If you choose the field; the playscape starts out as in that classic Hyrulian style of green grass, cliffs and
small monsters scattered around, bringing back nostalgia to A Link to the Past players albeit with improved graphics and 3D effects.
After completing the
small starting area (and these things are, of course, relative: that area feels about as large as the entire Hyrule Field from Ocarina of Time), Link is thrown into a world
scattered with quests to complete, people to meet and
monsters to defeat.