The 11 year old only had so much patience with the tutorial, there are a lot of precision controls to master when tossing the Bakugan ball into the fighting arena. In your artillery you have three Bakugan to start with, and in the story mode you can purchase more Bakugan monsters to use as your warrior slaves. What did you expect? Something different? In the card game, as in the video game, the point is to battle using your Bakugan monsters to capture the gate cards from your opponent. Released for every current platform Bakugan Battle Brawlers made my 11 year old squeee with supposed glee, but how did it play? I still struggle to remember the rules for Magic: The Gathering, much less the laundry list of what-if's for a card game based on a cartoon, or is it the other way around? Either way, card game, cartoon - now video game. Frankly, they are too damn confusing for an old guy like me. While I consider myself a geek, I never got into any of the Japanese imports. My 11 year old was too hyper to explain properly when I gave him the game to try out, so I'm not sure what is going on.įrom what I hear though, that's perfectly normal. At least, I think that's what is going on. The toys are a bit deeper than just cards though, with battle arenas and small figures with magnets in them. Similar to Pokemon, Digimon and any of the numerous other ones you can think of, it's a card game based on some mystical premise with giant creatures that morph from Bakugan balls to engage in battle. One of the most popular toy lines right now is the Bakugan Battle Brawlers, another in a long line of Japanese imports. The only time that happens is in the short months before major gift buying begins. Playing the battle mini-games with friends in the four-player arena is surely more enjoyable than playing against the computer, so for a Bakugan fanatic with other equally enthusiastic friends, this just may be the game for you.The Holiday season must be upon us because I'm getting review copies of games based on very popular toys.
BAKUGAN BATTLE BRAWLERS VIDEO GAME SERIES
This game was designed for young fans of the TV series and they will find much to enjoy here. To those people, I say Bakugan Battle Brawlers is not for you. Others will wish that the actual battles tested your skills more greatly and featured battling closer to Pokémon. The battles don’t require heavy strategy, which will be good for some young Bakugan fans but disappointing to those seeking a collect-‘em-all game with more depth. Each fight only needs one of these mini-games to decide the winner and the length of time spent building up to each conflict far exceeds the time one actually spends battling. Unfortunately, it’s not so much fighting, as it is one of three mini-games with timed button presses, a shooting gallery of your chosen emblem or a contest of who can shake the Wii-mote the fastest.
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If two opposing Bakugan land on the same card they fight over it. Players select which Bakugan they want to use and send it out to capture cards. The Build Upīakugan invites players to choose their own avatar and element to represent them in the game world and then the battles begin.
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Based on the Japanese Anime and card game/toy series of the same name, Bakugan Battle Brawlers brings you into the world of Bakugan and allows up to four players to battle it out in the Bakugan arena for the 1st time in a video game.īased on the Japanese Anime and card game/toy series of the same name, Bakugan Battle Brawlers brings you into the world of Bakugan in it’s story mode and allows up to four players to battle it out in the Bakugan arena for the first time in a video game.