Inazuma Eleven: Great Road of Heroes renamed Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road of Heroes, new info shared
Looks like the game is alive and well
As promise, Level-5 shared new details on Inazuma Eleven: Great Road of Heroes today, and the reveals kicked off with a name change. You can kiss the name Inazuma Eleven: Great Road of Heroes goodbye, as the game will now be called Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road of Heroes. Of course, that’s not all that was shared on this long-in-development installment of Level-5’s soccer series.
Level-5 released an entire blog that details what’s been going on with Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road of Heroes, which gives us new gameplay details, story tidbits, and more. You can read a summary of all the pertinent info below, as translated by Gematsu.
- the story has shifted to a tale of training/working hard one step at a time to achieve victory.
- the game will no longer focuses on Unmei Sasanami rounding up past Inazuma Eleven characters
- the goal is to build a proper original story, then implement past characters on top of that
- “Story Mode” will tell the story of Unmei Sasanami
- “Chronicle Mode” will allow players to round up characters from the entire history of Inazuma Eleven
- Level-5 has had trouble finding a control scheme that worked, which ate up a lot of dev time
- the “Free Soccer Interface” was settled on
- this system allows players to switch between their preferred playstyle at any time during the match
- using the “soccer game-like” controls with a controller retains the series’ unique, simple operation
- the stylus controls of past games can also be used through finger-touch
- Level-5 is considering releasing a special stylus for players who would prefer to play that way
- in handheld mode, you can position the console either horizontally or vertically
- in handheld mode, you can use touchscreen on traditional controls
- in tabletop mode, you can position the console vertically and use the controller
- in TV mode, you can play horizontally in either horizontal or vertical views
- the protagonist of Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road of Heroes loves soccer, but cannot play
- the protagonist instead acts as a coach who scouts players and builds a team
- the story isn’t about Raimon Junior High School, but instead, a new school in Nagasaki, Kyushu, Japan
- the name uses the kanji for “cloud” (雲) in it
- “Cloud” is a keyword this time as “inazuma” (lightning) is born from clouds
- Level-5 hopes to evoke a feeling of clouds swelling up to create lightning
- Unmei Sasanami’s story is no longer set in a parallel world connected to the characters of the past
- the setting and characters are now completely original
- the story is said to be one of considerable passion
- the time it takes to complete your soccer team will be the longest in the series yet
- the “soccer battles” before your team is able to play a match will be more enjoyable and strategic
- “Chronicle Mode” allows users to team up with characters from past Inazuma Eleven games
- as you clear achievements, you unlock more characters to team up with and teams to face
- more characters and teams will be added through future updates
- more info on the game is coming this Winter
Finally, Level-5 also shared new art and screens for Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road of Heroes. You can see everything they shared today in the gallery above.
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