Ever since it was revealed that Zelda would be playing an essential role in the recently released Spirit Tracks game for the Nintendo DS, fans of the series began to wonder just how integral her part in the story would be. Would she help out and be part of the action? Or would she resort to a Navi like character from The Ocarina of Time?
Many fans saw this as the answers to their prayers. "Finally," they said, "Zelda will actually be part of the game. After all, the series name is The Legend of Zelda but she had yet to play more then a basic role in any of the games and in many cases is absent from the games with hardly no mention at all. However, when The Spirit Tracks was released last Monday what we saw was not what many were hoping for. Yes Zelda played a much larger role then ever before, but it was still lacking in many ways. She was not a Navi-character, but she was also not the Zelda that many fans were hoping for.
Tears of the Kingdom may be about to become everyone's new favorite, but there's one DS game that deserves more shine.
KeenGamer: "Nothing says gaming royalty like the iconic duo of Link and Zelda. Let's discuss which version of the duo is best, spanning the entire franchise. There are some versions of the characters that are more memorable and recognisable than others."
For me...
Wind Waker
Twilight Princess
Skyward Sword
BotW
These are the best Link's in that order IMO based on their backstory and general percieved personality in my eyes. Since he is silent in the eyes of the player, gotta rely on hidden backstory, motivations, and interactions with other characters to define the personality part.
Definitely Wind Waker, up until Tetra turned into Zelda which magically stripped her of her spunkyness. But once she's back to being Tetra she's definitely the most badass of the incarnations. This wasn't Link and because of that we got a character that earned the triforce and rised up to be a hero.
OoT. Link's most masculine physique plus just look at how hard that version of Zelda pwns in Super Smash Bros Melee.
The future could be filled with revived Nintendo DS classics. Hopefully it happens!
My kid yesterday proclaimed he liked the DS more than the Switch because the controls work on the go. Then I asked if he would rather have Monster Hunter Stories 2 on Steam or Switch and he chose Steam. So proud!
Zelda, much like Princess Peach, are like the goal line characters. You know, the "Save the Princess" concept. The role she had in Twilight Princess was perfect for her sort of character. That's as far as it should go, in my opinion.
I think that Nintendo disagrees seeing as they made the entire last game focus around zelda helping out. I figure they were testing the waters by seeing what kind of reaction they would get and go from there
She did the same in the wind waker. Helped out on the final boss and did not play much more of a role. I think even letting her in on more of the bosses would be something interesting.
I respect the Zelda series as a trademark of Nintendo RPGaming, as every game has great quality, but isn't it about time Nintendo comes up with a new property? Besides Zelda and Fire Emblem what do they themselves offer? Their games are always of top notch quality, I'd just like to see more RPG offerings from them. As a pure JRPG enthusiast I'd like a bit more diversity.
Some change in the series would be good. Spirit Tracks got a lot of good remarks about how zelda was in the game. And since it was just a starting point I think Nintendo would do wonders