Wow that was really, really bad. It looked really janky. It's definitely still the Crystal Tools engine. The animations are choppy as fuck. The battles looked really slow. Everything just looked like a bad joke. Like some amateur prototype thing rushed together by a bunch of students who forgot about the project deadline.
WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS SQUARE ENIX?
Because it is easily to have one exaggerated canned animation like that, than to create a more natural animation which might not work on every single ladder in the game. Awful.