Alic0004 on 04 June 2010
Now that I think about it, the bright side of it is, for those of us who are actually interested in playing the game, this means they really are going to let us have leveled up characters at the beginning of the sequel and not waste time with tutorials for newcomers to the battle system.
If you've never played the first game, you get an improved version for free with the second one.
If you played through the first game, don't want to play it again with (hopefully) more challenging enemies and faster battles, and lost your save somehow... sounds like you're screwed. 
