The game received mediocre reviews in English-speaking territories. Reviewers for IGN and GameSpot compared the game to Digital Pictures' Sega CD games and its storyline to the movie "Ghost". GameSpot gave the game a 5.8 out of 10, stating that the video quality was good, despite occasional compression artifacts, while the few non-video sections were considered "more like average PlayStation graphics than those of a PlayStation 2 game". GameSpot noted that an understanding of the Japanese language is indispensable to play the game, and that even then non-Japanese players are likely to find "Love Story" odd due to the high amount of cultural references present in the game.