The cutscenes are real-time =P

No one ever denied that there was a cutscene about that long.  One reviewer said he didn't remember any being that long, but they were long.  So it's no surprise that they're really 90 minutes.

Although it's interesting how PS3 fans came out of the woodwork to say, "haha see, they're not 90 minutes!  Oh thank God you Xbots were all wrong!"  Now they'll come back and say, "90 minutes is good!  I like taking a nap while I'm waiting to play!" 

 Well to be fair... If i was halfway through a 90 minute cutscene i'd of assumed i just beat the damn game. 

Or people with lives. I mean damn. For the average person one cutscene probably takes up a whole playing session.  The Cutscenes all together are problaly longer then Heavenly Sword as a whole.

The excessive rely on cutscenes proves once again that Kojima is not a great storyteller, and he cannot tell a complex videogame story well.

 But Final Fantasy games were better before CGI.

 By that i hope you mean in comparison to their original quality.  Because FF7 is the ugliest game i've ever played... well second behind Ballz 3D or something...

But honestly, the game would look better if it was redone in NES level graphics. (actually it was... and it does look better.) 

 Peoples idea of a complex video game story told well seem to be the Half Life series and Bioshock. I'm sorry, but those games were not complex by any stretch of the immagination. Deus Ex is another popular example, and while telling a great narrative, it was nowhere near as fleshed out in either creating it's universe, characters and storyarch nor in exploring it's themes it clearly tried to pursue as was MGS2.

Of course not every game should be like MGS2, but my point is that Kojima's ambitions simply cannot be presented through gameplay alone. They need hefty scenes of dialogue and lengthy exposition to translate in their complete form to the player that is willing to listen. It's an aquired taste.

Games like Xenogears had hours of idle babbling, and Xenosaga games have as much babbling plus several 30-minute cut-scenes. Then there's MGS series which has ALWAYS been critizied for "talking heads" and yada yada yada...I think in all those games (except for Xenogears) you're given the option to SKIP the cutscenes and fast-forward the reading. If you don't want/can't/won't watch a long cut-scene/long discussion, then just don't and continue playing the game. You can always save your game before the long "movie" so you can later watch it at your own pace, if you choose to do so. I don't see the problem.