Man, you should play ActRaiser II sometime.

You commented about the game play being too easy and the controls being too basic. AR II reverses both of those...to the point of extremely hard. That game has got enough moves to be frustrating. The enemy attacks are relentless. Your character is so large, that he is more of a mile-high target than usable. And, many of the stages have traps so strategically placed, that Trap A is there to make you bang into Trap B. (Those traps get bad enough to be considered cheap attacks.) It's also all action. (They completely dumpped the sim.)

I get the feeling that most of the negative feedback they got about AR I was used to model AR II...and is why so few people even wanted to play AR II.