Like many JRPG heroes, Link has always been a silent protagonist save some grunts, groans and screams dialog is filled in by characters around him, but he never says anything. It’s almost become an established tradition and those in power want to keep it that way.
“Personally, I don’t want to have Link speak in the game,” says producer Eiji Aonuma in Nintendo Power. “We haven’t had him talk at all up to this point. It’s part of the series history. It would just, to me, break the image of Link to have him speak.”
“In terms of other characters, if Link never talks and everybody else in the game is chatting and whatnot I also think that’s sort of an off mixture, so it’s not something that, to be honest, I’ve really thought I want to be superactive about or I’ve really pressed for it. It just hasn’t come up to me personally.”
Source: Desctructoid
