OK, so upon some testing of the game, and a little research, I have discovered that cutscenes are actually loading times. This was mainly due to the fact that it's doing a lot of background loading to load the next areas - hence why they are unskippable. Is it worth retiming to have times without loads?

Is it necessary? I know it is for PC games, but we've all got the same hardware here. I'm quite sure the cutscenes in Infamous 1 also mask loads (also unskippable in that game), so would that game's timing have to change too? Is there an easy way to calculate it?

See, I wouldn't know if there are version differences in this game. Hence my curiosity on the topic. Assuming that language makes the game faster due to shorter phone calls, it could be the same for cutscenes. My point being that the first cutscene after the prologue would actually have faster dialogue in, say, Italian than English. This only really sparks my curiosity as I play on an EU ps4 with a disc copy - something I've heard the NA versions didn't have.