The Second Quest Begins

So, The Legend of Zelda offers the player something that most of its successors do not: a second play through with an alternative map, an alternative dungeon schema and even an alternative item gain.  Unlike the other playthroughs, though, this one plays like an almost entirely differently game.  While the plot is the same, the map the same and the characters the same, most everything else is different, meaning the player has to start from square one.  While this does stink a bit, after all, we spent all that time acquiring all of those goodies for our survivability and now we're back to being a three-heart weakling wielding a wooden sword; we get to look forward to exploring Hyrule all over again, but under a different guise.