I’ve played and replayed all of them over the past 30 years and I’m looking forward to sharing them with my daughter if/when she develops an interest in gaming. The Zelda games are some of the greatest games in popular culture. This matters because male leading heroes are abundantly overrepresented in popular games and I want my baby daughter to see that gender doesn’t define a hero. Link’s physical appearance and grunting vocalizations don’t really identify Link as a specific gender, and there’s absolutely nothing in the story of the game that requires the hero to be specifically male. Like previous Zelda games, The Wind Waker allows the player to become the hero by inputting their own name at the start of the game but then continues to use male pronouns when referring to the player (“Link”) regardless of the player’s actual gender. The game was first released for the GameCube and later “remastered” for the Wii U in 2013. About 13 years ago, Nintendo let players take to the open seas in The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker.
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