GameSpy writes: "Over the past decade, the creative minds at Level-5 have established themselves as master crafters of some of gaming's most momorable backdrops: the quaint rustic setting of Professor Layton, the alternate-reality medieval France of Jeanne d'Arc, and the expansive vistas of Dragon Quest VIII, among many others. Despite the developer's Japanese origins, these aren't the domains of spiky-haired tweens and coquettish, buxom fan-fiction fodder." 3/5