it's wild how much ARR cutscenes are improved just by like. muting the voice sounds and reading the dialogue internally in the new voices instead. so much of what feels like clunky writing is actually just normal dialogue held back by the voice direction
it also honestly does a lot for making characterisation feel more consistent too - arr alphinaud still has that snobbiness to him dialogue-wise but he feels less obnoxiously so if you fill in the HW voice. yda's still more airheaded than later but making her voice less cartoonishly so ends up leaning her closer to that "action first think later" style she gets after HW. it's pretty neat
