Topic: Should Link be a girl?

...Yeah good point...I wanna keep Viridi female...I like her. >.>

Since when have Zelda games been all about saving a damsell in distress? Yeah, the original and Skyward sword did this, but Ocarina of Time was all about defeating Ganon while Zelda took care of herself. Zelda was barely a character in Twilight Princess. Tetra certainly didn't need saving. And Majora's Mask didn't even feature Zelda!

It's not a "skirt-like" tunic. It is a tunic. Typical garb for a medieval era. Were all those people in history that wore a tunic feminine, too? Even though they were slaughtering each other with swords? That's pretty feminine, huh?

...no no no NO!!

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Good point, after all this isn't a certain other Nintendo princess we are talking about. coughPeachcough

No.

Wouldn't mind it.

I wouldnt mind it either. Sounds pretty interesting.

You save Zelda in Zelda 1, Zelda 2, A Link to the Past, Ocarina of Time, Minish Cap and Skyward Sword. I'm pretty sure there's a point in Wind Waker that you save her. The other Zelda games I either haven't played or don't remember. But saving Zelda has always been a part of most of the Zelda games. Even if Zelda was able to hold her own for a large part of the game, if there was still a point in the game where you had to save her, then it still counts as a game where you had to save her.

Oh, and Zelda was in Majora's Mask. The opening scene. But, yeah, she didn't need saving in that game.

I think it's a good idea. Not that the Zelda games have an overly compelling set of story lines, but a female Link would open some interesting narrative opportunities.

Heaven forbid Nintendo try and do something innovative with narrative, though. That would be almost as crazy as having a Mario game that doesn't involve Peach getting captured.

Uh. Why can't a woman "save" a woman in distress?

Gods, this thread is already a throwback to the 50's. This can't possibly end well.

Get off your high horse, please. Nobody said a woman can't save a woman.

It just wouldn't seem right having Link as a girl. It would go against the whole Zelda tradition. I'm not against female characters (I love Metroid), but just don't turn Link into a girl!

Thats an interesting idea and I'm sure Nintendo could do a great job but Zelda fans had a fit over Wind Waker's cel shaded graphics as it is, I can only imagine their reaction to this. To me Link and Zelda always reincarnated as themselves the same as Ganon/Ganondorf .

I don't see Nintendo working the romantic side of things but if the hero can fail to appear I don't see why he couldn't just so happen to reincarnate as a women. They could have the backstory be that the hero "failed" to appear but was actually overlooked due to everyone assuming it would be a guy. Kinda like how in Full Metal Alchemist everyone assumes Al is the Full Metal Alchemist and are shocked when they're told its Ed.

Or they could just pull a Super Princess Peach. Link could fail and it could be up to Zelda to so save the day.

Link and Zelda are descendants / ascendants of each other. There is only one Ganon / Ganondorf.

And I quote:

It was a good idea until you realize you have to save the man in distress, and not a damsel

I don't care if it was in jest or otherwise. Not cool.

i like where this is going :3

to be absolutely honest, though — I wouldn't mind it if Link was a girl. I'd like it more if the person (male, female, or otherwise) in the 'Zelda' position actually took some responsibility for their kingdom and saved it themselves, though; i think that would be more revolutionary to the series than switching around the gender of the main protagonist.

@WhiteKnight I guess I didn't take what he said that way you did. Well, still, that's just one person. No need to call out everyone in the thread.

Yeah, it is.

While we are still altering Nintendo character util their unreconizable, Mario should have a green hair and orange clothes