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

[Natashio]

NPC walks on screen.

NPC does mixture of standard emotes.

/handover

WoL responds with a /handover and/or a /nod.

NPC turns 180 degrees while in the walking animation.

NPC walks off screen.

My eye twitches.

This describes in totality what the cut scenes in FFXIV pretty much are. There's no variety in camera angles or shots. Everything seems to be had been shot with a 50 mm focal length camera on a tripod. Where the characters enter stage left, say their lines, /handover, and exit stage left not knowing from where they came from or where they went. There's rarely no camera movement, no panning in or out, no use of the camera as a tool to convey emotion. It's all static. Like always, they rely more on pretty graphics and load music and the scenes still look bland.