It's 2021 and we can not play as Zelda - your cowards

The legend of Zelda has been told for 35 years, but in none of the games from the main series we can take over the role of - after all - title dog. Why not? Does not the story actually act from her, the princess of Hyrule, the passenger of the goddess Hylia? It would be slow time to experience the story from your perspective!

When asked why his stories always have female main characters, the American comic drawer Terry Moore replied simply: Why not? Tolkien has not asked anyone why the companions are all men. So, just honest, why not Zelda? Here are a few arguments that you get to hear again and again - and what you can answer.

Because that's always how it was!

Let's remember Skyward Sword. A nice offshoot of the main row, which, however, hangs so much on traditions and the Zelda formula (and strictly processing) that he makes innovation á la Breath of the wild. It has always been like this? Well, dungeons have always existed, as well as sidewicks, linear handling schedules and limited areas. Throwing all out of the window was the best thing that could happen to the series.

Because link is the better figure!

I love The Legend of Zelda, honestly, the games have shaped me like no other. Sometimes I even dream of the Hylian Steppe from Ocarina of Time. But link is not a "good" figure in the literary sense. He is an avatar, deliberately kept pale, to facilitate players' inside the connection to the game world, the literal link.

We stumble through the Kokiri forest, leaving Preludia under tears - it's actually our journey. The games live from their atmosphere, from the charm of their world, not from the depth of their main character. This avatar would be easily replaced by a female figure - just zelda.

Female gamers have been completely problemless for years with link, so that's the other way around. Most certainly. Guys, I believe in you.

Because Zelda is not a fighter!

The mythology of The Legend of Zelda is fun because it is so open and varied. Times, Hyrule is flooded, then it is between the clouds, is crossed by train routes, is once European, sometimes asian. We do not always play the same link, but almost always another figure. We start our adventure as an apprentice, as a simple knight student, as grandmother's favorite, and become only gradually to the legendary hero.

Is it so impossible for Zelda to change such a development? In a fantasy world without solid rules, in the fishmanship sometimes become too bird people, a young woman can not grab himself to the sword? Especially since Zelda has proven in the history of the series again and again that she is not squeamish and has a courageous heart.

One wishes from Nintendo more courage to break with well-tried traditions. A "That has always been so" does not progress anyone - a "that could be like that" - and would also be a great decision that would prove that they are not cowards.

To make it short: If you ask you the next time why we should play in The Legend of Zelda as, Nunja, Zelda, just ask you instead "Why not?"