>>11844104
Nah, in 2 Sora and Riku go full anime (which is an odd complaint considering the styles of the games, I know). In 1 and CoM they really did seem like a group of kids. A good example of that was when Sora was forced to smile and realized how silly it was, or how he'd be a bit stand offish to strangers he'd meet. He was just a kid out of his element. In 2 and 3 he becomes a lot more silly, dumb, and laid back.
>>11844223
I'd say 2 was still "okay". It was leaning towards the convoluted lore, but it still did an alright job of progressing the Disney, FF, and KH related stories alongside one another. It's was after 2 where they did a massive survey and found out people cared the most about the story in the series thought so after that they really made it as a story that was never meant to end. BBS is when the story really started to go down hill, 3 is definitely the worst of everything though. Almost completely abandoned the traditional gameplay and completely divorces the Disney stories from the KH stories all the while completely getting rid of the FF aspect.
>>11844849
Its wild how some people take it all so seriously after 2. Nomura is legit just making it up as he goes and people act like some aspects were always planned. It was a good series, shame it didn't wrap up in 3 and they are going to keep it going forever, but 2 at least has a nice soft ending point.