Oh god! I'd cry if we had to deal with them as kids. (I REALLY hate children) I mean, a lot of the pull of the game, is that we get to watch them grow up, if they backtracked... it would kind of defeat the purpose of the games...
I mean I got the first one when when I was 10 (I FEEL SO OLD) and it confused the crud out of me, so I put it away for a few years...I started playing it again, when I was 13, and a lot of the themes just confused me.... God knows II would have driven me insane ("They exist, but they don't? Wha?") But considering how I was older, I was able to appreciate how deep the game was, and with 358/2 (which I got the day after it came out.... but I somehow manged to snag myself the pre-order goodies, as well : D) (That's like the one time anything awesome's ever happened to me.....) again, I was stunned, by how the plot, and character development moved....(Although that game is pretty much nothing BUT character development....) and actually shaped Roxas into this 3-dimensional character that he is now... sort of....
If they went back and made them all kids again... the game would loose so much meaning... I mean, kids can feel things that they can't comprehend, but still... they're kids... they're pretty shallow... and I mean, there's no way a game with them as kids could be ANYWHERE near as good as the games currently out....
/end rant
Ps- The other day I realized that FFVII/Kingdom Hearts fanart isn't really that much of an obnoxious crossover as I originally thought... because it's NOT a crossover.... (I really hate crossovers.... so this made me hate some really good art, like 9999% less.....)
Pps- Am I the only one who'd love to see Axel meeting Reno? (I'm so going with the theory that Axel isn't really dead....or he's gonna be re-born or SOMETHING!)