I like the english voices well enough, but for the first time ever in a video game, I prefer the Japanese ones. In english, Sahz doesn't sound old enough, Hope too old and too certain, Vanille not cute and sunny enough. Can't be helped, I suppose, the Japanese voice acting was just perfect for those three characters.

However, the english ones aren't bad by any means. And maybe it's just that I've listened to the Japanese ones for so long that I've gotten too used to them. It's not terrible voice acting as in X, it's up there with XII and that's fine.

But if SE were to offer an option to choose between english and Japanese, my choice would be made VERY quickly. If only for Hope's insecure-sounding voice and Vanille's cute sounds when she's hopping from rock to rock on Vile Peaks (and Sahz was so a perv).