"Drake of the 99 Dragons" received "generally unfavorable reviews" on both platforms according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. It was ranked as the second-worst game for the original Xbox. In July 2006, "X-Play" called "Drake" the single worst game ever released for the Xbox, even going so far as to state that it had eclipsed the game ' as "the standard by which they rate all bad games". Alex Navarro of "GameSpot" named it the second worst "frightfully bad" game of 2003 in Halloween 2004, right behind '.