Highly Evolved
Lots of guides for learning to run LoZ.
Others have starting running the game off the level 2 "easy" route. When I picked it up, I went for the level 3 route, which is the fastest route available. I have a guide for that. http://www.twitch.tv/darkwing_duck_sda/c/2567986
The site redcandle.us also has some guides. I know PresJPolk and Jkoper (Snorlax here) have done guides because I think they feel my guide was too advanced for a newcomer to the game. The fastest route for any% without screen scrolling is essentially the same as the current any% route. My first published run for Zelda on SDA was without screen scrolling. You can see it here: http://www.twitch.tv/darkwing_duck_sda/c/917734. If you do not want to open the door in level 1, you would have to get another key, probably the key in the left hand door upon entering level 1. Aside from those two things, the only real change is you'd get the white sword, while in any%, you don't.
Others have starting running the game off the level 2 "easy" route. When I picked it up, I went for the level 3 route, which is the fastest route available. I have a guide for that. http://www.twitch.tv/darkwing_duck_sda/c/2567986
The site redcandle.us also has some guides. I know PresJPolk and Jkoper (Snorlax here) have done guides because I think they feel my guide was too advanced for a newcomer to the game. The fastest route for any% without screen scrolling is essentially the same as the current any% route. My first published run for Zelda on SDA was without screen scrolling. You can see it here: http://www.twitch.tv/darkwing_duck_sda/c/917734. If you do not want to open the door in level 1, you would have to get another key, probably the key in the left hand door upon entering level 1. Aside from those two things, the only real change is you'd get the white sword, while in any%, you don't.