Interesting art and neat idea. I’d play the hell out of it because it looks fun as shit.

That said, I kind of want to bring up some opinions.

I don’t necessarily think that feminism means taking a certain trope and just swapping out the gender roles. Seriously, Zelda here just looks like a gender-bent version of Link. Don’t get me wrong, this isn’t a BAD thing (because shit, I’d love to play a game like that), but touting this as promoting feminism doesn’t really make it sound good. Why does Zelda have to be in Link’s role to be an empowered female? You could extrapolate that this idea is saying that in order for a woman to be part of the feminist ideal, she has to look and act like a man and that’s simply not true.

In Ocarina of Time, Zelda was pretty awesome. Not only was she the regal representative of the people of Hyrule, she was a badass ninja. Her magic was unparalleled. You can take that. You can run with that. Hell, keep her a Princess, but when shit goes down, she doesn’t wait for a hero, she goes out and does it herself because her people matter to her that much. Her noblesse oblige, if you will. She lives for her subjects and she’s willing to die for them as well.

I dunno. Feel free to yell at me for this or whatever. I just don’t feel like “but a girl”  should be a selling point. What I’m seeing is simply “Like Link, but a girl.”