Weigand offered a very brief, positive review of the game but desired "a little harsher tone to the whole thing." Although Rox found the "hyper-cute" music passable, he stated that the "extremely bland graphics" nearly ruined the game. GamePro described the graphics and audio as especially generic for RPGs. Mortlock echoed this sentiment, stating that its "cartoony graphics give the impression of simplicity" and that "the sound's the usual sort of thing." Nintendo Power approved of the spritework but likewise discounted the overworld graphics as "simple" and criticized the English text as roughly translated and nonsensical at times. Brumley alternatively praised Robotrek as having "colorful landscapes and cartoon-style characters," a "wonderful soundtrack," and some "realistic" sound effects. Online commentary regarding Robotrek has varied. In a Quintet retrospective, 1Up.com editor Todd Ciolek considered Robotrek as one of the developer's few missteps during the SNES era, describing it as an "odd robot-raising RPG" that "few warmed up to." USgamer journalist Jeremy Parish similarly described it as "weird" yet "pretty solid" simply due to Quintet's pedigree up to that point. When writing about the genre's prominence on the SNES, Brett Elston from GamesRadar+ counted Robotrek among a set of strong "second stringers" like The 7th Saga, Paladin's Quest, and Uncharted Waters. A few sources have noted similarities between Robotrek and Pokémon, an RPG franchise launched two years later in 1996. Joe Keiser of Next Generation credited Robotrek as a predecessor to the core gameplay of Pokémon in that the protagonist does not himself fight, but instead sends out robots, which are kept in capsules outside of battle. Staff for both Hardcore Gaming 101 and RPGamer also observed a resemblance in functionality between these capsules and the Poké Balls used in Pokémon. The Verge contributor Nick Statt and Hardcore Gaming 101s Joshua Jankiewicz further suggested that Robotrek may have been the partial inspiration for Robopon, a Pokémon'' "clone" RPG series originating in 1998 that features customizable robots. Notes References External links 1994 video games Enix games Quintet (company) games Role-playing video games Science fiction video games Single-player video games Super Nintendo Entertainment System games Super Nintendo Entertainment System-only games Top-down video games Video games about robots Video games about time travel Video games developed in Japan Video games set on fictional planets Ancient (company) games