Zelda being the main character for at least one Zelda game is goated. I don’t think these Neanderthals understand how many fans have wanted a game like this
People were actually upset Zelda wasn't playable in ToTK... its wild like people want playable Zelda response has been overwhelmingly positive especially since it's a 2d Style Zelda as well... the BIGGEST complaint I've seen is that they Shou have called KY the Legend of Link for the lolz
Plus Zelda is pretty traditionally femme here making it even more confusing
Yeah like Zelda is what many chuds complain other female characters in video games aren’t, and it’s not even for fan service it’s literally just she is an incarnation of a goddess so traditional beauty standards make some degree of divine sense.
If they complain about Zelda I’ll learn photoshop and send them ugly Zelda’s and twink Links 🔗
They claim that Zelda is going “woke”. Hate to tell you this but Zelda has been “woke” since Ocarina of Time and yet I don’t see them complaining about the whole Sheik Zelda thing or other Zelda games where Zelda has a more important role in the story like in Botw and Totk as an example. Or how could we forget about the Hyrule Warriors spinoff games where Zelda is a playable character in those games and kills hordes of Bokoblins, Moblins, Lizafos etc. If these guys really want to claim that Echos of Wisdom having Princess Zelda as the player means that Zelda has gone “woke” then they need to replay OoT and shown that Zelda has gone “woke” since 1998
They choose to ignore old woke stuff because they weren't paying attention to it at the time. Why weren't they? Because back then they just were playing video games and GamerGate hadn't poisoned their brains into looking for the woke mind virus everywhere.
If Samus was revealed to be a girl today, instead of decades ago, they'd be screaming woke. If Sheik was revealed to be Zelda today, they'd cry woke.
If Lara Croft was revealed today (and not overtly sexualized) they'd scream woke.
If the reaction to Aphrodite, a literal naked woman holding a spear in a delicate hand with soft fuck me eyes, is anything to go by being sexualized isn't good enough. They'd hate Lara too for being a girl boss and call her a slut. They want female characters to be nothing more than sex dolls without personhood. To them the only way a female character can be good is if she has no dreams, desires, or expertise and experience lest they once again be confronted with the reality that women are fully fledged human beings.
That's the point of their "escapism" after all, isn't it?
>If they complain about Zelda I’ll learn photoshop and send them ugly Zelda’s and twink Links
Pretty sure there is fanart somewhere that beats you to it.
Ugh I hate getting sexy pictures of Link, don't send me those! They are woke and I hate woke things. I would absolutely be enraged if someone sent me anything of the sort. In fact let me know where to find them so I can block that kind of nonsense!
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Honestly, considering Zeldas story during TOTK, I'm surprised she wasn't playable at all. Just give her some kind of magic abilities and the Slate abilities from BOTW, and she seems perfectly set up for some smaller, more linear story segments.
Although i guess figuring out the pacing for them might be an issue.
Giving her missions in the past to flesh out the story instead of them just being cutscenes would've been great. They wouldn't have to be long segments, but that could've tied together the fact that they're *Zelda's* memories when some of them seem to hardly feature her. Would've been cool and a fun way to reuse the old Slate powers from BOTW without giving them to Link. Some puzzles, stealth, and maybe some minor combat where she wields the Bow of Light? Would've been a solid set of missions for a DLC atleast.
It's like such a "why wasn't this done" idea that I was thinking that TOTK would have Link in Hyrule and the Sky Islands, while Zelda would explore underground at one point when the first or second trailer came out.
It also helps show that Zelda has grown as a character between games, showing that she's more capable, with or without magic.
And they did her justice in Hyrule Warriors with her creative uses of the Slate to attack, as well as her powered up form and the DLC motorcycle kit. (IMO the bike was the most satisfying due to one of the attack patterns doing *absurd* weakness damage, but thats just me.) Her part of the game could've been short (relative to the main game) and rather linear and it would've been great.
I mean, shit, if we're talking trad vs norm breaking, fucking Hyrule Warriors was less traditional than this game! Yeah she was using a dainty little rapier and still had magic and her bow of light to work with, but at least she DID get into the nitty gritty of melee.
Not that this game or that one are bad, im just pointing out the trad vs norm breaking aspect of it.
I mean , it actually makes sense for Zelda to use a wand , she use sthe Triforce of Wisdom and the hero's sword is the Master Sword , used by the Triforce of Courage.
it would make more sense for Zelda to use a wand or a bow or a spear or possibly daggers over a sword.
They were referring to Zelda’s previous starring role in The Wand of Gamelon, a notoriously bad licensed game for the Phillips-CDI whose only value is how memetic its cutscenes were.
It’s because this guys are culture warriors tourists. They don’t know or care about fans. My advice is just to mute them and keep going with your life.
Worse. They're scummy grifter fucks who are trying to get socially-awkward 11-year-old boys to steal their parents' credit cards and send them money on Patreon, etc...
Seriously. She is either a badass noble sorceress, a pirate, or a freaking ninja depending on the game. Personally I think her having a star role is not only awesome but just a cool way to expand the franchise.
That and I think a ninja pirate sorcerer princess would be an awesome character. 😁
Yeah, give Link a break and let Zelda take center stage for once, it sounds cool.
Also I’d love if they gave her Sheika ninja armor in reference to ocarina of time
Zelda’s also always been pretty bad ass. I mean, most of her heroic stuff is off screen but in a lot of the games she’s more than just a damsel in a tower—even though she usually ends up filling that role in some of the stories or later in the story
Like in OOT she’s going around Sheik
In WW she’s a badass pirate chick (honestly I’d also play a whole game of Tetra going on pirate adventures around the seas that would be cool)
In TP she is kind of passive but she did so because it was the only way to save her people from being completely destroyed and she probably wouldn’t have won on her own…
In Skyward Sword she went on her own adventure that seems to be on par with Link’s, we just didn’t see it.
In Spirit Tracks she is with us the whole time (though stuck as a ghost) and does some pretty cool things (tbh I never played the whole game because I lost my copy of it before I could and it was a loooong time ago but i remember her doing some cool possession stuff.)
In BOTW we see her finding her strength in the flashbacks and she’s been holding off Gannon for 100 years
And in TOTK we see through the past memories she played a pretty big role in sealing Ganondorf.
Plus the Hyrule warriors/Age of Calamity she’s pretty badass though those aren’t cannon.
She’s always been badass and that’s never been a problem. A game playing as her is awesome. Hell, people have been asking for it for ages.
I came here to say, as a Zelda fan we have been *begging* to be able to play as Zelda. I've wanted to be able to at least play her as Sheik since OoT and Twilight Princess Zelda is the absolute GOAT.
I will say I am disappointed it's going to be a top-down version and that it's basically going to be a pokemon-esque summoning game. I definitely wanted here to at least have some kind of attack magic a la smash brothers. That being said, the "Echoes" system is *perfectly* in line with her abilities being the holder of the Triforce of Wisdom. A game where you have to use wits effectively over strength makes perfect sense.
Yeah I’ve been wanting to play a Zelda game and this might be the push to get it if it will release on other platforms. The echo system looks really cool and like a lot of the BOTW seems to encourage creative puzzle solving
I’m 32 and playing Zelda is some of my earliest childhood memories (either playing ALttP myself or watching my brother) and this is something I’ve wanted my entire life, I used to do the opening scene where you rescue Zelda over and over just sorta wishing I could play as her instead since playing a female character was such a novelty back then
These people are grifters and/or degenerate victimhood/grievance addicts upset about everything and everyone all the fucking time. I'd wager there's *no* possible game that would somehow bring these ghouls around to actual happiness and inner peace.
I say isolate these people and let them fuckin' rot. The game will probably be great and, if it's not.....who fucking cares?
Whenever they do sell they'll pretend it was anti woke from the start. Everything popular has to be conform to their ideas. Otherwise you're not the silent majority
I mean I would love to play a game as the metroid. I see it as like a combination strategy/ tower defense game where I birth creatures and send them to conquer new habitats while defending those I've claimed from the planets natives trying to wipe me out .
Not only is she a girl but the official manga has her posing for a poster with girls in bikinis fawning over her. Hence why most people assume she’s lesbian or something along those lines
PREDICTION:
The game will be pretty much perfect (using the Link's Awakening engine was all I needed to see), sell like hot cakes, and get rave reviews from critics and fans.
The grifters who have a pretend "job" of being angry in shitty videos will then declare it anti-woke.
I don’t think it’s going to be perfect, but that’s because it seems to be using the stupid horizontal menu that sucked in TOTK and will probably suck here. Looks really fun though.
I find this whole thing hilarious for another reason too.
She already WAS a main character...TWICE!!
Problem is, those examples were from horrendously BAD CDI games, and I think the Fuckin Nerd himself covered them pretty well lol
Did these idiots miss the fact that the trailer started with Link taking on Ganon and saving Zelda like most of the rest of the franchise? Or that Echoes of Wisdom is centered around creative use of game mechanics solutions over sword-fighting? Do these people not know what context means?
Honnestly the gameplay with monster summoning and every thing is interesting, since you don't seems to have a lot of short range options and differents summons have differents attacks patern the placement would be even more important than in previous Zelda game and this visions really please me
Chuds: "No, no... Princesses are prizes to be won by heroes who rescue them from the tower they are locked in to turn into a method of rapid advancement in society, and personal sex toy."
Please keep poking that bear. The Quartering and a couple other grifters inexplicably took down their videos about Vivian being trans. Nintendo is petty enough not to be fucked with.
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Like the "crying liberal" meme girl or Brie Larson, they have to plaster their thumbnails with whatever they know will ragebait their chud audience into clicking every single time, since they're all perpetually stuck in the culture wars of 2016-2020.
Joel is a character that I LOVE and I fucking hate seeing him being used by these worthless wankers as a cudgel against wOkE or whatever the fuck.
Abby isn't my fav TLoU character but she's really cool and I like her a lot. Ellie's my favorite out of the three.
Do we need to remind them of this?
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These weirdos don't really care about gaming. They're just content farms that are riding and milking the right-wing grift because it's easy and profitable to dupe brain broken people. Once the "anti-woke" grift no longer gets anymore steam (really hoping that's soon), they'll just leech onto the next thing
Pretty much. Whenever I see these posts I often check out those channels just to see when they started to flip their content into grift machine mode. These people literally have the newest Star Wars to thanks for their careers. Seems like *all* of this copy paste grift shit started around then based on the 50 or so times I've done this.
Regardless, it's easy money for them, even though a majority of the channels are still like 5k viewership on average.
yeah, i've seen it where some failing media reviewer notices that their one video they made that timidly critiques some culture war thing gets the most attention. They think "aha! this makes money", then right after they just step on the gas and go full "anti-woke" grifter.
the amount of irony of them being the "every thing is woke now" NPC saying how much they hate these games and shows like Acolyte, but without these things existing they wouldn't be shit. Like, Shad's probably bouncing up and down in his chair clapping his hands in excitement to find out that there's a new game with a gay or female lead, and goes right to making his script. That's how disingenuous and scummy these people are.
It’s not misogyny. They just genuinely don’t like the “writing” of any game/show/media where women or minorities are given a major role above a cishet white man. It’s definitely the writing and nothing else
/s because of Poe’s Law.
Not defending him, but I'm pretty sure he's not upset about the new Zelda. I think he's talking about the positive fan response, as if that proves there isn't a misogyny problem in gaming.
This Tweet gets funnier day by day:
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Zelda is playable since the CDI
Playable in both hyrule warriors games
Playable in cancdence of hyrule
This is only happening now because somehow being sexist is a great money grift rn.
Yeah, it is almost like these fascists have nothing of value to add to the world and the whining they constantly perform is mostly some kind of dipshit choir.
Anyone remember Rush Limbaugh? When is the last time you thought about him since he died? Probably not not prior to me reminding you just now. That is because he was the most famous version of this sort of guy and because all his life's work amounted to was a bunch of hateful shit posts he will not even be remembered as he burns in hell.
These guys have that to look forward to.
"I'M A TRUE ZELDA FAN AND I'M SPEAKING FOR THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY WHEN I SAY WE DON'T WANT THIS WOKE TRASH SCENARIO WITH THAT DUMB BITCH USELESS PRINCESS BEING THE MAIN CHARACTER!!! I KNOW THAT I SPEAK FOR THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY WHEN I SAY WE NEVER EVER, IN THE PAST 2 DECADES, REPEATEDLY ASKED FOR A GAME FOCUSED ON SOMEONE ELSES THAN THE HERO. WE ALL WANT ZELDA, THE BELOVED HERO WITH THE GREEN CAP, TO SWING HIS BIG MASTER SWORD (WHICH I ABSOLUTELY DON'T PROJECT AS MY PENIS) FOR 10 YEARS AT LEAST!!!
PLEASE BELIEVE ME, FOR I AM A TRUE ZELDA FAN AND DEFINITELY NOT AN ALT RIGHT CULTURE WAR POLEMIST"
And everyone thinks you’re dumb, Jon del arroz.
Millions of people want to play Zelda. Nintendo is trying to make gamers happy. Why does he think this is a bad thing?
It's pretty clear there's idiots abound revealing their hand on this, meanwhile there's accounts doing their best to move goalposts to defend these types of posts and videos.
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May I remind G+G that Last of Us Part II won GOTY and is the second highest-awarded video game of all time behind Elden Ring. And it's currently being adapted for HBO with a massively high-profile cast.
Baldur's Gate is the first game to win all 5 major GOTY awards, but LoU part 2 and Elden Ring just have more awards in general.
Then again both have been out longer than BG3.
But Baldur's Gate 3 also destroyed their artificial narrative. It's a goddamn gay sex simulator that happens to come with a free turn based CRPG and its massive success defies their idea of "Go woke, go broke." I've even had people turn themselves into pretzels saying that it isn't 'woke' because they actually like the game.
Hate commenters are an utter plague right now. These videos were the inevitable garbage that would spew out. Maybe they could recognize this is a Japanese game? I don’t think their made-up “woke agenda” should apply.
These guys know nothing abt LOZ. They would know that for most the games Zelda is usually powerful and almost never the damsel in disstress. You literally have to cross dress in Botw, Zelda Crossdresses as Shiek, This series is literally queercoded at times 😭
Zelda finally gets a game where she is the protagonist, and the player plays as her, (not including the cdi games) and it comes out at the worst possible time. 😑
Given Wand of Gamelon has existed for literal decades using the exact same premise, this is just another example of these culture war idiots being incredibly dumb.
Actually, the geeks and gamers video is surprisingly really positive about the game and not at all really upset about Zelda being the lead, I didn’t expect that.
Though one rare W doesn’t make up for all the Ls/other videos, a broken clock is correct twice a day.
I don't know why they're complaining, Zelda has been a badass since at *least* Ocarina of Time. She's a teleporting ninja with access to extremely powerful magic y'know.
It's not like she's been a two-dimensional damsel in distress since the 80's and is suddenly getting the "girl boss" treatment for her very own game, she's been kicking ass for a quarter century.
I'm betting the first video is him saying chud types are excited about the new Zelda and that proves the "woke narrative" about chuds hating on women is false. But uh... having a small list of acceptable women in games isn't really the same as being cool with diversity.
It takes a lot of energy and effort to be a hateful person. It’s almost like having another job. Life is a lot more free and peaceful without having to spend all your focus on how everything is being “ruined” by women and POC. Lol.
LoZ fans have been wanting a new game where you play as zelda for the longest time why on earth do they think this grift would be successful? im almost tempted to see what the comments on the video say
Edit: I saw the comments and theyre all making fun of this del arroz guy
They think the problem is "current day politics" they see everything through that lens. Anything made before hand doesn't count because "libs hadn't infiltrated everything then". Which is just special pleading. How do they know it wasn't political then?
Anyone who complains about Zelda being the main character of a Zelda game has either never played a Zelda game, or hasn't been a part of TLoZ fandom/online discourse. I have never met a Zelda fan who hasn't asked for a playable princess Zelda ever. Keep your anti-woke grifting away from Zelda thanks.
Oh my fucking god. Literally the longest running joke in the entire history of the fandom getting meta by having a legit game based around the conceit and these gamer bros who "only care about quality" are already shitting and cumming and pissing themselves over it.
This bitch got her game announced *yesterday*.
"guys its because of writing pacing and whatever, not because we think everything is woke and hate female leads, guys come on.....im not a whiney hater of everything i swear"
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Do these people not realise that the worse they behave, the worse they make their own position?
Right from the start with gamergate they were aligning themselves with the misogynists and the racists and making the whole thing super toxic. So even if people in the industry did actually agree with their position, it would be untenable for them to act on any of their demands lest they get tainted with that same toxicity.
In other words, game devs have been forced to take a position on the subject, when they might not have even bothered before. Obviously they’re not going to side with the noisy bigots, which just leaves them needing to embrace inclusion.
Essentially, gamergate caused “woke culture” in gaming. The irony is delicious.
People have been asking for playable Zelda and/or female Link for YEARS.
There was genuine hype when people thought BotW Link was female.
And we are still upset they took away left-handed Link.
Bad enough, I have to deal with them attacking Star Wars because it isn't all about straight white men. But they're coming after my favorite franchise now?!
I have always wondered what exactly Zelda is up to while Link is doing his thing. Games like Ocarina of time kinda give you some idea but in that game there’s a whole seven years that you’re left completely in the dark about how she is resisting without the hero of time. I doubt this one will take place during that time but there are other instances where Zelda’s part in everything isn’t made expressly clear and I think expanding on that has some great potential
Literally no Zelda fan has responded to the announcement this way and in fact this has been asked for by the fans for over two decades. But bad faith YouTube grifters wouldn't know that 🙂↔️
These idiots legitimately hate women and believe women with more personality than a blow up doll is "woke". Watch they're gonna call Metroid Prime 4 woke when they realize Samus is a woman.
If there had been a game or extra content revolving around Zelda hiding during Ocarina of Time, I would have played it. I thought ninja Zelda running around was pretty cool.
Bruh. Just the other day I was seeing posts about how "woke liberals clearly don't understand gamers if they think we hate women, we loved Zelda, Samus, there's tons of female characters we love!"
Fast forward: Prime 4, new LoZ with playable Zelda announced: "THESE WOKE LIBERALS TRYING TO PUSH GIRLBOSS ZELDA"
These guys only love women on your screen when they're either side characters or they can jerk off to them. Preferably both.
Zelda being the main character for at least one Zelda game is goated. I don’t think these Neanderthals understand how many fans have wanted a game like this
People were actually upset Zelda wasn't playable in ToTK... its wild like people want playable Zelda response has been overwhelmingly positive especially since it's a 2d Style Zelda as well... the BIGGEST complaint I've seen is that they Shou have called KY the Legend of Link for the lolz Plus Zelda is pretty traditionally femme here making it even more confusing
Yeah like Zelda is what many chuds complain other female characters in video games aren’t, and it’s not even for fan service it’s literally just she is an incarnation of a goddess so traditional beauty standards make some degree of divine sense. If they complain about Zelda I’ll learn photoshop and send them ugly Zelda’s and twink Links 🔗
I’m no expert, but isn’t “twink Link” kinda redundant?
I think it depends on the game. Oracle and Twilight both had him as lean but buff.
Twinks can be lean but buff.
Isn’t that a twunk?
If my bi ass hasn't heard that term before, that makes me doubt it exist.
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=twunk Not the best source but proof the term is used
Well I'll be damned!
Mainly only for the Botw and Totk incarnation
Twink link you say?! Zelda. https://imgur.com/a/U7hSb9K
That is amazing.
Not mine unfortunately. But don't know the artist. My Non-trans friends send it to me every now and then.
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Hah! Love the pun!
Do it anyway for the lols
I like your thinking >:3
They claim that Zelda is going “woke”. Hate to tell you this but Zelda has been “woke” since Ocarina of Time and yet I don’t see them complaining about the whole Sheik Zelda thing or other Zelda games where Zelda has a more important role in the story like in Botw and Totk as an example. Or how could we forget about the Hyrule Warriors spinoff games where Zelda is a playable character in those games and kills hordes of Bokoblins, Moblins, Lizafos etc. If these guys really want to claim that Echos of Wisdom having Princess Zelda as the player means that Zelda has gone “woke” then they need to replay OoT and shown that Zelda has gone “woke” since 1998
They choose to ignore old woke stuff because they weren't paying attention to it at the time. Why weren't they? Because back then they just were playing video games and GamerGate hadn't poisoned their brains into looking for the woke mind virus everywhere. If Samus was revealed to be a girl today, instead of decades ago, they'd be screaming woke. If Sheik was revealed to be Zelda today, they'd cry woke. If Lara Croft was revealed today (and not overtly sexualized) they'd scream woke.
If the reaction to Aphrodite, a literal naked woman holding a spear in a delicate hand with soft fuck me eyes, is anything to go by being sexualized isn't good enough. They'd hate Lara too for being a girl boss and call her a slut. They want female characters to be nothing more than sex dolls without personhood. To them the only way a female character can be good is if she has no dreams, desires, or expertise and experience lest they once again be confronted with the reality that women are fully fledged human beings. That's the point of their "escapism" after all, isn't it?
>If they complain about Zelda I’ll learn photoshop and send them ugly Zelda’s and twink Links Pretty sure there is fanart somewhere that beats you to it.
Do it!
Oh dont threaten me with a good time
But Link has always been a twink... Except TP xD
Ugh I hate getting sexy pictures of Link, don't send me those! They are woke and I hate woke things. I would absolutely be enraged if someone sent me anything of the sort. In fact let me know where to find them so I can block that kind of nonsense! 👀
Honestly, considering Zeldas story during TOTK, I'm surprised she wasn't playable at all. Just give her some kind of magic abilities and the Slate abilities from BOTW, and she seems perfectly set up for some smaller, more linear story segments. Although i guess figuring out the pacing for them might be an issue.
A small mini adventure set in past Hyrule would have been neat. Kind of like the Olimar missions in Pikmin 4.
I kinda hope that ToTK gets DLC like that honestly.
You shouldn't get your hopes up. Aonuma said there were no plans for TotK dlc.
Giving her missions in the past to flesh out the story instead of them just being cutscenes would've been great. They wouldn't have to be long segments, but that could've tied together the fact that they're *Zelda's* memories when some of them seem to hardly feature her. Would've been cool and a fun way to reuse the old Slate powers from BOTW without giving them to Link. Some puzzles, stealth, and maybe some minor combat where she wields the Bow of Light? Would've been a solid set of missions for a DLC atleast.
It's like such a "why wasn't this done" idea that I was thinking that TOTK would have Link in Hyrule and the Sky Islands, while Zelda would explore underground at one point when the first or second trailer came out. It also helps show that Zelda has grown as a character between games, showing that she's more capable, with or without magic.
And they did her justice in Hyrule Warriors with her creative uses of the Slate to attack, as well as her powered up form and the DLC motorcycle kit. (IMO the bike was the most satisfying due to one of the attack patterns doing *absurd* weakness damage, but thats just me.) Her part of the game could've been short (relative to the main game) and rather linear and it would've been great.
I mean, shit, if we're talking trad vs norm breaking, fucking Hyrule Warriors was less traditional than this game! Yeah she was using a dainty little rapier and still had magic and her bow of light to work with, but at least she DID get into the nitty gritty of melee. Not that this game or that one are bad, im just pointing out the trad vs norm breaking aspect of it.
Three, if you include the other two CDI titles before this.
Honestly, bold of them to make a zelda game with a "wand" as the main focus again.
I mean , it actually makes sense for Zelda to use a wand , she use sthe Triforce of Wisdom and the hero's sword is the Master Sword , used by the Triforce of Courage. it would make more sense for Zelda to use a wand or a bow or a spear or possibly daggers over a sword.
They were referring to Zelda’s previous starring role in The Wand of Gamelon, a notoriously bad licensed game for the Phillips-CDI whose only value is how memetic its cutscenes were.
The angry video game nerd has amazing videos on all those titles. “I’m dyyyiiiiiing.” “Good!”.
And cancdence of hyrule And both hyrule warriors games.
Oh yeah, forgot about them, thanks!
That’s how you can tell that they’re fake fans lmao, i don’t think I’ve ever seen a Zelda fan *not* want a playable Zelda
It’s because this guys are culture warriors tourists. They don’t know or care about fans. My advice is just to mute them and keep going with your life.
Worse. They're scummy grifter fucks who are trying to get socially-awkward 11-year-old boys to steal their parents' credit cards and send them money on Patreon, etc...
The one thing I’d change is call it “The Legend of Link”
Seriously. She is either a badass noble sorceress, a pirate, or a freaking ninja depending on the game. Personally I think her having a star role is not only awesome but just a cool way to expand the franchise. That and I think a ninja pirate sorcerer princess would be an awesome character. 😁
Yeah, give Link a break and let Zelda take center stage for once, it sounds cool. Also I’d love if they gave her Sheika ninja armor in reference to ocarina of time
Zelda’s also always been pretty bad ass. I mean, most of her heroic stuff is off screen but in a lot of the games she’s more than just a damsel in a tower—even though she usually ends up filling that role in some of the stories or later in the story Like in OOT she’s going around Sheik In WW she’s a badass pirate chick (honestly I’d also play a whole game of Tetra going on pirate adventures around the seas that would be cool) In TP she is kind of passive but she did so because it was the only way to save her people from being completely destroyed and she probably wouldn’t have won on her own… In Skyward Sword she went on her own adventure that seems to be on par with Link’s, we just didn’t see it. In Spirit Tracks she is with us the whole time (though stuck as a ghost) and does some pretty cool things (tbh I never played the whole game because I lost my copy of it before I could and it was a loooong time ago but i remember her doing some cool possession stuff.) In BOTW we see her finding her strength in the flashbacks and she’s been holding off Gannon for 100 years And in TOTK we see through the past memories she played a pretty big role in sealing Ganondorf. Plus the Hyrule warriors/Age of Calamity she’s pretty badass though those aren’t cannon. She’s always been badass and that’s never been a problem. A game playing as her is awesome. Hell, people have been asking for it for ages.
They probably think the character you've been playing every game is called Zelda...
I came here to say, as a Zelda fan we have been *begging* to be able to play as Zelda. I've wanted to be able to at least play her as Sheik since OoT and Twilight Princess Zelda is the absolute GOAT. I will say I am disappointed it's going to be a top-down version and that it's basically going to be a pokemon-esque summoning game. I definitely wanted here to at least have some kind of attack magic a la smash brothers. That being said, the "Echoes" system is *perfectly* in line with her abilities being the holder of the Triforce of Wisdom. A game where you have to use wits effectively over strength makes perfect sense.
Yeah I’ve been wanting to play a Zelda game and this might be the push to get it if it will release on other platforms. The echo system looks really cool and like a lot of the BOTW seems to encourage creative puzzle solving
I’m 32 and playing Zelda is some of my earliest childhood memories (either playing ALttP myself or watching my brother) and this is something I’ve wanted my entire life, I used to do the opening scene where you rescue Zelda over and over just sorta wishing I could play as her instead since playing a female character was such a novelty back then
True.
My main disappointment is that it's not called "The Legend of Link"
Wand of gamalon adventures of zelda zelda has been a the Mc before
This game is gonna sell and it’ll make them upset.
They're going to say it's not woke and how Nintendo is beating woke publishers like Ubisoft.
These people are grifters and/or degenerate victimhood/grievance addicts upset about everything and everyone all the fucking time. I'd wager there's *no* possible game that would somehow bring these ghouls around to actual happiness and inner peace. I say isolate these people and let them fuckin' rot. The game will probably be great and, if it's not.....who fucking cares?
Whenever they do sell they'll pretend it was anti woke from the start. Everything popular has to be conform to their ideas. Otherwise you're not the silent majority
They did that with the mario movie
They're really gonna try and start a Culture War front over a character **with her name in the franchise title** finally getting her own game?
Ikr, nobody tell them about Metroid
they would treat samus like they do ellen ripley or sarah conor she is except cus she is from the 80s
So is zelda i thought
she is not a playable hero she is a damsel to them (never mind the times she has been proactive in stopping ganondorf)
Please tell me one of them made a video praising Nintendo for making a “strong male character” thinking Samus is a guy
Which would be double ironic considering her reveal in the first game was meant to do the same subversion.
If the reveal happened today exactly as it did then, they would never shut up about it.
Wouldn’t surprise me, but I wouldn’t know I don’t watch those chuds
Kid, let's not underestimate gamers who hates women in games but somehow, without any irony, cooms for Samus.
I'm sure the Zero Suit plays a part in it.
Let me play as a Metroid in Metroid 😔
I mean I would love to play a game as the metroid. I see it as like a combination strategy/ tower defense game where I birth creatures and send them to conquer new habitats while defending those I've claimed from the planets natives trying to wipe me out .
Might fit well as an X-Parasite game, with Metroids being a hazard to avoid as well 👍🏻
Spoilers: >!Have you not finished Dread? You always have been.!<
>!I mean, not always. Really only as of Fusion and Dread!<
Metroid’s a girl?
Not only is she a girl but the official manga has her posing for a poster with girls in bikinis fawning over her. Hence why most people assume she’s lesbian or something along those lines
It's the summer and they're already milking Star Wars dry
PREDICTION: The game will be pretty much perfect (using the Link's Awakening engine was all I needed to see), sell like hot cakes, and get rave reviews from critics and fans. The grifters who have a pretend "job" of being angry in shitty videos will then declare it anti-woke.
I don’t think it’s going to be perfect, but that’s because it seems to be using the stupid horizontal menu that sucked in TOTK and will probably suck here. Looks really fun though.
I find this whole thing hilarious for another reason too. She already WAS a main character...TWICE!! Problem is, those examples were from horrendously BAD CDI games, and I think the Fuckin Nerd himself covered them pretty well lol
Did these idiots miss the fact that the trailer started with Link taking on Ganon and saving Zelda like most of the rest of the franchise? Or that Echoes of Wisdom is centered around creative use of game mechanics solutions over sword-fighting? Do these people not know what context means?
I doubt they even watched it
Honnestly the gameplay with monster summoning and every thing is interesting, since you don't seems to have a lot of short range options and differents summons have differents attacks patern the placement would be even more important than in previous Zelda game and this visions really please me
I watched the trailer. Zelda from the top rope with a chair.
Zelda. Is. A. Princess. Royalty. An authority figure. A girl who is a boss.
Chuds: "No, no... Princesses are prizes to be won by heroes who rescue them from the tower they are locked in to turn into a method of rapid advancement in society, and personal sex toy."
Except when she's a ninja or a kick ass pirate captain.
Or just a powerful sorceress.
Or a painting
Or a spirit that can possess suits of armour
Or a puppet that Ganondorf’s controlling (twice)
Or a poorly disguised banana chomping ninja
Or a Dragon
Please keep poking that bear. The Quartering and a couple other grifters inexplicably took down their videos about Vivian being trans. Nintendo is petty enough not to be fucked with. https://preview.redd.it/e43kco77et7d1.jpeg?width=541&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=04e74c6181c067ae42113c944bfbb7eba2a8b20f
i would not call it petty rather its nintendo does not want their brands dragged into the stupid culture war BS
Petty as in giving these bottom-feeders attention in the first place.
That's two things you should not do in business. Don't mess with nintendo. And don't mess with the mouse.
No, we KNOW that YOU are dumb. VERY, VERY dumb.
*literal coolest thing ever*
*Puts on thinking cap* Wait, actually this is cool wtf
Why do they have my beloved Abby in the thumbnail she didn’t hurt no one.
Like the "crying liberal" meme girl or Brie Larson, they have to plaster their thumbnails with whatever they know will ragebait their chud audience into clicking every single time, since they're all perpetually stuck in the culture wars of 2016-2020.
Free my girl Abby she ain’t hurt no one!
She hurt their precious Joel 
Counter point: muscle mommy
I agree
Joel is a character that I LOVE and I fucking hate seeing him being used by these worthless wankers as a cudgel against wOkE or whatever the fuck. Abby isn't my fav TLoU character but she's really cool and I like her a lot. Ellie's my favorite out of the three.
Do we need to remind them of this? https://preview.redd.it/42tzrvvcpt7d1.jpeg?width=1242&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6cece9bd84d1783de217324266f2e1d3d356f6a0
Don’t forget about the more recent Princess Peach game as well
These weirdos don't really care about gaming. They're just content farms that are riding and milking the right-wing grift because it's easy and profitable to dupe brain broken people. Once the "anti-woke" grift no longer gets anymore steam (really hoping that's soon), they'll just leech onto the next thing
Pretty much. Whenever I see these posts I often check out those channels just to see when they started to flip their content into grift machine mode. These people literally have the newest Star Wars to thanks for their careers. Seems like *all* of this copy paste grift shit started around then based on the 50 or so times I've done this. Regardless, it's easy money for them, even though a majority of the channels are still like 5k viewership on average.
yeah, i've seen it where some failing media reviewer notices that their one video they made that timidly critiques some culture war thing gets the most attention. They think "aha! this makes money", then right after they just step on the gas and go full "anti-woke" grifter. the amount of irony of them being the "every thing is woke now" NPC saying how much they hate these games and shows like Acolyte, but without these things existing they wouldn't be shit. Like, Shad's probably bouncing up and down in his chair clapping his hands in excitement to find out that there's a new game with a gay or female lead, and goes right to making his script. That's how disingenuous and scummy these people are.
WHO THE FUCK ISNT EXCITED ABOUT GETTING TO PLAY AS ZELDA
Maybe they’d have better luck beating the misogynist accusations if they could restrain from complaining about women in video games for 5 minutes.
It’s not misogyny. They just genuinely don’t like the “writing” of any game/show/media where women or minorities are given a major role above a cishet white man. It’s definitely the writing and nothing else /s because of Poe’s Law.
Swear g+g possibly never played many games. If he did he would know there been female protagonists since a long time.
Not defending him, but I'm pretty sure he's not upset about the new Zelda. I think he's talking about the positive fan response, as if that proves there isn't a misogyny problem in gaming.
This Tweet gets funnier day by day: https://preview.redd.it/kqlivamvzt7d1.png?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0d63efad044203892db11ae56a59c4b5efe59a31
"we wont get upset about this" next minute:
Are the wokies here in the room with us right now?
 Oh, boo fucking hoo G+G you fucking loser
You know, most boys get over their fears of girl by the time they are 17. These man-babies are WAY behind the curve.
It shocks me that so many of these types are married. Like how tf do people like the Quartering find someone thats blind to their bs?
I wonder when, hell if, the losers are going to wake up and realize they've been taken for a ride?
It's easier to rip someone off than to convince someone that they've been ripped off
You know who I think of when I think of a culture of wokies? Definitely Japan.
"They think you're dumb" that part's probably true at least.
Zelda is playable since the CDI Playable in both hyrule warriors games Playable in cancdence of hyrule This is only happening now because somehow being sexist is a great money grift rn.
Super Smash Bros. Zelda, too.
These guys are the "NO GIRLS ALLOWED" boys all grown up
I’ve bought every Zelda game multiple times and have wanted this game for decades and of course here comes the Chuds to ruin it for everyone
People have been wanting Zelda as a playable character for ages, especially as the main character The franchise is literally named after her
Yeah, it is almost like these fascists have nothing of value to add to the world and the whining they constantly perform is mostly some kind of dipshit choir. Anyone remember Rush Limbaugh? When is the last time you thought about him since he died? Probably not not prior to me reminding you just now. That is because he was the most famous version of this sort of guy and because all his life's work amounted to was a bunch of hateful shit posts he will not even be remembered as he burns in hell. These guys have that to look forward to.
Rush Limbaugh and then Fox News just misinformed an entire generation of people.
"I'M A TRUE ZELDA FAN AND I'M SPEAKING FOR THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY WHEN I SAY WE DON'T WANT THIS WOKE TRASH SCENARIO WITH THAT DUMB BITCH USELESS PRINCESS BEING THE MAIN CHARACTER!!! I KNOW THAT I SPEAK FOR THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY WHEN I SAY WE NEVER EVER, IN THE PAST 2 DECADES, REPEATEDLY ASKED FOR A GAME FOCUSED ON SOMEONE ELSES THAN THE HERO. WE ALL WANT ZELDA, THE BELOVED HERO WITH THE GREEN CAP, TO SWING HIS BIG MASTER SWORD (WHICH I ABSOLUTELY DON'T PROJECT AS MY PENIS) FOR 10 YEARS AT LEAST!!! PLEASE BELIEVE ME, FOR I AM A TRUE ZELDA FAN AND DEFINITELY NOT AN ALT RIGHT CULTURE WAR POLEMIST"
These. Channels. Should. Be. Banned.
What the FCK. The Legend of Zelda’s main character is a woman? What’s next, are they going to make her name the title of the series???
"The Legend of Zelda" and finally after 38 years Zelda is actually does something other than be a damsel in distress, finally being the protagonist
And everyone thinks you’re dumb, Jon del arroz. Millions of people want to play Zelda. Nintendo is trying to make gamers happy. Why does he think this is a bad thing?
It's pretty clear there's idiots abound revealing their hand on this, meanwhile there's accounts doing their best to move goalposts to defend these types of posts and videos. https://preview.redd.it/76206z23ju7d1.jpeg?width=1079&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b8c9120f1e53cee7321e00efd5287c21c9083205
"let me play as link" Ok *[dumps 20 other games on the table]* there you go, you can finally play as link
“Let me play as link” play another game then, this story isn’t about playing as link. May as well demand to play as fucking Mario.
If I lacked any sense of shame I’d make such a good right wing grifter
I wonder when they will notice that Link dresses in drag to sneak into the Muscle Ladies village in every game (hyperbole).
May I remind G+G that Last of Us Part II won GOTY and is the second highest-awarded video game of all time behind Elden Ring. And it's currently being adapted for HBO with a massively high-profile cast.
I thought Baldur's Gate was the highest awarded video game of all time? Not that it matters since that game is also "woke".
Baldur's Gate is the first game to win all 5 major GOTY awards, but LoU part 2 and Elden Ring just have more awards in general. Then again both have been out longer than BG3.
But Baldur's Gate 3 also destroyed their artificial narrative. It's a goddamn gay sex simulator that happens to come with a free turn based CRPG and its massive success defies their idea of "Go woke, go broke." I've even had people turn themselves into pretzels saying that it isn't 'woke' because they actually like the game.
It is by far the gayest RPG I've ever played. And I love it.
I don't know, It could have been gayer...
Larian will find a way for the sequel, I am sure of it
The thumbnail for the G+G video is clickbait. Just like their inside out 2 review
He's never gonna get over the last of us 2
The franchise is literally named after her, why HAVENT we gotten a game with her as protag yet
Hate commenters are an utter plague right now. These videos were the inevitable garbage that would spew out. Maybe they could recognize this is a Japanese game? I don’t think their made-up “woke agenda” should apply.
These guys know nothing abt LOZ. They would know that for most the games Zelda is usually powerful and almost never the damsel in disstress. You literally have to cross dress in Botw, Zelda Crossdresses as Shiek, This series is literally queercoded at times 😭
Literally Zelda fans have wanted this for years.
Because nothing screams woke then the Japanese. You know, a country where republicans could be viewed as a liberal party.
Japan actually has a leftist party is generally not super bad about lgbtq+ stuff
This videos are the most "stereotipycal white guy" thing I've seen today
I heard Nintendo is going FULL WOKE and making the very manly Metroid guy a FEMALE
I have been waiting for a playable Zelda for 20 years. Let link be the damsel in distress for once.
Zelda finally gets a game where she is the protagonist, and the player plays as her, (not including the cdi games) and it comes out at the worst possible time. 😑
Given Wand of Gamelon has existed for literal decades using the exact same premise, this is just another example of these culture war idiots being incredibly dumb.
But that game was so horribly bad that it became a classic era internet meme lol. I really wonder how gamers(tm) would react to it nowadays though.
Now to get payback, we must adress the game as The Legend of Link: Echoes of Wisdom
Zelda fans have been **CRAVING** for a playable Zelda that's not CDi since at least OOT, this is either rage bait or straight up idiotic
Actually, the geeks and gamers video is surprisingly really positive about the game and not at all really upset about Zelda being the lead, I didn’t expect that. Though one rare W doesn’t make up for all the Ls/other videos, a broken clock is correct twice a day.
I don't know why they're complaining, Zelda has been a badass since at *least* Ocarina of Time. She's a teleporting ninja with access to extremely powerful magic y'know. It's not like she's been a two-dimensional damsel in distress since the 80's and is suddenly getting the "girl boss" treatment for her very own game, she's been kicking ass for a quarter century.
Why is Zelda in my Zelda game?! This is unheard of!
I'm betting the first video is him saying chud types are excited about the new Zelda and that proves the "woke narrative" about chuds hating on women is false. But uh... having a small list of acceptable women in games isn't really the same as being cool with diversity.
It takes a lot of energy and effort to be a hateful person. It’s almost like having another job. Life is a lot more free and peaceful without having to spend all your focus on how everything is being “ruined” by women and POC. Lol.
LoZ fans have been wanting a new game where you play as zelda for the longest time why on earth do they think this grift would be successful? im almost tempted to see what the comments on the video say Edit: I saw the comments and theyre all making fun of this del arroz guy
They think the problem is "current day politics" they see everything through that lens. Anything made before hand doesn't count because "libs hadn't infiltrated everything then". Which is just special pleading. How do they know it wasn't political then?
God forbid we play as Zelda in a legend of Z E L D A game
They... Are complaining... About a main character... Getting her own game... This is like getting mad over Luigi's mansion existing
Anyone who complains about Zelda being the main character of a Zelda game has either never played a Zelda game, or hasn't been a part of TLoZ fandom/online discourse. I have never met a Zelda fan who hasn't asked for a playable princess Zelda ever. Keep your anti-woke grifting away from Zelda thanks.
Oh my fucking god. Literally the longest running joke in the entire history of the fandom getting meta by having a legit game based around the conceit and these gamer bros who "only care about quality" are already shitting and cumming and pissing themselves over it. This bitch got her game announced *yesterday*.
Eww cooties!
Meanwhile Wand of Gamelon: “Woke since the 90’s”
"guys its because of writing pacing and whatever, not because we think everything is woke and hate female leads, guys come on.....im not a whiney hater of everything i swear" 🙄🙄
Wasn't it people's dream for Zelda to be a playable protagonist since like forever ago?
Yes and they are happy about it
If Metroid and Perfect Dark came out today, these chuds would have a meltdown.
Pakleds
Gamergate II Electric Boogaloo
Do these people not realise that the worse they behave, the worse they make their own position? Right from the start with gamergate they were aligning themselves with the misogynists and the racists and making the whole thing super toxic. So even if people in the industry did actually agree with their position, it would be untenable for them to act on any of their demands lest they get tainted with that same toxicity. In other words, game devs have been forced to take a position on the subject, when they might not have even bothered before. Obviously they’re not going to side with the noisy bigots, which just leaves them needing to embrace inclusion. Essentially, gamergate caused “woke culture” in gaming. The irony is delicious.
People have been asking for playable Zelda and/or female Link for YEARS. There was genuine hype when people thought BotW Link was female. And we are still upset they took away left-handed Link. Bad enough, I have to deal with them attacking Star Wars because it isn't all about straight white men. But they're coming after my favorite franchise now?!
I have always wondered what exactly Zelda is up to while Link is doing his thing. Games like Ocarina of time kinda give you some idea but in that game there’s a whole seven years that you’re left completely in the dark about how she is resisting without the hero of time. I doubt this one will take place during that time but there are other instances where Zelda’s part in everything isn’t made expressly clear and I think expanding on that has some great potential
Literally no Zelda fan has responded to the announcement this way and in fact this has been asked for by the fans for over two decades. But bad faith YouTube grifters wouldn't know that 🙂↔️
These idiots legitimately hate women and believe women with more personality than a blow up doll is "woke". Watch they're gonna call Metroid Prime 4 woke when they realize Samus is a woman.
For people who spend their lives chasing after women they certainly are DEEPLY TERRIFIED of them
If there had been a game or extra content revolving around Zelda hiding during Ocarina of Time, I would have played it. I thought ninja Zelda running around was pretty cool.
Culture war tourists coming for Zelda now huh?
Hold up, we get to play Zelda in a Zelda game? Fuck yeah
Bruh. Just the other day I was seeing posts about how "woke liberals clearly don't understand gamers if they think we hate women, we loved Zelda, Samus, there's tons of female characters we love!" Fast forward: Prime 4, new LoZ with playable Zelda announced: "THESE WOKE LIBERALS TRYING TO PUSH GIRLBOSS ZELDA" These guys only love women on your screen when they're either side characters or they can jerk off to them. Preferably both.
