Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles has a unique vibe to it, with the game style of the Mana series while still staying true to its Final Fantasy origin.
Whenever your riding your Caravan down the country paths you have a chance of entering a event, you may meet a fellow Caravan and stop to chat or myabe you'll find a bit of entertainment from the Selkie Caravan of Leuda.
The new Magicite Orb system lets you find Magic elements inside defeated enemies and equip them to your character to allow easy use. To top that you can even fuse spells to make new ones like Blizzard + Blizzard = Blizzara or Fire/Blizzard/Thunder + Fire/Blizzard/Thunder = Gravity!
In FFCC there is no leveling up system, replacing it is the new Artifacts. Whenever your Character completes a Dungeon they are given a list of certain artifacts to take with you, the amount of how many you can take with you depends on requirements you fufilled in the Dungeon.
Each Artifact levels up either your charcters Strength, Magic, Defence, Health or give them special abilitys like faster magic deployment or an extra Command Slot.
And Square Enix have also added in another little joke, naming most of the Artifacts after weapons and items from previous Final Fantasy Games.