Soley between the two? As currently Earhbound sits 1 for me...
I'll go FF6... slightly.
I think Chrono as the silent protaganist just didn't work.
I thought FF6 had the better story but CT gets extra points for having many different endings, even though half the ending really didn't make sense based on how you got them. The characters develop more in FF though. Outside of Robo you don't get much CT character development.
FF6 had slightly better music in my opinion
However CT's ways of initating battle were way better... they were using enemies on the worldmap on the NES with Ultima Exodus. Why FF kept the random encounter system for so long i don't know.
Actual battle wise.... i'd put it a draw. They both used CT, Chrono Trigger had combo attacks which were neat, but Final Fantasy had desperation attacks which were legendary and Shadow's dog mechanic was cool.
Really I might give FF6 the slight edge their due to more characters which give you more variety.
That's the big deal for me. FF6 does everything really well and only two characters don't make any sense on your team Mog and GoGo.
Everyone else makes sense on the team, and everyone else plays a big part except for Umaro. Also the branching parts section of the game is brilliant.
As were the parts where you play as two or three partys.
Why more games don't do that i can't say... well actually i can... because they've made less playable characters in most games... despite not actually increasing character depth and development.
