Is it just me, or did FFXI have better animations for cutscenes?

[starLivitation]

After perusing some threads, I came across a cutscene from WotG, and looking at the game, it just brought this all back to me.

I've felt for a long time that the animations for characters in cutscenes is pretty horrendous. It's always made me cringe with few exceptions, and it's one of the hurdles I've had to deal with when trying to recruit friends to play the game. "Holy crap those cutscenes are bad." I know they attempt to do the majority of cutscenes with emotes, but I never got this feeling while watching FFXI's cutscenes. I know they did it to an extent as well, but that game never felt as stiff as this one.

Does anyone else feel the same? Here's the cutscene I was watching that helped me remember: https://youtu.be/3eg_Xz-OFyI

not only that, but kitties were actually kiities, over here they are just teen version of hyur girls with bigger ears.