Summary
This game really wasn't the best Beyblade game I played. At least not one of the worst, though.
The Good
It was the first Beyblade game to have this game concept, later used in other Beyblade games such as BeyBattle Tournament 2 (released on the PSX in Japan only) and Super Battle Tournament (NGC).
The music was awesome. It kinda gave a mystical feeling to it.
I liked the voice actor of the DJ in this game, because unlike the one in the anime, the localizers of this game weren't in touch with the VAs of the Nelvana dub, so instead we got Engrish DJ.
He sounds funny yet awesome. :3
The Bad
The gameplay controls are WAY too sensitive and that you can't stop a Beyblade from spinning out of control, even if you let go of the D-pad, meaning that either:
A. You'll knock yourself off the stadium.
B. The opponent knocks you off the stadium.
The fact that once you get used to the stiff controls, you will find out that the A.I. is incredibly stupid and the fact that it does not make an effort use a Bit Beast attack almost all the time, even when your fighting against the bladers from the anime.
You can only earn 10 or 5 Bey Points (money to buy parts in this game), depending on whether you won or lost, so if you want to make enough money to buy expensive parts (some are over 100 Bey Points), you have to go through the Tournament OVER. AND OVER. AND OVER AGAIN.
Kenny/Professor (aka Manabu Saien) can repair your Beyblade free of charge unlike the later games in the series, but there is one problem with this. Kenny explains that when he fixes your Beyblade, "it will only be a small measurement, so it will lose some balance". In actuality, the Beyblade doesn't lose balance when fixed; it does however, affect your attack points on your Beyblade, and the problem with this is that you never know how much of your attack points will drop, whether the number is high or low depending on how much health your Beyblade lost after the previous battle. I don't know whether or not it affect other points such as speed and defense when your Beyblade has different parts in it; I wasn't playing it for too long.
The Bottom Line
This isn't a pretty good game. WAVEDGE (the developers of the game) failed to bring the best of Beyblade on a home console in their first attempt, while the sequel BeyBattle Tournament 2 was a "better, but not as good" situation; because although AI was smarter this time around, the gameplay controls were still kinda iffy, so it wasn't that much better than I expected it to be.
I will give WAVEDGE some credit for creating the Boy/Girl characters to use in BeyBattle Tournament 2 and Super Battle Tournament, but they should had gotten more credit for those creations in later use in SBT (since Hudson Soft created that game instead of WAVEDGE). However, if Takara made these characters specifically for those three games, never mind what I said about them.
For me, the best Beyblade game I ever played was Super Battle Tournament on the NGC.
Overall, this game isn't one of the best Beyblade games, but not one of the worst either. Beyblade: Ultimate Blader Jam (GBA) was MUCH worse than this. Much, much worse....
