[1] GamePro panned the game, chiefly for its trial-and-error gameplay which requires players to watch many "pointless" scenes.

They added, "You might feel differently if there were at least great jokes coming from the switches, but the humor is mostly simplistic cartoons with childish graphics, like basic versions of animations from Monty Python."

a 2.0 out of 5 for graphics, 4.0 for sound, and 1.0 for both control and funfactor,[3] making it one of only 12 games in GamePro history to earn a score of 1.0 or lower.

"[citation needed] Richard Leadbetter, editor of Mean Machines Sega, awarded the Japanese version of the game a score of 90%.

[5] Next Generation reviewed the Sega CD version of the game, rating it two stars out of five, and stated that "Panic wants to defy description and critical analysis.