Big Trouble in Little China received diverse critical reception.
Your Sinclair awarded 8 out of 10, highlighting smooth scrolling and good sprite animation, only criticising the unbalanced difficulty with some enemies. In a later retrospective on tie-in licences,
Your Sinclair found the animation to be poor, with little variety in enemy types, and amended their score to 52%. Conversely,
Sinclair User gave only 1 star out of 5, describing the characters as poorly depicted, with no atmosphere or sound effects. ==References==