Following the release of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, series creator Shigeru Miyamoto has, on two separate occasions remarked upon the possibility of a spin-off game starring the character Sheik from Zelda: Ocarina of Time.
In an interview with Gamerant, Miyamoto stated: “Within the development team, too, there have been talks about how it might be cool to have a game that features Sheik as a protagonist. It’s having maybe a Zelda spin-off with Sheik as a protagonist, for example, I don’t think that’s an impossibility.”
Then, in an interview with Gamekult (via Nintendo Everything), he said: “We clearly talked with the team to make a game centered about Sheik, so I cannot say it is impossible to see something of the sort in the future, but in the classic games in the series, Link is the hero and that will not change. For the rest, you have to be patient and see what happens!”
Now, when Miyamoto says Nintendo considers something a possibility, it usually means it’s happening. While Nintendo as a company tends to be fairly secretive, Miyamoto himself has always been happy to hint at what’s to come in conversations with the press. Examples of this include Pikmin 3 and Pikmin 4, as well as hints regarding the development of A Link Between Worlds.
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For context, these talks of Sheik have come up as a result of discussions of a Zelda game starring a female character. Prior to the full E3 reveal of a Breath of the Wild, series producer Eiji Aonuma commented on Link’s androgynous look in the game. Aonuma later clarified that Link had been designed to look androgynous on purpose, so that he could serve as the avatar for both male and female players.
In the meantime, Nintendo and Koei Tecmo also added a character named Linkle–essentially a Link-styled female character–to Hyrule Warriors, which further fueled the male/female Link discussion.
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