Man, this GBA game takes me back—remember when everyone was obsessed with launching those spinning tops into plastic arenas? Bakuten Shoot Beyblade nails that chaotic energy. You pick your Blader (I always went for the reckless one with the dragon design), slap together a top from random parts like attack rings and weight disks, and then just... yeet it into battle.

The fights are way more intense than you'd expect—your Beyblade actually bounces off walls, grinds against opponents, and sometimes just flies out of the arena like a drunk firework. There’s a weirdly satisfying strategy to tweaking your gear, too. That one heavy disk might make your spin last forever, but good luck dodging anything.

It’s janky in that early-2000s handheld way, but the announcer screaming “LET IT RIP!” never gets old. You’ll either love it or wonder why you just spent 20 minutes watching two pixels clang together. No in-between.