Since it's release in 1998, Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time has given us some of gaming most memorable characters and one that has, or at least was, always debated on it's gender was Shiek. Now, to be frank, seeing as Shieks description reads as, "Princess Zelda's alter ego in the game...Zelda passes herself off as a male Sheikah known as shiek," I thought it was pretty common knowledge that Shiek had always been a female but as the years passed, it created what became an over a decade long debate, until now. As reported through Polygon, Bill Trinnen, the senior product marketing manager from Nintendo, responded with, "The definitive answer is that Sheik is a woman, simply Zelda in a different outfit" While I'm certainly not surprised, this does put a lid on one of gaming longest arguments but regardless, Shiek will always be one of the best characters to come from the Legend of Zelda franchise.
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