wraggster
September 21st, 2006, 19:41
After this year's E3, Shigeru Miyamoto noticed that most people who played Twilight Princess played it by swinging the Wiimote in their right hand. So he made a decision: in the Wii version of the game, Link would be right-handed, although he's traditionally an elfin south paw... a character trait retained on the GameCube version of the game.
This is actually a bit fascinating. Link is left-handed: on the GameCube version, this makes him an enantiomorph. However, then he passes into the Mirror World, which would presumably flip him to being left handed again. However, the Mirror World would seem to be less just a horizontal-planed optical transposition of Hyrule than it's complete opposite. Oddly, even if Link were to remain otherwise normal, he would not be able to breath the air of the Mirror World or digest its food; he'd simply keel over dead seconds after entering.
For more fun with the paradoxes of normal individuals entering mirror worlds, go read Martin Gardner's The Ambidextrous Universe, kids!
This is actually a bit fascinating. Link is left-handed: on the GameCube version, this makes him an enantiomorph. However, then he passes into the Mirror World, which would presumably flip him to being left handed again. However, the Mirror World would seem to be less just a horizontal-planed optical transposition of Hyrule than it's complete opposite. Oddly, even if Link were to remain otherwise normal, he would not be able to breath the air of the Mirror World or digest its food; he'd simply keel over dead seconds after entering.
For more fun with the paradoxes of normal individuals entering mirror worlds, go read Martin Gardner's The Ambidextrous Universe, kids!