Siden Nintendo afslørede The Legend of Zelda til Wii U i tirsdags, har der været spekulationer om hvem helten i traileren egentlig er. Han havde jo ikke grønt tøj på. Måske er det slet ikke en dreng? Er det endelig blevet tid til at spille som Zelda selv, denne gang? Spekulationerne blev ikke mindre af, at Eiji Aonuma gik ud og sagde, at han aldrig havde sagt at det er Link, vi ser i klippet.
Selvom det nu viser sig, at det er nøjagtigt hvad det var. Det er Link i klippet. Det afslører Aonuma over for MMGM, og siger at hans første kommentar var ment som en vits.
"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 vil dog ikke fokusere for meget på figuren, da det er meningen at den skal repræsentere 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."