IGN FF16 review is almost like a critique of FF14's own issues

[Katt_Felista]

FF16 is not a final fantasy in the sense that it lacks everything that makes fantasy, mythology in final fantasy games, mythical creatures, the stapple and rpg elements of final fantasy games, while the demo presents the best part of the "edgyness" of the story as a bait the core of the game is very bland, boring, a walking simulator of a medieval fantasy, and you can almost remove entirely the fantasy out of medieval fan, it's too safe, the characters all lack "character", Clive is extremely passive, doesn't shine of any particular character's trait, and even less the secondary characters.

I want to oppose what the bland and grey boring world of FF16 is, to what FF4, and more recent as a magnum opus of real final fantasy "magic" to it's peak, Final fantasy 9. FF16 is devoid of too many things and treat it's rpg elements like second class citizen systems, it's a good capcom combat system with a very uninteresting non really fantasy story on top of it.