It would mean a lot to us if you posted it around, told your friends, etc. We've got another game coming down the tubes and it'd be neat to have some walking-around money for it! Help us make more stuff like this... Early investors will be rewarded...

store.steampowered.com/app/2467100/...

I would consider "critics say" to be reported speech, and would not use quotes around the text that follows. Not sure what different style guides recommend

(the eye highlights are done by transferring the normals from a sphere onto a flat plane with the eye texture on it)

According to Yoshinori Kitase they wanted seamless transitions between FMVs and gameplay, so that's probably why most of the FMVs use the segmented models.

www.eurogamer.net/how-the-play...

First thought was that the rendering times were too long or the software didn't support it, but the FF7 FMV team was probably using Alias PowerAnimator, which had mesh skinning for 3-4 bones per vertex! The final cutscenes with Red XIII running are skinned (unless they did a good job of hiding it!)

In game, it represents this:

explanation: this is a text representation of a sparse voxel octree! 'P' means partial (this node has multiple different voxels inside it) 'E' means empty and 'F' means full
the numbers are the voxel material indices, and because it's just a test -- a lot of voxels are filled with 0