Unlike past Sega titles, the single player story takes place in an RPG, where the protagonist Arle has to figure out how to escape the Book World while stopping a demon king that has taken over said world.

While reviewers liked the multiplayer content, the game was criticized for its tedious and repetitive single player mode.

Reviewers praised the game's 3D artstyle, noting that the shift to models allowed characters to be more flexible in animation and movement.

[3] However, the selection of game modes divided critics; while one reviewer from Famitsu stated that the game offers a wide variety of rules, SEGAbits noted that most of these rules were recycled from past titles.

They felt that while the mode make it easy for beginners to play, it lacks quality and that the battles were redundant, repetitive, and tedious.

[3][4] In addition, SEGAbits felt that while the RPG mode was ambitious, the added mechanics could be ignored by experienced players by hitting enemies with a large enough chain.