Why are arcanists left handed?

[Sylvina]

As a left handed person I support left handed animations. also the beloved Legend of Zelda series featured left handed link until skyward sword ruined it.

[Iscah]

Arcanists are awesome.

Left-handed people are awesome.

So.

As a left handed person I support left handed animations. also the beloved Legend of Zelda series featured left handed link until skyward sword ruined it.

That annoyed me so much! And just so it didn't "break the immersion" for right-handed players.

I played Skyward Sword left-handed (probably would have anyway, but now it was a matter of principle), and the only time I even thought about the difference was in cutscenes, because Link isn't supposed to be right-handed and just looks wrong like that.

In actual gameplay, you're not looking at him, you're looking past him at the enemy trying to kill him/you.

Meanwhile, the game doesn't care one bit about breaking your immersion by bringing you to a halt so robot-girl can tell you about the 87% chance of something blatantly obvious...


On an aside, it was a surprising learning curve using my right thumb to control movement - it seems like it should be the same motion as usual, and I often steer left/right in other games by turning the camera with the right stick while moving forward with the left. But it took some practice to be able to walk straight forward and not veer off to the left the whole time. Though it was also my first Wii game using the joystick controller, so maybe it's also partly due to it being held at a different angle to a normal two-handed controller.

[Reynhart]

Bows and spears are held in the left hand

Bows have nothing to do with your dominant hand. They way you handle them is based on your dominant eye, and those two are unrelated.

As a left handed person I support left handed animations. also the beloved Legend of Zelda series featured left handed link until skyward sword ruined it.

Twilight Princess gave us a right handed Link first...and mirrored the whole world for that.

[Iscah]

Twilight Princess gave us a right handed Link first...and mirrored the whole world for that.

Not if you played the "proper" GameCube version instead of the mirrored Wii version.

Anyway, theoretically he's still left-handed if it's the whole world that's been turned backwards. It's just that "left" isn't where it's supposed to be any more...

[Doozer]

Twilight Princess gave us a right handed Link first...and mirrored the whole world for that.

Well it's because both Twilight Princess and Skyward Sword both use motion controls, which for whatever reason they figured made more sense as right-handed. The Gamecube version of Twilight Princess isn't mirrored (and neither is the Wii U version, I believe).

....I think we're getting off topic here.

[Vidu]

Twilight Princess gave us a right handed Link first...and mirrored the whole world for that.

That added a lot of fun for me! I played the game recently with my boyfriend who had played the game before. The Wii-version. We went for the GameCube one though and when he was giving me directions in dungeons or the like, I always had to double-check if I really had to go left or if he confused the directions again... because I'm personally already challenged with telling left and right apart, we got lost quite often...

[Lucke]

Bows have nothing to do with your dominant hand. They way you handle them is based on your dominant eye, and those two are unrelated.

I'm left eye dominant and right-handed. I hold a bow with my left hand and draw the bow with my right. I can't shoot left handed, tried and failed lol. Maybe I'm a mutant.

[Eloah]

I'm left eye dominant and right-handed. I hold a bow with my left hand and draw the bow with my right. I can't shoot left handed, tried and failed lol. Maybe I'm a mutant.

This is me. Never tried shooting a bow before but I think your dominant eye and dominant hand are usually reverse of one another. Something about blocking out the actions being performed on that side to get a clearer view.

Basically, closing one eye creates a scope effect, blocking the one side and bringing the other in better focus. If the eye you left open matched the side you were to shoot from, your hand, arrow, etc, would all be in your face. At least that's my interpretation, it what do I know, I use a book to fight. And an evil fairy it seems, lol

[Lucke]

This is me. Never tried shooting a bow before but I think your dominant eye and dominant hand are usually reverse of one another. Something about blocking out the actions being performed on that side to get a clearer view.

Basically, closing one eye creates a scope effect, blocking the one side and bringing the other in better focus. If the eye you left open matched the side you were to shoot from, your hand, arrow, etc, would all be in your face. At least that's my interpretation, it what do I know, I use a book to fight. And an evil fairy it seems, lol

I also have firearms training and I was worried they'd force me to shoot left handed. When shooting a firearm right handed, you aim with only your right eye so your face stays mostly away from ejecting cartridges. Since I'm left eye dominant, most of my face was behind the gun. Buuuut as far as the game goes every character is right-handed so since the book is the actual weapon, we hold that with our dominant hand and the quill is stuck in our left hand.

[Kazrah]

I'm left eye dominant and right-handed. I hold a bow with my left hand and draw the bow with my right. I can't shoot left handed, tried and failed lol. Maybe I'm a mutant.

An eyepatch on your left eye would probably be a better alternative.

As for the original question, I'd think it's because Arcanists rely on glyphs, which are more on the artistic side of math, and the left hand is controlled by the right half of the brain, which is usually associated with art and other creative factors.