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A Spirit Tracks commercial has finally been aired in North America, which is likely to be the first of many.
For Legend of Zelda fans, voice acting is a touchy subject. Go to any Zelda forum and suggest that maybe Link could have a voice in the next game, and you will be met with the enraged howls of long-time Zelda fans, who insist that if this was implemented the Zelda series would be “ruined FOREVER!”
Why is this the case, though? Certainly, when the Zelda series was first created, there were some reasons to keep the character silent, but as time went by and the series evolved, these reasons started to become less and less relevant. Could it be that now is the time for the series to take that extra step further?
The timeline of the Zelda series has always been a hot topic of debate. Ambiguous clues are often left in Zelda games that refer to other games in the series, and developers claim something different about the timeline every time they sit down for an interview.
That is why it is interesting to hear a theory from someone with the unique perspective of being both a game developer and a long-time Zelda theorist. The Missing Link, former webmaster of Zelda Blog, has written an article explaining his thoughts on the matter.