The introduction is terribly tedious, but now that I've finished it I am already looking back on it with fondness. Poor, poor Roxas. I am sorry you could not simply have continued having boring adventures with your adorable friends, Roxas, but that wouldn't have been much of a game.

I think you have a good point about the second game's needlessly complicated plot. Half the reason I'm replaying it is in the hope that the game will actually make sense to me this time.