The+Legend+of+Zelda+Ocarina+of+Time

=Background Information:=

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time was developed by Nintendo for the the Nintendo 64, released in North America on November 23, 1998. This is rated E for ages 10 and up. Keep in mind that this game had the intentions for ten years old to play this game, but the story is so deep that it will usually take someone older to understand the game better. The player plays as the child Link in this action adventure game to stop the Dark King Ganondorf from taking the Triforce, a holy relic giving the holder god like powers. Link eventually meets Princess Zelda, Princess of Hyrule, after breaking the curse from the Great Deku Tree, who tells him all about the evil Ganondorf. Zelda ask link to find the three spiritual stones, so she can claim the Triforce before Ganondorf. Link eventually gets all the stone and opens the Sacred Realm to get the Triforce. Link sees the Master Sword, a legendary sword used to fight evil, and as Link pulls out the sword Ganondorf appears to steal the Triforce. Ganondorf successfully stole the Triforce, but it broke into three pieces with him only acquiring one piece. Link's spirit was sealed for seven years, until he was old enough to wield the Master Sword, but Ganondorf has already conquered the world. So Link will have to find a way to eventually defeat Ganondorf and is able to time travel back when he was a child.



=Gender Depiction:=

This game is the classic hero defeats the villain, by the request of the princess. Physically Link does not look very strong, because first of all he is just a child when we meet him. Even when he was an adult Link is average sized. While following Link's adventure we can say that he is strong, because of the the nearly impossible task he as able to defeat, some he defeated when he was still a child. No adult could do what he did when he was a child, since the bosses were significantly larger than an average human and no one took the challenge. Not to mention that there were a dungeon before each boss that Link had to go through. We do see very well that Ganondorf is very big and is physically strong on the other hand, and that is how he was able to conquer Hyrule. Zelda is average height in the future, but we do see that her arms are very slim, saying that she is physically weaker than Link. When the Triforce broke into three pieces, each piece represent something different. They were the Triforce of Power, given to Ganondorf, the Triforce of Courage, given to Link, and the Triforce of Wisdom, given to Princess Zelda. How the Triforce breaks is that when it was stolen, the Triforce gives him a piece of what that person values most and the other two pieces are given to two random people chosen by destiny. The Triforce of Power and the Triforce of Courage are more manly traits that are given to the male protagonist and male antagonist. A man must be strong and a man must face his fears are two general views of men, where the two men got the individual characteristic of Power and Courage. The Triforce of Wisdom is more feminine in this reference, because a princess needs to have wisdom to lead her fellow countrymen. That is why Princess Zelda got the Triforce of Wisdom, and she was the only one that knew about Ganondorf's plan.



On the search for the third spiritual stone, there was a weird occurrence with the Princess of the Zoras, Princess Ruto. This continues that a princess is a stereotypical female job, for more of a fantasy game. During this part of the game Princess Ruto will say that she will stop walking and Link would have to physically move her. This shows a typical spoiled princess behavior, that link have to force her to move in order to move. Moving her is not difficult, Link can just carries her over his head, but it can refer to that women can be used as objects. This is an old historic belief that is not commonly used in the United States now government wise, since men and women are equal in the United States, but she could be thrown as a weapon and is used to continue through the dungeon. She has to be used to keep weight sensitive switches pressed to keep certain doors unlocked. (Here is a video of throwing and using her for weight sensitive switches.) (Princess Ruto)

The part where the game sexualize women the most is when entering the Great Fairy Fountains in the game. The fairy is almost not wearing any clothes and have big pointy boobs. She would float around in the sky during Link's conversation and would eventually give him a new power. Below is a picture of the fairy.