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>I still don't get what... any element of this story was supposed to accomplish
Keep in mind it came before DDD and X. It expanded the lore on the data/datascapes and how Roxas and Xion's hearts are still inside Sora and what that means. Was it also the first time the Book of Prophecies was mentioned?
I can say that the way these things were told was really stupid and it felt like an unnecessarily complicated way of explaining things.