FMV vs. Diversity

[Mirage]

To be fair, FMV/pre-rendered cut-scenes tend to decrease loading times compare to real-time cut-scenes, I like Kingdom hearts birth by sleep but this game has a lot of loading times because everything in real-time, I've never had to do the data install, until BBS :eep:

True story. In fact, many cutscenes that look like they're realtime in FF13, are in fact prerendered but with the same engine that's used ingame. In addition to having lower loading times, different ingame data can be loaded while the video is playing. Furthermore, you can have "more stuff" in the scene without slowing down the cutscene.