Many fans criticized Georgia Van Cuylenburg's performance as Vanille, singling out her supposed unauthentic Australian accent, while simultaneously praising Rachel Robinson's accented performance as Fang. Ironically, Robinson is from Los Angeles and Van Cuylenburg is from Melbourne.
For the English version, this Final Fantasy title had over 80 English-speaking voice actors involved with the character voice production. At the time, it was the largest amount of the voice actors featured out of all the other games in the Final Fantasy series; however it was surpassed by Fainaru fantajî XIII-2 (2011), which had 114 voice actors, and then later by Raitoningu ritânzu: Fainaru fantajî XIII (2013), which had about 240.
This is the first "Final Fantasy" main series to have the young adult appearance of Cid out of all series. Cid from all the previous series have always appeared as middle-aged or elderly men.