 Parish said this makes the player wonder which game events are real and which are Ninten's imagination.Parish cited Itoi's interest in entering the games industry to make a "satirical" role-playing game as proof of the genre's swift five-year rise to widespread popularity in Japan.Cassandra Ramos of "RPGamer" praised the game's graphics and music, and considered it among the console's best, with "rich, ... nicely detailed" visuals, "Peanuts"-style characters, and "simple but effective" audio.