{"id":196,"date":"2013-04-13T10:12:11","date_gmt":"2013-04-13T17:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.noserf.com\/?p=196"},"modified":"2013-04-13T10:12:11","modified_gmt":"2013-04-13T17:12:11","slug":"zelda-as-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.noserf.com\/?p=196","title":{"rendered":"Zelda as Hero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dueling Analogs has put up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duelinganalogs.com\/article\/the-legend-of-zelda-clockwork-empire\/\">Aaron Diaz&#8217;s proposal<\/a> for a Zelda-centered Link game.<\/p>\n<p>To be blunt, I think it sucks. In this proposal, Zelda is Link in drag, and Link is an effete poseur. It&#8217;s just a Link game reskinned, without any attention to what would really make Zelda different.<\/p>\n<p>But me being me, I&#8217;m not going to just opine on the subject. I&#8217;m going to propose a different alternative: Princess Zelda.<\/p>\n<p>Seriously: the Tetra incarnation aside, Zelda is a princess. What do princesses do? Keep in mind that Zelda has no brothers and sisters, so she&#8217;s the heir to the throne. She should be groomed to rule.<\/p>\n<p>In no particular order:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Running your kingdom.<\/li>\n<li>Lead your people in war.<\/li>\n<li>Direct &#8220;special&#8221; operations.<\/li>\n<li>Negotiate treaties and alliances.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This leads to several different mini-games that I can see:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sim: Hyrule.<\/li>\n<li>Zelda: Tactics.<\/li>\n<li>Link-in-a-Dungeon.<\/li>\n<li>Dancing (as in the latest version of <em>Sid Meier&#8217;s Pirates!<\/em>).<\/li>\n<li>Princess dress-up.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Given Nintendo&#8217;s occasional paired releases, you could release this as two games: the traditional Link-centric game, where he&#8217;s running off getting the artifacts like he always does, and the Zelda-centric game, where she&#8217;s fighting a war with Ganon. The two games would have common cut-scenes wherever Link and Zelda interact. (Obviously, if you make this a console game, rather than a Gameboy game, you&#8217;d merge the two threads.)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3],"tags":[86,85],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4h13J-3a","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.noserf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.noserf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.noserf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.noserf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.noserf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.noserf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.noserf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.noserf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.noserf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}