I apologize in advance for the huge wall of text. Honestly, I wouldn't really enjoy a female option for this upcoming game, especially with nintendo going for a seemingly more anchored storyline. I would enjoy another game with a female link or zelda as the protagonist and not just an optional skin to play as. Changing Link's gender does not ruin whatever little characterization or personality he has, it just simply gives a twist to an old story. Each Link that has happened thus far is their own person with similar traits and pasts, but they all have things that distinguish them from one another. Even then, considering how androgynous link is, it would only be natural that she would be just as androgynous with only slight differences to her appeared to tip the gender scale slightly towards female. Differences as normal like those you see between each Link. No one seems to complain how sometimes both Ganon and Zelda sometimes have more differences than similarities compared to their counterparts in the other games despite also being rather iconic characters. It might be a bit difficult for Zelda to get her own game with the whole balance thing going on, considering the times where it was mentioned that link didn't show up to the tri-force party, everything went to hell, but I'm sure there are plenty of creative minds that could think up of various good storylines in which balance is still somehow kept without the Hero of Time doing all of the hard, life-threatening work. Either option would certainly call for a very interesting storyline considering this isn't a franchise name nintendo can just slap onto any game that's even remotely mediocre anymore.
I'd also would like to point out that arguments about no one whining about gender-swapping protagonists from games like metroid or tomb raider and such aren't very valid or strong arguments considering that those games are meant to play within the protagonist's single lifetime, and not multiple reincarnations over hundreds and thousands of years.
Anyway, not getting an option to be able to use a crappy female skin for a game as big as LoZ whose plot centers completely around the male counterpart is not something people should whine about or avoid supporting. If it would have happened, then those who would've whined about not getting it would be whining about how the game really only fits the male version.
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Re: E3 2016: Eiji Aonuma Rules Out The Option to Play as a Female Link in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
I apologize in advance for the huge wall of text.
Honestly, I wouldn't really enjoy a female option for this upcoming game, especially with nintendo going for a seemingly more anchored storyline. I would enjoy another game with a female link or zelda as the protagonist and not just an optional skin to play as. Changing Link's gender does not ruin whatever little characterization or personality he has, it just simply gives a twist to an old story. Each Link that has happened thus far is their own person with similar traits and pasts, but they all have things that distinguish them from one another. Even then, considering how androgynous link is, it would only be natural that she would be just as androgynous with only slight differences to her appeared to tip the gender scale slightly towards female. Differences as normal like those you see between each Link.
No one seems to complain how sometimes both Ganon and Zelda sometimes have more differences than similarities compared to their counterparts in the other games despite also being rather iconic characters. It might be a bit difficult for Zelda to get her own game with the whole balance thing going on, considering the times where it was mentioned that link didn't show up to the tri-force party, everything went to hell, but I'm sure there are plenty of creative minds that could think up of various good storylines in which balance is still somehow kept without the Hero of Time doing all of the hard, life-threatening work. Either option would certainly call for a very interesting storyline considering this isn't a franchise name nintendo can just slap onto any game that's even remotely mediocre anymore.
I'd also would like to point out that arguments about no one whining about gender-swapping protagonists from games like metroid or tomb raider and such aren't very valid or strong arguments considering that those games are meant to play within the protagonist's single lifetime, and not multiple reincarnations over hundreds and thousands of years.
Anyway, not getting an option to be able to use a crappy female skin for a game as big as LoZ whose plot centers completely around the male counterpart is not something people should whine about or avoid supporting. If it would have happened, then those who would've whined about not getting it would be whining about how the game really only fits the male version.