It's popular because the Walt Disney Corperation has a monopoly on childhood happiness. The hopes, dreams, fond memories of your most cherished time were all provided from the sterile bosom of a soulless incorperated fantasy factory. Your aspirations, your comforts, the very roots of your being were all, almost without exception provided in the form of a one size fits all childhood, carefully scripted by that organisation. This game is simply another act, shamelessly tacked onto the prostituted play that is your emotional life. You love Kingdom Hearts because it is Disney, and without Disney, you know no other happiness. Outside the warm succor of your Donald Duck duvet and Mickey Mouse pajamas, joy, contentment and love are cold and distant concepts which you cannot hope to achieve alone. So come! Gather once again to suckle and the great and monsterous teat of one of the most terrible enterprises to have ever existed. Let Kingdom Hearts II once again show you the pleasures of being a shallow false happiness junkie. All the while Mother Disney will smile with her sweet and duplicitious grin.
IMO, Twilight Town was the best world, and the disney characters were annoying a lot during the games. But I do prefer KH2 over KH1. And only the classic movies are what really make me happy, which hardly cancels out all of the teen idols that they've mass produced over the years.
i prefer 1 because it was more challenging i.e. hollow bastian that was hard to get from one place to another.
You are under the impression that KH2 is much more popular than it is. Possibly because you hang out on a kh fan forum.
I didn't play enough of any game to form an opinion. But um....Kairi in a school girl outfit and then that pink one? That's why.
This is because EVERYTHING is usually more popular with people who participate and understand the thing in question.
It is a harder game, that's true. But I think I prefered KH2 because it is a longer game, at least it seems longer since you visit the worlds twice each. And Organization XIII members are more fun to battle than heartless bosses.