Zelda fans, including the conservative ones, have been asking to play as Zelda for a long time.

That's somewhat surprising to hear, because I've argued with Zelda fans, including leftist ones, that ran interference for the all-important P R O P H E C Y that was said in a 90s game that wasn't even the start of the series that required the same three people to reprise the same roles in the same story beats in the mainline games apparently forever.

I'm disapointed it's some weird simple pokemon game instead of part of the core franchise. I want to run around doing cool magic and tranforming in to Sheik.

Well, the wizard is actually an angel