>>10619539The game is very interesting and has a lot of layers to it.
First there's an element of collection and customisation. You can combine different parts to achieve differing performance, depending on if you want aggressive movement, or more stamina, or to avoid being pushed out of the stadium. There are different ways of achieving these outcomes, like being really heavy, or using a rubber tip, or being very wide or narrow, etc.
Then there's an element of strategy and psychology. Once you have your combos ready, you select your Beys in secret before revealing them to each other at the same time, so you need to have some idea of what you're up against, and be able to predict the order in which your opponent will use their Beys.
Then comes the part that involves skill, launching/shooting your Bey into the Stadium. There are some different types of stadiums, which will affect movement and potentially favour one type of Bey over others, and there are a few different techniques that produce different movement patterns that can be used to defend the middle of the stadium, stall around the outside, or run through the middle in the flower pattern to attack the opponent.
Lastly, when you can no longer affect the battle, we reach a point where it all comes down to a combination of all the effort you made beforehand plus some luck, and win or lose, there's a spectacle to enjoy. Spinning tops in motion are beautiful to behold by themselves, but there's something balletic and occasionally explosive in the way Beyblades move and interact with one another and the stadium. Even if you're not playing, it's interesting to watch.
It has all the trappings of a good sport, but I think most people miss all of this because the marketing revolves entirely around a kids' cartoon.
