Etter at Nintendo avduket The Legend of Zelda til Wii U på tirsdag har det blitt spekulert vilt hvem helten i traileren skal forestille. Han hadde jo ikke på seg grønt tøy, og kunne vi være sikre på at det er en gutt? Skulle vi få spille som Zelda selv denne gangen? Spekulasjonene roet seg ikke ned akkurat da Eiji Aonuma gikk ut og sa at han slett ikke hadde sagt at det var Link vi så i klippet.
Nå viser det ser imidlertid at det var nettopp det vi så i klippet - det var Link. Dette avslører Aonuma overfor MMGM, og sier samtidig at hans første kommentar var ment som en spøk.
"Actually that comment I made jokingly. It's not that I said that it wasn't Link. It's that I never said that it was Link. It's not really the same thing, but I can understand how it could be taken that way."
"It seems like it has kind of taken off where people are saying 'oh it's a female character' and it just kind of grew. But my intent in saying that was humour. You know, you have to show Link when you create a trailer for a Zelda announcement."
Aonuma ville derimot ikke snakke for mye om figuren ettersom dens oppgave er å representere spilleren.
"I don't want people to get hung up on the way Link looks because ultimately Link represents the player in the game."
"I don't want to define him so much that it becomes limiting to the players. I want players to focus on other parts of the trailer and not specifically on the character because the character Link represents, again, the player."
Vi kan bare anta at Aonuma har lært at man ikke tuller med gamere.