He spoke quite a lot in the cartoon series, and from some of the reactions his silent dialogue receives in the games, as well as how he is portrayed in ads and other Nintendo produced media, they seem to have kept his personality very similar if not the same as that cartoon version of Link.
Presumably. BotW Link is downright sassy. It’s just limited to when you, the player, can choose a response, and it’s always kept short.
Really, Zelda games only avoid forcing specific dialog on the player. Link has had clear voice-acting since OoT. It’s not a Gordon Freeman situation where you literally never speak. You are given clear opportunities to infer where Link acted like any other character. But you are left to infer. No detailed characterization is placed upon you.
Frankly this is a better approach to a blank-slate avatar than Deus Ex, which has full voice acting, but keeps the player character so aggressively flat that it comes off as vicious sarcasm.
Yeah Link isn’t mute, he very definitely has conversations with people. They just don’t render his voice to the player. Plus especially in Breath of the Wild he’s said to be intentionally taciturn.
I wonder if link will have any lines.
He spoke quite a lot in the cartoon series, and from some of the reactions his silent dialogue receives in the games, as well as how he is portrayed in ads and other Nintendo produced media, they seem to have kept his personality very similar if not the same as that cartoon version of Link.
“Excuuuuuuuse me, Princess!”
Presumably. BotW Link is downright sassy. It’s just limited to when you, the player, can choose a response, and it’s always kept short.
Really, Zelda games only avoid forcing specific dialog on the player. Link has had clear voice-acting since OoT. It’s not a Gordon Freeman situation where you literally never speak. You are given clear opportunities to infer where Link acted like any other character. But you are left to infer. No detailed characterization is placed upon you.
Frankly this is a better approach to a blank-slate avatar than Deus Ex, which has full voice acting, but keeps the player character so aggressively flat that it comes off as vicious sarcasm.
Yeah Link isn’t mute, he very definitely has conversations with people. They just don’t render his voice to the player. Plus especially in Breath of the Wild he’s said to be intentionally taciturn.