A "cutscene" is a short video or animation that plays during a video game to show a story or important event, usually when the player is not in control of their character. Full definition
Even these games have an hour or more of cutscenes in the games to help tell the story. (slickstermagazine.com)
I've been tempted to have the Japanese language track in videogames myself because people say this, but I never do because I'm worried I'll miss something in cutscenes with subtitles. (gonintendo.com)
While most of the interactions within the side quests are restricted to text - based conversations, the main story has a rather profound number of cutscenes with full voice acting. (attackofthefanboy.com)