I really should have played the Wii version of the original, the controls are sooooo much better here. I didn't feel like I had to fight the game to do what I wanted, which is good because I think the enemies in this game get much harder than the original. The dungeon-style caves were not really my favorite, since they brought you outside of the pastoral wilderness that made the first one so fun to explore. Some of the dungeons were hard too, I felt like I just barely got through some of them. 2 steps forward, 2 steps back. I'm excited to see what ten years and a more modern sense of polish brings to the series in the 3rd game.