 Márcio Pacheco Alexsandro of GameHall placed "Tenchu"'s Ayame and Rin together at eight spot on his 2014 top list of female ninja characters in video games.According to GamesRadar, Ayame "was a cool, relatively realistic-looking heroine in an era when polygonal female protagonists were largely defined by the enormity of the crude pyramids that passed for their tits.