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Should There Be a Female Link in Future Zelda Games?

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Umm hav u ever heard of Rule 34 of the Internet? While I admit I hav daydreamed about Link being a girl, I dont think it would be possible. HOWEVER, It would be awesome to hav a game in which you can play Zelda or Link, so you could see both of their points of view. I mean think about it for Oot. While Link is trying to find all the sages, Zelda is growing up with Impa in an unknown area to be trained to not only fight like a epic Sheikah, but be able to use her powers from the Triforce of Wisdom to protect her identity! That sounds pretty fun if you ask me XD!
 
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Umm hav u ever heard of Rule 34 of the Internet? While I admit I hav daydreamed about Link being a girl, I dont think it would be possible. HOWEVER, It would be awesome to hav a game in which you can play Zelda or Link, so you could see both of their points of view. I mean think about it for Oot. While Link is trying to find all the sages, Zelda is growing up with Impa in an unknown area to be trained to not only fight like a epic Sheikah, but be able to use her powers from the Triforce of Wisdom to protect her identity! That sounds pretty fun if you ask me XD!

Rule 34 is if it exists there's porn of it... so you're a little off there friend...
 
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i think there shouldn't be a female link if they decide that the game needs more female fans or should appeal more to females maybe there should be an option to play as zelda . but a female version of link would just be unnecessary and would confuse people who haven't played the game since they already think link is Zelda!
 
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what an idea.
i would like to see something like that.
i mean, it would be such a cool twist to see. i mean cause lets face it, girls can be warrior/knight-like.
like Joan of arc or Artemis.
it could open more possibilities to the game's story line.
 
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Negative. I think that it would ruin everything lol. Just stick to the original and things will be lovely. I hate when they go changing things due to lack of creativity, etc. It irks meh. ^_~ Link is supposed to be male! I don't see a point to making him female or how that would fit anywhere into the storyline or games from the past.
 

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That would be a very awesome twist. Maybe they could do something with Zelda too, maybe there hasn't been a girl born to the royal race for a century or whatever, and the prince has to take control of what Zelda would normally do. That would be pretty cool. But maybe in the middle you find out that Hyrule is falling because the prince cannot do what Zelda can. so go to seek why a princess hasn't been born and maybe Twinrova or even Ganondorf might have put a curse or messed with divine entities (this would be a pretty cool place to maybe put Fierce Deity, if he isn't Termina exclusive). Then female link could find out maybe she was the reincarnation of Zelda, born into link's family line. and maybe then Hyrule dies, because it's to late to do anything about it, then Ganondorf takes power. This would lead to a lot of other good games, maybe leading to another war like the Imprisonment War.
 
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i dont see why they shouldn't, except for people getting upset, but i think it would give an interesting twist and i would support it.
 
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That would be a very awesome twist. Maybe they could do something with Zelda too, maybe there hasn't been a girl born to the royal race for a century or whatever, and the prince has to take control of what Zelda would normally do. That would be pretty cool. But maybe in the middle you find out that Hyrule is falling because the prince cannot do what Zelda can. so go to seek why a princess hasn't been born and maybe Twinrova or even Ganondorf might have put a curse or messed with divine entities (this would be a pretty cool place to maybe put Fierce Deity, if he isn't Termina exclusive). Then female link could find out maybe she was the reincarnation of Zelda, born into link's family line. and maybe then Hyrule dies, because it's to late to do anything about it, then Ganondorf takes power. This would lead to a lot of other good games, maybe leading to another war like the Imprisonment War.

You are truly amazing! I would have never thought of something that epic!:D:)
 
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not sure if that would work out since link is a player (not really its a joke me and my friends have) he might fall in love with himself :lol: jk
 

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Not to be sexist of my own gender, but I don't think Link should be a girl. Link's role is always filled by a young male, as it should be. He goes out and saves the Princess/Hyrule, and I imagine the popularity of a game where Link, one of the greatest video game heroes ever, was a female.

However, I think it'd be cool to have Zelda as the playable character in a Zelda game. Not in like a Super Princess Peach kind of way, but I think it'd be a nice twist.
 

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Also, changing the gender changes the character. I will not play a Zelda game with any character but Link.
Changing the gender does not change the character. Take a look at Yoshi from the Mario series!

Negative. I think that it would ruin everything lol. Just stick to the original and things will be lovely. I hate when they go changing things due to lack of creativity, etc. It irks meh. ^_~ Link is supposed to be male! I don't see a point to making him female or how that would fit anywhere into the storyline or games from the past.
How so would it ruin everything? Lack of creativity only comes when all the ideas are used up. Male Link can only last so long until people tire of him for whatever reason. Be it voice acting, wanting to see a female Link, or anything else...people will eventually grow bored and want something else. It could fit anywhere in the timeline or games from the past. You know how each game tells the "legend" of another game or some events beforehand? Well, the scribes obviously reword or get some words wrong. So in place of hero, it could always be heroine [it happened with Hylia in SS].

No,I'm not sexist(I have no problem with Samus being a girl or Terra being the main character of FF6 lol),but it wouldn't fit at all,it would be a very bad idea,I would hate the game because of that,it would just be horrible.It would be a bad idea as:changing Link sword's to a gun.
How would it be a bad idea? How does it not fit? It's the same character, just some aesthetic differences.

1: The Legend of Zelda is mostly played by boys (No offense to Girls who like Zelda). If it was a female link no one would pick her or if it was just female link it would lose some boys who play the game.
2: A girl saving a princess. That just does not work. The story goes a prince or a handsome person would go and save the princess locked up in a tower. A girl with a sword saving a princess. It just would not fit.
1) Boys, well adolescent boys anyway, generally are attracted to females (unless they are homosexual but that's a different story altogether). If we get to play as a female character, that'll actually boost the number of players for the series, though it'll lose some diehard fanboys for sure because of "omg it's not the same!11!1one!1!1".

2)It'd fit, believe me. Joan of Arc worked until she was burned at the stake. Lightning works in Final Fantasy XIII. Serah works in XIII-2. Jill works in Resident Evil. Rebecca works in Resident Evil 0. I could go on with how the simple stereotype of "Prince save the princess" could be bent and HAS been bent to work. A female Link would not change anything at all; we never are told either ingame or by the developers that Link *IS* in love with Zelda. We may get hints, but hints aren't canon unless proven to be so. Female Link saving Female Zelda would be of friendship, or it could be a 'your prince is in another castle, I'll save you then save the prince' sort of thing. All I'm saying is that a female Link would definitely work. After all, fans whined and complained about how a futuristic Zelda would fail, but Spirit Tracks and Phantom Hourglass worked right? Try it out and you'll win.
No Zelda games are a clasic where the guy saves the princess nothing eles!
In Majora's Mask, Link didn't save any princess at all. Heck, it was so Gaiden, the world he was in practically made no sense at all!

If Link was a girl, I think all of his character would have to be changed.
She'd still have the same character [still a heroine like regular Link was a hero] and even mostly the same animations. They'll have to get in a couple different physics to accompany the female body, and maybe have longer hair so as to make her appear more feminine, but the female Link would be largely the same as male Link.

Not to be sexist of my own gender, but I don't think Link should be a girl. Link's role is always filled by a young male, as it should be. He goes out and saves the Princess/Hyrule, and I imagine the popularity of a game where Link, one of the greatest video game heroes ever, was a female.
Mario's role was filled in by a young female in Super Princess Peach. Link's role was filled in by a young female in Zelda's Adventure. Why can't Link's role be filled in by..Link in a feminine form? I seriously think the game's popularity would shoot up solely because we have a playable girl. Imagine the quality of Zelda with the fan support of, say, Call of Duty. That's a force to be reckoned with.
 
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If Nintendo was going to make a decision like this, then they would've done it long ago. The thing is, it's too late to take a risk like this. The identity and recognization of Link as a video game character has been so well-defined over the years that changing his gender would absolutely be a turn for the worse. Zelda as a series is dynamic, but is also wary of things that would ruin it.

On the subject of appealing to genders, well, has any female been offended or discouraged that Link has always been a male? From my experience, no, and frankly, quite the opposite. Link appeals to both genders, especially by his role as the hero saving the princess.
 

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