It is good, like, really good. You get to experience battles Beyblade-Like by using different tops with basic motifs, the Iconic attack type of the game for example being called Flame Princess AGR18, where Princess is the name for it's blade (contact point), Flame is the motif that it used,which will determinate which kind of active ability you'll be able to use during battle, and AGR18 is for the bit, which based on the movement and the amount of stamina it gets, you can make use of different playstyles (Left 20, Control 35, Stamina 50, etc), so every top has a different set of parts, which can be repeated or using different combinatios, giving you the chance of experiment with a lot of diverse tactics.
It is a roguelike-based game, so you get to play your runs choosing where to go, getting access to resources such as a shop, an upgrade station to improve the performance of your tops, a combine section where you can combine the parts from 2 of your tops to make a new one, and so on, so depending on your playstyle, either relying on 1 strong top, or liking to try out a lot of different tactics to get ready for every battle, you get to experience the battles in your own way.
The game is designed in such a way that as long as you manage to make use of your resources and your strategy wisely, you'll be able to win in a few runs, it might be the case that you get in a bad situation that can totally lead to frustration, specially in the last segment of the game, but once you manace to "Click" with the physics and the way that the game tries to beat you, you'll start flowing, and depending on your favorite top, you might get some really hype moments for the record.
My favorite parts were Ice, Ghost and Ascend as elements, while having Glacial and Princess as favorite blades and Left20 and Control 35 as favorite drivers, but I found a lot of fun with some other of the tops, and I might say this game genuinely felt like a relief for some moments, just picking the top I'm feeling like using the most and trying to improve it as much as possible.
Althought it is true that sometimes getting some stations compared to others can be kinda hard, sometimes you get 2 shops one after another, same with upgrades (Although here it makes sense because upgrades are really reallyyy expensive at the long term), combining is surprisingly cheaper considering that in average you're doing it once, maybe sometimes twice, per run, and the amout of relics and tops you can get per shop in each world make it so having 2 shops back to back is NOT good rng for ya
The more confident you get with your skills the more you want to battle (Hey! Just like IRL) so having these bad spots sometimes make it feel harder by accident, and not a good accident tho.
About balance, the game is really rng with the impacts and interactions, so, some tops you would expect to be bad or good can lead to totally different results by changing 1 part or having 1 matchup or another, and specially in the last world you could be finding yourself against some of the most obnoxious and disgusting builds in the entire game, some that are even base combinations that you'll be actively facing in either the normal encounters or even against the final boss. But as long as you get certain tops at good level, and you pull out a good control of it, you can get away with a lot of stuff.
Overall it is the best 'Beyblade' game (Or spinning tops game, for the record) that I've played so far, although I didn't played that many, but I genuinely feel like if the sequel manages to "Top" all of this, and improve some of the tiny problems regardling the balance of the battles while keeping it chaotic and fun, it might be something even bigger than what it became when THAT ONE tweet started getting arround media.
8/10, I'm totally tryharding this sh1t while waiting for the sequel
