Linkle May Be Considered for Future Zelda Games
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How does magical fanservice girl that somehow air-juggles 50 enemies with dual rapid fire crossbows "fit into zelda"?
Last time I checked, the bow acted like a bow and not an assault rifle and zelda was about exploration and not a freaking spectacle fighter. There is not a single facet about her that mixes well with zelda and I personally find her design to be rather lukewarm rendition from the people who think crossbows are the "uzis of the middle-age" and that "cool" justifies any design decision.
Last time I checked, the bow acted like a bow and not an assault rifle and zelda was about exploration and not a freaking spectacle fighter. There is not a single facet about her that mixes well with zelda and I personally find her design to be rather lukewarm rendition from the people who think crossbows are the "uzis of the middle-age" and that "cool" justifies any design decision.
Then neither does any other character in the series, since every character who has been reproduced in Hyrule Warriors does the same kind of shit Linkle does. Or are you seriously arguing that it's impossible for Linkle's abilities and style to be altered to reflect the kind of game she's in?loa said:
Please be explicit, loa, because these vague portents of doom are meaningless. What exactly do you think will happen? It sounds to me as if you believe Nintendo means to create a game in which Link and all its inhabitants behave at their normal, more or less believable power levels, yet Linkle alone will be running through it like Dante in Devil May Cry. Is that your fear, or is it something else?loa said:
What are you on about.JimB said:
Her entire design is just bland and doesn't mesh with the universe full of sometimes downright disturbing characters at all, if you take the "fast fire" away from the crossbow then... what are we left with, exactly?
There is literally nothing else even remotely interesting to this character and if you think she's on the same level as, say, midna I don't know what to say to you.
It kinda sounds like an interesting plot. Without Hylia's magic, they can't slow down Ganon (or whoever the overpowerful bad guy is). However, Hylia's magic sometimes isn't part of the games plot. But more importantly, Hyrule Warriors seems to have revealed the Zelda's equivalent of Marvel's multiverse. Remember we are talking about spin-offs here; they aren't necessarily canon. They just need to make sense.BiH-Kira said:
Oh, for god's sake.loa said:
loa, I am asking you to please describe exactly what complaints you have with the announcement that Nintendo is considering adding Linkle to a Zelda game. I do not understand the nature of your grievance because your language is extremely vague, bordering on the nonsensical (for example, saying "Zelda used to be better than that" without explaining what level the game has sunk to or why that level is a bad one), and because of logical inconsistencies like the way you deride Linkle for her capabilities in a spin-off game without applying that same complaint to every other character in the series ("Oh man, Link totally doesn't fit in Hyrule with all his wearing costumes and holding two full-grown versions of himself over his head, that shit is so cartoony"). The only conclusion I can conjure to this is that you are nearly panicked at the thought of Linkle appearing in a game, so I asked you to explain in precise terms what harm was being inflicted and by whom.
Has this at all clarified my question?
Whatever Nintendo decides to add.loa said:
I did not say one word comparing Linkle to Midna. Please do not strawman me, loa.loa said:
Nope, was being sarcastic.JimB said:
But despite my glibness, they weren't necessarily lying either. It just costs more money than not doing it. The opportunity cost analysis (if they did one) possibly showed that having a female protagonist as an option does not generate enough revenue to justify it. I mean, even if it just costs $5k for voice acting, character modeling and character choosing interface, that's still a lot of game sales that it may not generate.
Unless I'm confusing my games, no, there was a story reason for it:Lightknight said:
All four assassins were, like, quantum clones or some shit like that; multiple versions of the same person. I dunno, I forget. It was stupid and nonsensical.
It made the lie seem stupid--why not just say there was a story reason?--but whatever.
I don't believe there was a story reason for it. I could believe cost benefit reasons. In fact, I can only assume that the "quantum clones" idea was also money based.JimB said:
The real story is probably that they didn't want to say that it wasn't worth their time to make a female protagonist. They tried to just leave it at expense but their PR department or whatever said it would be a terrible idea to explain that the cost of making such a character exceeds the increase in sales it would produce due to the current climate in how it is reported whenever a company makes such a claim even if studios like Ubisoft have actually done it in the past and do have real world data.
Eh, I don't mind, it might be a nice change of pace. Still wish they'd change the name, though... (Linkle? Really with that name?!)
I'm with everyone else. Linkle is just a silly sounding name. There's tons of other names you could have chosen. Linka, Linkella, Linkara, Lin, Lena, Lon, Lank, Lane, Lan, Lana, Lang, Lexis, or how about just plain... Link. Heck, why not give her an entirely different name altogether. I'd be okay with a reincarnation of courage named Jane, or Ariel, or whatever... Just not Linkle.
This is pretty much where I am. I have no problem with her beyond the fact that Linkle is about the doofiest feminization of the name they could have come up with. I agree that Link would work as a girl's name just as well as a guy's, but I can see why they would want to be able to easily distinguish between the two. I mean, okay, I can't think of a better one off the top of my head, but they could have put a it more thought into it. Link's name was supposed to refer to the fact that originally the Triforce was supposed to be electronic chips and you could use them to travel to the past and future, making them a "link" between them. So why not go back to that original meaning--connect is another word for link, so why not Conne?Lightknight said:
is she Tingle's adopted daughter?
She has Tingles compass and uses a map she can't seem to read properly; as if drawn by a crappy spandex wearing balloon flying guy. Maybe he named her Linkle in honor of his brother (remember that he thought of Link as his brother) hell that could be the whole reason why she's traveling in the first place she's searching for her dad to bring him back up and since he's always up in the with his balloons she did Crossbow Training to be able to bring him down.
She has Tingles compass and uses a map she can't seem to read properly; as if drawn by a crappy spandex wearing balloon flying guy. Maybe he named her Linkle in honor of his brother (remember that he thought of Link as his brother) hell that could be the whole reason why she's traveling in the first place she's searching for her dad to bring him back up and since he's always up in the with his balloons she did Crossbow Training to be able to bring him down.
Yep, nothing you said sounds worse than Linkle. I don't really care what hoops they have to contort through to get to a real name that doesn't make a mockery of the attempt.Lilani said: