Serious time: it was never a very good theory. There are clearly dialog options where they zoom over Link expressing complex ideas to someone he just met. Unless you want to assume into existence a sign language that everyone in Hyrule knows, Link can talk just like anyone else.
I always thought it was a small joke that saved a lot of space and time. Why have/show link explain things fully to an npc when the player already knows what’s going to be explained? Just do the … thing and pretend link gave a five sentence summary and now we can move on faster.
Well excuuuuuse me, princess!
oh, that’s why he’s mute forever. they tried once, and they’re never going back.
Zelda movie is gonna be – something? Dear god the possibilities
I actually looked it up to see if they were keeping him mute, didn’t find shit, didn’t mention it
Serious time: it was never a very good theory. There are clearly dialog options where they zoom over Link expressing complex ideas to someone he just met. Unless you want to assume into existence a sign language that everyone in Hyrule knows, Link can talk just like anyone else.
The meta reason is that the player is supposed to supply Link’s dialog, since he’s just the player avatar. Your “link” to the game world.
I always thought it was a small joke that saved a lot of space and time. Why have/show link explain things fully to an npc when the player already knows what’s going to be explained? Just do the … thing and pretend link gave a five sentence summary and now we can move on faster.
There was also the time he couldn’t wait to bomb some dodongos
I’m so hungry, I could eat a whole octorock.