News Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road confirmed for worldwide (UPDATE: new trailer + delayed to June 2025, see threadmarks)

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Sheldon said:
I beat the unlockable team on the lowest difficulty and got more comfortable with the mechanics. Still think it's clunky and inelegant and would need to be rescued by the touch control to be any fun.



Explain to me how the dribbling mini-game works. That's the one I haven't figured out yet. Does the timing of the B-button press matter for intercepting?



Play one more. The third is when it started clicking for me. Still won't see me calling it intuitive, though.

What helped me is realizing you have more time than you think for making decisions. Unless the ball somehow sails over your player's head when you pressed shoot several conds ago already or it just refuses to register a pass input...

There's some jank.
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I also didn't understand the defensive part of dribbling 100%, but I have the impression that pressing B at the right time helps, but the main thing is definitely adjusting your player's positioning.
Another tip is to test different characters, I recommend using more defensive full-backs and also focusing on defensive stats in midfield.
 
LinkURL said:
I also didn't understand the defensive part of dribbling 100%, but I have the impression that pressing B at the right time helps, but the main thing is definitely adjusting your player's positioning.
Another tip is to test different characters, I recommend using more defensive full-backs and also focusing on defensive stats in midfield.
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The stats are reasonably well explained if you dig into the guide. And the stat screen itself has nice shorthands for what formulas each one factors into, e.g. what matters most for any given position. Then there's elemental advantages/disadvantages, of course.

Really, I haven't found anything that keeps the dribbler from taking on one player after the other and winning the vast majority of the time by just slipping past them on either the left or the right (so that stats don't even come into it, I don't think), except when their opponent uses a skill to stop them in which case, hey, tension drained is still an advantage gained.
 
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Sheldon said:
I beat the unlockable team on the lowest difficulty and got more comfortable with the mechanics. Still think it's clunky and inelegant and would need to be rescued by the touch control to be any fun.



Explain to me how the dribbling mini-game works. That's the one I haven't figured out yet. Does the timing of the B-button press matter for intercepting?



Play one more. The third is when it started clicking for me. Still won't see me calling it intuitive, though.

What helped me is realizing you have more time than you think for making decisions. Unless the ball somehow sails over your player's head when you pressed shoot several conds ago already or it just refuses to register a pass input...

There's some jank.
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LinkURL said:
I believe so, I strongly recommend playing against the machine first, and choosing to go against the lower level team of course.
In the first game I lost, in the second game I tied, in the third the game clicked and I managed to win.
I also strongly recommend increasing the level of your players a little before going to the rankeds.
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Thanks
I will try again tomorrow
 
Finally found a place where people are discussing the demo. What are everyone's thoughts so far? This is my first time playing sports games and I'm enjoying it so far. I do feel that there is a bit of a learning curve but that might just be because I am unfamiliar with the genre.
 
Aostia82 said:
Thanks
I will try again tomorrow
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Good luck!

One tip about a not-so-obvious mechanic that's only mentioned deep in the explainer: Provided you have got the tension for it, you can chain skill shots by aiming the shot at a teammate instead of the goal. It'll act as a pass and all skill shots you chain will add their power to each other. Helps break down keepers faster.

It can go awry where the player receiving the ball fails to properly react to it. I haven't gotten the hang of why it happens. My best guess is you should chain from low power to highest power, because trying to control a 500+ power whirling ball of charged up elemental fury with a simple no-skill shot is maybe a bit much too ask.
 
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Aostia82 said:
man, too many dynamics going on on the pitch
I hope it gets smoother with practice
and I hope the story mode won't arrive later rather than sooner
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Story mode will arrive at the end of April or the month of May, they said. So only one month in the best case
 
I've gotten a better handle of the controls but my units just aren't strong enough to win me games online. Does anyone have any tips for how I increase my units strength? Is there certain gear I should be buying in the shop? I've been using spirits to increase the ranking of my players whenever I can.
 
CloverNotes said:
I've gotten a better handle of the controls but my units just aren't strong enough to win me games online. Does anyone have any tips for how I increase my units strength? Is there certain gear I should be buying in the shop? I've been using spirits to increase the ranking of my players whenever I can.
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There's not much to be done other than grind online or bot matches for experience points. As far as I can tell the spirit upgrades only grant passives but don't increase stats directly. Only leveling does that.

For farming gear, though, one thing you can do is get into as many dribbling one-on-one's (and other mini-games) as you can, as winning those are what drops both spirits and items. At least one player also has a passive that increases item drop chance.
 
CloverNotes said:
I've gotten a better handle of the controls but my units just aren't strong enough to win me games online. Does anyone have any tips for how I increase my units strength? Is there certain gear I should be buying in the shop? I've been using spirits to increase the ranking of my players whenever I can.
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To level up, simply play online matches. They will give you a lot of experience and even if you lose, you will get coins to get the Alius team. The matchmaking is random, so you have to be lucky.

To improve rarity, win 1 VS 1 duels and you will get spirits. There are players with 2 types of passives (if you have them in purple rarity), one that increases the chance of getting rare items (4 players: Tezcat, Byron, Xene and a Genesis midfielder I don't remember the name, I think Ark) and one that increases common items (Goldie, Bai Long and I don't remember more). Take the first 4 in the starting 11 and, I BELIEVE, you don't have to have the ones of the second group (because they overlap passives) to get purple/yellow spirits.

By the way, the spirits are not random. In a match you can get any spirit from any player present in both teams (i.e. the 22 on the field, the 10 on the bench and the 2 coaches). So if neither of the 2 teams has JP for example, you will not get spirits for him.
 
Sheldon said:
There's not much to be done other than grind online or bot matches for experience points. As far as I can tell the spirit upgrades only grant passives but don't increase stats directly. Only leveling does that.

For farming gear, though, one thing you can do is get into as many dribbling one-on-one's (and other mini-games) as you can, as winning those are what drops both spirits and items. At least one player also has a passive that increases item drop chance.
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Increasing the rarity of your players is actually the best way to improve their stats, a Gold player is better in all attributes than another Purple player of the same level and position.
But I recommend raising the rarity of your players after reaching at least Lv 20, since the higher the rarity, the slower they level up.
 
LinkURL said:
Increasing the rarity of your players is actually the best way to improve their stats, a Gold player is better in all attributes than another Purple player of the same level and position.
But I recommend raising the rarity of your players after reaching at least Lv 20, since the higher the rarity, the slower they level up.
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Too late for me. The full game better have a way to boost up lower level players, either by quick training sessions or training items or some other kind of catch-up mechanic, because leveling in this demo is pain and rookies basically have to ride the bench for ages before they're half-way viable.
 
Sheldon said:
Too late for me. The full game better have a way to boost up lower level players, either by quick training sessions or training items or some other kind of catch-up mechanic, because leveling in this demo is pain and rookies basically have to ride the bench for ages before they're half-way viable.
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I also found the level system a bit unbalanced, because currently they are by far the main factor in a match.
But at the same time, I THINK the level cap is 30 (not sure), so it's relatively quick to max out a player.
 
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I have already completed the story mode chapter and defeated the Alius at level 50 which were the two attractions of the new update.

I found the story mode itself to be good. Dustin and Briar have seemed to me two characters quite well written and the story promises to be very good (compared to the rest of the games in the franchise, which is not that it had the bar very high). I think they can be the best protagonists of the franchise.

The only bad thing is the absence of soccer in the story mode demo lol. The new combat system doesn't seem bad to me, but I play Inazuma Eleven to play soccer, not to fight by turns. But it doesn't matter much either since for me, Inazuma Eleven games start at the end of the story mode, where we will only play soccer, so....

Alius at level 50 is frustrating. It's not like the level 99 matches in previous games where the game gave you options to even the match. This being a beta and not letting you go above level 30, makes it frustrating and relies on RNG to beat them with some luck. Luckily in the final game everything will be balanced and it will depend on the skill of each player.

Overall, very happy. Looking forward to the final game, which unfortunately, I don't think will be released until 2025.
 
Played the story mode myself now. It was brief yet unbelievably tedious.

What a confused mess this demo is. Who thought Dragon Quest style mini-battles using two rock-paper-scissor mechanics were a great fit for a sports anime JRPG? Is this because they couldn't make the new soccer systems work on a smaller field with less players? Level 5 should delay Victory Road until 2029 to give themselves time for a complete reconceptualization.

The sequence right before the end and what followed after was hype. I just wish I had any faith there was a good game behind it.
 
To my surprise, 2 million downloads of the beta across all the plataforms. Many people would download it for the second time on PC or Sony console, but even with that, it seems to me a lot for a saga that was practically dead.

On the 24th at Level V Visions there will be a release date, it seems.
 
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I am comforted to think that at least we have an exact month. Worst case scenario, it gets delayed 6 months like Fantasy Life, which would make it come out in December. But at least 2025...

The game itself seems like my personal GOTY and I'm going to put a ton of hours into it with all the content it has. But what about the release dates...
 
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Should just change the release date to "202X" so we won't have to update it every year when it gets delayed again
 
I just can't take the fucking delays :(. Just want my soccer rpg fam
 
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