Final fantasy 16 is extremely mid. They've had many good characters with their last few games XV, FF7R, XIV, but characters have little personality here. The story requires so many contrivances to work and clive lost any personality after gaining ifrit. Very odd that he was forced to work to capture slaves for years of his life yet acts like this is his first time seeing how cruel they are treated during quests. Side quests are very mmo like, written to be boring and unrewarding. The gameplay is whatever, just use your cool downs when they come up and repeat, dodging is very safe and boss fights are actually well designed but there's nothing interesting about the moment to moment combat.

100% shrines, lightroots and caves
Amazing game, okay sequel, they added new things but at the same time didn't. Anything related to the main story quests was peak zelda, the music and cutscene direction is beautiful. Since I already played breath of the wild the magic of exploring the map just wasn't there which is what I really enjoyed about the first game. So many of the rewards are bad or sometimes you get a reward past the time you would use it. Upgrading armors involves playing the game in a way I don't think is even intended for an exploration/adventure game (running around farming maps). Anyway I hope they don't ever reuse a map again, the underground was extremely disappointing there's pretty much no reason to be down there.