The game was acclaimed by critics. "Mega" magazine compared the Mega CD version of the game favorably against the incomplete and "poor" Super NES version and placed it top of their list of the best Mega CD games of all time. The four reviewers of "Electronic Gaming Monthly" declared it a strong conversion of a game with "solid fighting action", though two of them also commented that "the necessity of the CD is questionable at best." On release of the Game Boy Advance version of the game, "Famitsu" magazine scored it a 31 out of 40.