- Serge wears a bandanna like Firion, and the game borrows FF2's game engine where you don't level up directly

- like FF6, the game has a huge cast of playable characters

- the elements system was sort of like FF7's materia system in terms of equipping individual techniques for different characters freely

- the graphics engine is almost similar to FF9, considering they were made around the same time

- like zidane, serge's weapon is a staff with a blade at each end

- CC seems to be the predecessor of FF10 and Kingdom Hearts in terms of something odd happening early in the story that has to do with the ocean

- daddy being a bad guy is used in both CC and FF10