62 deaths, 37:07:17, currently missing 2 pieces of heart, I know where one is, in the Level 4 to the far right. I am missing the magical boomerang, and don't remember what the amulet does, I collected it but it had no cutscene or anything, so what does it do again?
Here's my review: Very very nice quest, I did take this one pretty slow, and did a very decent amount of exploration, even multiple times in the same areas. I know I am also missing the Morach cave, will find that sure enough sometime when I desire to find the stuff I missed.
The story was a sad one, but still overall very good. The dungeons were fantastic, I'm pretty sure you had to draw the dungeons on paper first, the complication of keeping track of everything to make sure the order is maintained and nothing happens to break. Very very nice job.
This next part may sound strange, but at first I wasn't too much of a big fan of the overworld, considering how much you had to use the items to progress in a certain area. Usually I feel an overworld works when its somewhat realistic in that only physical limitations such as your health or something like that that prevents you from fully exploring a new area. Strangely enough, I also hate it at the same time, because I'm usually having the most fun when solving the puzzles that a dungeon has to offer. In the end, I got used to your overworld and I do believe that it works for this quest.
I did kick myself on a few screens because at first I wasn't sure how to solve a puzzle and there was even one that I didn't know was a puzzle and happened to stumble upon something that showed I had to use logic to continue. There is still one I'm trying to figure out that has two cracked blocks at the bottom left on a ledge that you get to near the very end of the cave that is above the screen with the entrance and a skull on a stick at the top right, but bombing the blocks didn't work and neither did killing all the enemies on screen which I think were black bats, gibdos, and a Grasp.
Difficulty-wise, I'd say it also suited well with this quest, I didn't lose my first shield until Level 3 believe it or not. I did a good job at avoiding Grasps, but it became difficult with the pits in Level 3.
I thought all of the scripts were enjoyable too, I haven't been following Zelda Classic lately, but this quest is proving that Zelda Classic is showing to be an excellent quest making program. I was extremely amazed and can't wait to see a stable Zelda Classic based on what was accomplished with this quest. I also want to say thank you to your beta testers, as they did an excellent job to ensure that there were no bugs with this quest, I couldn't find any myself, nor did the continue bug happen to rear its ugly face.
One last note, your places that happen to contain special hidden items weren't as hard to find as they thought they would be. I managed to find all Triforce dungeons with pretty little difficulty.
Also, on the top of my head, I think I have uncovered four or five hidden caves with the stones in it with mysterious information.