My main issues with II was the story was a copy and paste of 1's a lot of the time [start as kids, see family killed, get saved by someone who then teaches you the ways of magic and so on, get captured and imprisoned this time in the Spire, break out and get revenge on person who killed family] plus the hold A to complete end boss battle and the combat started to go into a lame direction not to mention a piss poor co-op.
Anyways if MS do copy the Dreamcast/Wii U and have a screen on the pad keep it small. Apart from the D Pad the current 360 controller is IMO the best one around.