Hello to Barely Playable Games!

I had a bit of extra time in one of my streams, so I stumbled upon your game and, well... I have some feedback!

My first impression was to chuckle at all the wordplay in your game; it made for a fun time together with the character portraits and names.

The music and sfx sounded good and added to the excitement; it felt along the lines of quite a number of Japanese games I've played, so no complaints there. Although, it also means that it didn't really stand out too much for me to get hooked on it. Most were upbeat, and overall everything fit the feel of your game.

I went through your tutorial first and found that it was hard to follow the text at the bottom while playing the game at the same time. Since the game required me to use the left and right mouse buttons to activate my abilities, it also unfortunately skipped over a ton of text, which left me confused whenever I did get to read a line since i missed a few before it. Basically finished the tutorial thinking I got the gist of the game but a bit unsure of what I missed.

I lived in the Philippines for few years so I was surprised to have a character from there! I didn't really like playing with her much as the skills weren't in my play style... (not to be taken out of context) =X I do like that there were a lot of other abilities between the character choices, though, and when I have more time, I'll try to come back and explore them more. I think Ash was still the easiest for me to play and win with.

One thing that I noticed was that there was a bit of getting used to regarding the bowl physics. I found myself flying off the playing area when I had a lot of speed when I thought that the incline and curvature would let me rotate around more. That said, I think the speed boost needs to have some rule where it can't spawn within distance of any player because at one point it spawned under me while i was using Ash's left click and flew right off.

Lastly, gameplay diversity. I'd like to see more spawning powerups and also possible debuffs to avoid; I only ever really saw the speed boost. Would also be interesting if there were other map considerations, like bumps or water. Not sure if that'd be a thing.

It's a fun game that takes a bit of getting used to. My kids played a bit of Beyblade so yeah... the play of words with the Bae's was also a good chuckle.

Thanks for submitting your game!

Regards,

- Glim
GlimMusic.com

I’ve never played one of these top battler games, but this was a fun toy! Gaining and using momentum was engaging and I liked some of the character abilities (especially the ramming attacks). Showing character life by wobbling is nice and makes sense. And free for all mode was chaotic! Engaging game overall, even if I wouldn’t usually play this type lol

The text on the character selection screen was pretty hard to read on my tv, I’m not sure if there was a way to embiggen that?
Also does scroll wheel do anything? The camera controls were confounding, especially since I never needed to zoom while playing and it was one of the first things the tutorial made me do.

I had a lot of fun playing this! Trying out different parts and seeing how they changed each match was really enjoyable. The physics add a nice sense of chaos to the battles, and the short rounds keep the gameplay engaging. It would be cool to see more arenas and customization options in the future. Great job!

BEAT BABES YELLOW 

Cool game, the mechanics were surprisingly fun. I know you've just updated the tutorial, but I actually think you could just go straight into a simple match at the start and then add in the mechanics and tutorialise them when needed instead of having a bunch of dialogue at the start. The basic gameplay is pretty intuitive and it would be good to get people having fun asap and then addding in other stuff on top of that once they have the context for why it matters if that makes sense.

I also know alot of the art is placeholder and you're getting it commissioned which is great, but I would comment that the UI aesthetic is also pretty obviously AI generated so I would look into changing that up a bit too. I dont think it would be insanelly hard, you could just find a game UI asset pack and use that. 

I don't have much more feedback outside of what others have said, but good luck with it!

Fun game! There’s a lot more skill involved than I first realized. Each character felt different than the other, that’s a great achievement given how simple the concept is, and it was really easy to pick up, but still deep enough to keep going.

Most of what I could suggest is related to UI: The tutorial is a bit odd to navigate given the dialogue boxes block some sections of the arena. Also, I would’ve loved to see the full skill descriptions while on career mode, right now I only saw them show up on character selection.

The gameplay is very solid, and I can’t think of something specific to suggest, other than seeing more content, which I guess is a good sign you’ve got something good going on.

Great job!

This game was really fun! It felt very mechanically dense for such a simple gameplay loop - It kind of reminded me of smash bros in that regard; easy to pick up, but there's a lot more going on under the surface. I also think the theming is really on point. You seem to know your audience! I think one of the driving forces in my continued enjoyment of the game was getting to see the new challenger characters in the breakneck mode and getting to read their flavor text. It's a fun coat of paint to put on these mechanics.

I think *maybe* an interactive tutorial would be a nice inclusion? The game is pretty easy to pick up once you've played a bit, but I'll be honest, I found my eyes sort of glazing over when I was reading the how to play section. It's definitely easier to learn by playing than by reading. I do think the training mode is a really good addition, but I'd love a short tutorial introduction. 

Truly the biggest thing that would prevent me from playing the game is the use of AI art, so knowing that you're in the process of replacing that is great to here. Good stuff! 

I played it on stream around 36:30

The concept is unique, and the presentation feels polished. The physics-based battles are satisfying, while the characters, UI, and sound give the game a strong identity. However, I often couldn’t tell whether my actions were effective. Sometimes I attacked an opponent but ended up losing more health than they did, and I wasn’t sure why. This makes the fights difficult to follow for a new player. Clearer feedback about damage, successful actions, and what causes the player to lose health would make the game much easier to understand.

Interesting game overall. For some reason it reminded me a little of Bakugan mixed with those robot fighting shows like BattleBots or Robot Wars. Not in a direct way, more just the general feeling and energy of it.

I also really liked the visual style. The way the buttons and interface elements react and move is especially nice and gives the game a lot of personality.

There are still a few rough edges here and there, but overall it was a fun and memorable experience.

I do love the idea of a Beyblade game, and the gameplay was basically everything I imagined it to be so thats great. I am still not entirely sure if I understood most of anything about the Game, but I imagine it similar to a scenario of normal fighting games where any casual player would get immediately destroyed when playing online, atleast based on the amount of stuff that was on the Tutorial. Probably still not the best idea to have so much stuff right at the start though, it feels like a situation where you need a basic tutorial and an advance one separately, since I did basically start skipping over text when i realised how much of it there was.

I did figure out that Reina is probably the best character, since even without knowing anything I was actually able to beat the AI at hard difficulty in both the 1 vs 1, and free for all, so plenty satisfied with the progress made. Didn't actually do the Breakneck though seemed like it would take too long.

The Game does do mostly everything right, the one thing that did feel kinda off was how big the Menu Buttons got when they were hovered on but that's just a minor nitpick. 

Just a heads-up that I played this on a MacBook Air using the trackpad, so please keep that in mind for some of the control feedback!

First of all, I really liked the sound design. Hearing both my character and the opponent actually having voices added a lot, and the background music was great too. It honestly made me realize how much I’ve been neglecting sound in my own game.

While playing, I kept thinking this could feel really good with an analog stick and some controller vibration feedback. I’m not sure if it was mainly because I was using a trackpad, but the whole spinning mechanic feels like something that could be especially satisfying with a gamepad. Is controller support / vibration already possible? I don’t have a controller with me right now, so unfortunately I couldn’t test that.

I also think there’s something really fun about applying the physical motion of rotating an analog stick directly to this kind of gameplay mechanic.

The waifu art style is definitely pretty niche. Personally I tend to prefer softer styles like Blue Archive, so it isn’t exactly my taste, but I can absolutely see it working well for people who are into this particular style.

Also, considering this is a web game, everything felt surprisingly responsive. Moving between screens was quick and immediate, and overall it feels very well optimized.

I’m still not very familiar with this type of game, so maybe I’m missing some of the deeper strategy, but after hitting the opponent a few times I actually won because they flew out of the arena. It seems like there are probably two main approaches: knocking the opponent out of bounds or reducing their HP directly. That distinction seems like it could create some interesting strategy once you understand the mechanics better.

after a first pass on my phone, I am very impressed with the amount of detail in the mechanics and the art. This type of game i usually need a decent amount of time to get comfortable as i am slower to take up on quick twitch style games. I will make some time to play on my PC at home and provide more thorough feedback here as well as on the form. Thanks for your insight into my game. I will attempt to reciprocate to the best of my abilities.

Came over to check this out because of the pretty well thought out feedback you left on my entry. And I have to preface with that because I must admit this really is not my kind of game at all: I find thirst traps really cringe, I generally dislike roguelites, and I've never owned a beyblade! Take some of this with a grain of salt, I didn't play a whole lot, this is my best attempt to explain why I bounced off the game on first impression.

I'll start with some stuff I liked. I am genuinely very impressed with your presentation. The game is very well put together, and your itch page is fantastic. Game feel is also pretty nice, lots of good effects and the impacts feel satisfying and strong.

I think I'm most struggling with the tutorial. For how incredibly remarkably simple the game actually is at it's core, you have soooo much text explaining every little detail. I don't need to read an essay about the different types of collisions, especially since there's some physical intuition behind it. I can figure that out as I go, you're depriving me of any possible "ah-ha" moments in gameplay where things click. And I don't understand why there were 10 panels of tutorial text for the Breakneck run when it seemed like the only thing I could do was click "enter fight". 

And at the same time I felt some things were incredibly under-explained. I didn't understand any of the "Remix" choices I was presented with. What does "grind that you started stores force, and throws you both apart when it ends" even mean? It's phrased so unnaturally. Most roguelike choices I've seen in other games are way more digestible, broken down by passive or active benefit, and usually quite simple but impactful, the complexity comes from the cumulation of choices, not all at once.  And the house rule I was shown reads "Placed control geometry is drawn for everyone and holds a little longer, so the encounter reads as a command structure rather than a surprise" those sure are some words. I don't know what any of that means. "placed control geometry"? "command structure"? I saw little rings appear on the field, but nothing seemed to indicate what they did.

I'm of two minds about the actual gameplay. On one hand I do think it's kinda fun to control and play around with the abilities and the influence, watching the tops spin about, thinking about positioning and momentum. But on the other hand it feels like I'm barely doing anything at all, like things are just kinda flying around and happening and I'm not really in control, I'm just kinda mildly influencing things. I mean it's not like a traditional fighter where you have attacks, every time you are clinking with your opponent they are clinking with you too. It just felt like a game where I clicked some buttons for visual dopamine. And the abilities were difficult to wrap my head around, like yeah of course I'll press the do more damage button. Do we need 3? Is the random clinking of spinning tops strategically demanding enough to warrant having 3 different special moves that all just make you hit harder? I know it's more nuanced than that in reality, I'm trying to learn on the fly here and when I click the button and there's no immediately obvious effect, it just kinda feels flacid.

One more minor nitpick. There's a lot of information on the top bar during combat, stuff like HP and ult charge is probably up there somewhere... but I can't take my eyes off the battle arena to even look at it, there's not enough down time for that. Showing really critical stuff on the arena, maybe on the baes themselves would be a pretty big improvement to game state readability.

Anyways that's all I got, good luck!

thanks a lot for your feedback , I checked it out for a bit playing on mobile. I like the cohesive style the characters and art work together. It was a bit laggy on but this could’ve been on my side, I imagine it plays a lot better on the PC. One thing I would comment on is the default borders I would create custom art for them unless this is a intentional design choice. Fun game. 

When I first started playing, there was a lot of UI and skill information shown all at once, so it took me some time to understand what I should focus on first. However, the game has a very unique concept, and once I got used to it, it became really fun.

The visuals and UI are really cool. I especially liked the dark background combined with the different accent colors for each character.

However, when I first started playing, I had trouble understanding what I was controlling, how to control it, and what the objective was. Even in Bootcamp, there was initially no opponent, so I tried the controls shown on screen but wasn't sure what I was supposed to be doing.

After adding a dummy and experimenting with the abilities, I gradually understood that the game is about battling other spinning tops. I think a short step-by-step tutorial showing what you control, how basic movement works, and what you're trying to do against an opponent would make the game much easier to get into.

I also had some difficulty reading the shape of the arena. It seemed to be bowl-shaped, but the slope and differences in height weren't very clear to me. Making the terrain shape a little easier to read might also make it easier to understand where and how to knock opponents around.

Once I understood the concept, I liked the idea of battling with different character abilities. The presentation, especially the UI colors and effects, looks great.

Suggestions:

• If you're looking for an artist, why don't you just commission the guy whose name is on your Stable Diffusion model? They literally name those things after the artists they were trained on.
• Likewise, please hire a real programmer. There are two, sometimes three moving objects on the screen. There's no excuse for it to run at one frame per second in the web browser. I couldn't figure out how any of my moves worked, because every time I clicked, the situation had completely changed by the next frame when the attack actually triggered.
• Despite all of this, I have to give you credit. You managed to pull it all together into a somewhat coherent package. The characters look distinct, share a cohesive style, seem like they belong in the same universe as each other, and have the correct number of fingers on each hand. That's literally the nicest possible thing I can say about AI art, so enjoy it.
• But... man, your branding is on-point. The animated background on the page, the obnoxious double entendres in the menus, the way you plug your own game at the end of your feedback to other devs... are you in marketing? I hate to admit it, but this is all on-brand.
• Likewise, there's some gamefeel here. And I'm not sure how that's even possible in a game where I can barely even tell if I'm controlling it or not. There's a lot of weight to the impacts, even though there's little to no juice (or I couldn't appreciate the juice because it had already cleared the screen by the time the next frame after an impact rendered.)
• There even almost feels like there's a setting here. The music grew on me, even though it seems a bit cheerful for a death sport. The voice acting was mostly good, and again, the characters I heard each felt pretty distinct from my pilot, yet like they belonged together.
• In conclusion, I am mildly annoyed that you somehow made an AI game enjoyable. I hope that one day you're able to rip out all the AI art and code and whatever else and replace it with real game.
• AI aside, the core idea underneath is a hot mess of jank and thirst, and we love it for it. Don't ever change. ♡ 

FUN-tastic Game! 

Visuals are just awesome. I wish I could have anything like this in my own game. Who made it? How much cost? 

UI has the only one but huge weak point: very low font size and too many UI elements on the screen at the same place. Feels too "busy", overloaded. Therefore, it does not feel comfortable to read all tutorials, descriptions and stuff. 

Audio fits perfectly fine. 

Passed through the arcade mode. After the victory in the final match, the ending/result screen popped up immediately, suddenly and unexpectedly. Just BOOM! and You Have Won! 

I have lost once and did not understand what happened. 

Go Go Power Rangers!