An Interview with Zelda Williams

You appear to be a brand ambassador for Zelda now; you’ve done the promos and a presented at the Live concert. What else does it involved?

I don’t know what Nintendo was expecting and I don’t know what I was expecting signing up to it. I wasn’t really asked by Nintendo to do it, I was asked by my dad. Dad wanted me to be involved in it, and I think they had approached him with the idea of he and I doing it together. And I had so much fun doing the ads and I had so much fun getting to know the people at Nintendo – I went to E3, which was a blast – and between filming and when I have free time, I actually enjoy doing this with Nintendo.

What is your favourite Zelda?

Majora’s Mask. I stand by this. There are a lot of Legend of Zelda fans that think it is the best Zelda game. And there are quite a few that think it is a worst. I think it depends on their choice of if they want to do all the collecting games and get all the masks, and there are some people that get bored by that kind of gameplay. But I think in terms of how involved I got with that game, that one was by far and away my favourite. The new one is probably going to come really close to that particularly in terms of the game design. I am also a very visual person as well, and Skyward Sword is so pretty. And I am really looking forward to playing it and seeing if it gets me as involved. But Majora’s Mask was my shit. It is my favourite. It was also a bit of a goofy game, putting Link in bunny ears and silly masks and dressing him up. It is kind of a little girl way of looking at it, but I enjoyed that thoroughly.

If you had to pick a Zelda moment, what would you say is your favourite?

I loved Midna [from Twilight Princess]. I liked her in her little cute form, but I do like the moment where she becomes her proper form and it turns out she obviously has the hots for Link. And it becomes this thing that was very entertainment to me, it became like Soap Opera Legend of Zelda. She was like “Oh I am so attractive you can’t even say anything?” And you are like, well Link has always been mute Midna, but thank you for that.

I also loved a lot of the cut scenes in Majora’s Mask as well, because they were quite dark and twisted. A lot of the appearances of the moon in the sky as it would grow closer. I really liked how they played that out. Otherwise, Midna was my favourite. Her dramatic moments were very funny, I liked her sense of humour and the way they wrote her.