My whole world changed one day when all these random cards started raining down everywhere. At first they seemed harmless enough, so a bunch of us kids invented this cool new game. That's when we realized those cards weren't so harmless after all: they were packed with incredible powers from another world! My name is Dan, and together with my friends Runo, Marucho, Julie, not to mention Mr. Hotshot himself Shun, and Alice, we are...THE BAKUGAN BATTLE BRAWLERS. BAKUGAN. ONE GOAL, TWO WORLDS!!!!!!

WHAT ARE YOU GONNA DO

THE ODDS ARE STACKED AGAINST YOU

BACK AGAINST THE WALL

GOTTA GIVE IT YOUR ALL
AH AH AH AH AH AH
THIS IS THE FINAL STAND
AH AH AH AH AH AH
THE POWER'S IN YOUR HAND

TWO WORLDS COLLIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIDE, ON THE IIIIIIIINSIDE!!!!!!!!

YOU GOTTA FIGHT FOR WHAT'S RIIIIIIIIGHT, BEFORE IT'S GONE, GONE, GONE

THIS IS BAKUGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If you grew up liking Bakugan this is a decent nostalgia trip. Loved the shit out of this game as a kid, but going back while the core gameplay is good, its extremely repetitive. There's a decent variety of Bakugan to collect in the game but Bakugan become useless the further you get in the story and have to buy more powerful ones in order to stand a chance against the CPU. That being said this isn't a difficult game at all, just have Bakugan that are at least the same power level as you're opponent and you're good. I've played this on Wii, Xbox 360, and DS and each game has different minigames that you play during battles. The actual minigames you play during battles are really basic ones like press the right button at the right time or turn the stick clockwise. On the DS versions however I found the trace minigame to be pretty much impossible to do and with minigames being random if you were unlucky enough to get trace you were pretty much fucked no matter the CPU difficulty level. I found the least frustrating minigames to be on PS3/Xbox 360. The story is pretty standard for a tie in cartoon game at the time, but holy FUCK does the soundtrack kick ass. This is unironically one of my favorite game OSTs. Every single track in the game is extremely good and varied. You'll have the typical desert music with middle eastern influence, techno dance music, metal, metal with an orchestra, this game has it all. Other than nostalgia this game would be a 3 star because while I did enjoy it it got repetitive fast, but the soundtrack bumps it up to a 3.5 and honestly could be a 4. In short if you enjoyed Bakugan growing up or still do like Bakugan then this is a good time waster that is faithful to the source material, but if you aren't into Bakugan then you aren't really missing much. Definitely do give the soundtrack a listen though you will not be disappointed.

This is one of those games that I've played for so many hours and I don't even know why, it's just very addictive and fun.

I love collecting Bakugan, upgrading them and using them in the battlefield feels rewarding.
The gameplay can be repetitive but I still enjoyed it to be honest.

The stages look great, and depending on what difficulty you're playing on, they can look different, and I love that.
Additionally, the music is very nice, surprisingly catchy and exciting.

Many gamemodes to play, and you can even play split screen co-op with other players which is a very big positive.

Final Rating: "Good" ~ 7/10.

This game gets a lot right in presenting Bakugan like you'd be playing it in season 1 of the show. Some liberties are taken like the addition of powerups and type advantages. Those add an extra layer of strategy, even if type advantages are unbalanced.
And then you get to the battles themselves, which IMO should've been oriented towards cards countering each other rather than just spamming them to power up your Bakugan and then playing one of three mini-games and whoever's Bakugan has more points at the end wins.
I get this was obviously first and foremost marketed toward children, but it feels like a pretty big missed opportunity.
Still, I find this game pretty enjoyable and revisit it from time to time.