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TopicThe Board 8 Discord Sports Chat Rank Their Top 100 Respective Video Games part 3
MrSmartGuy
02/12/21 5:34:36 PM
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#18 - Inazuma Eleven (3DS, 2014)


This is the last game on my list that is gonna be a complete outlier from the rest of you guys, because the rest of my list is pretty cookie-cutter, but this is a game that is basically targeted directly at me and my specific tastes. Its super niche, but its easily one of my favorite games of all-time. Get ready for a massive fucking info dump as I nerdgasm all over everything this game has to offer.


Inazuma Eleven is an anime soccer game for the DS, made by Level-5, the team that created the Professor Layton series. But the soccer part is honestly just kind of a ruse, and its primarily a turn-based RPG, if you can believe that. You control your player with the stylus on the bottom screen, so you can dribble the ball, or position your defense in front of the opponent. If there is a point when someone on defense touches the player with the ball, the game will stop briefly and both sides will be given a choice. Will the ball carrier avoid the tackle or take on contact? Will the defender choose to slide or steal the ball outright? Afterward, the players stats will determine what happens and the game will continue in real-time. Its actually very similar to Blitzball, to make a comparison most of board 8 will understand.


At this point, Im sure a lot of you are now rolling your eyes, wondering how I could have a Blitzball simulator in my top 20. Please allow me to officially start selling this game to you now, by regaling you with some of the games story.

You play as Mark Evans, a middle schooler who is really passionate about soccer, and the head of Raimon Academys modest soccer club, which has a meager 6 members, where he plays goalkeeper. The head of the school then tells him that this other school that hasnt lost a match in 40 years, called Royal Academy, has requested a friendly with them, and that if they lose, they have to disband the club. Mark has to round up 5 new ragtag members in a day or else they cant even field a full team and will have to forfeit. In doing so, he comes across some bullies that pick on him, and a transfer student named Axel kicks a nearby ball into a bullys face so hard that it leaves a scorch mark. He asks him to join his team, but he refuses, for a reason I will discuss later.


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