There's a a ton of different players in the two versions of the game, and the two can of course wirelessly trade if you've a friend playing as well. Here, scouting takes the form of a capsule vending machine - you feed coins into it, and out pops one of around 2000 players. The core team of players is a squad of eleven, and while the game's story will thrust a good number of characters to choose from in your lap, you can also recruit others through scouting. It's an isometric sprite-based title from the last generation of handheld hardware, and it shows in not being bad, but being just a little bit dated - so it's a good job the core game is good.Īs in real life, a good chunk of football in Inazuma Eleven is about how you prepare for matches before you play them - and it's here that the RPG side of the game fully rears its head.
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The 3D effect is barely used to any notable effect, and the game is played mostly on the non-widescreen bottom screen. In Japan the game was a 3DS title, and given the lengthy gap between release there and localization, Nintendo saw fit to bump it up to more current hardware.
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Those well-animated video sequences are probably the visual highlight of the game, as while it looks good there's really nothing to write homw about in Inazuma Eleven 3. The story plays out in old-school RPG fashion through in-game text - though occasional anime sequences boost major story moments. The writing is kept largely simplistic to keep the game accessible to kids, and as such characters are thankfully sketched in a very broad fashion - so it isn't too difficult to get caught up the game could just definitely handle it better.įootball and anime aren't exactly the most obvious duo, but the over-the-top moves work.The quality of the writing seems to jump around a bit, and in general there's not quite the steady hand here that's been on show in the translation of other Nintendo games that are kid friendly in their simplicity and adult friendly in the challenge they provide.
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On occasion a level of knowledge about characters, relationships and past events I simply didn't have is assumed, and I was left scratching my head. I've not played any of the other games or caught a single scene of the anime, and in places that did cause mild problems.
#Inazuma eleven 3 series
Inazuma Eleven as a series consists of a number of games - some of which didn't get a Western release - and an anime show, which mercifully has been localized if people want to track it down. One thing the series doesn't lift from Pokemon is simplicity of plot and the lack of a need for continuity. Some side stories are clearly merely distractions to lengthen the game, while others weave in and out of the core tournament story throughout the entire game with surprising deftness. The only way to do that is by playing and winning.Īs in any good RPG, this typically epic storyline is punctuated with more personal moments and interjections about the stories and relationships surrounding various major characters on the team. They've been picked to go and represent their country in a high-stakes International tournament - and to cut a long story short the team wants to prove that they're the best youth talent on the planet.
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The game's story places you in command of Inazuma International, an under-15s football team representing Japan. This entry in the series even copies the two-game Pokemon style of release - there's Lightning Bolt and Bomb Blast versions of the game, each essentially the same core game with subtle changed to side quests and teams you play to provide a difference between the games. This has the same feel, a game that's designed to be kid-friendly with excitingly-haired anime characters and RPG mechanics that appear simple and manageable, then with a surprising amount of depth lurking away behind that. Football and anime aren't exactly the most obvious duo, but the over-the-top moves work.The Pokemon comparison is certainly a good one.