Super Robot Spirits is a 3D fighting game that pits players in one-on-one battles against mecha from select Japanese anime series.

[2] Spirits includes seven playable characters from the start: Shining Gundam from Mobile Fighter G Gundam, Daitarn 3 from Invincible Steel Man Daitarn 3, Dunbine from Aura Battler Dunbine, Voltes V from Chōdenji Machine Voltes V, Walker Gallier from Combat Mecha Xabungle, Dancouga from Dancouga – Super Beast Machine God, and R-1, a robot created by Banpresto that first appeared in the 1996 PlayStation game Shin Super Robot Wars.

Martin Kitts of N64 Magazine was particularly critical of the backdrops, which he stated were poorly-drawn and created a bad contrast with the character models.

Eric felt that it was lacking in design and omits what he considered to be basic mechanics for any fighting game, such as a large amount of movesets for each character.

[7] On the contrary, Gamers' Republic believed that Super Robot Spirits posed the best fighting game engine on the console, finding it superior than Konami's Rakugakids.

[3] Overall, critics stated that Super Robot Spirits was a poorly-designed fighting game that was clearly rushed to market in hopes to capitalize on the properties used.

He believed that Spirits felt like more like an unfinished prototype than a completed product, concluding his review with: "Be glad that this terrible trash has not been announced for Germany!