![]() It is worth noting that while players do not necessarily need to have played the first two games to know what’s going on in Inzauma Eleven 3, there is an assumption that players know the happenings from the earlier entries and are already familiar with the returning cast. There are a few differences between the two versions, Lightning Bolt and Bomb Blast, the most substantial being short sections of the storyline that focus on captains of the Italian and Coté Victorie teams respectively, as well as the opponents in the aforementioned special post-game match. There’s also a bit of disappointment that a potential story arc, hinted at various points, is apparently relegated to a single, easily missed post-game match. The British naming conventions, speech patterns, and accents for all the supposed Japanese players that started with the first game is simply shrugged off and just rolled with, although it’s amusingly to see them combined with names that are rather more reflective of the origin for most of the international opponents, coupled with random words or phrases frequently inserted to indicate that, yes, these people are from another country. ![]() ![]() By the time the game ends the cast feels a little bit bloated, and while the charm is still there, there is considerably less chance for characters to shine or develop outside of a brief revelation. The game introduces a few new major characters, notably a new coach to cause some early friction with the squad and a new manager to give goalkeeper and captain Mark Evans yet another interested girl to be completely oblivious to. It’s still not quite as entertaining as that of the second game, but is more than enough to keep players interested and help set up key matches. Fortunately, things pick back up in time for the FFI finals, where the series’ traditional melodrama and bizarre importance of junior football on world events begins to resurface. ![]() There’s a small bit of intra-squad drama with a new coach and the squad selection, but it’s all resolved very quickly and the Asian opponents serve little purpose other than to walk away soundly defeated shortly after they appear. Compared to the first two games, the first part of the story feels very tame. The majority of the Raimon squad, plus a few returning opponents and entirely new characters, is quickly chosen to represent Japan, but first they must get through the Asian qualifying tournament. Again coming in two flavours, this time titled Lightning Bolt and Bomb Blast, the game is a very satisfactory but by-the-numbers end to Mark Evans and company’s time at Raimon.Ī few months after the unusual events of Inazuma Eleven 2, the creation of a new youth tournament, the Football Frontier International, is announced. Inazuma Eleven 3 attempts something similar, and while it remains just as fun to play, there maybe isn’t quite enough this time to distract from the feeling that most of this has been done before. The second game, Firestorm/Blizzard, was one that was very much a superficial build on the first, successful at least partly due to its very entertaining story. Thankfully, they will not be alone in this battle, as they will get help from a group known as the "Resistance.Despite its Saturday morning cartoon style, Level-5’s football-RPG Inazuma Eleven series has provided entertainingly melodramatic story-telling and highly enjoyable gameplay to appeal to all ages, even those who may not be huge fans of the Beautiful Game. Tenma and his teammates will look to shift this paradigm and fight back against their evil oppressors. The actions of the Fifth Sector have beaten down the country’s soccer teams, who no longer have a love for the game. This is primarily due to the fact that soccer in Japan is now controlled by a dark entity known as the "Fifth Sector." They alone decide the fate of every match, instructing teams to either win or lose. Unfortunately, the once renowned school doesn't have the soccer spirit it once enjoyed. Due to his love for soccer, he decides to join the school soccer team, which gained its reputation after the amazing performance shown ten years earlier in the Football Frontier International, a tournament that hosts the best youth teams the world has to offer. Tenma Matsukaze is a new student at Raimon Junior High.
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