I played until just after the 1st dungeon, and the updates are outstanding! It feels so good to control, to look at, to play.
I was thinking about a few things that would be nice to have tho:
1) Swinging the sword while holding the shield button. You can do that in the original (I just checked) and it would be nice to have here.
2) Manual saving. Unless I missed something, there is no saving other than autosaving.
3) A "Quit to desktop" option. It just feel awkward to have to close the game via the taskbar.
4) Maybe have a use for the shoulder buttons? All I can think of right now is LB for manual saving, LT to zoom in, RT to zoom out.
Again, this is amazing as it is right now. Hopefully you'll be able to work on it more (before the ninjas come).