animation lock is bad. Period. It's never, ever, ever, ever a good thing- its unrealistic and illogical- the game froze your character when it makes perfectly logical sense for your character to be able to move in various ways- it even froze you when *other people* did things to you *unless* you were already moving, which felt very glitchy and buggy. ARR story blows 1.0 story out of the water. What we saw of the original 1.0 story was pretty much garbage except for the introductory quest cutscenes. The good parts were the ones Yoshida created for the 7th umbral era (which existed only to lead into ARR)