Response regarding the themes of failure in Botw.

This is from someone else's post on the BotW subreddit regarding this theme in the game:

"You, in this game, are a failure. Zelda is a failure. That's the starting point. She failed to access her holy powers until it was too late – the kingdom had all ready fallen. The Champions are failures, and so is Link. You lost. Fair or unfair, regardless of how much work they put in or how sincerely they tried, everyone failed. The kingdom, the whole civilisation you all fought to preserve, is gone forever."

Well… this is upsetting AF and right here would be your reason to contemplate suicide. It won't be as baffling for someone in link's place to make the choice of ending their lives.

Now here's my argument…

You have a higher chance of having a mental breakdown and giving up rather than having any motivation or incentive to defeat Ganon when he basically won.

How the hell can anyone recover from that or have any sort of faith in the world left in them after shouldering such a burden? Any normal shmuck put in Link's place is going to snap and go completely insane over such a burden and the poor sap would rather commit seppuku or throw themselves off a cliff to their deaths than defeat Calamity Ganon.

unless you can bring forward proof that a human can take a burden of that immensity, I'm going to assume that no Human or rather no Modern Human is going to take that responsibility without completely losing their mind and going mad from the immense grief that follows.

Everything is gone. Everyone you knew. Ganon is going to destroy everything – but what's the point of fighting that? Everything you knew is all ready gone.

The answer is quite easy and simple

I don't see any chance of someone ever recovering from and live with that. As a wise Robloxian once said, "Go Commit Die". This would be so scarring to the psyche of a regular person and they would be drained of any hope left in them. It's either suicidal ideation or at best, becoming depressed, jaded and embittered individual who has given up on everything.

It's a student not committing suicide after failing their most important exam. Looking to the horizon and thinking, all right, I'll strive for something new then.

It's choosing to live after a divorce, it's persisting after losing your dream job.

Give me proof that Humans were able to persist in events of the same scale as the Calamity otherwise this a poor comparison, It isn't something small in your insignificant life that you can get over. This is monumental and far greater than any misfortune in your life. An entire civilization and the people closest to you died because you failed to stop the cataclysm. No one can persist from that.

A better comparison is surviving a nuclear war after society, the comforts of living and everyone you love went up in atomic flames. How can anyone persist or have any hope after going through that? Especially knowing you'll inevitably die from starvation, freezing to death from nuclear winter, radiation poisoning or get shot by other more prepared survivors.