessarily a male hero. Just someone who rises and wears the green and saves the world. It could be Aryll wearing the outfit for all it matters. As long as she has the sword and shield and Triforce piece on her hand and is the one foretold by the legend. Has it ever said explicitly in the story or manual that the legend has to be a male? Legends can be changed. Ooh! I just found Nintendo's stinger for the next Zelda if they put this feature in! "Legends can be changed."
Having a non-female Zelda would just be a non-issue and part of the story. No reason to necessarily keep it binary just for the sake of keeping it binary.
Let's do this, Nintendo.
But first we really need to discuss that name...
Zeldude. Make it so Nintendo.
Triggerhappytel
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I like the design of this new character, but I would prefer she had been a genuine option for an alternate protagonist rather than just a gender swap for Link (in the same way Dragon Quest Heroes does it, for example) - here's hoping they allow for that in the next Zelda game. And give her a new name, because Linkle is awful.
The Real Abed
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Why does it need to be alternate? It's not like every single Link and Zelda are the same people every time. Excluding direct immediate sequels, they're all different people in different eras. At any one point the Link role could easily be replaced with a female. As long as it's a hero who defeats evil.
Shit, Gannondorf could be a female if it weren't for the whole Gerudo thing. (Where all Gerudo are female except for a single male born every 100 years) I forget, is Gannondorf always the same guy since he can live for a long time?
But then people will just complain you can't change skin colour.
CaviarMeths
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You best believe that "girls can't have daughters" is a stone-faced serious statement.
I don't think they will.
Triggerhappytel
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I'm pretty sure the Ganon in The Wind Waker was the very same as the one from Ocarina, who had extended his life exponentially by using dark magic. I don't know about Twilight Princess or A Link to the Past, as I'm not sure how they fit into the 'proper' timeline.
meltingparappa
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After expecting the title to refer to a shameless clickbait Polygon headline, I can't tell if the op is a bold affirmative statement or deep satire.
Either way, I can now name Link as "Linkle" and smooch Zelda. All my fanfics are becoming true.
Either way, I can now name Link as "Linkle" and smooch Zelda. All my fanfics are becoming true.
……forgetit
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There is only one Ganondorf, he's the same guy in twilight princess, wind waker, and ocarina.
The Real Abed
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What about Gannon in the original?
Triggerhappytel
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Yeah, it's just that I don't know how the series fits together chronologically because TWW is the only direct sequel that I know of which features him. Where does TP fit into the timeline; much later on than those two? Is he
in the Twilight Realm in that game
And I have no idea at all where the original game or ALttP fit in either, as these two and Ocarina felt more or less like remakes of the same premise.
CaviarMeths
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Still the same guy.
It's been a while since I've read the timeline, but if I remember right, he was sealed in the Sacred Realm after the events of Ocarina of Time, which then got corrupted and turned in to the Dark World, leading to the events of Link to the Past. He is killed in that game, but resurrected at the end of... was it the Oracle games? Something, something Link Between Worlds, then original game.
Shit's confusing.
Monocle
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