 In their cross-review, "Famitsu" scored the game a 38 out of 40, with the individual reviewers giving it 10, 9, 9 and 10; this was one of the highest scoring games of 2000, with only seven other games scoring 36 or higher in that year.During its debut week, it was the best selling game in Japan, with 147,864 copies sold.By the end of 2000, it was the 49th best selling game of the year in Japan, with a total of 238,338 copies sold; an additional 45,653 copies were sold during the following year, for a grand total of 283,991 copies sold.