So, I finally got around to trying the Octopath Traveler demo yesterday, and the first thing that came to mind... "Sweet mother of God, this dub is so bad." The performances from the English voice actors felt incredibly phoned in, and consequently, I changed it to Japanese as soon as I could access the menu. I'll be honest in that the Japanese is better, but it still could use some work. (I think it's more presentation than the actual vocal work.) Although, what makes it even more awkward is that the game takes the Yakuza approach to dialog. That is where the game wants to use spoken dialog for a character, but they don't want to record every line, so they use generic shortened clips that match the general idea of the text. So, if someone said something like, "I think that's a good idea.", the sound clip would probably just be "hai!" (the Japanese word for confirmation typically translated as "yes"). I really didn't care for the short vocal responses in Yakuza 0 when I started playing it, and it's still awkward here.
...at least the gameplay is fine!