I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Zelda is indeed a major inspiration for me (and what I was thinking of when I made the screen transitions and put in the gates and keys), though I will admit I was thinking more of the old Atari game Adventure when I started this particular game, but it did shift a lot to Zelda as development went on, and I would look to Final Fantasy and Zoda's Revenge when working on the sprites and tiles.