Nintendo Life wriets: "When you utter the name "Rygar", many people will instantly think of the NES game with the same name. In it, you played as the bare-chested warrior Rygar, making his way through both side-scrolling and overhead stages using his unique weapon, the Diskarmor, to take out hordes of enemies and defeat evil. Like most NES classics, though, it has its origins in the arcade, and appropriately Tecmo has chosen to release said version first."