I mean, it’s a JRPG where you don’t battle monsters and pantomime villains. The other main component of the game comprises the matches against the other teams the Raimon Eleven come up against, and the random “battles” Mark faces – challenges from other Raimon School students which come in a number of guises that allow Mark to level up his team.Įver since I first heard about Inazuma Eleven the element of the game I was most intrigued about was the actual football. The world map is comprised of various sections of Inazuma that Mark is asked to visit, whilst the field map is full of NPCs who, as the genre dictates, provide useful tips and conversation that flesh out the game’s lore. Mark traverses the world using the JRPG’s tried and tested formula of field and world maps. The game’s core mechanics are split into two distinct parts. Additionally, the Raimon Eleven’s opponents are a colourful bunch as much quasi-superbaddies and wry parodies as they are football teams. The Raimon Eleven are a loveable bunch of losers and slackers, cajoled into action by the ever-positive Mark Evans. The excellent story is complimented by the large and varied cast of characters. And as other, darker plot elements are brought in, the air of mystery and expert drip-feeding of narrative turning points keeps the player wanting to play on. It’s a joy to see the Raimon Eleven journey from near extinction to contenders. I won’t divulge anything else as the plot is one of the game’s strongest aspects. As the game progresses the plot thickens, becoming much more than a tale of a footballing minnow blossoming into champions elect. The team starts off as being close to closure, with Mark’s first tasks being to fend off the team’s dissolution and then to recruit new members. ![]() He’s aided by his dead Grandfather’s book of football skills, along with a variety of characters including the enigmatic centre-forward, Axel Blaze and somewhat begrudgingly by the other members of the school’s team, the Raimon Eleven. Inazuma Eleven is a console RPG that follows the exploits of Mark Evans, a football obsessed goalkeeper in the city of Inazuma hoping to take his school team to glory. Anyway, there’s a bit of back story for you and I’m sure you’ll now appreciate why I was excited to hear that Level-5 were bringing over Inazuma Eleven, until now an unobtainable piece of Japanese exotica. ![]() It’s done as much for the genre as the recent and much lauded Xenoblade Chronicles has. Incidentally, if you haven’t picked up the latter do so. On PS2 they gave us the wonderful Dark Chronicle and Rogue Galaxy, as well as revitalising the Dragon Quest IP with the gorgeous DQVIII on PS2 and DQIX on DS. Since 2000 the developer has been producing some of the most charming (a word I use a lot when referring to Level-5 games) console role-players on the market. The thing is there’s more to Level-5 than the Layton games. I mean, Nintendo were trying to con housewives into buying the last Zelda – yes, that gaming juggernaut – by cynically comparing it to Level-5’s opus. They need no introduction of course, they’re pretty much a global phenomenon. To most people Level-5 will be known as the people who gave the world the charming Professor Layton games. These last ones (to give you a few examples, there's one behind the big rock-cliff thing on the road to the stadium where you played against Kirkwood, and one just outside the stadium where you played against Wanli's friend's team) give possibly more EXP than the encounters in Sanctum, but they do appear randomly.Okay, before I start this review I need to come clean. Do note that GO1 has three types of encounters (by encounters, I mean the 5v5 matches): the static ones that can be defeated every once in a while (after beating them, they'll say they're tired), the ones that run after you, then disappear and respawn when you enter the map again, and finally the "special ones" that only appear when you enter a certain screen every once in a while. Study + Slack Off should be possible on multiple characters if you're lucky with drops, and is really useful for grinding.Īs for an actual place, I'm pretty sure that Sanctum is the place with the best "static" encounters in terms of EXP yield. If possible, scout characters with the Slack Off skill, who will gain less EXP and increase the gain for all other players of the team.
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