>>723783098
Half your team is set characters and then you pick 5 characters. There were originally 10 of them you could pick between and all of them were some kind of vtuber or streamer and japs on twitter complained since some characters were fine and the eceleb was putting in effort but others were clearly just the streamer playing themselves and they should have gotten actual voice actors. Then 6 weeks later they released a new video and there were suddenly 5 more characters to pick from and all of them had normal voice actors so you can just pick them and skip the ecelebs entirely.

>>714221798
They completely remade the game three times. The first game was supposed to be Ares. Then they scrapped it and made Great Road which was supposed to be a big compilation game where you manage the original games team. Then it became Victory Road. They are able to include a side mode with all the matches and characters because that was the game they were making for a couple years. The reason why the protagonist is the manager in Victory Road is because he's the same character that was supposed to be in Great Road they just gave him his own team and story.

Now they are just speedrunning changes based on player feedback like how they added 5 more optional characters to the story a month after people complained about how all the side characters were voiced by ecelebs.