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Click on the “link”. get it ? get it ? you see it’s funny, because they have the same name.

Tho, I’ll be honest. There’s every reason for Link saving Zelda, than it is for Zelda saving Link.

@@whaleping I really hope they won't change a thing just to appease selfish brats like you! If you want fighter Girls play Metroid or fire emblem or Shana or Horizon or Teken or death or alive or Alice Madness, and let the classic gamers safe their damsel in distress, honestly Originaly multiple different types of games for everyone's tastes, why is your little group so invested of taking everything away from everybody else! Their were games made for your preference, why do you have to take from everyone else !?!!??

@@darienschnucker7354 I have no idea what you are talking about but at the same time, it’s funny KZfaq hid your comment. Maybe it was for the poor grammar?

Yeah, alot of fans have come up with ideas for Zelda side of these stories, Nintendo at one point apparently conceptualized Zeldas story in Skyward Sword and we were supposed to get to see it and play her but that never happened for whatever reason

I would love some sort of side game that explains what Zelda went through in the 7 years of Ocarina of Time.

@Matwitch Then you can just play as Zelda. Problem solved.

This makes me think of that one turn based JRPG where one of the heroes partymembers is a princess that fights in a pick dress and with an Umbrella. She is honestly my favorite character in that game. She is just such a wonderful and suportive friend to the hero and she is very open minded.

@@sofaris576 Princess Peach in Super Mario RPG?

@@crazycap2945 No I am talking about Princess Flora from "the cruel king and the great hero". The game has some really cool Trailers should you be interested. But Flora has no Major aperance in the Trailers aside from one picture. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nM-ii7B8sLCuppc.html kzfaq.info/get/bejne/npiIgZhixN3cqqs.html

It makes me implode why did they do that to her

that's...thats the point. did you not see the ending? they break the cycle and hyrule is gone? come on man...

She's playable in the wand of gamelon if that counts lol

This is Train Zelda erasure.

Spirit Tracks doesn't count I guess

I am honestly surprised they havent turned link and zelda into alternate player characters. It seems so obvious and yet

I think that keeping zelda as a non direct fighter and focusing on Link evolving with her around her own story is more interesting

That's because Tetra/Zelda is a more active character in general (no Hourglass does not count). She still did more in Age of Calamity though.

I love spirit tracks

My favorite game

very better than the CDI games

God this game is so good

Right now it seems she will most likely be either very active in the plot or just straight up dead, about 50% chance of each.

@@aronspiker72 either sounds pretty interesting honestly.

@@aronspiker72 if they kill her off pretty much kills Link's plot device for facing the final boss. They already took his Dad and Little sister out of Botw Zelda is pretty much his only goal for continuing doing any of this. If she dies Link would probably cave in losing himself

@@jojomuppet1820 *Disclaimer* *I planned to post a brief explanation of my thought process and it quickly went off the rails and turned into a script for a 10 minute Zelda theory video to the point that I'm not sure if a TLDR is even possible. Anyone who sees this is free to copy this as I don't plan to actually make a video about this or anything. Credit would be very appreciated but I won't be too upset if you don't as I basically put myself in this situation in the first place* the reason I said this is that the teaser clip a few months ago showed a ball of light in front of link and the Link was acting in a way that suggested it was communicating with him. While the light could be any number of things it's very likely that the voice communicating with Link is giving him advice on how to repair the master sword, and what I've assessed to plot to be so far is that the game starts with Link and Zelda discovering this cave/chamber deep underground possibly below Hyrule castle and they find the remains of Ganondorf spewing malice and realize that the curse of the calamity won't be broken until Ganondorf himself is destroyed for good. So link tries to cut Ganondorf down with the master sword (which might have it even been enough to kill him) but the body responds by directing all of the malice he has built up after the events of the first game into the very cave that the three wielders of the triforce are standing in. Ganondorf attempts to kill Link but is only able to destroy the master sword and corrupt his arm before the glowing green hand saves him (regardless of what purpose it had in this) so Ganondorf decides to collapse the entire cave while possibly moving his body into Hyrule castle and then raising it in the air with his malice. When Link and Zelda try to escape right as the get to the entrance the floor around them crumbles and the entrance starts to become blocked so Zelda pushes Link through the exit at the last moment while she is forced to fall into whatever abyss is below that cave. After that point I feel like the green hand will guide link to a water puddle or something and help him reach the sky. In his mind Link failed a perfect opportunity to end the cycle of malice for good, the master sword that was a symbol of his past success is not just sitting in it's sheath in an unusable form, and the person who meant the most to Link chose to save his life rather than her own while the Hyrule castle is now hovering out of his reach and in Ganondorf's control once again. In his mind he's a complete failure in every way with this failure being even worse than 100 years ago being this time he had the advantage but everything still fell apart. The mysterious light appears and motivates him to finish what he started. So with my head canon laid out what could the mysterious light be. It's likely not Fi as she still seems to be able to communicate through what's left of the master sword. The 2 most likely options are either Hylia or Zelda. If it's Hylia then she either tells Link that Zelda is alive, or can Link revive her if he obtains the Triforce which seems to have been lost to the ages as nobody acknowledges it in BotW and could have hidden in this sky realm even before the first attack of the calamity. This would present his 2 motivations to be finding the Triforce to revive/save Zelda, and repairing the Master Sword to kill Ganondorf for good and break the cycle Hyrule was trapped in. If the ball of light is Zelda then it's either her spirit communicating with Link in an effort to save him from succumbing to the likely fatal depression he is almost certainly experiencing and she is effectively a companion in that spirit form until Link finds a way to revive her (likely with the Triforce) or she is stuck deep underground possibly in another dimension or something and she is discovering clues and insight to what is actually going on and provides leads on how to fix the master sword and what Ganondorf's actual weakness might be at several points in the game and there might be moments where we can trigger an interlude where we play as Zelda in this underground realm and solve puzzles to find more information on both how she can return to the surface as well as the clues to the truth of Hyrule and the calamity

@@jojomuppet1820 You do know that usually Link is always paired with a *companion* character who's role in the story is pivotal to Link's journey to stop wathever Evil is threathening Hyrule right? It's very likely that the "Spirit Arm" from the trailers is said companion character who's role in the game will serve as a catalyst for Link's motivations in the story.

Yeah it should be noted that Zelda had the wisdom to self-arrest herself, to turns herself in so that she could buy the time for the people of her kingdom to be saved by someone else when the time was right. Getting turned into a zombie I think counts as being kidnapped, says it was Ganondorf who locked her up.

@@amandaslough125 Yes exactly. Arguably TP Zelda is in fact the BEST incarnation of the character precisely because of her Wisdom and responsibility as the sole ruler of the Kingdom at the young age of 17 years old if my memory doesn't fail me. It's because of this reason why Twilight Princess Zelda is still my favourite incarnation of Zelda across the entire franchis.

@@javiervasquez625She is the worst incarnation of the character(other than the 2D and handheld games except Spirit Tracks). She barely gets any screentime at all and isn't a character. Turning yourself in and sitting off screen isn't much better than being kidnapped and sitting off screen for character development. They could have easily just removed her from the game because Midna was the main character not her. She has zero personality and is not memorable at all. Avoiding capture doesn't make her a great character. Besides how is turning yourself, die and than later being possessed by Ganon to fight against Link any better than OoT Zelda avoiding capture for 7 years as Sheik than getting captured at the end. I would argue that avoiding Ganon as Sheik shows much more agency and at least when OoT Zelda was kidnapped she wasn't used as a weapon against Link. The fact the OoT Zelda made several mistakes makes her a better character IMHO than perfectly wise distant no personality untouchable TP Zelda.

I don't mean to be rude but since TP was out there was always someone who was says "TP Zelda surrendered and that was a smart thing to do so TP Zelda is the best version of the character ever". Even though other games before and since has had Zelda do more than that. Plus TP Zelda sits off-screen more than some of the other 3D Zeldas. She isn't really a character, her lack of personality is the only reason why she seems more regal than the others because we don't get to know her and don't get to see her act like a person. She is just a cardboard cutout who looks pretty while she surrenders and sacrifices herself.

@@Malon2006 boi, calm down and shut up 💀

No, the legend part are the things she does before

@@marcoasturias8520 What things?

@@mastermewtwo5503 yeah, other than breaking the triforce, I don't have any example, but, she is royalty and most likely named after a predecessor, meaning that the legend is about a previous Zelda in most Zeldas

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@@marcoasturias8520 She's the *ruler* of Hyrule whenever the King of Hyrule has been killed by either Ganondorf or some other villain proving how indispensable she is in keeping order in the Zelda world. As a matter of fact according to the Oracle games the very existence of Princess Zelda is considered a symbol of *Hope* to the denizens of the Zelda world making her pressence a necessity to maintain the world in balance and prevent people from falling into despair and fear. LIke the Triforce itself Zelda is also needed in the world to maintain order and peace throughout the Realm.

if she had tried to fight back against ghirahim abducting her in any way, i would have been satisfied. like, all this agency and you have no tricks up your sleeve? hell, belle got away with elbowing xaldin in kingdom hearts 2

Cadence of Hyrule (surprise) wasn't made by Nintendo though.

@@lasercraft32 It was still licensed by Nintendo, like the Hyrule Warriors games. But yeah, it's a crossover spin-off.

@@loziclec.1295 Well yeah... if it wasn't licensed by Nintendo they would not have been able to use the Legend of Zelda characters. But making a game and giving permission to make a game aren't really the same, y'know?

@@lasercraft32 Oracle of Ages, Oracle of Seasons, and The Minish Cap were all developed by Capcom. (Well, more specically by Flagship, which was a subsidiary of Capcom.) And Hyrule Warriors was developed by Koei Tecmo, and still made the list.

@@joaomarcoscosta4647 Good point... I wasn't aware those games weren't purely Nintendo. But as for Hyrule Warriors, it was mentioned because it was one of the games that actually let Zelda do things, so it didn't "make the list" as you said. That was one of the exceptions (just to clarify).

Because she's a pirate so she seriously tanned from being always out at sea.

It never bothered me, I just thought Zelda and Tetra were 2 different people all together

@@joeda900 Y’know, someone brought this up in a video I watched. He mentioned that Tetra’s transformation was just the King desperately trying to get everything to the status quo (I think). Basically what I’m saying is “Yeah I guess so”

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I always assumed her ancestors did "crossbreeding" with different skin colored Hylians in order to better hide Zelda's features from Ganondorf. It's interesting that such a thing is in fact possible in a world of Magic overtaking Science and "genetics".

It's the same reason why Princess Peach isn't a protagonist in a "Mario game" which has Mario as the lead protagonist. It's not meant to make sense for the default damsel character to suddenly get shoved to the main character's seat while the default Hero gets shoved aside.

@@javiervasquez625 Super Mario 3D World did a pretty good job on that by having Peach as a playable character choice while introducing different characters (fairies) to fit into the damsel position. The Zelda series should just do the same thing as well.

Remember how they made Ciri playable in The Witcher 3? Granted, that wasn't the most interesting part of the game, but it's really not that hard to make your main female character playable.

@@elfsong713 Link is the "Hero" of the Zelda universe he's not Geralt of Rivia. ¿What's the *logical* justification for the very Messianic figure of the franchise who's been incarnated at least 12 TIMES already to fight Evil to be suddenly shoved to the side so that a Barbie doll character may randomly steal his spotlight...? ¿Why don't make Ganondorf playable while you're at it?

@@javiervasquez625 what is your justification for thinking that Zelda should be a "Barbie doll character?" She is in the literal title of the series. How are there so many legends about her if she doesn't do anything in most of them?

I guess she's not useless if she serves as a tool, but Link also needs the Master Sword to defeat Ganon and that doesn't make it an interesting character.

​@@Broza-hp7ue You completely missed the point of the OPs post

Except all of that stuff happens either BEHIND THE SCENES or BEFORE your journey even starts. That's just it she only serves as a plot device to set things in motion but a lot of ppl would like to see her do more than that. That's the issue with zelda.

YES! THANK YOU! this literally needed to be said! to be honest, throughout the years as a little kid I’ve always admired Zelda’s wisdom and her vibe. it made me upset how Nintendo didn’t managed to wanting to give her a lot of screening time role, though it’s not her fault Nintendo doesn’t know how to do their princesses right. not to mention, her look is what has inspired me to make my own character (who has the look pretty identical to the TP princess Zelda). even her voice actress Jun Mizusawa deserves so much better

@@flytothemountains824 this comment is so beautiful!!!, Zelda is also a very special character to me, specially TP Zelda and Oot Zelda. She is also Sheik and Tetra, which is a pro! Honestly I wish the writers would treat her as a character rathen than plot device or Link's romantic interest (the exception is Botw and Tetra?)

@@Sheik-yo9fj And Skyward Sword Zelda. She should have gotten a game based on her adventure.

I would pay for a zelda game with ZELDA being playable

Wand of Gamelon: Am I a joke to you?

This kind of exists in the form of Spirit Tracks, but that game has its own problems.

@@extrahistory8956 Yes, you are

I agree with this 100%

But she still exists only in stories. You can't imagine Tomb Raider where Lara only appears in memories and episodes, and you can't play her. It's not the same.

If only we had this instead of a basic and lazy port...

That was originally planned but was scrapped, the cutscenes from this cut mode are in the credits

Exactly! We only view link as having more agency because we have agency over him ourselves , but he still has to do all of these tasks and quests even though he actively doesn’t want to just like Zelda has expressed wanted to be more active in the narrative ( like in BOTW)

I agree with this 100%

Sheik is not a boy, she's literally just Zelda in a costume

@@lukejones7164 yeah, but it is certainly curious that while she is represented as a boy she is this badass who saves and helps everyone, but as soon as she shows herself as a girl… she gets captured and does nothing…

@@juan95194 She gives Link the Light Arrows needed to kill Ganon, seals Ganon away and creates 2 timelines after the reveal, how is that nothing lol?

@@lukejones7164 … … …. As soon as she reveals herself as Zelda she gets captures and does nothing until Link deals the final blow. She can’t escape that crystal thing, she doesn’t kill one monster, gets trapped in fire until Link saves her, she screams in terror with every little rock that falls off. When she was in a Sheik disguise she literally saved a lot of people putting herself in far more dangerous situations than falling debree… if you don’t want to see it, fine. Zelda is extremely powerful but can’t save herself when she is the princess. She does stuff when Ganon is almost dead. She is a badass but the final part of the game doesn’t show that at all because… I will say: to make Link be the one who saves the princess. And giving someone arrows is not my definition of doing something… of course, if you see her potential as a treasure chest, then this conversation serves no purpose…

same here! except his humor is INSANELY hit or miss.

If you've seen or played Assassin's Creed Syndicate, that game has a fairly similar style to what you're describing. Both characters have the same base kit, but specialize in and are better at different things.

I would love a Tetra game tbh

the one issue about what I have with the game tho is how Peach’s power is called “uncontrollable emotions”

AGREE, doubtful Nintendo will do anything about it though😅

Yes, i would pay for a game like that

Especially with Peach and how everyone blames her for getting kidnapped and not Bowser who is doing it

it’s not her fault that Nintendo doesn’t know how to do their princesses right

I agree with this 100%

He left that part our cause it would make him look stupid.