Zelda Kickstarter Second Quest Project From Braid Artist. Graphic Novella Will Tackle Modern Gaming Issues and the Failures of the Zelda Series to Evolve

A Zelda Second Quest Kickstarter project takes a highly controversial essay "Saving Zelda" by Tevis Thompson about how the Zelda series has been fundamentally broken since Ocarina of Time, and marries it with Braid artist David Hellman who have teamed up to create a graphic novel that tackles the modern state of gaming and the failure of the gaming industry, in their eyes, via established conventions that they believe are in error. And have led to what they perceive as the failure of the modern Zelda series and many modern videogames.

The story will focus on "the non-Princess", who discovers she has the ability to draw out memories from objects while in her home town of the "already-saved" sky (a twist on Skyward Sword's Skytown). She then is able to piece together scattered legends that reveal that everything she thought she knew about herself, are not true.

The comic will make many statements about the state of the industry today, and tackle issues ranging from the failure of AAA games, to how gaming treats women, to the issue of unnecessary handholding that make games too easy.

Clocking in at 50 pages, they are attempting to raise $50,000. The comic will be distributed via FanGamer. You can snag both a digital and physical book for only $35, among other tiers, so be sure to back this project if you're interested in the statement its making!