Well, let an Administrator tell this story... Kingdom Hearts has came a long way to impress viewers/players like us. Myself is a Kingdom Hearts fan. However, I have and beaten 100% Kingdom Hearts and Chain of Memories. I have the information about the Kingdom Hearts 2. Thanks to my friend, in Japan, the American Release is March 28, 2006. I have already played it and I can tell you off-hand... It will blow any competition (expect my game, the Twilight Princess.... which I will own all of you at...) away with its graphic feature, new role-play, and new characters.
And, since that I have beaten in, 4 days prior it came out... There is a world that allows you to transform into animals... Pride Rock... Lion King?? There ya go... I give it a 9.5 for everything about the game... It allows you to open chests during battle mode, you can transform into different Valors... I mean the possiblity was endless... However, the game doesn't stop there...
At the end of the game, (this is a spoiler, if you don't want to read this, stop reading here.) Riku, Sora, and Kairi are back on the island... Kairi spots a bottle in the ocean and runs off to go get it... While Riku and Sora talk about being inside the Door to Kingdom Hearts... After Kairi returns, Sora gets the bottle and there's a note inside of it... They open it and the camera shifts gear... And that's the end of Kingdom Hearts II.
I know this because, I beat the game, and it's not as easy as my friend said it would be. A lot of battling in the game, much more secrets...