The Character We Saw in the Zelda U Trailer Was Link After All

Soon after the Zelda U trailer was shown at Nintendo’s Digital Event, Mr. Aonuma left us with a comment that left us Zelda fans reeling; “No one said that was Link”. Across all forms of social media, fans were going nuts, believing that this new character to be Zelda, Colin, a child of Link, or just some unnamed female. Well, after all that theorizing, it turns out it was a joke!

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Read the interview that WiiU.MMGN had with Eiji Aonuma below!

“It’s a rumour,” Aonuma said with a chuckle when I asked him about the speculation buzzing around online.

“Actually that comment I made jokingly,” he said. “It’s not that I said that it wasn’t Link. It’s that I never said that it was Link. It’s not really the same thing, but I can understand how it could be taken that way.”

“It seems like it has kind of taken off where people are saying ‘oh it’s a female character’ and it just kind of grew. But my intent in saying that was humour. You know, you have to show Link when you create a trailer for a Zelda announcement.”

However, he doesn’t want players to focus too much on Link’s appearance in the trailer.

“I don’t want people to get hung up on the way Link looks because ultimately Link represents the player in the game,” he said.

“I don’t want to define him so much that it becomes limiting to the players. I want players to focus on other parts of the trailer and not specifically on the character because the character Link represents, again, the player.”

Personally, I’m really glad that it turned out that it was Link that we saw in the trailer. To me, Zelda just wouldn’t have been the same without him.

So what do you think of this new revelation? Let us know in the comments below!

Source: WiiU.MMGN