This game is one of Kairosoft's many management sim games, this one so happens to involve soccer in it. The game allows the gamer full control of his or her own soccer club, and the necessary tools to make them a World Class team. Being the manager, it's up to you to make your team from the worst to the best in the eight year time span allowed. The way to a successful game is having well-trained players, how many sponsors you've signed, and how many wins you obtained. If you're able to beat the pre-recorded high score, you're able to get a golden trophy on the title screen.
During the games, you have very little power over the players themselves, you can tap a player to unleash their "Aura" at special times, but generally you're just passively sitting on the couch. Like all Kairosoft games, the fun doesn't really come from the action aspect, but more from being able to manage finances, search points, and other points used to create the best team possible. Research points come in four different styles: Tactical, Idea, Heart, Strength. The points are spread among the players helping them train, sign sponsors, and hold player events like autograph signing. The major flaw is, even if you're team only wins one game, if you have the money you can attract any superstar and any sponsor you'd like. I find it to be a little imaginary that a world class player would pick a team with only a couple hundred fans, this really unbalances the game, for me this happened around the third to fourth play through.
The second play through is the point where the game starts to lose it's shine. Each character you've obtained and trained keep their stats. With that being said, you can take all the cheap recruits that have retained everything from the previous season and add them to your roster. While I didn't notice that this happened halfway through the season, when I saw the opportunity I obviously wanted to win. So I added them and was guaranteed a win. With all my players from last season playing sub par teams, we would pummel other groups sometimes winning 14-0. Almost three different players would get hat-tricks but the one-sided match scores get very boring and tiresome. While I like the challenge of the late game content, Pocket League Story is very mindless after the first loop with constant training, building gyms, re-sodding your field, and all you really want to do is play the game.
Closing Opinion
If you're looking for a portable fun soccer game, you're going to have a lot of fun playing this quick, easy game made by Kairosoft. While you think it's going to last you awhile, you'll be disappointed once you figure out that the challenge isn't quite there on the second play through. If you trained your players at all on the first play through, you'd easily win every game on your next year's season schedule.
| Rating | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| out of 10 | ||
| 7.5 | Presentation I like the fact that it's a very simple game to play. You can sign players, get sponsors, and win leagues but there are a lot of menus and they just throw you into the action of the game too quickly without further instructions. | |
| 7.5 | Graphics The graphics are resembled to a Gameboy kinda Pokemon look. It's very easy on the eyes but if the fields aren't sodded, all you see is brown. The games are very well drawn, having stands of fans, and the ball is very visible when watching. | |
| 6.5 | Sound If you enjoy listening to the same repetitive music over and over, you'll enjoy this game. It's like sitting in an elevator and going up 70 floors. I'm giving it a higher score because you're able to play your own music. But if you don't have any, you best just turn the sound off. | |
| 7.0 | Gameplay The gameplay is very fun. While you're not doing anything in match, you're constantly doing things after the match to create a better team. This process is very long and boring but it's very rewarding seeing your team win the first few games. | |
| 6.0 | Lasting Appeal I hope you at least try the game out. But at the price of $3.99 and the second play through being very shallow, I wouldn't be in shock if you waited for the price to drop to $.99. | |
| Good | ||
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