Bakugan was Originally Better than Pokemon... | Shady Script 

This game is also unique to me for showing that the silent custom protagonist isn’t necessary. Like the purpose of that cliche is to have a character represent you the player making it your story but this game refutes that by having a fully voiced protagonist but is still a completely blank slate having the best of both worlds a player character unique to them along side character development and character interaction.

A remake of this game with every bakugan and a continued story from the original series is something I would pay a lot for lol

The Bakugan Battle Brawlers video game for the Wii is one of my favorite video games of all time. It takes the admittedly pretty mediocre card game and makes it an absolute blast.

Bakugan Battle Brwalers and New Vestroia are 100% better than early pokemon. Later the series jumped the shark to sell product, but the first 2 Arcs still hold up to this day in my humble opinion.

I always respected Bakugan highly but seeing this game run through got me interested in playing it. I love a game with a storyline and content based on the actual anime. This one goes off into its own original scenario.🤔💭

As a kid the battle royal with julie at the end felt like a dark souls boss

One small detail I noticed a while back is that all of the players who worked for Masquerade are carrying their Bakugan shooter in-game (which, oddly enough, they don't use since they throw their Bakugan by hand) Masquerade himself doesn't carry or use it

Bakugan is my childhood! Love the anime to death when it's first aired and the video game when I first played.

This game is incredible man. I've loved it since I was a kid, and it's incredibly underrated. As for the anime, I've only ever watched the first season but it's honestly excellent! It has a serious story with stakes, but is still a ton of fun to watch. I loved it as a kid, and I can still enjoy it now.

If I went back and watched it again I know it would look worse, but Bakguan still feels a lot less cheesy than the other childhood shows in my memory, even Yugioh! It was gritty, had good animation and fights, CHARACTER DEATHS, and Masquerade's identity reveal was just epic.

My favorite part of the DS game was listening to that intro.

The music for this game for the arenas really slapped

The soundtrack in Battle Brawlers Wii was so good for no reason

In all honesty, Id says the one issue Bakugan had that even Pokemon had anime-wise is music change, script change, and even censorship. So as much as someone could say Bakugan was a more mature show than Pokemon, that only works if you have seen the unaltered Japanese version. I have to say, after finally getting around to watching the show in its original form, we got robbed of some good content, both music-wise and even character-wise.

I wish Leonidas was in Defenders of the Core or whatever the season 2 game is called. The setting where it is more about beating up your enemies in a large area is absolutely perfect for Leonidas. The setting also had it that the player was from a different dimension so why wasn’t it the brawler from the first DS game?

Dont even need to watch the video: I am someone who played the video games and watched the animes, and I can confirm this. Bakugan Battle Brawlers and Bakugan New Vestroia was definitely on par, if not better than, Pokemon. Granted, this is when Diamond and Pearl was out, so it was definitely hard competition during that time, but still.

They really put Astroid Videos losing to a nuzlock at the end XD

Absolutely correct my man I still think it is better but that's my opinion. The reboot did kind of drop the ball but this second reboot looks way better than Battle Planet lol! (also what about the stay mechanic where if all 3 of your Bakugan are on gate cards you can choose one to "Stay" and then if that Bakugan isn't touched your next turn you get the Bakugan back and the gate card) Anyways really cool video this game was my very first video game and I still play it and the physical game to this very day! Bakugan was my childhood man and I love it nice to see there is still Bakugan fans like me out there!

Lol the casual clip of frank at the end

12:05 you can farm g-power and do sphere attack with ability of *pyrus strike* or when you fall on the enemy bakugan (but hard to do).

Man, I've always loved the positioning and 5head moments in the show as a kid and really wised it would have leaned more into that than play infinite ability card into win the later seasons and gen 2 devolved into

I loved this franchise when I was a kid. One aspect I always wished was that the Brawlers would get more partners to where they would get a team of three each, so they could make the story feel more like the game. Unfortunately, to me, each season just made everyone pick exactly one Bakugan that they would constantly use, and the show got further and further from how the game was played.

You know what's better than both? The Persona series. Persona to me feels like a direct upgrade to Pokemon which is funny to say since they're not made by the same company. I went in depth about this in my Top 10 games not worth playing video where Pokemon took the number 6 spot.

Now that I have watched the videoI would like to mention how power shots and the Pyrus power shot (OP in my opinon) can actually knock off other Bakugan giving you an auto win for that card and the difficulty if honestly really nicely scaled as you play in myopinion so much so that I did honestly struggel at some points even 10 or so years later after playing it.

I just realized Leonidus is bane

Nawwwww spitting facts Bakugan slapped over Pokémon all the way up to new vestroia after that it fell off o remember when I was kid I would watch this over ash losing all the time but after vestroia it became mid asf and we got Diamond and pearl I think and that series was animated amazing

I think the only season I liked other than season 1 from the show was the with battle gears. I generally liked that.

As a show I will agree Bakugan is better than Pokemon however if in context we're trying to battle the idea Bakugan Battle Brawlers the game being better than Pokemon I'd disagree, though the game mechanics can be quite interesting, along with the story and creation of leonitas very compelling overall, I think looking back there are things that are very cliche, cheap, and low budget to the Battle Brawlers game. Even though older pokemon games have the same vibe where they can be cliche or the pixel art isn't the greatest especially with Pokemon yellow looking more low quality than the other versions of the same gen(red, blue, green) I'd battle that they still have a better budget, with all things considered. I played the battle brawlers game when it first came out and I think nostalgically it's a great game but going back to it is a bit rough because one of the dislikes i have for the game that could be seen as minor is the fact that when creating a character you can't choose to be female for some reason which is odd, considering the main battle brawlers team has 3 females, (julie, runo, and alice), and the second one would be it didn't represent well how a battle should feel or be. Shows like Pokemon, Yugioh, etc. are all shows that are based off a strategy game, with strategy mechanics, and for each of their representative games translate well from show to game however, for the bakugan battle brawler game does not, and would have wished for the bakugan battle brawler game to have represented the in game mechanics we saw in the show, as well saw it to be a combination of digimon and yugioh, combining card game mechanics with the story being more similar to digimon, the mechanics felt kind of off, where you'd just spin the ball around the arena and most of the times you'd just wunna skip those mechanics and get to the fight -- but the fights also felt lack luster as there was no real strategy, I understand this was way long ago and the opponents are npcs, however the fights should have some sort of strategy, and not just activate your most powerful attack and win, this is ofc my piece and feel free to disagree with how I view it.

nah the second game went harder than the first but both goated

The Bakugan anime better than the Pokémon anime? Yeah in my opinion there is no comparison the characters, story and pretty much everything is better in the bakugan anime, I loved it as a kid. But the Bakugan game better than any of the Pokémon games? Absolutely not, It’s definitely a good game for any Bakugan fan but it is not better than any Pokémon game by any stretch of the imagination (except for BDSP of course)

I agree with the tittle

I love Bakugan

It's not controversial it used to be truth.

Ok

Lol I can’t ever look at bakugan without thinking of beyblade cause the character are almost one for one with the characters from that show and I prefer beyblade over bakugan at least the original series after that it went down hill. People often make fun of beyblade cause it’s a show about spinning tops like bro Pokémon is a show about mythic wild animals that people capture and force to fight each other a show about spinning tops is far more realistic to a point.

if bakugan do more game like bakugan battle brawlers then will better than pokemon

Facts 100%

It was good season one but it was in no where near pokemons level

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I also really like Bakugan and thought it was better than Pokémon. Bakugan being creatures from another world and can communicate with humans has always been a cool concept to me. The universe of the Bakugan anime (both original and reboot) is very interesting to me.

The problem of later seasons was cutting most of the original characters and bakugan for completly new ones who would last only for a season so you couldn't get attached to them. Than there's the whole mechanization thing: battle gear, mechtogan, mechtogan titans, they cheaped out on ability cards in my opinion too, also all the original bakugan, not just the 6 fighting ones, they all...dissapeared...where? And Drago is supposed to be the most powerful Bakugan in existence yet he struggles every season deafeating regular bakugan?

When I was a kid, I knew about Pokémon and Yu-Gi-Oh but I could never really get into it but then I started watching Bakugan and I fell in love with it and I watched season one and half of season two. I also play the Bakugan video game and I still have it for my DS, and it is a blast. The reboot would never compare to the OG Bakugan Bakugan brawl !

this was one of my all-time favorite games as a kid you really hit home with this video I really enjoyed going back in time and appreciating it with you

I remember playing this as a kid and i could never get past the battle royale with runo marucho and julie cause julie would destroy everything in her path 😂

I played the ds version of that game and it was vastly different, same exact story but the gameplay was toned down and more touch screen focused

what killed og BG was oversimplicity on the toy/game side, the overstated anime,and Also choosing to be over-experimental (a bloody tower defense game, really?!) with the games instead of improving off this ones systems.

I really liked Battle Brawlers, but never could dig the cartoon. Which is incredibly ironic because I didn't like the Pokemon games, but did the anime. I now like them all. Something just seemed off about Dan as a kid(I don't know why or what), and who wants to grind their Pokemon as a kid. The Pokemon anime is better imo, but to be fair I have seen more of Pokemon. For the games though, I prefer Bakugan: Battle Brawlers got hooked and Defenders of the Core was unlike other Wii games(take that as you will). Bakugan really just seems cooler as games imo.

I still wish they added more to the story because the story was good but it made me feel like it was still incomplete. We never got to resolve the conflict with Hal G ourselves compared to the anime and left little after play and no epilogue after we got back Leonidas. It would have been cool to at least try and get Vladitor back since we got the silent core and tried to revive all those who have fallen into the doom dimension and Hal G constantly attacking us and eventually succeeds in taking back the core or holding a grand tournament where he steals it back or something. I mean they literally modeled Hal G and Naga so why not add them to the roster of the games playable characters along with Alice instead of her just being stuck in the shop make her able to fight too. And I wished there was a hard mode to the game where it opened more minigames than the timing, shooting, and button battles and made it to where it had more of the anime rules such as if your bakugan lost the battle you cannot use it again for the remainder of that battle. P.S. Who else got confused when Jenny and Jewels talked and their voices were swapped compared to the anime?

I've had a love for this game ever since it came out. I've played all the versions (Wii, non-Wii console, and DS) and I love the Nintendo versions the best, despite the lower graphic quality. The motion controls felt intuitive ( if a bit clunky ), but being able to shoot at the opponent using the motion controls just feels right. And the DS version has touch controls that feel perfect for the game itself.

God, I remember the original Bakugan being one of the first shows that I genuinely loved as a kid. The reveal of Masquerade’s identity was the first time I ever experienced a plot twist in a show, and I cannot describe the amount of mental whiplash that moment gave me as a child.

I would say it had potential of becoming as popular as Pokemon. I was in 5th grade when I found Bakugan from my little sister and loved the toy. It had some problems but so did Pokemon when it came out so I was gonna give it a pass and hoped its sequel got better. But then most ignored its original gameplay and went to fighting games and other types of games while barely having any stories. It such a shamed caused I'd still believed Bakugan could've been more popular if they fixed the game mechanic and strategized more in the gameplay but sadly they went a different route. Bakugan will always have a special place in my heart and I will always say it had a missed opportunity to becoming more popular.

This should have had a 2nd game that continued with Leonidas. I loved him cause I was actually able to attach to my character and Leonidas.

Bakugan was my childhood. Dan was way better than Gen 1 Ash, Shun was way better than Gen 1 Gary, Masquerade was way better than Gen 1 Team Rocket/Giovanni, etc

I agree. I think the beginning of New Vestroya was also pretty great, but over time that show started declining fast. But you know what they both have in common? If it's a new series, don't hope to be a mc.

This game is an absolute masterpiece. Change my mind.

Man, I bought this game on a whim when I saw it at a dollar store and I was not disappointed. For a game you would think is a throwaway brand tie-in shovelware title it is actually a good game. Engaging gameplay and meaningful progressing made for a tight experience. Would not have been mad to have paid a good bit more for it.

This game was THE BEST bakugan game ever and sold really well that I don't get why they never did a similar one again later and instead changed the formula a million times! Hope they remake it with multiplayer since the computer was always easy to beat and I am sure it would do well like the new megaman remakes with multiplayer :D

Season 1 was goated. Season 2 was decent but lacked a overall cohesive plot with the latter arcs and felt underwhelming. Later seasons were a mess. The show became formulaic and gimmicky and most characters didnt matter anymore with half of them constantly being replaced. The characters don't grow much beyond season 1 and the interesting ones were sidelined and replaced. The sound design and music also got old as they always reused the same osts. The stakes and challenges they had to overcome in seasons 1 and early season 2 are not really present in later seasons. Gundalian Invaders was okay, but new characters like Ren and Fabia should been given more spotlight as main characters. Ren's arc was basically done when he became a good guy. Mechtanium Surge part 1 was a mess. Characters arguing and fighting over the dumb stuff only for it to be resolved in like one episode. I understand why they might have changed the cast, but removing all the original female members never sat right with me. Runo's is delegated to just being Dan's female friend/cheerleader same with Julie. Alice is more understandable as she always had a more passive role, but it would been nice to see more of her. Retiring half the old cast would been fine if they actually replaced them with characters that stuck, even the partner bakugan got replaced except Drago so there's no attachment. I stopped caring about Shun and Marucho's bakugan after a while cuz i knew they were just gonna replace them again. The game was kinda fun when it first came out, but most people just collected the toys and later no one cared about the game. Season 1 had twists and turns where you legitimately weren't sure what was gonna happen.

Growing Up, I was _obsessed_ with Bakugan for like 4 years, I watched the first 3 seasons (ofc the first is the best), I bought the Wii game, I had 3 official bakugan cases full of the little orbs... I remember the Drago that connected all together with the others to make a larger the size of an action figure! Ah man, misprints, alternates, old vs. new sizes... The Bakugan Game for the PS2 is something I unironically use in my software testing because it has an interesting history in emulation... This show used to be so cool, and I could keep over explaining everything I remember, but I wish it got more popular and didnt fizzle out after the initial season, it holds a big spot in my memories from childhood...

Man, I fucking adored this game as a kid. If it got a switch remake I’d be so happy😊

You forgot to mention this, if you perform a Sphere Attack on a bakugan, and that knocks the bakugan off the card, that counts as a critical KO, and you win the card instantly.

I remember the reveal of Masquerade being Alice was like 😮

Man Bakugan now that's a name I haven't heard a decades I remember when came out when I was a kid and the game I got for the Wii Good Times....

I agree bakugan much better series than pokemon. Not only story but the monster bakugan it cooler than pokemon. And pokemon series also become child figure just for kid. Not enjoyable for teenager and adult

Literally download this on my emulator like 2 months ago this game was simple but amazing I had it for Nintendo ds

Bakugan season 1-2 were so good especially in the japanese dub. If we kept up with that type of story although it wouldn't be better than the likes of maybe digimon, I'd say it easily surpassed pokemons best seasons

The first season was good, but I honestly wouldn't say better than Pokémon. Now season 2 though, DEFINITELY! I prefer New Vestroiah in basically every way, from setting, to characters, to gameplay to music; it just seems all so perfect for me! As far as the games go, I also prefer New Vestroiah's, but this one isn't too far behind, and some sort of mixture between the two would've been amazing! Season 3 was... good, just good. Definitely a downgrade, but I wouldn't say bad. Season 4 however... I can't say the same about. As far as the reboot goes, I can't comment on it since I haven't seen it yet, though I would definitely like to, and will, once I'm done rewatching the original 4 seasons and replaying this game and Defenders of the Core.

I won’t lie beyblade and bakugan hit me so much harder than Pokémon at first

Season 1 and 2 was alright it wasn't until they entered the vistoria arc is where things went down hills

when i played this game on the Wii. i loved it. what made me sad is it was over way to fast... it needed to be longer!

I love Bakugan as a kid I miss the OG

They need to bring bakugan back on switch and remaster it so they can add more content like vestroia and so on (not including reboot)

the bakugan anime and games started out great and deteriorated over time I wish bakugan had succeeded and kept making good games and anime

i always thought Bakugan was more cooler and badass back then in both of its anime and games more than pokemon. Bakugan had more sick characters and creatures than what was currently airing in the pokemon anime and for me bakugan just clicked. Unfortunately it's not where i would have wanted the franchise to go currently, but the original bakugan stuff was still so cool

Season 1 was the goat and i liked season 2 but lord help me 3 and 4 just fell apart.

I played the game on the DS when i was a kid and still have the game. If i remember correctly the story is a little different but overall the same premise

I'm here to defend the Wii's motion controls, they are really good and responsive once you get the hang of it, they definitely make the game more engaging than the PS2 version, and they are better than the PS3's version motion controls.

Like you, I have the Wii version of the game but why is yours so smooth in terms of how it feels compared to mine? Anyway, I think this series is heavily slept on. This game is what got me into the series in the first place. I still to this day play this game despite me being 21.

I had this game on the DS and now I’m searching for the game and a ds lmao

Man, I remember playing this game and going for Darkus(Leo looks cooler as darkus IMO) and for the haos tournament i just bought an entire haos deck(With Tigrera in it) but i made sure to have Leo's g power maxed out before he evolved and buy cards for the finale- Aaaaah, good times. :3

This game is so nostalgic for me. I remember playing it in spanish because I only new portuguese.

Ngl, the videogame concept kinda slaps. I can get behind a kid with their edgy Darkus Bakugan partner barreling their way into becoming a main protag acknowledged by the cast DANG, the 2nd tournament ends with 3 antags teaming up? Yeah, this videogame is heat Love the AstroidManiaVideos cameo!

This game could have been great if it actually had a battle system like either Pokémon or Yu-Gi-Oh!, but it tried to to both and created a minigame collection instead of actual mechanics.

I remember really liking the first season then getting desensitized by how much Drago evolves every damn season.

ok i love bakugan but the reboot sucked i only stick with legacy and this game was super good felt like you're part of the battle brawlers

Disclaimer: This isn't a hate comment, I just like to leave critical reviews of things I am passionate about and I love both Bakugan and Pokemon. This video is entertaining, but I'd rename it something like "Why you should play Bakugan Battle Brawlers for Wii" because you didn't talk about the main point of the video except in the intro and the conclusion which doesn't make a strong argument. The conclusion also isn't a strong one because Nuzlockes and competitive battles are actually a very small portion of the Pokemon community, especially in the timeframe of when this game and the original Bakugan show was airing. Competitive Pokemon didn't even begin until 2009, which is when this game came out, and the competitive scene has grown larger every year since then in terms of attendance and viewership online. But the biggest detriment to the argument that Bakugan (even originally) was better than Pokemon is sales. While Bakugan Battle Brawlers for Wii is a fantastic and fun game, it isn't even in the top 63 (I know, weird number but that's the whole list on the website) Wii games listed on Wikipedia. The bottom of the list only scratches 1 million units, meaning this game must have sold less. Every main-series Pokemon game and the vast majority of the spin-off titles sold better this game, and this game came out during the peak of Bakugan. So it's a hard sell to say Bakugan was better originally than Pokemon objectively, but maybe it can be argued that Bakugan is underrated even with all the hype that surrounded it back in the day. Bakugan was a massive sensation for everyone around me in my life back in elementary/middle school. So it is hard to imagine the scene being even bigger, but I imagine the growth was only propelled by kids. Has anyone ever heard of an adult playing Bakugan back in the day? Because I only see that now-a-days because of the reboot from those that played as kids. Again, this video was a fun watch and I enjoyed reminiscing about my own experience playing this game, but I cannot agree with your points based on this video alone. Keep up the fun content! I hope to see more!

What's funny is I had this game on DS as a kid, so the controls and everything was conpletely different. The story was still the same, but there was no voice acting nor characters that moved a whole lot unless the movement was small or specific. The minigames were also pretty different. From what I remember, from the obes you mentioned, the popping minigame was one of the only ones they had in common. If I'm remembering correctly, one minigame requires you to slide the stylist back and forth on the touch screen as fast as possible. Another one has you following a loop as best as you can using a stylist (the longer you hold, the better the output). Something I noticed that you didn't mention (probably because it was unique to the DS version) is that while rolling the Bakugan, the NPC's can also try to manipulate the Bakugan to either go to one of their Gate Cards or have it stop, which has you wasting said Bakugan. Despite the differences, I remember loving the game A LOT as a kid, choosing 3 Bakugan of different types so I can use the Ability Card that gives a Bakugan 400 G Power I think? Or something like that. I just liked seeing the number get big.

New vestroyer was very good after that, it became weak but it’s still not that bad.

Honestly anything is better than Pokémon. Every monster design in Beyblade,bakugan and Yu-Gi-Oh is just fundamentally superior to the Pokémon designs. Like why do we live in a universe where all of these fantastic series get left in the dust but get a franchise that literally has some of if not the WORST monster designs ever conceived by mankind?

I wish the game also went over the second part of season 1. It would be a challenge since the hybrid gatekeepers don’t have ball forms or brawlers to use them but if the game could already make unique bakugan and brawlers, why couldn’t it make followers of Naga that use the hybrids? Naga could have found pieces of Vladitor and revived him to try and take his power but he fights back. Vladitor then returns to earth injured to warn the brawlers about Naga’s plans and help them take the fight to him. I think the player being there should change the ending a little by letting Wavern live and Vladitor & Leonidas become the new silent and infinity cores.

Me, who still has the Wii game, "Defenders of the core" and "Champions of Vestroia" along with the new Gen 3 Bakugan toys: "Just a fan, here😅"

Owned the xbox 360 and ds version of this game. I liked the additional finesse of the 360 version, but preferred the controls of the DS version.

The funny thing about the game is that the ds version is way different than the ps2 version. The ps2 version is an easy and chilling game when the strongest bakugan win. While in the ds version you can activate only one ability in any moment during the battle, so u may been winning the fight but before the countdown ends ur opponent use the ability to change the score and you lose, and there's nothing u can do about it. So the only way to win is to anticipate what ur opponent may do.

I dont know if this point is braught up in the video seein as I am at work and cant watch it yet, but one detail I like is that in Leonidesis field card he is the Haos or the Light element (meaning that if this was a cannonical Bakugan in the show he would be Haos elemented) in contrast to the main antagonists Bakugan which is Darkus or the Dark element which is a nice littel detail with Light vs Dark Good vs Bad or Evil OR I am just reading too much into it.

I love Bakugan and unpopular opinion but I love season 2 more than one but it's downhill after that. Also as much as I love season 2 the game is just meh and not as good as this one. Defender core had interesting idea but it's pale compared to the first game

I adored Bakugan for the first few seasons. Even New Vestroia was great imo. After that tho… yeah, Bakugan just lost all interest from me.

the sad thing is its never gonna get remastered

I went back to replay this game last year. I truly had a great childhood!

I also adore this game, I played it on the wii first aswell!

I remember replaying this game over and over on my DS when it came out. I almost want to see if I can find that cartridge again, pretty sure it's in storage somewhere