Reception
According to online retailer Amazon.com, the game is the best selling pre-order game in Japan, and is more popular than The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass. However the actual numbers show that the game met with minimal sales and as of 2009 has only sold 50,000 units. Although the game has not been confirmed for a North American release, it has been the subject of a number of webcomics. These include:
- A Penny Arcade comic in April 2007.
- Two Dueling Analogs comics, one in March 2008 and another in December 2008 .
- Used often as an example of bad gaming on the popular videogame reviews Zero Punctuation
The import review of the game in the UK publication NGamer (like its predecessor NGC Magazine, famous for comical reviews of particularly bad games), felt so disturbed by the game that it abandoned its normal percentage scoring system and awarded it a 'score' of simply "NO" in every category. In a later issue (18) it "awarded" it "The Superman 64 Award For Worst Game (of 2007)" (for years, the magazine considered Superman 64 to be the worst game ever made), remarking "There are bad games - technically flawed and conceptually lazy - and then there are bad games. Evil bad. Doki Doki a.k.a The Meh Witch Touching Project, is one such title.". The sequel, however, received 40%, an actual score.
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