Reception
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic | |
| Melodic.net | |
While acknowledging the comeback success of the single "Play the Game Tonight", Allmusic's retrospective review was largely negative. They criticized the Christian lyrics as being "often of a judgmental, us-versus-you nature", and insinuated that the album fell more into a generic pop rock vein than Kansas's earlier albums ("it was getting hard to distinguish Kansas from Foreigner and Journey").
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