However, he decided to ignore this and continue his school life and decided not to do anything with soccer anymore, up until his chance meeting with the soccer idiot Mamoru Endou. That said, there was nothing wrong with him physically, and is completely healthy in terms of his body. While he’s loved soccer since his childhood, due to a certain incident at the age of seven, he became traumatized and couldn’t as much kick a soccer ball anymore. He’s got the ability to remember anything he’s seen once. Unmei has always had an admiration for those who had the guts to say out loud that they loved soccer, and after Endou tells him its his dream to be the winner of the Football Frontier, Japan’s largest soccer tournament, Unmei is so moved that he decides to join the soccer team at Raimon Jr High as a manager, hoping to find a dream to fulfill for himself.Ī young boy with a clearheaded and straightforward personality, who is more of a thinker who sometimes displays acute deductive reasoning even in daily life. The story begins with Unmei Sasanami, who one day encounters schoolmate and soccer team captain Mamoru Endou by chance when a soccer ball is sent flying his way. That said, this is why Level-5 will need more time as well.įrom now on, Level-5 will be bringing in brand-new ideas and adding in previous content and aiming to create something in a new direction.
As such, while the franchise has been cross-media up until now, this game will not be tied down by an anime schedule, the team will be taking its time with developing this game to make it a grand culmination of the series with a high degree of freedom. Inazuma Eleven: Great Road of Heroes uses an upgraded engine that was used for the development of the Yo-kai Watch series, and now that the developer was able to reach a higher state of quality, Hino felt that the team may as well do everything the team wanted to do but couldn’t up until now. That said, considering the amount of people supporting them still, as well as Hino’s own feelings of not wanting to give up, the team managed to restart development. At one point, he even thought that there was no other choice but to cancel the game’s development. With the increasing amount of criticism from fans, the development staff was losing motivation, and it was getting harder to go on. Here’s a look at the game’s main visual below:Īccording to Hino, due to the various difficulties encountered during the Inazuma Eleven: Great Road of Heroes’s development, the game was delayed for quite a long time.
In a blog post, Level-5 president Akihiro Hino introduced new protagonist Unmei Sasanami and more information on the game’s story and current state of development. Inazuma Eleven: Great Road of Heroes began as a game adaptation of the Inazuma Eleven Ares anime series, but it’s been delayed so long that the game is becoming something else entirely.