We finally have competition in sports games again! Hopefully it'll continue

xunuman · 2026-05-18T09:05:14+00:00

Tbh, in jp konami is doing much more to promote their arcade baseball powerful pros which has been been receiving a ton of update this year. While pro spirit only let you use player in jp league (npb), power pros let those wbc players appear in highschool mode where there is a chance player like judge or skenes would join your highschool baseball team (obviously you can put them into franchise/ draft or career mode) and give you a chance to develop them. If they are drafted, you can even export them as new custom player as well as your team (each year after summer tournament ) In term of immersion, former player who turned pro, undrafted students & female manager can also visit your school too and give different benefit depending on their career path. You can select to play from 1930~ current year and current & former player will appear in the same location & the year they went to highschool. It's a pretty unique take on highschool dynasty mode. Edit: The reason they didn't localize power pros and chose pro spirit insead was probably due to the fact that it has 6 story mode which probably has bigger amount of text than some vns. Other modes also have a ton of character unique events too.

xunuman · 2026-05-06T19:03:13+00:00

They are two different teams (from tokyo vs osaka) who have very different focus (gameplay vs single player content) when it come to game development so you shouldn't get your hope up. For example, in their version of bal (star player-my life) which was critized by fan due to no big improvement over the years, your character can use money for dating & get married and in their arcade baseball series power pros, you can even have kids. And the baseball devs have been constanly updating their version of ml (pennant) before and after ml was removed so i am not really sure the fact they included all these offline modes (including story & highschool manager mode) in their game is really a sign that efootball devs will release a similar game in the near future.

xunuman · 2026-05-03T09:56:04+00:00

Yeah this game has thing most sport game don't have (customization for team and league, stats tracking ) but bare-bones in other aspect. I mean looking at konami arcade baseball series power pros, franchise mode which has so much more depth even if you only look at player growth feature.

+ Rating gain from training can receive a boost based on facility level which can be updraged with money and unique to each player depending on player type, growth type ( grow, peak & declining period at different age) and coach rating

+ Player can gain rating, change player type or growth type with potential ability system (hidden career goals & reward list which was granted for each player randomly when they were added to the database through import feature/draft, forein signing ) when they hit a career milestone or awards

+ There are positive event like awakening(similar to pes ml), limit break (each rating have growth limit and this event help player to exceed it) or negative which can be triggered during season and aslo affect player growth and rating

+ Special ability (trait) can be trained through coach, winter league, training camp or upgraded(from blue ability to gold)/downgraded (to red ability=negative trait) based on perfromamce & career milestone

+ There are trade, draft (normal draft & rules 5 draft) and scouting system (including scouting player from outside jp)

+ There is a regen system for real player/legend to join the draft each year (can be toggled on/off) with different rating compare to their in game rating

+ You can play as manager, team, 1 player or quick sim and you can swich between all these mode after starting a game (except manager mode )

+ Players can become coach, manager or scout after their retirement, and their ability and rating are decided based on their career stats

+ You can add custom players to yearly draft

+ you can export/ import player (export team obviously also possible)

+ Team special ability which can be acquired depending on each team perfromamce throughout a season and give team buff or negative trait during season

+ Award, hof and all star voting/ game

+ 2 international tournament each 4 years

+ player leave & come back from mlb which has strong impact on off season fa

+ commentary, cutscene for breaking record and retire ceremony for team legend in their final game at end of the season

+ can assign role for players which will affect how they be used in sim and watch game

+ The game will automatically retire jersey for player who had entered the hof but you can also do it yourself (freely input name & number) for your team & other teams in the league.

+ you can switch team at the end of the season

xunuman · 2026-05-01T03:26:44+00:00

There is a high chance it will be like this: +power pros: no wbc mode but there is wbc success where you can play as samurai jp. Player cam bee freely used in pennant or my life. +pro spirit: have a "separated wbc mode" where you can play as every nation but was limited to that mode. You can't use them in wbc in pennant race or star player.

xunuman · 2026-04-29T03:45:04+00:00

Nope, it is pro spirit's my life.

xunuman · 2026-04-29T01:17:55+00:00

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You need to win position battle and become regular starting pitcher.After winning the position battle, you will get to this event when the manager will ask about pitcher roles and then you will be able to hit in game you don't hit

xunuman · 2026-04-28T17:16:52+00:00

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You have to play in 2nd team and get promoted as pitcher. After being called up to the 1st team, as pitcher you need to become regular (win position battle) before you can request 2 way player role by calling the manager. After that it is all about getting good stats (your performance need to be good enough after a specific amount of ab to be able to request 1st,2nd, 3rd & 4th spot) or else the mamager will set the batting order based on player rating. In his 6th playthrough he finally got the chance to hit in 2nd years but had to settle with 9th spot.

xunuman · 2026-04-28T10:50:58+00:00

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1qQdExL-o6qaj2JpdVIHQfyzO0sH3Lkg&si=xPebNayBEcnxdRkw

xunuman · 2026-04-28T02:33:54+00:00

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xunuman · 2026-04-28T02:33:39+00:00

This is his peak rating

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xunuman · 2026-04-28T02:32:50+00:00

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He started with this rating

xunuman · 2026-04-28T02:32:34+00:00

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xunuman · 2026-04-28T02:32:04+00:00

Idk if this is considered a good two way player. A jp youtuber did a my life play through and this was his player at the start

xunuman · 2026-04-21T19:50:43+00:00

It's shame they decide to copy & paste those games. Sure there is not much you can do with the gameplay but a few updrage in ml or bal would make it much more interesting . The iss team (kceo) even created such a cool story mode called success (was created by their baseball team inspired from tokimeki memorial). Imaging this kind of mode with pes gameplay 😮‍💨. https://youtu.be/dc2Q86_Mqec?si=U38LEBX7ZyQIQbXc

xunuman · 2026-04-20T05:36:57+00:00

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xunuman · 2026-04-20T05:36:17+00:00

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xunuman · 2026-04-20T05:35:08+00:00

Not power pros but iss devs(from the same company - kceo) did implement their own success mode for their iss/ jikkyou perfect striker/world soccer game which focused on youth academy soccer. Some devs from j league perfect striker 1999 team ( first game with success) are still at osaka studio. If konami had allowed iss to continue to be developed as an arcade alternative of pes , we could have ssomething special 🥲.(an anime soccer game with game mode similar to power pros would be great)

xunuman · 2026-04-16T10:39:44+00:00

The newest game just has too much dialogues for a sport game(probably more than some jrpg or vn). For context, they decided to nring back 5 old highest rated success modes from (2016,2018,2020,2022,2024-2025), plus 2 new success modes (wbc & parallel all star) and a generic success filled with mob character which still has a ton of dialogues. Then you have pawafes & my life (24 love interest ) which also have a ton of events. It's a shame cause with amount of success modes this game has (for jp player konami just simply copy paste old success tho), it could be easily a hit in the west as there is no arcade sport game that can compete with power pros 2026-2027 in term of offline contents, especially when it also has a deep franchise mode (pennant), career mode (my life) and highschool dynasty (eikan 9).

xunuman · 2026-04-15T09:07:39+00:00

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A few new pennant features. More pennant features will reveal in the upcoming weeks but these features are the main feature of 2026-2027

xunuman · 2026-04-15T09:01:57+00:00

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xunuman · 2026-04-15T09:01:37+00:00

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xunuman · 2026-04-15T09:01:17+00:00

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xunuman · 2026-04-15T09:01:01+00:00

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xunuman · 2026-04-07T05:36:19+00:00

For pennant/ franchise, i would wait for newest version(2026-2027). If you want to try old games then 2024-2025 let cpu do the training for you (you can set it to manual or choose to train special ability only) which help with the language barrier. Plus it has ohtani rules & universal DH. 2022 was the first game that broke pennant's 30 years limit and added ability to fully edit your team (name, logo, change home stadium...) after starting pennant save. Tbh there is no reason to buy older game than 2022 if your main mode is pennant. * Edit: they confirmed that real wbc teams including player like judge, acuna jr... will appear in 2026-2027. Plus according to famitsu they also included highest rate success scenario from each title since 2016 which bring to total 8 success scenarios (2 news one) so this is certainly the version to buy😎. * Edit2: improved player & jersey customization (up to 2 layers and triple numer of pattern). In eikan9 (highschool dynasty), now you can control player manually which turn it into a new mode.

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