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[–] WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago

Weird that they never bothered to swap him back to left handed for the Switch games, though.

It’s not even that they “didn’t swap him back”.

Twilight Princess for the Wii U uses the original left handed link from the GameCube version (it swaps to the right handed version of the game in the harder difficulty).

Link is left handed in all of the 3DS entries, Hyrule Warriors, and Smash 4. In Smash Ultimate, both “Young” and “Toon” Link are left-handed while “Link” is right handed (he’s based off of BOTW in this entry).

In The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom, you primarily play as Zelda, but Link is left-handed when he appears.

It was a very deliberate decision to make BOTW/TOTK Link right handed, and it’s not as simple as “not changing it back”.