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Ehrgeiz currently has an aggregate score of 76% on GameRankings based on twenty-one media outlets.
Ehrgeiz was announced as the first project to result from a licensing agreement allowing Square to develop games for Namco's Namco System 12 arcade board, and was exhibited at Namco's booth at the February 1998 AOU Show.
Ehrgeiz sold over 222,000 copies in Japan by the end of 1998, and sold 340,937 copies in Japan by December 2004.
It has scored a 32 out of 40 points by the Japanese gaming publication Famitsu.
IGN rated the game a 7.5 or "Good", citing the game's beautiful graphics and presentation but noting both its generally simplistic gameplay and very difficult combination move executions.
In November 2000, the game was ranked #73 on the magazine's top 100 PlayStation games of all time.