I grew up on video games. I’ve supported, advocated, and played video games a huge portion of my life so far.

I’ve grown. You’ve grown.

There’s a problem, though. You’ve grown a little too big for me in a sense.

Let me start off by saying this. I love epic 60+ hour games.

I love them a lot.

I even love beautiful cutscenes. I never said I didn’t.

I’m married now. Working full time. I have 2 kids, and another on the way. I still game, but my time is REALLY limited. All I’m asking for is for you to allow me to suspend my games when I don’t have time to reach a save point.

Don’t get me wrong. I’m not asking you to allow me to save whenever I want. All I want is the ability to suspend my system, turn it back on at a later time, and pickup where I left off.

I know it’s not THAT complicated to do. I love that I can do that with my DS and PSP.

Why can’t I do it with my Wii or 360? Why must I always feel rushed when I play more in-depth games, frantically trying to find save points when my time is almost up?

Seriously. I love playing your games, but I’m missing out on more and more gaming because I can’t afford to waste time playing, and not knowing if all that I’ve done over the course of an hour or two will matter, or if I’ll have to do it all over again.

That thought brought me to a thought of Zelda as a overall series. While each game has been great, they’re all pretty much the same. Go here, collect this, go there, collect that.

What I would love to see is a game about the Hero that failed. The Hero that never showed up. The story about the flooding of Hyrule that led to Wind Waker.

Of course the story would follow the actual Hero, who did indeed show up, and maybe didn’t even really fail in stopping Gannon. The game would start right where the normal games usually end. The fight with Gannon.

The game would start with you, the legendary Hero, with all your cool items that you’d normally collect in the game. From here you would head to fight the legendary fight, but something goes amis. Gannon has something up his sleeve which sends Link traveling the globe, scattering the Heroic items and ultimately shattering the Triforce of Courage, the whole time trying to avoid Gannon and his minions from stopping him.  Of course this would mean you actually got weaker as the game progressed.
The climax of the game might be that Link himself causes the great flood to cover his track and thwart Gannon’s plans once again. A great sacrifice for the greater good of the future.

It’ll never happen, but I think it would be a great game to play through.