Ummm..... Ninty bros?

it appeals to the switch audiance

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Typical clickbait tactic, let's see if Yea Forums falls for it...

Isn't he already Bishonen/shojou or whatever enough?

Disgusting SOI infused MC.

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Who is more of a scumbag cunt, op for posting this trash or the faggot that made the clickbait title?

Not if you actually pay attention to how npcs react when you're talking to them. He's very sassy and mischievous.

so the "What if Zelda was a girl" posters finally win

why bother? girls already love the franchise so it obviously appealed to both. no need to turn him into even more of a final fantasy queer

It doesn't mean he doesn't have a gender, just that he doesn't heavily lean toward appealing to one gender or another. He would be an appropriate character for a player of either gender simply because him being a guy would have no impact.

...but according to the actual article states the opposite: rather than not appealing to either gender too heavily, their aim is specifically to appeal to both. They're gonna play up his appeal so both guys and girls will have something to like about him. That's different from being neutral, but clickbait will be clickbait.

Link appeals to boys and girls
I want to fuck him and take him on adventures

>appeal to both sexes
>"gender neutral"
its fucking nothing!

>more Link porn of both sexes

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Looks pretty gender neutral already

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so he's going to look like girl more than he already does or what?

>social activism bloggers put fake news in headline for clickbait because nobody reads their articles without being angry / laughing at them

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Thank you for actually reading the article, user. I know noone else here is very likely to.

He's always been a twink for this reason though typically he's leaned toward the male side and I strongly believe he always will. If anything they'll make a game where you are Zelda and have to save Link which is a definite possibility.

I am forgotten

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>actually nintendo wants to link to appeal to both sexes
i would argue that the Zelda fanbase is easily 50%male/50%female wheres the need?

Just.. have... Zelda... playable?

I really don't understand why this is so fucking hard? Every single game in the series is named after her.

Every time i fucking hear gender issues with Zelda the answer is beyond simple i'm genuinely shocked Nintendo hasn't fucking done it by now.

Also who gives a fuck what trannies think? Definitely not Nintendo nor should they ever give a fuck. You want a gender neutral character? Go play as a fucking robot some time, you damn anxiety obsessed pansies.

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u mad bro? you status: trolled.

Because the franchise is literally about saving the world and the princess. Thats the shtick and i dont think spin off games/other genres work as well as it does with mario

Reminder that Buzzfeed shit on coal workers when they got fucked by big business
Then Buzzfeed's owners committed a massive purge of """""""journalists"""""""" because no one was actually getting clicks
Then people on the internet used the "learn to code" shit back at them and they freaked out, calling it an "attack on the free press"
And now they're forced to """radicalize""" and form a union that they for nearly a decade were told by corporate to shit on

OP it is! ;)

Based clickbait OP. I'm literally shaking.

BOTW Link doesn't appeal to boys at all, unless you count femboys and other gender non-conforming people as good representatives of all boys. Pretty much every male Zelda fan I know didn't like BOTW Link's design and prefer his older designs. I don't like TP that much, but Link looks really good there.

I'm the opinion they should turn Link into a trap, a trap pleases the male audience and the female fanbase would still like him as well.

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What nips really meant that Link is bishounen. Western clickbaiters translated that as gender neutral, holy shit lmao.

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>clickbait

>not just making it so that you could play as either Link or Linkle

Anything to shoehorn in their mental illness. This is why these people need to be kept out of localization groups

So basically, they want to make him a bit gayer?
Wow, that's sooooo much better.

It's the middle of the gender alignment chart.
It's neither male nor female, gay or straight.

>I'm the opinion they should turn Link into a trap, a trap pleases the male audience and the female fanbase would still like him as well.

Wow, some many faggots in the world. Really sad

bring her back

Linkle is not Link

>BOTW Link doesn't appeal to boys at all
Absolutely fake news

>Linkle is not Link
What makes you that it was implied they are?

You need to change the story then

*straight boys

thats because they've done a good job of making link a character that appeals to both sexes
its just them saying thats their intention

That's how it works though. Journalists no longer report on things, they actively try to influence news and make things happen. What do you think will happen now when a bunch of SJWs get hyped because of the article and the next time someone asks nintendo about it they'll say he's heterosexual? There will be outrage and they will demand change by pressuring nintendo since they were """"promised"""" a gender neutral link. Not by nintendo themself, but by an activist "journalist" mind you.

I thought that was what asexual meant.

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this. it's just more fake outrage shit

As long as he can be shirtless he's a guy, or we get Link tiddies

>Gender neutral.
That's literally a non-sense.

AAAAAAAAHAHHAHAHAHAAHHAAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAA

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Asexual are people who don't feel any sexual attraction at all.

>Benny Hill Show music starts playing

Where does the penis go?

That's a sexuality like heterosexual or homosexuality. Sexuality is who you're attracted to and thus want to have sex with. Asexuality means you aren't sexual attracted to anyone.

"Gender neutral" isn't a gender. The phrase just describes something that doesn't favor one gender or another. Literally speaking, it's neutral when it comes to gender.

>That grammar
At least try to make click bait seen real

>2016
Fuck off faggot

Zelda is one of the only franchises of console gaming that somehow women care about, of course they will try to use it as a gateway...besides they will probably just make a romantic sub-plot for him and zelda or something like it

What if Zelda was a girl?

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Wow this explains why I want to fuck Link even though I'm not gay.

how is that supposed to work? are they going to to turn him into an unidentifable bio mass?

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>this thread
>trannies are okay when Nintendo does it!
Not looking good for you desu, Ninty bros.

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THE AGE OF MEN
IS OVA
THE TIME OF THE BISHO
HAS COME

you don't even want to fuck. get out of here you poser

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>Zelda turns into A Cruel God Reigns lite
oh no

>Filed under "News"
Bitch, no

we need moeblob link

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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA SONYCHADS WIN AGAIN

PC-KEKS AND NOW NINTENSHlTS TAKEN OVER BY TRANNIES

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Why do Nintenkiddies lie to defend a giant corporation?

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It is pretty straight to masturbate to gay link

NOOOOOOO, NINTENDO WOULD NEVER DO THIS, DELET

There would be nothing wrong with letting you choose the gender of Link. It's not like it matters to the games.

Androgynous

they did its called yoshi

I'll just leave this here...
youtu.be/qpipLfMiaYU

That's pretty much what gender neutral means. It's the same as unisex. Does Yea Forums never read?

when botw was revealed didn't aonuma have to specify link was a guy and would always be a guy? Pretty sure some meaning is being lost in translation and with how clickbait heavy and left leaning the media is, I'm taking everything from them with a mountain of salt. You got the original japanese

well Link's not like Mario, he's not motivated by love for the princess, he's already completely asexual making him gender neutral or an actual customizable character would be the next logical step and just add in the tools in game for player do decide how they want to identify Link.

most Nintendo games now a day allow customization of the player character

botw link was perfect (wind waker as runner up)

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Trannies need to fuck off and stop shoehorning their mental illness everywhere.

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why can't shi just be both instead of neither

I'm talking about straight dudes, young boys care a lot about playing with an avatar they perceive as "cool", playing with a cool and strong character is their power fantasy (that's why kids love characters like Kratos so much, because he oozes masculinity). BOTW Link looks too feminine and unimposing, but at the time not feminine enough ("trap") to trigger the breeding instincts of the straight male player.

Outside gender non-conforming gay femboys, few gay dudes like feminine avatars, they want to be and also want to fuck masculine men, a very stereotypical gay male power fantasy would be something like Tom of Finland, but the non-stereotypical average gay man would just settle for someone masc, but normal-looking like Soldier: 76. Femme, but still boyish characters like BOTW Link mostly please girls, trannies and femboys with few exceptions.

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>what is translation

Nigga stop getting bloggers and journalists confused

I've never seen a Link whose boipucci I wouldn't wreck.

Am I a joke to you,Nintendo?

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I think this is a deliberate misinterpretation/translation for the sake of sensationalist clickbait

Link has always been a baby faced bitch boy twink.

He's an elf, of course he looks like a girl.

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This has always been the case though? Fujoshits always liked him, and I'm pretty sure this is the only game in history where the female protagonist, Zelda, is liked less than the male one in -that- way by everyone else (oh no no no no)

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Doesn't Link already have a shitton of female fans?

Link was always fucking gay

That's just how Americans say bishonen

Well, duh!

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Twunk link when

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>obvious clickbait
>missinformation
>Yea Forums gulping the manufactured outrage down like a crack addict
>all this so we can have YET ANOTHER thread about GENDER TRANNIES, TRANSFLUIDISM AND WHATNOT
Kill yourself already and let us talk about video games

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Elves are like those French Polynesian geckos, they are all females

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I dont even need to read the thread to know it's a bunch of nintendies saying essentially "it's fine when Nintendo does it" because the company was there for them more than their parents

At least the guy who made the clickbait gets money for being a scumbag, OP is just stupid, that or he hates Yea Forums and wants us to talk about trannies 24/7.

I don't think you know what gender neutral means.

what's the problem? more gamers would identify with the character

it's ok when Nintendo does it because they're always reasonable

>those core shadows
hng

It literally just means they don't want him to be a bearded space marine.

>Removed a bunch of trans-flag stage in Smash Ultimate
>Now called Link’s gender as being neutral

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There's a big confusing of gender-neutral and gender neutral. Gender-neutral is the thing that Yea Forums seethes over, gender neutral is the color of clothing you buy a coworker's baby when you don't know if they are having a boy or a girl.

this man gets it

>m-m-mistranslation
>clickbait!!!
>no...NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

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>didnt read the article
>talks shit

Trap Link has unironically been one of the hottest characters to ever come out of gaming, prove me wrong.
Protip: You literally can't, don't even try.

and hot enough to make hags cheat on their husbands

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I havent showered in 5 weeks.

I think that you're just giving Nintendo the benefit of the doubt because you're a corporate lapdog

Link is a fictional character. Link being "gender neutral" means that the character is neither exclusively for boys or girls. That's it.

Link isn't a tranny, though. That's just the journalist saying that he is.

Fuck off back to ResetEra.

>cute twink turns into a drug-crazed self-mutilating tranny

Many such cases! Sad!

Stop bumping shit bait

It means androgynous except that word wasn't political enough so they had to invent something new.
Because these fags can't stop talking about muh sex, muh gender.

>87 posters
>120 replies
It's so obvious that it's someone and his Discord tranny friends samefagging. You guys aren't even trying to hide it.

No Nintendo is a shit company and its fans are addicts but this sounds like sensationalist falseflagging """"""journalism"""""" that the other has done again and again and again
Especially when it's been stated "As far as gender goes, Link is definitely a male" and other statements from the company
They probably want him to look bisho/andro but there's nothing about "gender identity" which is what the author is obviously pushing in order to provoke
There's a difference between making a character attractive and spinning a narrative about a character swapping gender for no reason

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the translator is using 'gender-neutral' because thats the hip buzzword to get clicks
I think the proper word would be androgynous, which just means that link is neither masculine nor feminine looking, but he's still a male character.

stop advertising resetera you shill

So this shit isn't even news? Its been well known Links character and design already makes him well liked with men and women. Shit like this is why I stopped browsing "video game journalist" news.

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Use sage you fucking newfags

No, it’s saying that the entire time, since the original game, Link has been faggy.

> ignores daily threads about link being cute and posting him in the gerudo outfit

It means he doesn’t stray far toward masculinity or femininity.

*Approaching darkness play*

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Didn't even have to read the article to know it was misconstrued bs. Still good for you actually checking sources in 2019.

No one's saying he's a tranny. Link is just an effeminate femboi.

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/thread

Why do you defend a giant corporation with a 2014 tier tree-house translation?

I already did what I had to do, the question is will everybody else follow suit so the auto deletion can kick in.

Reminder that japs look at traps as a joke and this was a joke segment in the game. Now go dilate mr.tranny :)

I too, bust a nut to traps and then claim it was only a prank.

Tranny

Link has literally always been a twinky elf boy. Stop posting clickbait shit, fag.

>Yea Forums thinks Trans and Gender Neutral are the same thing.
No wonder you fell for it. I wish the FBI would swoop in and kill Yea Forums already.

Nintendo has always made him an androgynous character, or masculine with feminine traits. This is not something new. It was in the early cyberpunk concept art for fuck's sake. Nintendo didn't even say that as pointed out, but if they had it would be nothing new. What the fuck is this post-truth world it's like nobody has the balls to live in reality anymore.

when will link become height neutral, i'm a lanket and i don't feel represeted

Cross dressing isn't the samething as being transexual, retard.

Fuck off tranny.

You people need to learn how to fucking sage.

>Cross dressing isn't the samething as being transexual,
>I'm not a degenerate if I only want to fuck cutebois and not those trannies

>another clickbait post
>Yea Forums is like the male version of pic related

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The biggest dick poster right here

He's not wrong, though. I hate it as much as the next red blooded realmale but there are absolutely masculine, musclebound dudes who like to put on women's clothing as a degradation thing, or in some weirder cases as a statement of how butch and masculine they actually are. Or just because they think it looks pretty it's fucking weird, point is there's a lot of stupid reasons for men to wear a camisole.

You got a SINGLE(1) shred of evidence to back any of this damage control up my dude? As in a counter translation that "translated it correctly"?

Don't worry, I'll wait :^)

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>:^)
you lost the argument by the way, journalist shill

Welcome to 2000s journalists.
The same problem scientist get triggered by. They release paper that wine has an ingredent that can be used to kill cancer. What do journalist make out of it? Wine cures cancer!

Japan doesn't have a word for "Gender Neutral" or "Trans"

user...

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Seitenka-sha (性転換者) is the most polite way to say tranny, but Okama (オカマ) is a great word for tranny. Even worse is Newhalf (ニューハーフ) pictured left. It's a man with boobs. Androgyny is usually referred to with Bishonen (美少年) and it's a very specific kind of male androgyny. Link is very 美少年.

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Is this achievable natty?

All I'm saying is there is a deference between being transgender and being a cute femmy boy.

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I feel so sorry for that thing in your picture. The eyes are dead. The smile is sick and sad. The appearance is that of a corpse.

Literal circus top makeup, holy shit

When you are a freak and mistake of nature that's usually what happens

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Nice projection.

Women have male names all the time now, people thinks it's cute to make their child a little dyke.

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B-but, Link was always gender "neutral character"
At least in appearance

Is this something they actually think happens? Fucking Christ. This is penis inspection day levels of insanity.

>checking tickets and ID after the train has already departed

He's always been appealing to both genders though. Only absolute retards would believe otherwise

The downward turned edges of his mouth and narrow breadth of the smile indicate it isn't natural and happy. Additionally the smile is asymmetrical, a common physical tell for disgust or condescension. The teeth are covered in plaque - months to years of buildup that come from personal neglect. The eyes are held unevenly with flared nostrils suggesting facial tension - though an unevenness in eyes often suggests neurological damage. Just like blush and chromosomes, there are certain parts of the body that you can't fake.

he's looked like a little twink since inception, why do you think females love him so much?

nintendo-insider.com/nintendo-aim-to-make-link-a-gender-neutral-character/

The article is from 2000 fucking 16.

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Kirby is gender neutral, and he’s already a pink blob who sucks. Problem solved

>Kirby is a he
What?

I think the word you were looking for is AH-AH-AH-AN-AN-EH-AN-EH-androgynous

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>tfw pansexual

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Kirby’s pronouns are still he/him but he’s definitely gender neutral. If you have a problem with that you’re a toxic bigot.

did you not notice how BOTW link was the most androgynous to date (look at those child birthing hips)?
this is what happens when nintendo devs main interaction with the west is SJW journos crying about muh female link

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Ken Doll body confirmed

you fuck pots and pans?

I don't see the problem with that. It's the same deal with many protagonists such as Yoshi, Kirby, Pikachu, and even Mario. They appeal to both guys and girls.

I thought BOTW Link was pretty badass in a few cutscenes
Especially the one where its raining and he's swinging around the Master Sword in the rain while Zelda is fingering herself because of how badass Link looks

Eh, depends on the mood I'm in

>shred of evidence
Without the original script the translation is just worthless.

I mean, I don't really have a problem with it

Gotta get those click baits!

In all seriousness, video game "journalists" belong hanged.

No, I thought he looked like a lean and slightly muscular young adult

This. Journalists are faggots as always.

>what the fuck does "gender neutral" even mean? No dong or clam?
That's what the journalist wants you to think by reading the headline. But nintendo never meant that neither used those words. Link is very much a dude but nintendo always had the care to never make him a testosterone showcase powerhouse a la Marcus Fenix or Captain Falcon as to not alienate any kind of player and be able to project himself into link more easily.

Similarly enough, Samus is not particularly feminine in the traditional sense of the word nor she has the chance to be, so no one ever had a problem getting in her skin. In fact most metroid fans have cocks.

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Why would anyone fall for this clickbait yet again? Remember when the BOTW trailer first came out and everyone (trannies and SJWs) thought the person in the trailer was fem Link?

>nintendo always had the care to never make him a testosterone showcase powerhouse a la Marcus Fenix or Captain Falcon as to not alienate any kind of player and be able to project himself into link more easily.
OoT and TP Link

>he's already completely asexual making him gender neutral or an actual customizable character would be the next logical step

Link is still a character so that's not happening soon. A very basic character also, so you can't really strip him from the tiny things that still define him such as
>he's brave
>he's a dude

If you begin making Zelda games with a faceless character creator or with a completely blank avatar, they lose link. And they will not.

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