>>26711437See I'll agree on a technical level it's pretty well-done, but Pokemon is far from the first RPG to do cutscenes that well, so I don't get why it should get credit for that. I barely knew anything about AZ aside from his backstory so it was hard for me to feel anything. Without that it's just a waste.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSPfAIFDenAThis is a cutscene from a PS2 game, and it has some pretty good character facial animations and the like. It's not even the best the PS2 has to offer. I doubt the 3DS wouldn't be able to handle this quality so I think it's a fair comparison...Hell, the 3DS has actual PS2 ports like Tales of the Abyss and MGS3.
By that point in the game you also knew a lot about the characters in said cutscene (it's also only like 15% of the way into the game). Even for a kid's game, it's kind of annoying how little effort GF puts into the story and characters. They have a lot of potential to tap.
