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OdieFromTheOz KING OF EXPLODO KILLS from Shadow Mosses Since: Apr, 2013 Relationship Status: Don't hug me; I'm scared
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#30001: Dec 20th 2013 at 8:57:19 PM

[up][up][up]Well that's less an experience thing and more a development thing. It was just easier to program.

edited 20th Dec '13 8:57:41 PM by OdieFromTheOz

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DrFurball Since: Jan, 2001
#30002: Dec 20th 2013 at 8:57:24 PM

For what it's worth, Young Link's Melee trophy states

Link's younger incarnation is often considered to be the true Link: he was a young boy in the very first Legend of Zelda game, and he has appeared as a youth in most of the subsequent games.

Zarek Rollin' rollin' rollin' from Jakku Since: Sep, 2012 Relationship Status: Shipping fictional characters
Rollin' rollin' rollin'
#30003: Dec 20th 2013 at 8:57:33 PM

All of them are sixteen or older with the exception of Toon Link who has only been in five of the games.

I don't think that's right. Majora's Mask and Ocarina of Time have younger Links, although in OOT he's only young some of the time.

EDIT: Correction: Younger Link. Singular. All three Links in those two games are the same one person because yes.

edited 20th Dec '13 8:59:47 PM by Zarek

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OdieFromTheOz KING OF EXPLODO KILLS from Shadow Mosses Since: Apr, 2013 Relationship Status: Don't hug me; I'm scared
KING OF EXPLODO KILLS
#30004: Dec 20th 2013 at 8:58:06 PM

There's also all the 2D games where he doesn't look much older than 13.

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MagcargoMan Hooray! Bubble Party! Since: Oct, 2010
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#30005: Dec 20th 2013 at 8:58:22 PM

Most of the Links are not young. All of them are teenagers or older with the exception of Toon Link who has only been in five of the games.

Six, actually.

[up][up][up][up]Yeah, but there were other characters he planned as clones (Wario, Wolf) and didn't put them in Melee because he felt they deserved better. Why did he not feel Ganondorf deserved better?

edited 20th Dec '13 8:59:46 PM by MagcargoMan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8yAjWvAqyM
CassidyTheDevil Since: Jan, 2013
#30006: Dec 20th 2013 at 9:00:57 PM

You don't usually look like an adult in your early teens. You look like a kid, which you are.

Sterok Since: Apr, 2012
#30007: Dec 20th 2013 at 9:01:59 PM

The main reason I'm fine with Toon Link is because he's one of my mains. Otherwise, I agree he could use some decloning. At this point I've just decided to not let it bother me, since we're never going to understand what goes on in Sakurai's head.

Kostya (Unlucky Thirteen)
#30008: Dec 20th 2013 at 9:02:26 PM

I edited it to say teenager because I realized my mistake. MM, WW, MC, PH, and ST are the only games I can think of where he seems to be younger than thirteen for the duration of the game. Pretty much all the major games give adult Link a bigger role.

OdieFromTheOz KING OF EXPLODO KILLS from Shadow Mosses Since: Apr, 2013 Relationship Status: Don't hug me; I'm scared
KING OF EXPLODO KILLS
#30009: Dec 20th 2013 at 9:02:32 PM

[up][up]I don't know. Maybe he had already programmed Ganondorf and realized he didn't want them in? Maybe he doesn't like Ganon?

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Customer Since: Sep, 2009
#30010: Dec 20th 2013 at 9:03:58 PM

I'm just hoping Toon Link and Link will have different Final Smashes this time. Similarly, I hope we have less Final Smashes that are just variants of one another (i.e. the Landmasters, the Links' Triforce Slash, PK Starstorm).

CassidyTheDevil Since: Jan, 2013
#30011: Dec 20th 2013 at 9:05:16 PM

@Kost: You're not an adult at thirteen, I can tell you that.

TheSpaceJawa Since: Jun, 2013
#30012: Dec 20th 2013 at 9:05:27 PM

And both Link and Toon Link are important for representing the Zelda series as a whole, as they both represent the two different "kinds" of Link — the adultier Link (TP, SS, parts of OOT) and the smaller, cuter Link (WW, PH, other parts of OOT).

Sounds like a lousy excuse to me - we only need one Link to represent them all. The games are spread out over how many centuries and we have how many different Links across all of them? And yet, for all intents and purposes, they are all effectively the same guy wearing the same clothing with the same personality doing the same basic thing. Is that not the reason that Link, whatever the Lo Z game you're talking about, tends to be referred to as "Link" in general rather than being clarified to being, for example, "Oracle of Time/Majora's Mask Link" or "Link to the past" Link?

I still fail to see how it is such an essential thing that we get more than one Link when, when you get right down to it, they are both effectively the exact same guy, especially when it is so emphasized by the inability for them to get different movesets or any real differentiation besides their looks and one of them getting a brief addition to the front of their name in order to try to assure us that "No, this isn't the same guy, what are you talking about?"

MagcargoMan Hooray! Bubble Party! Since: Oct, 2010
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#30013: Dec 20th 2013 at 9:05:47 PM

At this point I've just decided to not let it bother me, since we're never going to understand what goes on in Sakurai's head.

You don't care he's a clone simply because you don't know what Sakurai was thinking?

What.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8yAjWvAqyM
Halberdier17 We Are With You Zack Snyder from Western Pennsylvania Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Dating Catwoman
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#30014: Dec 20th 2013 at 9:05:53 PM

Gamexplain's analysis of Super Smash Bros. Rosalina and Luma trailer.

Batman Ninja more like Batman's Bizarre Adventure
Kostya (Unlucky Thirteen)
#30015: Dec 20th 2013 at 9:07:43 PM

Cassidy: You're not a kid either. The reason I'm saying teenager is because saying you have to be eighteen or older means the Links of every game with two(three?) exceptions are "young".

Sterok Since: Apr, 2012
#30016: Dec 20th 2013 at 9:10:08 PM

[up][up][up]I care, but not too much. He has his reasons. Good ones? Debatable. Should Toon Link be changed? Probably. Will it change my opinion of the game? No.

OdieFromTheOz KING OF EXPLODO KILLS from Shadow Mosses Since: Apr, 2013 Relationship Status: Don't hug me; I'm scared
KING OF EXPLODO KILLS
#30017: Dec 20th 2013 at 9:11:01 PM

I like Toon link because he's adorable.

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MagcargoMan Hooray! Bubble Party! Since: Oct, 2010
Hooray! Bubble Party!
#30018: Dec 20th 2013 at 9:11:49 PM

I like Toon Link because he's awesome and I love Wind Waker.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8yAjWvAqyM
BadWolf21 Since: May, 2010
#30019: Dec 20th 2013 at 9:14:42 PM

Games with a Link confirmed to be 16 or older:

  • Zelda II: The Adventure of Link
  • Ocarina of Time (half of it, anyway)
  • Twilight Princess
  • Skyward Sword

CassidyTheDevil Since: Jan, 2013
#30020: Dec 20th 2013 at 9:14:45 PM

The reason I'm saying teenager is because saying you have to be eighteen or older means the Links of every game with two(three?) exceptions are "young".

Yet you said that most of the Links are 13 or older, therefore adult Link is in almost all of them. That doesn't make any sense at all.

TheSpaceJawa Since: Jun, 2013
#30021: Dec 20th 2013 at 9:17:36 PM

I, meanwhile, hate Mini Link with a passion and plan on making him my own personal punching bag when I get the game and practice with the characters I do like.

Enlong Court Dragon from The Underground Facility Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: is commanded to— WANK!
Court Dragon
#30022: Dec 20th 2013 at 9:18:34 PM

Why are we calling them "Mini Link"?

Is that just some attempt at a derisive nickname?

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OdieFromTheOz KING OF EXPLODO KILLS from Shadow Mosses Since: Apr, 2013 Relationship Status: Don't hug me; I'm scared
KING OF EXPLODO KILLS
#30025: Dec 20th 2013 at 9:21:52 PM

[up][up][up][up]Again, polygons. Don't feel pain or regret. kind of childish to pretend they're receiving some retribution.

edited 20th Dec '13 9:23:18 PM by OdieFromTheOz

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