A Fun Tactical Strategy Game
This is honestly a great game focusing on strategy and Tactics on a Soccer/Football field.
The game plays with a turn based style menu system so when an opponent is about to make a move against you the menu comes up allowing you to decide the action to take - whether to dribble though, pass, shoot, etc - then actions then commence with success rates based on each characters skills leading to either a success, failure, or another outcome. You can also manually open the options ahead of time if you wish to pass to an open player or setup a shot on goal so you do not need to wait for the opponent.
The gameplay is quite engaging opening up new actions and abilities as the game progresses along with players gaining experience and skill ups in training sessions to improve outcomes.
You can also access pause menus to sub players, adjust formations, view opponent formations and adjust strategies as needed.
Story progression happens in a visual novel style with short scenes before and after each game which may give hints on strengths and weaknesses of the next team along with potential new players to recruit.
The best comparative game I can think of would be Tecmo World Cup Soccer on the NES (which is from the Captain Tsubasa series in Japan).
In the end it is a great experience with the only negative being not being able to view the whole schedule but this is more due to the Visual novel aspect which progresses by chapters so team reveals and such are designed to progress this narrative style.
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