I've been progressing more through the game and getting slightly annoyed. It took nearly 8 hours of gameplay to see a single Disney character. As much as I like the Square Enix characters, I originally played Kingdom Hearts to see the Disney characters. I think they waited until the Castle Oblivion arc before introducing the Disney characters so no one remembers Sora anymore, but still, it was a bit long. But now that it's starting up it is getting more interesting, and it's really cool how the game takes advantage of the two screens of the DS. Whenever Roxas sees someone he knew as Sora, or remembers one of Sora's memories, the second screen fizzles a bit. It's a really neat effect.

But the other annoying thing is that the controls are a bit unreliable. I'll mash the 'a' button 8 times, but only strike 4 or 5 times. Dodge roll is a little slow too, but when you have to sneak up on Pete the movement is waaay too sensitive and you overshoot your vision range all the time.

The storyline is going pretty nicely, and even though we didn't get to learn much about the Castle Oblivion team we at least know now why what happened, happened. It's an interesting little conspiracy going on, I can't wait to see what happens next. Another thing that I find amusing is all the scenes with Axel and Roxas. While part of the time they do act like just good friends, the other half of the time they act like they are dating. I swear, it's like Tetsuya Nomura looked at all the AkuRoku fandom that exists, sighed and said 'screw it, just give the fan girls what they want. Just don't have them kiss so Disney won't be on our back.'

'I had to sort our my feelings'
'he left without saying goodbye'
'I thought I'd never see you again'

srsly. If Roxas were a girl there wouldn't be a single person who would say they aren't a couple.