


To better understand what’s so different about the modern iteration of the character, I spoke to Patricia Summersett, the voice behind Zelda in Breath of the Wild, Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity, and now Tears of the Kingdom. With The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, the character is more nuanced than she’s ever been. Six years and two games later, Zelda is now a more central figure in her own series despite Link still being the series’ star. The character would be reimagined as a more proactive researcher and receive full voice acting for the first time in a mainline Zelda title (though she’d ironically first get a voice in a set of infamous CD-i games named after Link instead). That dynamic would start to see a significant shift in 2017 with the release of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.
