{"id":47005,"date":"2025-04-14T14:06:05","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T05:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=47005"},"modified":"2025-04-14T15:49:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T06:49:12","slug":"inazuma-eleven-victory-road-earns-criticism-for-platform-specific-character-drop-rates-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/inazuma-eleven-victory-road-earns-criticism-for-platform-specific-character-drop-rates-in-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road earns criticism for platform-specific character drop rates in Japan\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/developers%20are%20excited%20for\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a>After a drawn-out development cycle that\u2019s lasted seven years, <strong>Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road <\/strong>finally has a release date, to the joy of both the series\u2019 fans and its devs. Currently, however, the inclusion of platform-specific bonuses has Japanese players questioning Level-5\u2019s approach to recruiting characters for your in-game team.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Platform-Specific Bonuses Revealed<br>Which platform will you play on?<br><br>Each platform comes with its own rare character appearance rate boost!<br>Even better: use Cross-Save to combine bonuses across multiple platforms!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/InazumaEleven?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#InazumaEleven<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GelDBPKgeu\">pic.twitter.com\/GelDBPKgeu<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Inazuma Eleven Series (@InazumaSeries) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/InazumaSeries\/status\/1910680768390848822?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 11, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In this instance, platform-specific bonuses refer to the rate at which certain characters appear on a particular version of the game For example, Team Ogre, Eternal Light, and Ancient Darkness characters have a higher chance of appearing on the Steam version of Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road than they do on console versions (this doesn\u2019t mean that they are exclusive to the platform, however.)\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1262\" height=\"708\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1262px) 100vw, 1262px\" src=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250414-47005-001JPG.jpg\" alt=\"Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road\" class=\"wp-image-47008\" srcset=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250414-47005-001JPG.jpg 1262w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250414-47005-001JPG-380x213.jpg 380w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250414-47005-001JPG-768x431.jpg 768w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/inazuma_project\/status\/1910679492114424054\/quotes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">main complaints fans have<\/a> with the platform-specific bonuses are the uneven distribution of characters among platforms and the need to play on different versions of Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road to get simultaneous drop rate boosts.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some fans are caught between purchasing a new console for their favorite characters or buying the version of Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road for their current platform. Others are criticizing Level-5 for subtly encouraging fans to buy multiple versions of the game to get more bonus effects. While game franchises like Pok\u00e9mon and <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/scketann\/status\/1910695850596327506\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Yokai Watch<\/a> have included platform-specific bonuses in the past, missing out on the full gameplay experience because you bought only one copy of a game doesn\u2019t sit well with many people nowadays.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1262\" height=\"713\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1262px) 100vw, 1262px\" src=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250414-47005-002.jpg\" alt=\"Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road\" class=\"wp-image-47007\" srcset=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250414-47005-002.jpg 1262w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250414-47005-002-380x215.jpg 380w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250414-47005-002-768x434.jpg 768w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite the criticism platform-specific bonuses are getting, things could be worse. All the characters can be obtained no matter what version of the game you buy, and <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/katarina2016\/status\/1910882757007556752\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">some fans are advocating for a trading system<\/a> that would allow players to swap characters with those on different platforms (think Pok\u00e9mon Red and Pok\u00e9mon Blue\u2019s exclusive Pok\u00e9mon trade system). Level-5 also notes that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inazuma.jp\/victory-road\/en\/product\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">platform-specific bonuses are subject to change, and the bonuses might become available as either free or paid content<\/a> later down the road.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road is set to release on August 21 for the PC (Steam), Nintendo Switch 1 and 2, PlayStation 4 and 5, and Xbox Series X|S.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road&#8217;s platform-specific character drop rates have caused dissatisfaction among Japanese players.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":47010,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-47005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-japan-related-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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