Ry, I feel exactly the same way about the spin-off's, I've been waiting for years and years for Kingdom Hearts III and like you I was completely in love with the first two games. I was like "Alright, sure, a spin-off game can't be TOO bad, they'll get to Kingdom Hearts III soon, they're probably just milking it a little more which is understandable for most game companies."So, still excited, I bought the Kingdom Hearts 358/2 but was SO disappointed. Roxas, being one of my most favorite characters of all was finally in a game where he was a main protagonist, so I was really happy to be getting a game like it. But, then... Xion. XION. WHY ON EARTH WOULD THEY NEED TO CREATE HER? If there's a proper reason, why not make a better thought-out character, she was just awful, as if a fan had made a Mary-Sue and they just threw her right on in there. She really ruined that game for me, that it was all based around her. Another girl character that was better would have been perfectly fine with me, but they stuck her in it. And in the end it felt like nothing was really accomplished either with the way she just vanished and she was just forgotten, I knew she was supposed to play SOME part in it, but it felt like it was needed and that part of the entire story was not needed to our knowledge.Then, Birth By Sleep, I couldn't get it because it was on PSP which really annoyed me for starters, but oh well, that happens. So I had to read up on the entire thing and it seemed alright, apart from the fact that we didn't really need to know about that either. They stretched out stories that could have easily been placed into the bigger games, heck, they could have made it so it's Kingdom Hearts IV and I would be fine, because it's not an entire game of pointless spin-off's. In the actual game you could say, "Yeah I didn't like that part so much."But I don't know, maybe my views are wrong; I feel myself that my views are fine because the Kingdom Hearts fan base has lost a lot of popularity due to those games ( Almost all of my friends ditched it after kingdom heart 358/2, too. ) But it has also gained some.I just want Kingdom Hearts III to come out with all the answers I wanted for the first two games the way they should be answered and I can be happy playing the game- but yeah, I'm exactly how you are with the worry that if I get that game, whenever it's released, that I won't know a lot of the characters or story behind it.On the other hand of all of this, the picture is amazing and your art never fails to amaze me, no matter the subject <3 I've followed you on Facebook for a while now and I love seeing your art in the feed every now and then, keep it up, Ry. ; u ;- Aki