In a 2009 post on the Mistwalker website, Sakaguchi said that regretted being unable to tell the game's story. Fujisaka, who joined Mistwalker as an in-house artist, posted his concept art for Cry On on Mistwalker's website, both apologizing for its lack of release and feeling a lack of polish in the artwork. When Cry On was mentioned in a 2009 interview, Uematsu felt glad it was cancelled as he was overworked during that period. Sakaguchi, Fujisaka and Uematsu would all collaborate on Mistwalker's next project, The Last Story for the Wii. Some enemy designs from Cry On were reused by Sakaguchi in the 2014 mobile game Terra Battle.
