I came here to side with the poster, but as i think about it I really don’t. If I create a story about a Taiwanese girl over coming adversity, and you decide to change it to a white boy, you have taken my story and the purpose away from me. Now I know link is a half fairy boy and on large terms doesn’t fully matter on…

Cool article, bro.

Because you can’t be immersed in a game unless you’re playing as your gender or someone gender neutral?

See this is why I think this is stupid. No one takes stories with gay or bi or trans or ANYTHING people and rewrites them to be straight cis people. Why do they need to warp everything to fit them instead?

If you email a website with something you did, it wasn’t to be considerate, it was for attention. That’s how this one looks anyway.

Not trying to be mean but why? Link is a character with a definite background, other wise he wouldn’t be referred to as son. Why not let your daughter enjoy the game the way it was meant to be played.

Great, now make it so there’s no gender in Star Wars and Lord of the Rings. I mean, fuck, we can’t have stories with gender specific roles. What is this 2015?

its the same as taking a paint brush and walking up to mona lisa and deciding mona lisa needs a mustache and a brow piercing, its just desecrating someone’s work of art.

I read this story like a year ago on Kotaku.

This is a little out there. Your kid should be able to imagine a story no matter what gender that was intended for that story, not feel they are being excluded from it.

I honestly don’t see the point in exercises like this. Not every story has to be tailored to fit the player.

Sigh.

Cool, but, why?