Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-4435241-20140521165801/@comment-4916528-20140811144220

Machomuu wrote: And I like that. I'd rather him take his time and try to create a title with bigger changes than the original games. In fact, he mentioned this, saying something along the lines of him wanting to try to reinvent Inazuma Eleven and create something original rather than using the annual formula that he did with the originals where there were a few changes between each one.

And there are already 6 entries in the series. 6 entries in 6 years. I'd rather him take his time and make something original because the series has a lot of untapped potential. I mean, I like the Inazuma games, and I won't complain about how they're similar with a few changes here and there because, as someone who actually plays them, those changes are pretty big. But I don't think IE really needs to be like that. It would be healthy for the series to try new concepts, ideas, so on and so forth. Good arguments, and I agree with them wholeheartedly. I wouldn't want to abandon too much of the original Inazuma Eleven (particularly the art style and player looks, which i've fallen hopelessly in love with long ago) but if this new season, and i mean really brand new season does debut, it'll be the first season for many fans in the community that they can follow from the start. I had fun with GO, but I barely watched anything but the last few episodes before GO2 started; still, the race to see the final plot twists as the game came out while the anime kept going was fun on both go2 and go3. Figuring out which SSC has whose genes is still a fun thing to try, and to be honest, I want to experience that race of anime progress vs game progress many more times and feel excited for a new season's climax again. It's also notable to mention that GO2's final team took a lot shorter to be revealed; The Lagoon was rumored as soon as the first gamers reached it and documented on this wiki days later. Ixal Fleet, however, showed in the game's biggest trailer (Magic Amp and Judgement Ray, + their outfits) and remained a mystery for a good long while.

What bothers me though, about GO, is that the version exclusive teams got decreased attention right at the start of GO2. Hakuryuu and Shuu got their very own film; this was awesome (as i'm sure many will agree). In the previous series, we had Burn and Gazel get pretty good coverage in-game, and even more in anime (for gazel mostly, but you get the point). Sein and Desuta got sufficient coverage and backstory, and like Chaos, a merged team match against Inazuma Japan.

What really bothers me is how this went from GO having both version exclusive teams as well as their merged team in a movie of its own, GO2 only /showing/ the version exclusive captains briefly twice, and GO3 actually only showing one for real; Sarjes, as Acrous either barely or did not even show in his younger form. For all we knew in the anime, Acrous was just Lalaya's father, and that's it- and all we know about Sarjes thanks to the anime is that he was someone that Katra apparently knew. The games expanded much more on the backgrounds of Sarjes and Acrous, and that was a good thing to do. Garshya and Vanfeny barely got any backstory- you just fought them, then you had a sort of epilogue cutscene with the Grandchildren (the five kids, seven including garshya and vanfeny, that i mentioned in my previous post) and Kuroiwa and Potomuri, which had some sort of very vague hint towards Kuroiwa (or Grandfather, as he's called there) needing strong players to save the galaxy. In other words, these two barely got any backstory whatsoever, just more of an unfinished epilogue to what could happen. Garshya and Vanfeny, after beating The Excellar, seem to join Snow Weasel, Hasshu's team; as a sort of final proving that they're worthy of being Kuroiwa's disciples, maybe. This isn't explained, there is barely any explaining to the Go2 version exclusive teams at all- and that pains me, because their designs are awesome and there could have been so much more to them that would maybe have pleased more fans.

Oh yeah, and something I'd like to add; Every movie has had its appearance in an Inazuma Game. Ogre got its own game version, Zero can be fought if you link the GO games, you battle Inazuma Legend Japan and Destructchers in the after-game story itself (!) in both GO2 games, to a point where you even have to beat both those teams to even get the opportunity to battle either Garshya or Vanfeny's team. GO Galaxy however, has so far not really shown any signs of having Best Eleven vs Battle Eleven extras. And going by the players' edited movesets and all (such as The Birth, which isn't in GO Galaxy to begin with) I was hoping there would be downloadable content for it, but I doubt a download would unlock a move that likely isn't even fundamentally programmed into the game. So yeah, that's sort of a pain to me too, even though it's more of a special long episode than a real movie with new characters; they could at least have made a Legend Gate somewhere in Galaxy for it, like they have for Ogre.