By Robert

This year is the 30th anniversary for the Legend of Zelda, a game series created by Japanese game designers Shigeru Miyamoto and Takashi Tezuka. The game series has over 20 games and has sold over 50 million copies world wide.

In celebration of this, we decided to have IBM Watson do a Personality Insight analysis on everyone’s favorite princess, Princess Zelda, and the antagonist, Ganondorf. The Personality Insights engine uses text as an input and generates a graph with several personality traits and has a score based on Watson’s analysis of the data.



We used all of the lines spoken by Princess Zelda in the Ocarina of Time video game (we even included Sheik; Princess Zelda’s alter ego) as an input for Watson and here are the results:





As you can see, Princess Zelda’s most prominent traits are Practicality which ranked at 96%, Love at 93% and Harmony at 92%. She also ranked 92% in the Helping Others category. This proves the magnificent work behind the character design and the writers to make her a princess that cares very much about her kingdom and preaches her love and desire to maintain harmony to the players. She will definitely make a great queen one day!

On the other hand, we also submitted the lines by Ganondorf, the antagonist in this epic adventure. Here are his results:





This character conveys most of his intentions with actions in the game so his dialogue is very limited, but with what we have we can see how the most prominent trait is Self Enhancement ranking at 94%. Being egocentric is a basic trait for evildoers in any epic story and the writers were able to express that with Ganondorf’s limited dialogue. He is also a very assertive character and we can see in the game he will stop at nothing to obtain the ultimate power. His Love and Emotionality also rank high and it is well known that a good villain has a strong passion for his cause.

We would have made a personality insight of Link as well, but Watson might have some trouble interpreting his grunts and screams. The fact that link does not speak is another amazing trait of these games. It is an immersion technique. When we play we become one with Link which is another reason why this game series has touched the hearts of millions and will always have a special place in the heart of every gamer.



See what IBM Watson Personality Insights says about you by clicking here!