I played this game on stream: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1922312362?t=01h25m57s
I'll caveat this review by saying I don't usually playing Zelda-like games, and didn't play the original Zelda games either.
Overall, I had fun but the controls felt a bit sluggish. By that I mean the frame rate felt fine, but the sword swinging was a bit slow, and the dodge felt slow too. It's possible that these will get smoother with upgrades, but in the beginning it was frustrating to swing the sword, miss an enemy, then get hit by the enemy. I would have been quite happy spamming my gamepad button to swing a quick sword many many times.
The portals to go to different zones was good. I couldn't survive killing all the enemies in the forest, and eventually just dodged my way to the castle to unlock that zone. I'm not sure if that's a strategy you want players to do :) I did bump into the sheep that gave me the password though, luckily!
After I stopped playing, I realized that I did get the big key in the castle that would presumably open the double doors. I think if I'd realized that earlier I would have continued playing instead of feeling frustrated at dying a lot. Maybe some sort of pop-up would be good?
I did like the conversations with the jinn and the king. Some of it was fourth-wall breaking / referencing the player, which was a fun touch!