BIG FAT NOTE: Service has been DISCONTINUED for Puzzle de Inazuma Eleven. THE GAME IS NO LONGER PLAYABLE. I’ll keep this guide up for legacy purposes, but note that this guide no longer works!
LEVEL-5 and LINE developed a free-to-play Inazuma Eleven app game, LINE Puzzle de Inazuma Eleven! Battle your way up through various stages and build a dream team of your favorite Inazuma Eleven players!
What you’ll need to play:
⚡ A smartphone device or tablet with Internet connection (reports that the App will not work on a jailbroken Apple device)
⚡ A Line account, get the App to make an account (Google | iTunes)
⚡ LINE Puzzle de Inazuma Eleven App (Google | iTunes) (Those on Android devices and are region-locked can use this method to get the App. Special thanks to Giftigu for this part of the guide!)
Everything is in Japanese but don’t let that intimidate you if you don’t know it; the gameplay is simple (especially if you’ve played other Inazuma games and/or know a bit about soccer), and you just need to remember a few buttons!
⚡ Main Menu:
Press the soccer ball next to friends’ names to send them a soccer ball! (I’ve already sent them all balls in this screenshot, so they’re greyed out) Each battle requires one soccer ball. You can get more by having friends send them to you! (And you get them free as time passes, at what rate exactly?)
⚡ Team Edit:
When you first open this menu, you’ll be presented with your current team. Tap a player to change them.
You can compare their stats before confirming (Red 決定 button).
キック: Kick (FW)
ドリブル: Dribble (MF)
ブロック: Block (DF)
キャッチ: Catch (GK)
(Update March 27, 2014): You can now “sell” off your extra characters for coins! In the Team Edit menu, hit the bottom option with the gold coins showing.
You can sell up to 10 characters at a time (no limit on selling otherwise). Just tap their image to select them and press OK when you’re ready. You can also sort browsing by レア度 (rarity) and ポジション (position). The characters currently on your team don’t show up on here, so don’t worry about them!
When you sell, you’ll get coins depending on the player’s level and star rarity. You’ll also get an extra confirmation screen if you try to sell a character with 3 stars or more. はい (yes) or いいえ (no)
⚡ Shop:
You can buy Level-Up boosts (green menu) and Scratch Cards (blue menu) with the in-game Gold currency (they’re pretty pricey if you don’t spend real Yen to get extra Gold, but you can save up or just win more battles for Scratch Card prizes).
⚡ Kick-Off:
When you’re ready to start battling, hit the red Kick-Off button!
You only start with the bottom stage at first, but as you level up, you unlock more stages you can challenge. Just tap to select!
You’ll see the opponent’s team at top and yours below. You’ll also have the option to change your players to the recommended set (left yellow button) or change them yourself (right blue button), but if you’re all set, hit the red Kick-Off button.
You can choose to use a special item boost or go without any. You’ll get bombs whether you use items or not, but the boosts increase their appearance frequency and let you clear out grey panels when you tap them too. Trophies add to your final score (to get you better scratch card rewards), and yellow Inazuma symbol panels provide the largest score/damage boosts.
Hit the red Kick-Off button and you’ll use a soccer ball to commence battle!
⚡ Pause Menu:
Buttons:
Continue
Restart (afaik this still consumes a soccer ball, however)
To Main Menu
⚡ During Battle:
The App provides an easy visual tutorial on the gameplay when you first play.
The symbol on the top left of the screenshot says that green panels are most effective for this player.
⚡ After Victory:
Regardless of win, tie, or loss, you’ll receive experience at the end of each battle to help level you up. If you win, you’ll also receive a Scratch Card (higher score gets you better Scratch Cards).
The Scratch Card will contain at least one of the players you just fought in the battle (Bronze Card has 1, Silver has 2, Gold has 3)
This is the Scratch Card, just select one of the soccer balls to scratch it off. If you don’t get one of the players, you’ll get a boost, player level-up, or some Gold coins.
⚡ After Level-Up:
You get presents after every time you level up, just hit the red “Take all” button at the bottom when you do so!
Possible edits to come… questions etc welcome!!
Or just comment with your Line QR code lol
Let’s add each other, send each other soccer balls, and have fun!!!
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Hey, I downloaded the game yesterday so that’s pretty coincidental haha, my Line username is Tsurugi. Hehe
Sorry for double posting but here’s an alternative for downloading the game (which is a lot easier and faster) there’s this app called qoo (and after that some japanese symbols, just type in qoo in search and it’s the first one) and with that app you can download a couple of Japanese apps including Line puzzle de Inazuma Eleven.
My LINE QR~
@SplashTOMATO Does the game have an exit button somewhere I’ve missed, or do you really have to force close the app?
I’ve been force closing the app myself since I didn’t see an exit option either XD; If anyone knows otherwise…!
I found this app a week ago and I really like it! Thank you for the guide!
I added you! Here is my Line qr code.
Can someone drop the .apk for it here?
I’m one of those unfortunate souls with an unsupported android tablet, so an .apk for it would be most appreciated.
Well, I’m an idiot.
Didn’t notice that link for the page with the .apk downloader.
I blame having guests and being high on sugar.
Now to see if my cheap’o tablet can run it.
And it runs like a dream, so here’s my QR thingamajig.
…I couldn’t figure out what HTML tag to use, so here’s the URL instead.
http://i.imgur.com/ZpRdfxu.jpg
Jail Breaked device have been banned by Line. How sad.
Can i use your Images for my blog? (my blog is french)
Hello, sure! I’d appreciate a link back here to this post and I wouldn’t mind a link to your blog too :>
ok Thanx a lot ^^
Here is the link to my blog http://gaim8.wordpress.com/
I just want to know.
Are there anymore stages after level 39?
The one where the chara you have to scout is Hera I think from Zeus.
Doesn’t seem to be any more stages after that ATM, but there are also periodic updates! Next update will probably be on the 10th after certain campaigns are over, so very soon!
Are the scratch cards within a time limit, like a few months or so?
Looks like the scratch cards are permanent, including the 300 gold price for the premium ones :>
Thanks so much!
Im going to download it, but this app is not available in my country (indonesia). Anyway,nice article ^^
Hey I have a question…
It seems like there is an update for the Inazuma Eleven Puzzle game but you can’t update it because of the japanese Play Store..
I tried already to uninstall the app, and install it again (with the AirDroid-way) but it still wants me to update it.
I just want to know if there is another way to play the game again?
Thank you in advance guys!
Use the APK Downloader extension for Chrome instead of the website since the website takes time before it gets the latest updates! It requires a few more steps but gets you the latest straight from google play japan!
When I try to download it through the extension it gives me an error “ERROR: Cannot download this app! 400 Bad request!”
Make sure you’ve got the correct Google Service Framework (GSF) ID Key from your phone in order to use the extension. Easy way to do this is get the “Android Device ID” app and run it, and it will display your ID. Sometimes you just have to log off from the extension and log back in…
I updated my puzzinazuma app last night and had to log back in in order for it to work!
I’m trying to get Puzzle de Inazuma but it wont show up in the app store, and when using the link you provided, I’m redirected to a blank app store page. What should I do?
Thanks for the tutorial!
My id : potasmic (I’ve already added you anyways hehe)
I can’t seem to find the apk for the game in the apk downloader, or is it just me? And when I tried using Qoo, it can’t find the game either. Can anyone help?
Oh! The game was discontinued a long while back unfortunately, so it doesn’t work anymore anyway. I’ve updated the article accordingly.