Why is the game so incredibly long-winded?

[YosemiteYogorockBlondelle]

I would settle for a way to skip/cancel/fast forward all cutscenes.

For me, I'd settle for a rewind feature to back up on a cs I was watching and being able to watch the whole cutscene or the games movie clip all the way through the end right on the spot instead of having to go to a replay CS NPC in hopes it plays all of the CS including sections you missed especially when that one whole long movie clipped cutscene can be split into two to three selectable parts on the replay CS NPC's that may not capture it all because of the cut off's and split up's they've done.