3D Juegos writes: "Nearly two years after the first Spectrobes, thanks to a successful formula that baby Pokémon, Disney and Jupiter shaking hands again to bring us the sequel that charismatic title.
Experience with the first Spectrobes was phenomenal Disney Interactive, who proclaimed at the time the excellent sales of the game thanks to good market acceptance, mostly children, who saw an alternative to Pokémon Spectrobes. It was not difficult to venture into the output of a second part of that game, and here we have this Spectrobes: On the edge of the galaxy, again with the study after Jupiter development."
YLG:
"What's good about Spectrobes: Beyond The Portals as a game is that it offers hours of challenge for young gamers. What's good about it as a sequel is it represents a big step forward from the first game. If the progress continues, Spectrobes will establish itself as one of the leading game series for children on the DS."
GamesWeasel writes: "Unfortunately, combat's not great. Fighting as Rallen you can use melee attacks or your gun, but locking onto enemies is tricky when the camera's not centred on them. Fighting with your Spectrobes is really boring. By walking into a Vortex, you set your tag team into motion, but combat is no more than walking up to an enemy and pressing A, then pressing B or Y when you're charged up a super move. It's clunky, unresponsive and dull.
Exploration isn't great either. Although they've improved the camera angle to make it less claustrophobic, there's still a lot of back-tracking to do, and if you die, you start back at your ship and have to wander through the barren lands once again".
PALGN writes: "For those that played and enjoyed the first Spectrobes title, you'd be pleased to note that it is a better title than its older sibling, marginally better. For the rest of us, you'll be hard pressed to find much value in Spectrobes: Beyond the Portals, unless you are a complete addict for monster-collecting games - or under the age of ten.
Beyond the Portals sees the return of Rallen, the Nanario Planetary Patrol officer who curtailed an alien invasion at the end of the first Spectrobes tiltle. Obviously, the invading Krawl had other ideas, forcing Rallen and friends to stop the evil alien race all over again."
