I always thought it was a small joke that saved a lot of space and time. Why have/show link explain things fully to an npc when the player already knows what’s going to be explained? Just do the … thing and pretend link gave a five sentence summary and now we can move on faster.
Which is what silent protagonists should ideally be used for; as fallout 4 showed when it did a voiced protagonist and resulted in the amount of dialogue options tanking and basically completely ruined the possibility for mods that add new dialogue.
I always thought it was a small joke that saved a lot of space and time. Why have/show link explain things fully to an npc when the player already knows what’s going to be explained? Just do the … thing and pretend link gave a five sentence summary and now we can move on faster.
Which is what silent protagonists should ideally be used for; as fallout 4 showed when it did a voiced protagonist and resulted in the amount of dialogue options tanking and basically completely ruined the possibility for mods that add new dialogue.