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Nintendo is being weird with their women protagonists (Invidious link) (redirect.invidious.io)

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Quite a good breakdown by Laura Kate Dale of Nintendo's handling of recent games featuring playable women characters from franchises usually headed up by men i.e. recent Peach game and upcoming Legend of Zelda game featuring the titular Zelda.

Featuring such Aonuma bangers as:

If we have Princess Zelda as the main character who fights, then what is Link going to do?

The triforce is made up of Princess Zelda, Ganon and Link. Princess Zelda is obviously female; if we made Link a female, we thought that would mess with the balance of the triforce - that's why we decided not to do it.

We feel like what takes priority is this idea of gameplay. If it turns out that particular gameplay we're trying to bring to fruition would be best served by having Zelda take that role, then it's possible that that could be a direction we could take.

i.e. Zelda has featured exclusively MANLY gameplay up to this point btw

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

If we have Princess Zelda as the main character who fights, then what is Link going to do?

I never thought I'd utter the sentence "Do what Wand of Gamelon did," but...

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"Do what Wand of Gamelon did,"

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Remembering the context of this moment and honestly it would own if Zelda brought that kind of energy to the table again

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Haha yeah it gets brought up in the vid too. She also talks about a more recent CDi-Zelda-like game —Arzette: The Jewel of Faramore. It actually seems really cool, hearing about it made me want to play it.