Really nice love letter to oldschool Zelda! I can see that tons of care went into crafting the overworld and dungeons. Enemies are also cool and really varied!
If have to agree with the complains about the difficulty, though. The increase in drop rate made things a lot better, but pretty much all dungeons have a room with a ridiculous difficulty spike (like the mentioned room with fire spitting statues and like 6 tough enemies). These could be toned down a bit, maybe with some more I-frames on hit. Also, the wizards in the last dungeon do crazy damage AND teleport on top of you, which is super annoying.
There are also a lot of bugs! Half of the time i can't buy from merchants even though i have money. The ghost merchant restocks its items, allowing me to buy eg. the wallet multiple times. The fortune-teller statues now just give me a black textbox when i pay them, which is only resolved by reloading the game. Beside the obvious suckage (made me lose a lot of progress) I think I need to activate them for some kind of secret :/
Beside bugfixes, I'd like to see some kind of map / pause menu for complete Zelda look and feel :) Also maybe autosave when i exist a cave??