This is a site about Pro Yakyu (Japanese Baseball), not about who the next player to go over to MLB is. It's a community of Pro Yakyu fans who have come together to share their knowledge and opinions with the world. It's a place to follow teams and individuals playing baseball in Japan (and Asia), and to learn about Japanese (and Asian) culture through baseball.
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Michael Westbay
(aka westbaystars)
Founder
-Konami is making the main concept of the game ease of use for beginners. They're trying to make it more of a pick up and play game. As long as the die hard fans are satisfied, they can do whatever they want. They know who buys their games, and they're not pick up and play guys.
-Guys who batted without the mit cursor on will have more of a challenge this time. They state that batting will be more intense with the catcher window off this time.
-There's a new button for "fine plays" on defense. I don't know how it's going to be any different from before.
-Stealing bases will be more like Pro Yakyu Spirits 3 with the flying base steal system.
-Borrowing another trait from Spirits, you can also see pitch history when you press pause.
-Success Mode will focus on high school baseball and the Koshien tournament. Thank God. No more Powerful Town or Powerful Academy crap.
-Looks like My Life mode is getting some big upgrades. I think Konami should keep doing what they're doing and turn My Life into a big selling point for this game.
-There are new scenarios to My Life to make things more interesting in short term. You can be a "suketto" with the goal of guiding your team to a pennant in a year. I'm not sure, but I'm guessing they mean this specifically to refer to foreign players. Another scenario is the playing-manager scenario in which you can do what Furuta is doing this year for a single year at the end of your career. How cool is that? I guess Konami is also predicting that Furuta will retire after this year.
-There is a new mood system in My Life in which your performance effects the condition of the entire team.
-Also a dojo system is in the game in which you have the ability to go to different "dojos" of retired players. I don't know how they're going to do this realistically, but anything is better than that horrible auction system they used before. That wasn't effective at all for getting OB instruction.
-There will be "events" during games in My Life. I have no idea what they mean by this. Should be interesting.
-Pennant Mode goes from 10 years to now 20 years.
-Pennant also has something called coach navigation system. I believe it'll be used to analyze things in a more comprehensive manner.