Nintendo’s The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild isn’t due for a release for about a month. This is because the game is expected to launch alongside the Nintendo Switch console. However in a report from Waypoint, it seems that Nintendo decided to let one fan play the game as part of his dying wish.Gabe Marcela, a 26-year-old man with CHD (congenital heart defect) had always loved the Zelda series and played it as he grew up. According to his mother, Gabe continued to fight the good fight and that the upcoming “Breath of the Wild” became of his reasons to live, which is why his mother made countless phone calls and wrote a ton of letters in to Nintendo, all of which went unanswered until a post was made on Reddit in which Nintendo’s social media team caught wind of it.
Ultimately Gabe and his mother managed to make the trip to Nintendo of America’s HQ where he was given a chance to play a demo of the game for more than 30 minutes. According to his mother, “He was, in that game, what he was not in life. I could go out walking and Gabe could not join me. When I did, I thought about the fact that he could not get the benefit of fresh cool air and the freedom of just walking in our wooded neighborhood. When I saw the Zelda game, I realized that this was the wonderful world he wanted.”
Sadly, Gabe passed away on the 14th of January, 2017 a few weeks after his 27th birthday.