I wonder if I would have enjoyed the second one. I did not enjoy the first one for more than like 5 - 10 hours. I think I only visited like 2 worlds before calling it quits. And nothing about it ever made me feel compelled to try any of the others. But I never really heard anything real about other games other than a recent recommendation thread saying Birth By Sleep is probably one of the better ones in the series (Is that the PSP one?). Before that, all I heard everyone say was just "its awesome". Which I heard a million times over other games that I felt were pretty empty and just had blathering fans that didn't know how to articulate their love properly. Pokemon and Zelda had fans like that. So did Monster Hunter. All games I tried because "they're awesome". And found out rather quickly they were not. Not sure why I tried them before giving KH another go, but that's what happened. I may try another in the series, like BbS or KH2. But I highly doubt I'll ever become a fan

I also get the impression it had more impact on others because they were generally younger than I was when the series launched, and therefor they hadn't been burned out on Disney, or that FF seemed to had lost its way by then. So maybe my age has something to do with it