In this interview Andy Serkis described that the motion capture was done before he did the voice lines. Indicating that the motion capture was done with the French actors. This would explain why sometimes the lipsync might seem off because well French is different to English.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsIxIscWsz4

Regardless, hopefully they are making all the money so they can patch in English Lipsynch. I'm not changing to French cause the English VA cast is exceptional. If this game keeps going the way it is, I'm buying the deluxe upgrade to support them. 

Not really sure I mind but this just made me check the cast as one of the voices was really familiar. Jennifer English, who played Shadowheart. :P

The praise I've heard for this game makes it very intriguing. Several are saying it's one of the best Jrpgs ever. And to think they did this with just 30 people working on the game makes me especially happy to see it being this successful.
It's barely been a day and it has already sold 500 000 copies.
And its MSRP is just $50.

I like that it has a "worldmap".

The publisher put the entire OST on Youtube, which is cool. I only listened a little since I want to experience it in game first, but from what I heard it has some serious bangers.

I'll be buying the game soon.

I believe Ghost of Tsushima patched that in later on for the Japanese voices.
I tried both, and I didn't mind the lack of lip sync in Jp, so maybe I'm not sensitive to those things.

Yeah and Ben Starr (Clive from FF16) is also in it. Seems like a high quality cast

^ and Daredevil as Gustave.

I'm puzzled only 30 people made it

This level of graphical fidelity is something we generally see in games with over 100 people working on it

They definitely utilized UE5 well. That engine has gotten a lot of criticism lately but it letting small teams make games with fidelity this good is something I really appreciate.

Ok, I finished downloading it, and played it for a bit over 2 hours straight (I don't remember the last time I did that).

Well... The game is phenomenal. The plot and characters are already very memorable, with a few poweful moments already, the graphics are insane, and the soundtrack, at least to me, is on SquareSoft levels of epicness.

I'm done for tonight, but I have the feeling that I will spend a lot of my saturday with it.

It's not a JRPG, and JRPGs didn't start turn-based. WRPGs did. JRPGs started as action and JRPG nos tied to one style of battle mechanics either. Dark Souls is a JRPG. Xenoblade is. Ys is. Dragon's Dogma is.

Whats even more crazy is supposedly (i heard this in a video) some of the guys are ex-ubisoft people, or people they knew from working there.
Imagine working at ubisoft, and going "mangement is crazy, I could do better job of it myself" and collecting a few colleges to go make your own game.

And the result is Expedition 33.

Its wild :)

It shows how much passion and management matters to projects.