Being based on WonderBoy, I do think they beefed this game too bad as it is just too difficult for most people. WonderBoy is a lot easier and looks better.
Still better then Sonic Adventure...
In case you didn't know there's an anime about this game called Bug tte Honey. I actually watched it back in the day, but it's beyond me why noone made subtitles for it...
As there are subtitles for everything nowadays.
Bug tte Honey is like 51 episodes, someone should definitely make subtitles for that anime, it's available on the Archive.