Edited 13 February 2017 - 02:37 PM
Played the 1st Antiquity quest years ago when it was initially released and loved it. Realized recently that I never played this release's 2nd quest, so I jumped on that, and it was a blast to play.
In a nutshell, this quest is basically as advertised: captures the exploratory feel of the original first quest with some nice innovations (a few new non-boss enemies, many new bosses, a few new items) that still feel "NES-like", if that makes sense.
Only minor gripe is that I wish the 2nd quest was a bit more difficult. There's quite a bit of a difficulty increase from the original Zelda 1st quest to 2nd quest, and the increase in difficulty between the two Antiquity quests is not much. I managed to not find the cross/amulet in the 2nd quest, so that made level 9 more difficult as a result of invisible Like Likes rendering me shield-less.
Great stuff here, 5 stars.