Joe Leydon of "Variety" describes the film as "depressingly rote and sometimes laughably silly". Like Jordan's naughty-girl/good-girl shtick, these tunes are depressingly predictable. The direction is depressingly flat and stagy, Wilder running on empty. However, he criticised it for being "depressingly superficial" compared with Bowie's previous work. Milhouse starts to behave depressingly, and dresses in a black jacket and jeans. Later in the book he is also described as smelling "depressingly clean". Green of "NGC" said the game mechanics were "depressingly basic" against more advanced role-playing games.