Maybe someday, if the stars are aligned, we can finally get our hands on the next game Inazuma Eleven of Level-5… Its initial announcement dates back to the summer of 2016, when it was to accompany the future new series of the time, Inazuma Eleven Ares. It is already completed for a long time and the game which was even to appear in the West has been postponed many times, then changed its name to become Inazuma Eleven: Great Road of Heroes (Eiyū Tachi no Great Road). According to the latest news dating from April 2021, he was expected in 2023. He finally spoke about him again this Thursday with a new name change to begin with. Now we have to call it Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road of Heroes (Eiyū Tachi no Victory Road).
As mentioned in a article very complete blog, taken over by Gematsuthis slight modification of the title is due to the fact that the story is no longer one of strong players, but of hard work to achieve victory, while allowing to propose an original story aroundUnmei Sasanami without necessarily having to bring back the characters from the old games. Thereby, The mode Story will deal with this new protagonist, while the mode Chronic will bring together players from across the history of the license.
The system obviously posed a lot of problems for developers who wanted to reproduce the touch controls of previous DS and 3DS titles, all without a stylus… gameplay was then too similar to classic football games in the demos designed by the studio, which apparently would be too difficult for users who are not good at this type of game… Yes, there is definitely something face palm reading these statements, no wonder the game is still in development with such stubbornness. However, a solution was finally found, the “Free Soccer Interface” allowing you to change your style of play at any time during a match. But even with the controls close to a classic football game, the simple operations specific to the license will remain intact. And as only the Switch is mentioned, it is planned to release a special stylus for those interested, even if our fingers will do the trick.
In fashion Portable, the console can be positioned both vertically and horizontally, with the choice of using our fingers or a joystick. On a TV screen, we will also have the possibility of modifying the field of vision to cover the terrain horizontally or vertically.
On the plot side ofUnmei Sasanami, we learn that he is unable to play football (obviously a health problem) and therefore goes to train his comrades instead. No Raimon Junior High this time, but a Nagasaki school having the kanji 雲 for “cloud” in its name. Assembling a full squad will take longer than in previous games, and the challenges leading up to it should be fun and more strategic than ever. In fashion Chronicexploits in-game will unlock more characters to build our dream team, while updates will add more over time.
Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road of Heroes is still planned on Switch as well as on PS4, iOS and Android according to the official site relaunched for the occasion. Visuals can be found on the next page.
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