Kind of hard not to hug Kairi when she hugged him first X3;;; I can go on and on about this but let's put it at he clang to Riku in KH2, and walked up to both Riku and Namine in CoM and KH1. Kairi's the one he kept his distance from.
As for Atlantica, I personally wouldn't have minded it all that much if they could've kept from contradicting KH1.
Ursula's back like wtf lol now?
Yeah, although no one can complain that Sora was more focused on Riku, that was his
main goal for KH II after all...I in his place would have been worried too after the one who you knew was the last to be with Riku (namely King Mickey) refused to disclose any information.
Kairi on the other hand was supposed to be safe and staying at home...but when Sora learned what happened in Twilight Town from Hayner and co. he went also quite concerned...not to mention his whole devotion to finding and rescuing Kairi during the Invasion at Hollow Bastion and that whole begging on Saix' feet for it...
Uh yeah, now I get at least where
you are heading, I second that, the connection to KH I was not probably put in place...or rather, was non-existent. As for Ursula's return...if I remember it correctly there was one puny sentence in the journal about it.
And if one played KH I-Atlantica especially Ariel's actions and reactions come over as...uh, which word...err...dumb?
Probably it was an error for SE to use a more original story for Atlantica in the first KH and use the story of the movie in the second...
BTW, just noticed the Fanfic-link in your sig *write note to himself: Pay more attention to people's sigs*, when I have time on weekend I'll give it a shot...