Inazuma Eleven GO’s “battle system” is a natural evolution of its predecessors.
After a couple of hours, when Arion gains access to his first special techniques, the pacing of the story picks up, new locations open up leading to more customization options for the team, and old cameos and new characters with unpredictable ties to the first trilogy slowly start showing up, which will certainly please old fans. As a result this time around the cast feels crowded with filler characters, and fails to immediately introduce as many memorable teammates during the slow, tutorial-ish, first few chapters in the game.įortunately the only other protagonists besides Arion, Captain Riccardo Di Rigo and the villainous rival Victor Blade are more than enough to keep the player entertained in the first acts of a tale that’s ultimately built to gently introduce newcomers to the weird setting and gameplay of the series. Mark Evans, the main character of the first trilogy, was a goalkeeper, and this meant the narration focused on the Raimon Team as a whole, using the defensive role of Mark as an excuse to explore other characters and provide the player with deep story arcs about the growth of most of the 11 main players. The main difference with the “old” Inazuma Eleven games, and in particular with the first one, is that the story now centers around Arion. Arion is a talented midfielder he is immediately thrown right in the middle of the action, and in the middle of another football-based pseudo-political conspiracy. The new protagonist is just like Mark Evans, another footie nut whose enthusiasm helps glue together the dissolute Raimon Team with his contagious love for the sport. Inazuma Eleven GO is set 10 years after the events of Inazuma Eleven 3, and features a renewed cast of young soccer enthusiasts led by Arion Sherwind. The game not only delivers a smoother and better optimized user experience (for instance by allowing fast travel between locations, partially removing those pesky random encounters and streamlining the extra characters acquisition system), but adds new gameplay tweaks features that make the “soccer battles” even more engaging and rich with unpredictable variables.
Inazuma Eleven GO (released in two versions, Shadow and Light, I played the latter) is not just another sequel with prettier graphics, but rather a true step forward for the series. But it turns out I was being cautious for nothing.
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