Skyward Sword Confirms: Once Left-Handed Link Is Right-Handed on the Wii

Why can’t they just make it so that you can decide which hand to use? Link is my favorite video game hero BECAUSE he is a left-handed swordsman (that and also he’s definitely one of the most badass playable characters ever made). I’m left-handed so I really admire Link. Taking away his left-handedness dumbs him down a few levels.

This virtual reality crap has gone far enough, Link is Nintendo’s second best video game character next to mario (due to the fact that mario is pretty much Nintendos mascot) and even though it may not seem to be a big deal to The Legend Of Zelda fans, it should be a big deal to Left Handed Legend Of Zelda fans. For once, since I can remember, the protagonist of a “To Be” classic video game was a left handed fighter, and became one of the most famous RPG characters in the video game world. Now just because a couple of kids want to pretend they’re fighting off stalfos and octoroks with their sword in their right hand i have to be comfortable with watching my childhood hero conform to the needs of children with no imagination or respect for The Legend Of Zelda series? If your gonna do that then you might as well put a pair of skinny jeans on him, give him a green baseball cap, make him wear Nikes and give him a gun. Is he good enough for you now?

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD!!!!! IT IS NOT A BIG DEAL!!!!!! WHO CARES!!!!!

i may be right handed but link should stick to being left handed since ocarina of time through wind waker and minish cap he’s always been left handed stay that way

when i heard that link is right handed in the skyward sword i almost fainted, him being left handed was one of his trade marks, though a small one, seeing him right handed makes me sad and mad, i already made my mind that im NOT!!! going to buy this game.

i noticed link has always been left handed but it doesnt matter. it is odd to play as a rightey and the sword to react to the left hand flipping the motion around. also if anyone has noticed though link is a lefty on the cover on ocarina of time ha appears to be righty seeing how he holds his shield with his left. but on twilight princess he is a lefty on the cover but is a righty in the game.

He’s been lefty the whole time until now. When Twilight Princess was released for the gamecube and wii nintendo had to flip the wii version to get him to be right handed. Both games are complete mirror images of each other. I don’t follow the zelda series very closely anymore. Nintendo hasn’t tried very hard to maintain my level of respect for the company. But I find it very irritating that nintendo sold out one of their most important characters/franchises to conform to some gimmicky control scheme they cooked up because they couldn’t (and still can’t) keep up in the hardware arms race.

Relax guys, he’s gonna go back to being left-handed once the WiiU comes out, it’s really not that big a deal.  I agree however, that it’s somewhat lazy not to put up the option to make him left-handed.

Big deal.  Every Link is a different Link besides in games that have direct sequels such as OoT and Wind Waker which has two.  It doesn’t matter if Link has right-handedness this time around.  I heard something about them making it so that Link is both-handed or ambidextrous, but I don’t have the game so I don’t know if it is true.

if you dont care i don’t believe you are a fan then…

if you dont care i don’t believe you are a fan then…

i agree

i agree

As XIcrimsonIX said, Link being a left handed is a trade mark. What if Yoda from starwars would stop using word order change when he speak? How about homer saying “damn it” instead of “D’oh”.
We lefties aren’t scared about the controls, the problem is that they are killing the 25years old hero of Zelda and the licence itselves.

I am right-handed and have been playing the Legend of Zelda games since the Nes. I totally agree that it’s bs they are going to make him right-handed. Granted I haven’t played or owned a few of the games. That doesn’t change my mind that Nintendo is jacking this up real bad just to make controlling Link simpler. 

Failure on Nintendo’s part. They sold out Link’s main attribute, I will not buy this game. Zelda had drifted too far from it’s roots already, and this just put the final nail in the coffin.

I agree. I also always thought the reason Link never spoke was because lefties don’t use much of the left hemisphere of the brain, which is where language and speaking ability is lateralized.

you’re a sad person. you should appreciate the game but not hating or buying it just become of one tiny little thing.

It’s going to be a while until I am able to accept a right-handed Link, deep down in my heart the Hero of Time will always be a lefty. It’s so hard to stay mad at Nintendo for switching Link’s handedness because Skyward Sword is too great of a game to resist!

it is odd to play as a rightey and the sword to react to the left hand flipping the motion around.

… well…. you think its not odd to play as a lefty and the sword to react to the right hand flipping the motion around?

Link still uses the bow and a couple other weapons left handed so I guess that makes him cross dominant in this game.