Pardon my on topic response.

FFVII is one of my favorite games, and even enjoyed Advent Children on a very superficial, ooooh-lookit-the-purdy-pictures level. I also thought Cloud was awesome as hell. However, I'd have to say that Cloud isn't half the man, let alone half the hero, that Link is.

For 80% of the game, Cloud is just walking around in someone else's shoes, gets manipulated, kills that person's woman, and then spends most of the final moments of the game in a coma. Not to mention that throughout the majority of the game, he just didn't seem to give a damn about anything.

Link, on the other hand, is often portrayed as a simple, innocent child that's called to arms by fate. When he's asked to safe Hyrule, he doesn't ask for money, he doesn't go out on his trusty steed expecting payment. He fights fire-breathing dinosaurs, 3-headed dragons, evil, despotic sorcerers, and at the end of the day, has time to stop the moon from crashing down on his world. He goes out for 3 reasons:
1- To save the world.
2- To save his woman.
3- Because he's the smurfing hero of time.