I agree that this game was way over on the easy side, I only died twice in the entirety of the game. That came as quite a shock after Chains of Memories, which was extremely difficult. Fortunately for me, "easy" doesn't really bother me, especially in games like Kingdom Hearts. I'd rather not fight every boss 15 times trying to memorize their patterns like I was pretty much forced to at the end of Chains of Memories. Overall I thought Kingdom Hearts II was a masterpiece and upon reviewing the small list of complaints about it in my head I realize that 95% of them are just my typical unrealistic garbage (e.g. Not enough Kairi & Selphie y-pairing sexual exploration, etc.)

Hell, if they'd got a better voice actor for Cid I might say that this was a damn near perfect sequel.