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Inazuma Eleven 3

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Inazuma Eleven 3
Art for the Lightning Bolt/Bomb Blast versions
Developer(s)Level-5
Publisher(s)
Director(s)Takehiro Fujii
Producer(s)Akihiro Hino
Composer(s)Yasunori Mitsuda
Natsumi Kameoka
SeriesInazuma Eleven
Platform(s)Nintendo DS, Nintendo 3DS
ReleaseNintendo DS
  • JP: July 1, 2010 (Spark/Bomber)
  • JP: December 16, 2010
    (The Ogre)
Nintendo 3DS
  • JP: December 27, 2012
  • EU: September 27, 2013 (Lightning Bolt/Bomb Blast)
  • EU: February 14, 2014
    (Team Ogre Attacks!)
Genre(s)Role-playing, sports
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer

Inazuma Eleven 3[a] is a role-playing video game and sports video game for the Nintendo DS developed and published by Level-5. There are 3 versions of the game: Spark and Bomber, released on July 1, 2010 in Japan, followed on December 16, 2010 by The Ogre.

All three versions of this game were included in an updated re-release compilation titled Inazuma Eleven 1-2-3: Endo Mamoru's Legend for the Nintendo 3DS, released on December 27, 2012 in Japan. They were later released separately in Europe both digitally and physically, as Lightning Bolt (originally Spark) and Bomb Blast (originally Bomber) in Europe on September 27, 2013. The release of the third version, as Team Ogre Attacks!, followed on February 13, 2014.[1][2][3]

A manga based on the game began serialization in CoroCoro Comic, while an anime TV season based on the game, produced by OLM, started airing on February 3, 2010.

Plot

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Now that Raimon have beaten Alius Academy and saved the world, a new challenge awaits for soccer players known from all over Japan, the Football Frontier International. Eventually, the team representing Japan in the competition is picked and are known as Inazuma National.

They now have to win the Asia preliminaries to compete in the actual worldwide tournament, facing teams from England, America, Italy and more. Throughout there adventure in the FFI, they also come across angels and devils that they have to defeat, otherwise the Demon King will be revived after its 1000-year sleep.

There also seems to be a new villain trying to gain something, Zoolan Rice, who is using soccer as a tool to take over the world; and wanting to create a war.

Inazuma National has to go through other struggles such as having an unknown coach known as the 'cursed coach', Axel Blaze having the struggle of staying in Inazuma National as his father wants him to go to Germany to become a doctor, and more.

Development

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At Japan Expo 2013, producer Akihiro Hino confirmed that the Spark and Bomber versions would be released for Nintendo 3DS in Europe on September 27, 2013. The third version (renamed Team Ogre Attacks!) was also announced during the Nintendo Direct on November 13, 2013, and was released on February 13, 2014.

Reception

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All three versions of the game had toppled the Media Create's list during the first sales week, selling over half a million copies.[11]

Thomas Whitehead of Nintendo Life have praised its impressive design level but added that there is not enough of gameplay value to justify an upgrade.[9]

Notes

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  1. ^ Japanese: イナズマイレブン3 世界への挑戦!!, Hepburn: Inazuma Irebun 3: Sekai e no Chousen, lit. "Inazuma Eleven 3: Challenge to the World"

References

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  1. ^ Loveridge, Lynzee (9 January 2014). "Inazuma Eleven 3: Team Ogre Attacks' English Trailer Posted". Anime News Network. Retrieved 9 January 2020.
  2. ^ Luster, Joseph (10 January 2014). "VIDEO: 'Inazuma Eleven 3: Team Ogre Attacks' European Trailer Debuts". Crunchyroll. Retrieved 10 January 2020.
  3. ^ Sahdev, Ishaan (9 January 2014). "Here's An English Trailer For Inazuma Eleven 3: The Ogre". Siliconera. Retrieved 10 January 2020.
  4. ^ "Inazuma Eleven 3: Bomb Blast". GameRankings. CBS Interactive. Retrieved 6 January 2018.
  5. ^ "Inazuma Eleven 3: Team Ogre Attacks!". GameRankings. CBS Interactive. Retrieved 6 January 2018.
  6. ^ "Inazuma Eleven 3: Lightning Bolt". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved 6 January 2018.
  7. ^ "Inazuma Eleven 3: Team Ogre Attacks!". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved 6 January 2018.
  8. ^ "Inazuma Eleven 3: Bomb Blast". Metacritic. CBS Interative. Retrieved 6 January 2018.
  9. ^ a b Whitehead, Thomas (23 September 2013). "Inazuma Eleven 3". Nintendo Life. Retrieved 6 January 2018.
  10. ^ Riley, Adam (6 January 2014). "Inazuma Eleven 3: Team Ogre Attacks! (Nintendo 3DS) Review". Cubed3. Retrieved 6 January 2018.
  11. ^ Sinclair, Brendan (9 July 2010). "Big in Japan June 28 - July 4: Inazuma Eleven 3". GameSpot. CBS Interactive. Retrieved 6 January 2018.
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