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[Wolf O'Donnell]

Now, it's not a huge problem, but I have noticed that some developers don't really understand what I seek in a portable videogame. Square-Enix tend to be the biggest culprits with stupidly long cutscenes. Two games I've bought off them so far, Chlidren of Mana and Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings have featured long cutscenes that aren't that easy to skip. The latter being the worst offender. Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 days is also a bad offender with long cutscenes, that can thankfully, be skipped but thereby making you feel as if you've lost out on what's going on.Now I know you need to advance the plot with these games and I quite like to have some plot, but they do seem a bit on the long side. I'm trying to play a game on the go and sometimes, I have to quit. I can't just pause, I have to quit. But I'm in the middle of a cutscene and it's taking forever to conclude. I need to switch the DS off, I can't keep it on, because it's going to be ages before I get back to the game again.It means that whenever I'm on the go, I tend to take games that don't have huge cutscenes. Problem being they're either games I've played to death or ones that I've already finished. The ones I haven't yet finished and have yet to finish, on teh meantime, build up at home.Is anybody else irritated by this?