Bakuten Shoot Beyblade 2002: Fierce Battle! Team Battle!! (爆転シュート ベイブレード2002 激戦！チームバトル！！) are the paired sequels to Bakuten Shoot Beyblade - Gekitou! Saikyou Blader. There are two versions of the game; Blue Dragon Chapter -Takao Arc- (青龍の章-タカオ編-, Seiryū No Shō -Takao-hen-) and Yellow Dragon Chapter -Daichi Arc- (黄龍の章-ダイチ編-, Kōryū No Shō -Daichi-hen-)
About[]
The two versions of the game determine which Beyblader the player starts out with Tyson or Daichi (it is possible to get the missing blader). The gameplay is the same as the previous two games in the series with one addition. Beybladers are now in "teams", those teams are as they are seen in the original series and V-Force.
The team featured for battling against are; Bladebreakers (depending on which game version you have, depends on if Takao or Daichi is in the team), White Tigers, All Starz, Demolition Boys, Majestics, Saint Shields, Team Psykick, and Bladebreakers. The player must defeat each team and progress through the game, with each team slowly getting stronger each stage of the way. Before each match, players select 3 of the 4 bladers they have set up for their team for battle. At the start only the Bladebreakers, White Tigers, All Starz and the Demolition Boys are able to be fought and unlocked. Other teams will be unlocked after their defeat.
Most teams have a similar theme throughout, specialising in one or two traits. For example, the All Starz tends to focus on launch abilities and have a strong launch, giving them a good start to each match as they damage the players characters at the start of the match with the intent to knock out weak bladers as soon as the battle begins (as in the show). Though once the battle begins they are not that strong overall.
In addition to this (though not always the case);
- One will be the strongest, they will have the best stats overall and be the hardest to beat.
- One will be the weakest of the 4 and the easiest to defeat.
- One will the highest in defence.
- One will have the highest attack.
Kaoru Amou and Makoto Amou return, and are joined by new characters Shougo Namba and Haruka Chizan. Their team name is changed too, going from Team Chizan to Team Amou. Their team acts as the finale team to beat in the game.
Recruitment[]
The player begins with three weak bladers: Seichi, Michiru, and Tanner Connor and either Tyson or Daichi (depending on version). These bladers have no fighting spirits or "Bit-Beast" and will need replacing as they only learn the three basic moves of the game and thus have no special moves. Though it is possible to beat the game with them, it will be a struggle to do so and is unrecommended for this reason. Players can name their own team though the default is "ABK".
The player can recruit other teams players for their own team over the course of the game, with each new unlocked team or teams being stronger then those unlocked previously, slowly giving the player stronger teams over time. As such, later unlocked teams like the Saint Shields are stronger then earlier teams like the White Tigers, and challenging other teams becomes more and more difficult as the game progresses.
The strengths of each blader is different and the majority of teams have bladers like Kevin who are weak and each teams "leader" is the strongest member of that team; thus Ian versus Tala is a match unfairly pitched in Tala's favour. However, because of the way the teams progress, even the weakest blader of the stronger teams can be stronger then the bladers of weaker teams. So a character like Ian can be stronger then Lee at times despite Lee being the strongest of the White Tigers.
All Bladers level up and get stronger, and can be unlocked in game via a special match up as the team is unlocked, meaning unlocking the Saint Shields will allow the player to recruit all members and assign them to your own team. However, BBA team players are lined-up as substitutes and will replace any member you take onto your own team once unlocked. For example, if you recruit Mariah from the White Tigers, Rei will replace her. Max replaces any member of the USA team and Kai the Russian team. Using more then one blader from each team or using one blader and their replacement from the BBA team will make make the player unable to fight that team.
The 5 BBA Beyblades Max, Tyson, Daichi, Kai and Rei have 1 extra attack move over all other beybladers in the game, allowing them to attack at times when other characters cannot. As a result, they can be some of the stronger characters in the game making it not always the best option to allow BBA members to replace members of a team. Thus, taking Tala onto the players team causes Kai to replace him as leader on the Demolition Boys making the team harder to beat. As a note, the opposing main character (Daichi and Tyson) are the option for replacement BBA characters. So if the player has Tyson it is Daichi who is the replacement character. If the play as the correspondent BBA character and a member of the team, or two members of the same team, the team cannot be completed and this removes them as battle options. So having both Rei and Lee, or alternatively Kevin and Lee, takes the White Tigers out of the battle choice options.
As well, Kennosuke Shishi makes his first and only video game appearance as a solo blader. He's the most difficult to recruit.
Trivia[]
- This is the first time Strata Dragoon appears in the games.
- All bladers can be unlocked.
- If all characters are raised to their maximum level, the BBA bladers are often ranked the top bladers due to their extra move. However, overall Kai will be ranked as the strongest character, followed by Daichi and Rei. Tyson and Max, however, may not be considered by the game as the strongest and instead be placed under Kaoru Amou and Kennosuke Shishi (the strongest non-BBA bladers).
- This is partly because of how the stats of other bladers work out. Tyson and Max reach their top states in attack and defense long before most other bladers, therefore it cannot be raised any higher despite them gaining more levels. The stat increase is not distributed elsewhere either. This causes them by top level to be overall weaker then many other bladers in the game.
- Kai on the other hand has the most overall even of the 5 BBA characters and does not suffer as much.
- Rei and Daichi do not register as being as strong as him due to "where" their states are gained.
- The state gain for all 5 bladers is fairly even, simply due to where also their stat gains lay.
- Weak bladers also have less stat raises per level making raising the weak members of each team less rewarding. At the highest level, there will be clear stronger and weaker bladers no matter what.
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