This video game was the sixth video game ever to receive a perfect 40 out of 40 in the Japanese gaming publication, Famitsu.
This game contains many references to the games developed by the same team, or based on the same world. For instance, a Moogle named Montblanc runs a clan in Final Fantasy XII, and previously appeared as a main character in Tactics Advance. Similarly, the player can acquire the Riskbreaker clan rank, a reference to the game Vagrant Story.
This is the first numbered offline Final Fantasy to have battles take place on the field. All other numbered offline Final Fantasy games have battles taking place on separate battle screens, though the online FFXI had a similar battle system and the non-numbered Crystal Chronicles also had battles taking place in the field.
The names of all of the larger scale airships were taken from the names of summons in previous games of the series.
A Bangaa in Rabanastre mentions that his friend counted how many bards were at the fete, but says that he probably didn't include the "spoony bards." This is a reference to an infamous line from the English translation of Final Fantasy IV (Final Fantasy II on the Super Nintendo), in which the sage Tellah calls the bard Edward a "spoony bard." The line has since become a fan favorite and has purposely been kept in all of the English re-releases of Final Fantasy IV.