
Not even just types of games, but two different games entirely. I’ll try to avoid spoilers (never got to the end of Rebirth yet anyway so I dunno), but the game makes it clear by the time you reach the Shinra building, that this is not the same story that was told in the original game.
They even went as far as to personify this fact in case people were too dense to grasp it.
Also, personally, I prefer buying characters for relatively cheap rather than having the usual f2p predatory crap. They should obviously be free for training tho.
As someone who has been playing fighting games on and off since 1995, the idea that non-dlc characters are “f2p predatory crap” is wild to me.
I’ll take Sekiro 2