It’s finally her legend
In whatseems to be abudding trend, an industrious hacker has whipped up some animations and palette swaps for the Zelda sprite inThe Legend of Zeldaand made her the playable character. This isn’t the first time a remake of the originalLoZhas let us play as a woman. The Satellaview exclusiveBS Zelda no Densetsualso provided that option, though few of us had access to that game upon its initial release.
Unoriginality aside, it’s pretty cool to finally playZeldaas Zelda. There’s been a lot of chatter lately about the idea of Nintendo grabbing the attention of people who slept throughSkyward Swordby putting Zelda in the starring role of the nextZeldagame, and place Gannondorf or Link the villain and rescue object roles.
I don’t think that’s ever going to happen. Link is the figurehead of theZeldagames, and probably always will be. That doesn’t mean that gender swapping is out of the question though. WithSkyward Sword‘s confirmation that Zelda, Link, and Gannondorf are fated to be reincarnated for all time, it’s fair to speculate that Link and Gannondorf might be reincarnated as women one of these days, and Zelda as a man. It’s worked pretty well in the the fan art world for years now.Fiona and Cakehave certainly done well enough for themselves.
