How to Use cutscene in a Sentence

cutscene

noun
  • Because, for me, cutscenes are part of the game.
    — Nick Newman, IndieWire, 7 Aug. 2025
  • The cutscenes tend to be shorter, the shots longer, the visual style more fluid.
    — Nick Newman, IndieWire, 7 Aug. 2025
  • But with games, that’s not possible except in cutscenes.
    — Nick Newman, IndieWire, 7 Aug. 2025
  • The problem was that each of these played out in a nearly identical way with a short cutscene.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 15 May 2021
  • The map, the characters, and the cutscenes are still largely intact.
    — Eric Ravenscraft, WIRED, 4 Sep. 2023
  • The only drawback is how the port deals with cutscenes and other nonplayable moments.
    — Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 27 Dec. 2024
  • Weekly cutscenes would have expanded on this lore as a part of the game’s live-service model.
    — Echo Apsey, Rolling Stone, 6 Sep. 2024
  • Users in franchise mode don’t mind watching a cutscene or looking at highlights from other games.
    — Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 4 Apr. 2025
  • To that point, the anime cutscenes in both games are absolutely superb.
    — David Jagneaux, Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Then, there is just one more cutscene that’s a must-watch before The Final Shape.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Character creator faces are good, monsters and monster cutscenes are good.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025
  • There is a brief cutscene where the woman uses a rabbit patronus to chase away dementors, but that’s it.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 18 Feb. 2023
  • Rockstar has already confirmed that nothing here is a cutscene, and all running in-engine.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
  • The opening cutscene took our heroes into a burning building, and the bottom of the screen looked like a yuletide fire.
    — Staff, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Dec. 2024
  • While this might sound like a lot, the cutscene has a certain minimalism, with stretches of silence and slow-motion.
    — G Kirilloff, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Which each subsequent entry in the modern trilogy, the story and cutscenes begin to take up more space.
    — Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 15 May 2025
  • The story is definitely better than the first game, but the cutscenes and writing needed a lot more polish.
    — Ollie Barder, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Later, it was revealed that Batman was a clone, and the character did return, but in an unvoiced cutscene.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2025
  • Here in Act 2 of Episode 3, Heresy, Bungie has released one of its best cutscenes ever.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2025
  • Until Dawn isn’t a case of the cutscenes simply highlighting the quality of graphics.
    — Richard Newby, Time, 29 Apr. 2025
  • After that, the shocking turnaround plays out as a quick gut punch during a cutscene that has a lot less Abby-monologuing than the show did.
    — ArsTechnica, 21 Apr. 2025
  • The final cutscene of the game's season four update reveals that the squad was following Batman's secret plan all along.
    — Michael Gfoeller and David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 15 Jan. 2025
  • Blue Prince lacks jump scares or creepy noises or a spooky presence tracing your steps, but a handful of cutscenes that occur in some rooms conjure a sense of dread.
    — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 29 Apr. 2025
  • That leads to discordant cutscenes in which characters don’t seem to actually react to what others are saying.
    — Kris Holt, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Background music, Sound effects and JP audio does not play during the opening cutscene.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 16 Feb. 2024
  • While most players can skip the cutscene and resume the game, those playing on kid mode are forced to watch Spidey die over and over as the cutscene continually reloads.
    — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 21 June 2022
  • In a series of events that are part cutscene and part gameplay, Drake jumps from the jeep and hooks onto a crane hanging off one of the pursuing vehicles.
    — Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2021
  • Upon selecting the expedition, a cutscene triggers in which your party of three grabs onto the talons of a giant blue eagle.
    — Dan Perry, Newsweek, 13 Feb. 2025
  • The game's final cutscene reveals that the Justice League members killed by eponymous anti-heroes were, in fact, clones.
    — Michael Gfoeller and David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 15 Jan. 2025
  • No spoilers but a mid-credits cutscene leaves open the possibility of a potential Moana 3.
    — Melissah Yang, refinery29.com, 4 Dec. 2024

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