GeekParty writes: "Nintendo has finally revealed what Sheik’s actual gender is. Bill Trinen of Nintendo said she is, 100%, without a doubt, female — just Zelda in ninja clothing."
Nintendo's classic action-adventure game, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, is set to receive a fanmade port for the Sega Dreamcast.
Gary Green said: Being a writer exclusively for PlayStation is immensely rewarding, yet it does have its drawbacks. It was easy enough to distance myself from the ever decreasing number of Xbox exclusives, yet parting ways with Nintendo was hard, and it only got harder over time. Sooner or later, I knew I'd be back, and as I frantically search for the most efficient and cost-effective ways to play the Nintendo classics which I've missed out on over the years, revisiting the best of the best comes first.
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time came out during a time where every console had its charms. Whether you were team Sega, Nintendo, or Sony, everyone knew the game's potential, and the players who invested in Nintendo's chunky N64 console were not disappointed. Like Sega's ill-fated Saturn, it may have been a console which lacked in quantity of games, but the quality was certainly there.
Ocarina of Time was a game that was hard to put down. We would bounce home excitedly from high school, ready to wander the lands of Hyrule once again to find another secret or two, before preparing ourselves to tackle that next intimidating dungeon. It's time to retell this story. Ready your ocarina.
Yes, this is one of the true masterpieces that I believe every core gamer should play.
It even holds up to this day.
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Hot damn that's a good list. The only one i never played is AOE2 and i never finshed Chrono Trigger but it was damn good.
Speaking of what's old but holds up amazingly well and plays like a dream.. i played Symphony of the Night for the first time in 2019.. yep that's right. It became one of my favourite games of all time that i replay almost every year. I couldn't believe how good it was. That is almost impossible for me with newer games let alone older ones. Truly a special gem.
The only one I’d disagree with is doom. It shows its age badly I think. After 5 minutes of play these days you put it down.
People shouldn't use virtual characters to represent themselves. We define who we are, not video game characters.
Has always been female just as Link has always been male. Their gender doesn't matter. It's Nintendo's story. For those who want to see male Shiek or female Link I wouldn't hold your breath
when was this up for debate to begin with?
it's literally Zelda wearing ninja clothes
even Zelda can't cast Rule63 spells
Well written opinion piece. While it seemed more plausible that Sheik is female, it was nice to ponder about her/his gender and what it could mean from both sides.
Indeed it matters, but not for depends on what the game sets out to do, and has nothing to do with the subjective morality this author wishes to promote.
If a game is character-oriented (in the sense that setting and politics are there only to support a strong lineup of central characters), it shouldn't matter as the objective is how we come to empathise with this player character and the people around them. The point being that the character is an enigma so we grow as we try to see things from their perspective. Max Payne 3 is an example of this as is Tomb Raider. These games often have linear stories, as we try to understand why people make decisions rather than influence the, ourselves.
For this sort of game, the more diverse protagonists can be the better, as similar characters get boring.
If the game is environment-oriented, it's important that we empathise with the protagonist right from the start for two reasons:
1: through our familiarity with a main character we understand to be similar to ourselves (or an avatar of ourselves) we have a sense of grounding which allows us a good base to start exploring the world. Things will feel a little *too* alien if we have to understand a very different world in addition to a very different protagonist from ourselves. This is similar to how fantasy books tend to follow certain traditions and differentiate only so much so as to keep us feeling somewhat familiar with the world (dragons are ubiquitous)
2: decision-making, often important in such games becomes more valid. If I can't empathise with someone, how am I supposed to make decisions from their point of view? I end up projecting myself, a white male through a different character, meaning that a Chinese woman would have the brain of a British male. You could say "choose what you think they would choose", but then why not simply have the author decide that for me in a linear plot? I get that many talented authors are able to do this to some degree, but I'm not a talented writer (perhaps for this reason), and nor are many gamers (or we'd all be authors).
Decision-making is both more valid and more relatable when the protagonist is either a custom-made avatar of yourself (or ideal self) or as close to you as possible.
Games which adopt this approach are Skyrim, Mass Effect and The Witcher series.