Ravenvolf: infuriatingly slow cutscenes are driving me mad
GageBlackwood: You know a lot of the cutscenes and all the A.I. commentary can be skipped by pressing the ESC, ENTER or RETURN keys, right?
Also, if you hit ESC to pause the game and switch from Adventure (hard) to Walkthru (easy) mode, the vehicle puzzles such as the tunnel pod, shuttle, and submarine will be on autopilot.
Have tried escape but it doesn't seem to skip anything, mind you I have just realised that I have rebound the Esc key to pause so maybe that is why it doesn't skip.
Thanks for the second tip, I may change it just to skip the submarine section and then change it back. At least for the tunnel car, you had a map, which I memorised to get through it, but the sub section is just trial and error.