You do have the option to turn it off though if you desire. The translation work has been well done, but the English voice acting is dreadful. While it’s nice enough to have a familiar structure to proceedings, it’s kind of jarring to see an influential player being commanding in one chapter only to have them downbeat and depressed the next.

The chapters of Inazuma Eleven tend to follow the usual kids’ anime tropes of characters having a crisis of confidence as they go about their adventure, only to pull themselves together at just the right time to encourage the team to victory. Considering how much danger they put themselves in, it’s safe to say that Arion and his friends are rather obsessed with this football malarkey. What ensues is a time-hopping adventure where you find yourself in different time periods playing football with historical figures so your team improves and you can save the sport of football. They’re going to achieve this by playing football (fighting football with football to destroy football – sounds legit). The game follows the trials and tribulations of Arion Sherwind and Raimon Football Club as they battle people from the future who are trying to put an end to the game of football for… reasons. I had no idea what to expect from a sports RPG, but I’m happy to say I enjoyed this immensely.

A sports RPG in where you level up your players, gain new abilities and items to strengthen your team and achieve victory.

Inazuma Eleven GO: Chrono Stones Thunderflash (you can sod off if you think I’m typing that over and over) to me is a fully fleshed-out Blitzball game. At a certain point it was impossible to lose, but I played it to death. Although it was just a side game to the main event, Square-Enix included an extensive scouting network, alongside players that level, abilities to gain, and rewards from completing objectives. Blitzball was quite possibly the best thing about Final Fantasy X.

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