The fantasy football RPG arrives on the Nintendo 3DS for the first time along with a new hero to boot. But with a darker and more corrupt storyline is Inazuma Eleven GO: Light & Shadow worthy of championship glory, or will it dribble down into the corners to be forgotten?

Level-5 has granted us a new vision for the Inazuma Eleven series and welcomed protagonist Arion Sherwind as Light & Shadow’s football hero for Raimon. For those less familiar with the series, it’s been ten years since Inazuma Japan clinched their victory at the Football Frontier International – which closed the third instalment of the original Inazuma series – with goal keeper Mark Evans at the helm of the game. Now, there’s a deeper and larger darkness at work behind football, where winning or losing matches is predetermined by Fifth Sector bigwigs, making players detest the sport they once loved.