Reception
IGN gave the Virtual Console release a 6 out of 10, criticizing its difficult to learn play mechanics and absurd cast of characters. They praised the game's story, training mode, and "inner strength meter" but concluded "it's not likely that many players who've never previously heard of the game will have the patience to spend that much time getting to know it." Electronic Gaming Monthly similarly gave the game a 6.25 out of 10.
In 2011, Complex included it on the list of ten "most blatant Mortal Kombat ripoffs", but added that it was "one of the more successful faux-MK fighters" and "the only thing that sucked was the difficulty." In 2012, Complex also featured it on the list of the 25 Sega franchises they would like to see revisited, as "the game's cast of female assassins, beastmen and gladiators was so offbeat, it made them more awesome."
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Famous quotes containing the word reception:
“He’s leaving Germany by special request of the Nazi government. First he sends a dispatch about Danzig and how 10,000 German tourists are pouring into the city every day with butterfly nets in their hands and submachine guns in their knapsacks. They warn him right then. What does he do next? Goes to a reception at von Ribbentropf’s and keeps yelling for gefilte fish!”
—Billy Wilder (b. 1906)
“To the United States the Third World often takes the form of a black woman who has been made pregnant in a moment of passion and who shows up one day in the reception room on the forty-ninth floor threatening to make a scene. The lawyers pay the woman off; sometimes uniformed guards accompany her to the elevators.”
—Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935)
“But in the reception of metaphysical formula, all depends, as regards their actual and ulterior result, on the pre-existent qualities of that soil of human nature into which they fall—the company they find already present there, on their admission into the house of thought.”
—Walter Pater (1839–1894)