There was also the attempt at using traditional football game controls, but they were too standard and not very beginner-friendly.Īfter a lot of trial and error, they settled on the Free Soccer Interface (フリーサッカーインタフェース, Furī Sakkā Intafēsu), a customizable gameplay style allowing the player to switch between the traditional style of drawing arrows on their characters to move or using a controller and buttons for those inputs. It was detailed the struggle of finding a good control scheme for the Victory Road game as Level-5 were trying to achieve the touch screen controls of the previous Inazuma Eleven main line games without touching the screen. The number of characters that can join and the number of teams faced is stated to increase as the player completes certain in-game achievements and through future game updates. The Chronicle Mode is said to be where the player will collect, battle and build teams with previous characters from the Inazuma Eleven franchise, even being able to face the worst, strongest and most fearsome enemy teams.
Hino mentions the process to creating a full team of players will be a lot longer than past Inazuma Eleven games and that the Soccer Battle events that take place before actual matches will be made more fun and strategic to liven up the mood before a full scale match. Cloud) in its name to coincide with Sasanami's etymology. The story will be set in a new school, Nagumohara, located on Nagasaki, Kyuushu, having 雲 ( lit. He and his friends will build their own 'victory road' as the characters are stated to not be as strong as players but they face their problems, work and train hard to overcome them to find a way to win. The Story Mode is said to be focused on Sasanami's story, a boy who can't play football and instead scouts other players and creates his own football team with him as their commander. The game is said to be divided on two modes: Story Mode (ストーリーモード, Sutōrī Mōdo) and Chronicle Mode (クロニクルモード, Kuronikuru Mōdo):
On the same day, Hino released a game movement screen and three storyboard roughs, assuring there would be crucial news by the end of the year.
On August 22nd, 2022, Hino quote retweeted an illustration made for Inazuma Eleven's 14th anniversary, mentioning Victory Road news would be nearing. The original plan for the Great Road game was to focus on Sasanami building a team of past characters but was eventually changed to an original story separate from the other Inazuma Eleven series. Hino announced that the game would be receiving a title change from Great Road to Victory Road to fit better with the new main story of the game. The refurbished development blog was updated after a year of absence. On July 21st, 2022, Hino announced Inazuma Eleven's latest work, redirecting to the new site and, releasing the logo for Victory Road and a new piece of artwork depicting Sasanami holding on to a new character. On July 15th, 2022, Hino announced the former blog for Inazuma Eleven Eiyuutachi no Great Road would be updated on the next week, releasing a piece of artwork depicting Sasanami getting intimidated by a new character. The building and character model were changed from the more realistic scale, seen in the early development of Ares no Tenbin and AC games, to the smaller scale and less detailed, similar to GO games.
The video contained some new in-development footage of the game with several major characters from all three series appear in the background.
The game was expected to release in 2021.Īfter a year with no update on the game, on April 2nd, 2021, Hino posted an update video on his blog. The story will focus on the new protagonist, Sasanami Unmei, a soccer-loving boy with a mental trauma which makes him unable to play soccer, who decided to join Raimon's soccer club as a manager after he met Endou Mamoru. Instead of following the Ares no Tenbin story as originally planned, the game would have a completely new storyline and would be a remake of the Football Frontier arc from the original Inazuma Eleven, and would feature characters from both the GO series and the Ares no Tenbin series as part of the same timeline. On April 1st, 2020, Hino announced an upcoming plan for the new game. In September of 2019, just before the airing of Orion no Kokuin's final episode, Hino announced they decided restart their game project, instead making a game called Inazuma Eleven Eiyuutachi no Great Road, which would add more story of the characters outside the Ares no Tenbin series, and planned to release it in Spring 2020. Level-5 was originally developing the Inazuma Eleven Ares no Tenbin game, but after numerous delays and issues during production, the game was scrapped.