Aztec Adventure received average to mixed reviews upon release. Describing the game as "one of the best-looking Looney Tunes games on the platform,
Total Game Boy praised the game's sense of speed and compared it to the
Sonic The Hedgehog series of video games. Alec Matias of
IGN commended the game's "beautiful backgrounds and intricate level designs" and "well-animated" characters, but found the game to have an "abundance of minor flaws", citing the game's "faulty design", difficulty, lack of lives, inability to render multiple enemies on a screen without slowdown, and "annoying" music. Frank Dry of
Hyper similarly praised the animations and "lush" backgrounds, but expressed annoyance with the game's difficulty, fast-paced puzzles, and level design. Jon Thompson of
Allgame found the game to be "visually enticing" and "nicely detailed", but also found the game to be "extremely challenging" due to its hard boss fights, difficult controls, precise platforming, limited lives and poor performance. ==References==