 Joystiq's JC Fletcher described her in "Shadow Assassins" as a ""totally hardcore" stone-cold killer" and scarier than Rimikaru, but criticized Heather Hogan's British accent as putting off.Gelo Gonzales of "FHM" ranked Ayame and Rikimaru as well as Tatsumaru from "Tenchu 2" at fourth place on his 2009 list of most memorable hitmen in gaming, and "Complex" included Rikimaru and Ayame from "Tenchu 3" among their favourite video game stealth killers, rhetorically asking in 2010