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refers to several different incarnations of the same protagonist of Nintendo's ''The Legend of Zelda'' series. Link has been also featured in other media from Nintendo, including its merchandising, comic books, and a cartoon series, becoming one of Nintendo's main icons as well as one of the most well-known and popular characters in video game history. Through ''The Legend of Zelda'' series, Link is depicted as a child, teenager, or adult of the Hylian race, originating from the fictional land of Hyrule. Link often travels through Hyrule, defeating creatures, evil forces, and the series' primary antagonist, Ganon, while attempting to save Princess Zelda and Hyrule. To defeat him, Link usually requires the mystic Master Sword and Light Arrows, or a similar legendary weapon, obtained after many trials and battles. In the course of his journey he will typically acquire various other magical objects or items, including musical instruments and weaponry. == Character design == Link has almost no spoken dialogue in the game series, except for his grunts (not including the CD-i games). Prominent facial expression has only been visible since the series appeared on the Nintendo 64. Link's creator, Shigeru Miyamoto has said in interviews that his conceptualization of ''The Legend of Zelda'', and of Link, was based on his childhood memories of books, movies, stories and personal experiences. He tried to make people identify with Link and have the opportunity to be heroes like the character. Although at the end of some games, Link becomes vastly talented in physical and magical arts, he usually starts off the game as a regular boy. On the origin of the name "Link", Miyamoto had this to say: "Link’s name comes from the fact that originally, the fragments of the Triforce were supposed to be electronic chips. The game was to be set in both the past and the future and as the main character would travel between both and be the link between them, they called him Link." There have been several iterations of Link in the history of Hyrule. The existence of multiple Links is made obvious on many occasions in the games; for example, the introduction sequence of ''The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker'' refers to an ancient, legendary champion who is identical in appearance to Link, and directly mentions the "Hero of Time" (a title given to Link in ''Ocarina of Time'') as a historical entity. Miyamoto has stated, "For every ''Zelda'' game we tell a new story, but we actually have an enormous document that explains how the game relates to the others, and bind them together. But to be honest, they are not that important to us. We care more about developing the game system ... give the player new challenges for every chapter that is born." However, the exact chronology of the ''Zelda'' series and the lineage of the various Links, though written down by Miyamoto and his team, has long been kept secret.〔 Nintendo released an anthology titled ''Hyrule Historia'' in celebration of ''Zelda's'' 25th anniversary. Released in Japan in December 2011 and in North America in early 2013, the anthology details the long-sought-after official ''Zelda'' timeline.〔(【引用サイトリンク】) Price: $34.99 ($38.99 CAN)">url=http://www.diamondbookdistributors.com/downloads/DBD_JAN2013SalesKit.pdf )〕 Link's teenage appearance in ''The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time'' was designed with the aim of making him more handsome and cooler than all previous forms of the hero.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://iwataasks.nintendo.com/interviews/#/3ds/zelda-ocarina-of-time/1/7 )〕 On the cartoon design of Link in ''The Wind Waker'', Miyamoto explained, "Link was a young boy and trying to create a very active and very energetic young boy and trying to choose the right style for portraying the young boy in a game like that we tried many different experiments. The ultimate decision we came to was that the cel-shading in ''The Wind Waker'' was the best option for expressing that."〔 However, with the decision to make Link a teenager again in ''The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess'', Miyamoto explained, "Ultimately we decided that in showing a teenage Link really the best style of expressing him would be something that's closer to our graphical style in Ocarina of Time." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Link (The Legend of Zelda)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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