Zelda Creator Teases That May Not Have Been Link in E3 2014 Trailer

14th October, 1 replies

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Nintendo revealed the first trailer for The Legend of Zelda on Wii U, featuring Link riding a horse and fighting a mechanical enemy. Apart from, that may not be Link after all.

When asked by Venturebeat as to why Link looked unusual and wasn't wearing his traditional green tunic, Aonuma, the producer of the latest Zelda game, simply replied with "No one explicitly said that was Link". Looking again at the trailer, there are a few things which fit in nicely with this character not being the traditional hero of the Zelda series; namely the lack of a sword, and also the horse not looking like Link's horse Epona normally looks.

The most popular theory right now is this being a female version of Link, or alternately Zelda in disguise similar to her "Sheik" disguise in past games. Of course, even if that's true it doesn't mean that Link may not be the protagonist in the latest game, if the character featured in the trailer is not Link after all, but it's still interesting to think about nonetheless.

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    Aonuma is subsequently quoted saying:

    "It's a rumour. Actually that comment I made jokingly. It's not that I said that it wasn't Link. It's that I never said that it was Link. It's not really the same thing, but I can understand how it could be taken that way. It seems like it has kind of taken off where people are saying 'oh it's a female character' and it just kind of grew. But my intent in saying that was humour. You know, you have to show Link when you create a trailer for a Zelda announcement. I don't want people to get hung up on the way Link looks because ultimately Link represents the player in the game. I don't want to define him so much that it becomes limiting to the players. I want players to focus on other parts of the trailer and not specifically on the character because the character Link represents, again, the player."

    — 14th October

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