I've seen people trying to debate Final Fantasy 16 to Rebirth and judging which is a better game, which is just bizzaro-land to me. Rebirth is better is every single aspect and it's not even close. Nevermind my personal bias towards anything FF7 related, but just looking at the games objectively how can you even consider 16 even has a shot.
Of course the number 1 thing that Rebirth has over 16 is characters. From side characters to the main cast, FF7 has great characters that are all given time to breath and develop. Each has a unique personality, motivations, and backstory and push them to accomplish things during the course of the game. FF16 has none of that, not even the main character really has any drive to get anything done and kind of just lazily follow an idea that Cid had and nothing more. Nevermind the side characters which offer very little to the overall story which I feel is a main failing of 16 lacking any party system whatsoever.
Music is very subjective of course, but here I also find that FF7 wins because I can actually hum the melodies of dozens of the songs in the game without playing the game itself. 16 music is very bombastic but suffers from a lack of melody or memorability that let's you hum along to them even when you aren't playing the game. Dark Souls also has this problem imo, where boss music is epic and awesome but absolutely isn't memorable beyond the game itself.
Combat....I mean how is this even a discussion? 16 is a hacky slashy cooldown based system with no real tactics beyond guarding and dodging at the right time. Meanwhile Rebirth is extensively customizable with gear options, materia options, character options, partner attacks, all of which fully controlled and customized by the player to do a huge variety of things, not to mention enemies have strategies to fight them, different elemental weaknesses and combat tactics that change how you have to deal with them in game. It's fucking bonkers the level of depth Rebirth has.
I don't really understand where this zealotry comes from. You like 16 cool, but Rebirth isn't trying to take that away from you. So trying to compare how you're game is better than another game is really dumb, especially when you are provably wrong in every metric.
