King Ottokar's Sceptre
Jean-Marc Lofficier and Randy Lofficier called "King Ottokar's Sceptre" "a Hitchcockian thriller" which "recaptures the paranoid ambience" of "Cigars of the Pharaoh". They compared the pace of the latter part of the story to that of Steven Spielberg's "Indiana Jones" films before noting that despite the "horrors of the real world" that are present with Borduria's inclusion, they do not interfere in "the pure escapist nature of the adventure". Ultimately they awarded it three stars out of five.