CAPTAIN TSUBASA: RISE OF NEW CHAMPIONS

 


Arguably the most beautiful anime of our childhood years...

To celebrate the 30th anniversary of sports anime bedrock Captain Tsubasa in 2018, the series returns to mainline consoles to deliver what can only be called anime sports – a football game that while following the regular rules also allows you and your opponents to dash into each other, perform goal-ripping special shots, and engage in midair-battles for the ball. While it can be viewed as a football game for people who don’t like football games, Captain Tsubasa is still essentially a football game, albeit one stuffed with fan content. While most of your time is spent dribbling, sprinting, and passing, certain plays reward you with scenes from the series. The visual effects for attacks such as Tsubasa’s Tiger Shot are great, and the sound design is impressive, but the novelty wears off quite quickly. You can either follow Tsubasa from a high school tournament to the nationals, or play a campaign with your own customdesigned protagonist.

Local and online multiplayer are also included. While it’s a joy to take on familiar teams, the game’s reliance on familiarity with the series makes the story mode unnecessarily difficult – either you execute a famous play, or chances are you won’t score at all. This effectively bars players unfamiliar with the Captain Tsubasa saga from enjoying Rise Of New Champions. This is a game that gets exciting only when it leaves rudimentary football controls behind, which is less often than you’d think. If you’re not a fan already, 2 this amounts to another game where players only distinguishable by haircut run after a ball. 

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