Previewing "Battletoads in Battlemaniacs", "GamePro" praised the series' "cartoony, bizarre, radical style" and how the "gorgeous character sprites endow the 'Toads and their foes with personality and attitude," noting "the Dark Queen definitely has more hex appeal than ever." According to Charmaine Williams of WhatCulture, actually "the only thing cartoon had going for it was the sexy Dark Queen. I guess if you think your show wont live to see a full season, might has well have a character with big boobs that lives in a penis shaped castle." Rare Gamer included the Dark Queen in their lists of Top 5 Reasons We Still Love Battletoads, Top 5 Classic Rare Villains Who Just Didn't Know When To Quit, and Top 5 Rare Femme Fatales (That Would Have Us Switching Sides). Luke McKinney and Matthew Moffitt of Cracked.com wrote she has "helped young gamers manipulate themselves, and was just as physically mutated as the giant talking animals."