I enjoyed KHII's storyline mainly because of mickey and riku. Mickey comes off as a yoda type(superior to almost all in terms of intellect and physical skill)And Riku's journey through the darkness. As someone said already, you really need to get past the whole "darkness in my heart" stuff. Once you do though you realise that Riku did everything in his power to help mickey, kairi, and finally Sora. He did so not thinking he would ever retain his own image and even if he couldn't see them anymore he didn't care as long as they were ok. Ultimately, I thought II was better in pretty much every way including story(I loved the organization and ppl having nobodies). I know the game is targeted for kids but the 3rd looks promising to having more "adult" themes under the plot. This could easily be the best in the series with stronger magic and a harder difficulty. Maybe even through in some multiple button Combo attacks(Say one special move was used by hitting X, O, X, X in succesion)