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In yet another round of Level-5 game delays, the studio revealed that Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road will see its release date pushed back from 2024 to June 2025. Additionally, a new story and gameplay trailer appeared.

First, you can check out the new trailer for Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road revealing the game’s new release date of June 2025 below. The trailer is available in Japanese with subtitles in English and Chinese.

As a reminder, a global beta test for Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road appeared on Nintendo Switch, PS4, PS5, and PC at different dates throughout 2024. The beta also included the first chapter of the game’s story mode after an update back in May 20, 2024. During the latest Level-5 Vision 2024 broadcast, Level-5 President Akihiro Hino revealed that the global beta test for the game received over 2 million s.

The latest title in the Inazuma Eleven series has had a complicated history, as the game originally started life as Inazuma Eleven Ares back in 2016. In the last 8 years, the game has seen its title change several times until its current iteration.

Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road is currently in development for the Nintendo Switch, PS4, PS5, mobile devices, and PC via Steam, and will release simultaneously in April 2025.

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Level-5 announced that the new update to the Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road beta test will include the Story Mode. For this update, the story mode will feature only the first chapter of the game, adapted for the demo version.

The first chapter of the Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road Story Mode is titled “You Still Have Football,” and will introduce the new protagonist Destin Billows. It is currently unknown if more chapters of the Story Mode will appear with future updates. The beta test demo update is immediately available on the Nintendo Switch.

Aside from the inclusion of the Story Mode, the new Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road update adds the Player Guidebook and Scene Archives to the main menu, a Match History screen for Competition Mode, and a Block List among others. Additionally, the new update improved online matchmaking and a penalty system for repeated improper disconnects, a “Concede” option during matches. The update also makes it so that instances of lag during online play have been reduced.

Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road is currently in development for the Nintendo Switch, PS4, PS5, mobile devices, and PC via Steam. The game is expected to release in 2024 worldwide, and the beta test demo is now available on the Nintendo Switch.

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Level-5 has announced that it will hold a global beta test for Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road. The beta test demo client will be available exclusively on Nintendo Switch on March 28, 2024. It will be available in Japanese, English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, and Simplified Chinese.

In the beta client, players will be able to check out the Competition Mode. They will be able to play matches against U or other players, and they can also opt to spectate other online matches. Level-5 also teased that it will add a Story Mode starring the new protagonist Destin Billows, who is originally known in Japan as Unmei Sasanami.

The beta version will have 48 characters available out of the over 4,500 planned for the full release. Each character will have their own Team ives, and players will have to consider these skills to maximize their team's synergy. Characters will also have a rarity rating that players can improve by infusing Spirits obtained from playing matches.

The beta test demo client will be available simultaneously worldwide via each region's Nintendo eShop. Level-5 has also shared the exact launch times for major cities in Asia, Europe, and the Americas:

The Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road global beta test will commence on Nintendo Switch on March 28, 2024. The full game will also be available on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, PC via Steam, and mobile devices later in 2024.

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Level-5 announced on social media that Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road will be coming to Steam in 2024. The game is already planned to release on the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, iOS devices, and Android devices.

Level-5 did not elaborate further about the Steam version of Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road of Heroes beyond its reveal. It is unknown if it will be releasing at the same time as the other versions of the game, but it has been listed with a 2024 release date on the official website.

The social media post announcing the Steam version of the game can be viewed below:

A worldwide simultaneous beta test for Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road will be held in March 2024 on the Nintendo Switch. The beta test was announced during the Level-5 Vision 2023 II event held on November 29, 2023. Single-player matches, online PvP, and story mode will be available in the beta test. The beta will be available to play in Japanese, English, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Brazilian Portuguese. Players will be required to have a Nintendo Switch Online subscription to use online functions. Character training data will be savable but story mode progress cannot be saved. No save data will be carried over into the final version of the game.

Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road is currently in development for PC via Steam, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, and mobile devices. The game is anticipated to launch in 2024 worldwide.

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Level -5 announced that a global simultaneous online beta test for Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road will start in March 2024. The beta test will start on Nintendo Switch to make adjustments in preparation for the planned service of the game.

Online multiplayer matches will be available during the beta test. Additionally, single player matches and a test version of the story mode will be implemented gradually. The announcement of the beta test appeared during the Level-5 Vision 2023 II event.

Furthermore, Level-5 announced that the company will set up Inazuma Post, a system where players can share their opinions of the beta for the developers to gather player directly.

The latest Inazuma Eleven title has experienced many iterations since it was originally announced in July 2016 under the name Inazuma Eleven: Balance of Ares. Development restarted in September 2019 and its title changed to Inazuma Eleven: Great Road of Heroes. It wouldn’t be until July 2022 that the game would find its final title as Victory Road of Heroes, or Victory Road for short.

You can see the full showcase below.

And here's the latest English trailer for the game. Level-5 ed it on its own shortly after the presentation began.

Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road is currently in development for the PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, and mobile devices. The game is expected to appear in 2024. An Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road global beta test will be available on Nintendo Switch on March 2024.

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Level-5 President Akihiro Hino announced that the next Level-5 Vision 2023 II event will be held on November 29, 2023. During the event, the company will reveal more details and information about several games that will be shown, including release dates.

Furthermore, Level-5 confirmed that Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time will be delayed to 2024. The new release date will be announced during the event. The original release window for the game was set to 2023. However, information about the game during 2023 has been sparse until its Tokyo Game Show 2023 appearance.

The first Level-5 Vision 2023 (Tsuzumi) event was held on March 9, 2023, where the company offered a look and gave new information about several of their titles. These titles are Professor Layton and the New World of Steam, Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time,Decapolice, Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road, and Megaton Musashi Wired. These games will once again be featured in the newly announced event.

Additionally, Akihiro Hino talked in the past about Level-5’s titles, and said that the company’s future goal is to aim for a worldwide simultaneous release of its titles.

The next Level-5 Vision 2023 II event will be held on November 29, 2023. More information will appear at a later date.

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The Computer Entertainment Supplier's Association (CESA) announced the winners of Japan Game Awards 2023 Future Division on the last day of Tokyo Game Show 2023. A total of 11 games received the honors. Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, Metaphor: ReFantazio, and Dragon's Dogma 2 are some of the titles included in the list.

The association determined the winners by collecting votes from visitors on the first three days of the event from September 21 to 23, 2023. Japanese publishers will include this recognition in their games' accolades as a testament that they have garnered a lot of interest from the Japanese public.

A special mention went to Zenless Zone Zero, the game under development by the Chinese company miHoYo, as the only non-Japanese title that made the list. In the 2022 edition, the Indonesian indie game A Space for the Unbound achieved this feat.

The full list of Japan Game Awards 2023 Future Division winners is available right below.

1. Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth
   Sega will release the eighth mainline Like a Dragon title for the PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, and PC on January 26, 2024.
2. Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road
   After a long hiatus since the releases of Inazuma Eleven GO Galaxy: Big Bang and Supernova in 2013, Level-5 will release the series' latest entry for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, iOS, and Android in 2023.
3. Persona 3 Reload
   Atlus will bring the remake of the original 2006 entry Persona 3 to PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, and PC on February 2, 2024.
4. Sonic Superstars
   The new Sonic the Hedgehog game with four-player multiplayer mode will be available for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, and PC on October 17, 2023.
5. Metaphor: ReFantazio
   The original fantasy RPG from Atlus' Studio Zero, which is comprised of Persona 3, 4, and 5 creators, will come to Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, and PC in 2024.
6. Zenless Zone Zero
   HoYoverse will release its latest title for PCs, mobile devices, and unspecified consoles. The Chinese game's publisher has still yet to confirm a release window as of September 2023.
7. Fate/Samurai Remnant
   Koei Tecmo and Type-Moon's collaborative action RPG will be available for PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, and PC on September 29, 2023.
8. Dragon's Dogma 2
   Capcom will release the sequel to the 2012 action RPG entry with a much larger map size for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC. The company has yet to confirm its release date as of Tokyo Game Show 2023.
9. Dragon Quest Monsters: The Dark Prince
   The third mainline Dragon Quest Monsters entry, which is alternatively known in Japan as Dragon Quest Monsters 3, will be available for Nintendo Switch on December 1, 2023.
10. Persona 5 Tactica
    Atlus will release the turn-based strategy RPG featuring Persona 5 characters in chibi art style for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, and PC on November 17, 2023.
11. Final Fantasy VII Rebirth
    Square Enix will release the second part of the Final Fantasy VII remake project for PlayStation 5 on February 29, 2024.

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Level-5 will return to Tokyo Game Show 2023 with a larger roster of titles. The company has published a new webpage detailing its appearance at the event. The Level-5 TGS 2023 webpage is also available in English in addition to the original Japanese.

The company will set up a physical booth between Halls 7-8 at Makuhari Messe. It will feature playable demos of Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road, Decapolice, and Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time.

Level-5 will also stream a live broadcast on Thursday, September 21, 2023, at 9 PM JST / 1 PM BST / 8 AM ET / 5 AM ET. The stream will contain new information on Megaton Musashi: Wired and Professor Layton and the New World of Steam in addition to the above three games.

Everyone who visits the physical Level-5 booth at TGS 2023 will receive a pamphlet containing a catalog of titles that the company has released over the past 25 years, ever since Akihiro Hino established it in 1998. Each of the demos in the booth will also have a set of free badges for those who have played them.

The Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road demos will come with additional Snack World and Little Battlers eXperience badges. Likewise, staff on the Decapolice demos will hand out Professor Layton and Megaton Musashi badges. Finally, the Fantasy Life i demo will also reward Yo-kai Watch and Ni no Kuni badges.

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Tokyo Game Show 2023 will take place in Japan on September 21-24, 2023.

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Level-5 published new gameplay details and character art for Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road in a new post on its development blog. The company also confirmed plans to set up playable demos for the game at Tokyo Game Show 2023.

In the new blog post, Level-5 revealed some changes in Victory Road's gameplay system:

• Focus - Maneuvers in the midfield will no longer be a simple multiple-selection process. The decision-making will now involve actions with player skills, data strengths, and luck as additional factors.
• Zone - Activities in front of the goal are no longer limited to choosing which shot the character should use. They can now also opt to give a to another teammate.
• Scramble - When trying to gain control of an airborne ball, the game will now show markers for the player to press at the right time for decisions like keeping the ball or heading it toward another teammate.
• Tension Gauge - The gauge will now apply to the whole team instead of individual characters. Focus will fill up the gauge, while using techniques will consume it.

The company also explained how the Football Frontier tournament in Victory Road mode will work. It will regularly run a season every 2 or 3 months. Participants will first gather points by doing preliminary online matches during the period. The organizer will then invite top-ranked participants to the finals tournament at a specified time.

Each team in Football Frontier can field up to five Eternal Players, with existing Seasonal Players occupying the remaining slots. Seasonal Players will randomly appear and become valid for three seasonal years as they grow up. Afterward, they will graduate and become Eternal Players. Notable key characters like Yuto Kido and Shirou Fubuki may also rarely spawn as Seasonal Players for some lucky people.

At the end of the post, Level-5 shared artworks for some of the new characters in Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road. They are Heita Kisoji, Raika Shinohara, Kameo Kodoukai, and a mysterious blonde boy who is apparently related to another existing character.

While almost every player from prior titles will return to form the 4,500-character roster, Level-5 will only include Keshin spirits for finisher technique presentations at launch. Other enhancements like Mixi Max and Keshin Armed are not considered at the moment.

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Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road will be released for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, iOS, and Android devices in 2023. Level-5 will publish a new trailer for the game on August 31, 2023.

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In an interview with Famitsu, President and CEO of Level-5 Akihiro Hino offered some new details about games announced at the Level-5 Vision 2023 (Tsuzumi) event. Hino also said that Level-5's objective for the future is to aim for simultaneous worldwide releases of its games, something that it intends to achieve gradually. [Thanks, Famitsu!]

Regarding Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time, Keiji Inafune will act as the producer of the game. Two new jobs will be included in the game, but no further details were given about them. However, Hino confirmed that these two unknown jobs are not Farmer and Postman, which were created exclusively for Fantasy Life Online. Characters from the original Fantasy Life and Fantasy Life Online will make appear the new entry.

Hino said that the development team for Decapolice has been working on the game for about three years. The concept behind the game was to create an RPG with a mystery plot as engaging as those in Professor Layton. The game was originally going to be marketed as “the next game from the creators of Professor Layton,” and as a spiritual successor. But since the announcement of Professor Layton and the New World of Steam, the developers at Level-5 decided that they could no longer do that.

An important part of combat in Decapolice revolves around negotiating with criminals. Since the game is not a traditional RPG where you fight monsters, engaging with enemies in order to convince them to give up will play an important part. If negotiation fails, regular combat will play as usual, and the criminals will be arrested upon winning.

When talking about Megaton Musashi Wired, Hino stated that the inclusion of two different frame types for the mechs will be a new feature of the game. These will be the classic Gorilla type, and the brand new Slim type. This was made to accommodate for the new crossover mechs that will appear in the game.

Level-5 recently announced during their latest Level-5 Vision five new titles in the making. These are Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road, Professor Layton and the New World of Steam, Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time, Megaton Musashi Wired, and the detective mystery-RPG hybrid Decapolice. All five games are being developed for the Nintendo Switch. Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road will also launch on PS4.

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Level-5 used its Vision 2023 Tsuzumi presentation to bring up more news about Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road for the Switch. The game has been through quite a bit in its lifespan, but now seems closer to release. At the end of the showcase, a full explanation and gameplay footage appeared. So did a 2023 release window.

Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road is set at Nagasaki, Kyushu’s Nagumoharu Junior High. Players follow Unmei Sasanami, who gave up soccer. However, he gets pulled back into that world and the Soccer Summit by Haru Endo. They can then go through the story to become champions, recruiting over 4,500 characters from past games. However, there is also a Inazuma V Caravan that allows someone to “travel through history” to go through Chronicle Competition Routes based on past games.

There will be 5v5 games, with a freestyle mode. People can play in landscape or portrait modes, with quick actions that can use touch controls to play. You can create your own team of characters from the past and future. These can be used against “hidden” competitors too, as well as when playing online.

This is the latest trailer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkRQsURQjH4&ab_channel=LEVEL5ch%E3%80%90%E5%85%AC%E5%BC%8F%E3%80%91

Here’s the full showcase, with the new Inazuma Eleven game appearing at the end.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyzTxMlYqWo&ab_channel=LEVEL5ch%E3%80%90%E5%85%AC%E5%BC%8F%E3%80%91

As a reminder, this Inazuma Eleven game began life as Inazuma Eleven: Balance of Ares. That was announced back in July 2016. However, due to development issues, work restarted and it instead became Inazuma Eleven: Great Road of Heroes in September 2019. After further development over the years and during COVID, it eventually ended up renamed as Victory Road of Heroes, or Victory Road for short. Since then, more footage appeared and Level-5’s talked more about the project.

Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road of Heroes will come to the Nintendo Switch, PS4, and mobile devices in 2023.

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Publisher/Developer Level-5 delivered a number of new project announcements this year, and its next big event will have more information about them. The Level-5 Vision 2023 livestream event is scheduled for early March 2023. It'll stream on March 9, 2023 at 3am PT/6am ET/8pm JST, via Level-5's official YouTube channel. Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road and Professor Layton and the New World of Steam will be among the games appearing.

Though the company hasn't detailed exactly what it plans to reveal, the event will feature new details about recently announced games like Professor Layton and the New World of Steam, Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time, and Deca Police. All three games were announced during the February 8, 2023 Nintendo Direct broadcast. Additionally, the Level-5 Vision 2023 event will bring more info on the previously announced Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road and Megaton Musashi Wired. 

Of the featured games in Level-5's event docket, two notable pieces of info can be gleaned. First is that Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road is the official English title for the game. The Japanese title translates to Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road of Heroes. This suggests that Level-5 intends an international release for the game.

A second new bit of info is the existence of Megaton Musashi Wired (or Megaton Musashi W). The game appears to be a new entry in the series (or perhaps an updated release), and includes an English-formatted logo and design. As with Inazuma Eleven, the changes suggest international release plans. At the moment the Megaton Musashi franchise, both its anime series and the Megaton Musashi X game, are Japan-exclusive.

The Level-5 Vision 2023 streaming event launches on March 9, 2023 at 3am PT/6am ET/8pm JST on YouTube.

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A new trailer for Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road of Heroes shows off how you can control your team in matches. The full details of the development process is on the Level-5 blog. Part of the reason for the lack of updates was due to difficulties in developing how matches would play without a touch pen.

Because Inazuma Eleven players are more familiar with using a touch pen (since the series originated on the Nintendo DS) they had to figure out a good way to bring that same experience onto consoles. Though the team tried to create a control system similar to existing soccer games, it was not the answer they were looking for.

If players had always played with a touch pen, then why not just keep it that way? So with that thought in mind, they created the current control system. The team then continued development from there. You can use a touch pen, your finger, or the D-pad and analog stick to freely move in any direction.

This was the biggest wall in the development of the game. You can view the new trailer showing off matches in Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road of Heroes here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMvU571uSWc

As you can see in the video, ing and shooting all use one button. You can choose which hissatsu moves you want to use. The video shows tons of characters from the previous series, but none of the new ones.

Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road of Heroes is in development and will come out on the Nintendo Switch, PS4, and mobile devices in Japan. More information on the game (including the story, characters, and other game mechanics) will appear in February 2023.

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Inazuma Eleven: Great Road of Heroes has received a new name after news about its development went silent for a long time. Level-5 revamped its website and blog while revealing that it has renamed the new Inazuma Eleven game to Victory Road of Heroes. The name change also came with a large overhaul of the game's storyline.

While the green-haired Unmei Sasanami will still be the new game's protagonist, the revamped Story Mode will focus on depicting his own story. The main storyline will have Unmei gather for a soccer club at a new school in Nagasaki with an all-new cast of characters. Level-5 will still retain the promised feature of recruiting characters from prior Inazuma Eleven entries, but players will do that in a separate Chronicle Mode.

Level-5 also promised more versatility in the new game's controls and displays. All platform versions will allow players to choose between horizontal and vertical play fields. Mobile devices and undocked Switches will also have a screen orientation option. The Nintendo Switch version will have the most versatile control scheme where players can utilize both the controller and touchscreen.

Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road of Heroes will be available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, iOS, and Android mobile devices in Japan. Level-5 will publish more information about the title in Winter 2022.

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