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Just checked in game and he actually does swing with his left. Never noticed until now. Apparently newer games retconned him to be right handed
They changed it because of the Wii controls.
Swinging with your left doesn't necessarily mean you're left handed.
I'm right handed, but I play sports like baseball and golf left handed.
That's called cross dominate.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-dominance
I think mine is partially because the vision in my right eye is worse than my left, because I shoot left handed too (clay pigeons)
I'm the opposite but I think it's mostly because much of the tools being mass produced are mostly made for right handed people. Computer mice, golf clubs, guitars, catcher mitts, etc. It's not impossible to find left handed versions of these things, but you usually have to go out of your way to get them and most people don't teach these skills in a left handed mindset.
It's not a retcon if it's a different person. Most games introduce a new Link. We're currently at twelve unique Links.
Yeah, Link surprised me, he's left handed in most games before BOTW, which is neat.
He is right handed in the Wii games with motion controls for the benefit of the majority of right handed gamers, but left handed everywhere else.
Twilight Princess was crossgen between GameCube and Wii. The two games are mirror images of each other because it made it simpler to port the game than mirroring the character animations alone.
They are different characters. OoT Link has always been a leftie, BotW Link has always been a rightie
They probably made BotW Link a rightie so that when using a bow, our 3rd person view can see the bow while keeping him on the left side of the screen, as is convention in most games (not Zelda games but all games)
It’s not even that they “didn’t swap him back”.
Twilight Princess for the Wii U uses the original left handed link from the GameCube version (it swaps to the right handed version of the game in the harder difficulty).
Link is left handed in all of the 3DS entries, Hyrule Warriors, and Smash 4. In Smash Ultimate, both “Young” and “Toon” Link are left-handed while “Link” is right handed (he’s based off of BOTW in this entry).
In The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom, you primarily play as Zelda, but Link is left-handed when he appears.
It was a very deliberate decision to make BOTW/TOTK Link right handed, and it’s not as simple as “not changing it back”.