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Captain Tsubasa – 80’s, a glorious era for the gaming community with a series of products for life including Pac-Man, Tetris, The Legend of Zelda, …
On the other hand, this is also the childhood time of many people being “molded” by each page of the manga, especially the manga from the “country of cherry blossoms” such as Hokuto no Ken, Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure, Dragon Ball, … These works were full of creativity by the standards of the time and carry a lot of nostalgia for today’s generation.
If you are knowledgeable about the game industry, you will surely know right away that nostalgia is something that anyone is willing to spend money to experience.
Developers everywhere seem to be aware of this because the number of long-standing manga or anime that have been converted into games has skyrocketed in recent years.
Just like sports titles or new Call of Duty titles that come out each year, the majority of adaptations aren’t as popular as responsible companies often use their reputations for original materials to make money not much effort.
One of the newest recipients of “entering the electronic world” is Captain Tsubasa (also known in Vietnam as “Dream pitch”).
Will Captain Tsubasa: Rise of New Champions “rise” and become a shining example for every game that will be adapted later or still follow the ruined path left by the predecessors?
Let Biareview learn through the following article.
Perhaps, what surprised me the most is Captain Tsubasa: Rise of New Champions campaign mode, with a relatively large length for sports games, up to … 15 hours!
The plot is divided into two chapters, Episode: Tsubasa and Episode: New Hero.
“Episode: Tsubasa” favors a direct adaptation from manga to the game and sticks to the original content.
Set in the “Boys’ Fight” section, you play the longtime protagonist of the line Tsubasa Ozora on a fierce journey to conquer the national football tournament for the 16th middle school, together with my companions at Nankatsu MS.
Here, the game will “stimulate” the sense of nostalgia of the player by rebuilding almost everything in the story on the screen.
To make this even more interesting, in each stage there are conditions attached, if they are done the game will begin to cut scenes in the middle of the game and recreate some memorable moments from the work.
For example, in the match against Hanawa MS, when the Tachibana twins receive the ball, it will open the scene introducing their amazing “Skylab Hurricane”.
In Episode: New Hero, this is where Tamsoft begins to change the plot element.
The biggest difference is that the captain of Nankatsu MS is no longer the main character, but you will be given your character and brought into the world of Captain Tsubasa: Rise of New Champions.
Players will adjust the player’s stats created by themselves and learn many great moves from all other characters in the game, to make the goal of winning easier.
If you read the story, you will know that connecting the part “Boys ‘Fight” is the “J Boys’ Challenge” and that is the context of this chapter but with a slight change.
In the original, Tsubasa and members from many other teams were recruited into the soccer team for the International Jr. Youth in France, however, this tournament was eliminated and replaced by Jr. Youth World Challenge takes place in America.
This game can be called a lot of things but normally definitely not among them and this is clearly shown through the direction of the gameplay.
For anyone tired of the mechanism of the FIFA or PES series, Captain Tsubasa: Rise of New Champions can help change the “taste”.
Each player in the team has his skills, which makes you take advantage of every character to thoroughly win.
Like every other soccer game, when the whistle blew the player had to dribble past the opponent’s team and try to score.
To make this job easier, the company created a dodge mechanism.
When you think that the opponent in front can steal your ball, you can press R1 + R2 to avoid it.
If the timing is right, the player will quickly step over the enemy in front of him and continue to dribble, otherwise, the opponent will win the ball and cause you to collapse in a short amount of time.
Especially, when dodging twice consecutively, there will be a short movie showing up close up when you perform this technique, and the Spirit bar of that character is also restored.
This bar allows players to do the above skill, along with some other actions like running and blocking the ball.
Besides, the game’s scoring form is a bit unusual compared to many other sports titles.
Instead of simply kicking a ball into the net to score a goal, every goalkeeper has a Spirit bar that represents the amount of blood they have.
To score goals, you must first “exhaust” the morale of the opponent by using excellent kicks such as Tsubasa’s Drive Shot, Hyuga’s Tiger Shot, Nitta’s Falcon Shot … After the Spirit bar is over, the goalkeeper will no longer be blocked and the ball will fly into the goal.
The amount of “damage” you do will depend on the player’s character stats, so if you have a character with great power like Hyuga or Tsubasa on your team, then there is no need to worry constantly. Reduced goalkeeper health, because they can score in just a few kicks.
Have you ever seen a character from a sports anime enter your “zone” and wonder what it feels like?
If the answer is yes, then Captain Tsubasa: Rise of New Champions will help you experience this.
The V-Zone is a super status that boosts all of the player’s stats for a short time, which can be activated after you’ve filled the V-gauge.
Once in the “zone”, all of your attacks do more damage than normal, heal faster, and use skills less time, making scoring extremely breathable.
To help balance things out, the company designed another use for the V-Zone.
When your goalkeeper is threatened by the opponent’s attack, you can use the L2 button to perform Super Save to block the ball without losing Spirit.
When it seemed that the game could not become “Japanese” anymore, it introduced the Aerial Clash feature.
When two players from the other team both “attack” the falling ball, both will jump up and the player is put on the challenge.
You must press the four buttons continuously on the handle to win, if successful, the ball will fly towards the other team’s goalkeeper or transfer to a nearby teammate.
I was really surprised to see that the studio was able to reproduce the thrilling “pass the ball” screen that was only in the anime!
Besides, some characters can work together to perform unique skills to make victory even easier.
As mentioned above, the Tachibana brothers will activate “Skylab Hurricane” when they shake hands, but they are not the only couple to possess these moves.
Tsubasa and Misaki can also run parallel and constantly pass the ball to each other, making it difficult for the enemy to block or catch up.
Besides, the Tsubasa – Hyuga couple can team up to give the ultimate goal of scoring “Neo Drive Tiger Twin Shot”.
With the new mechanics introduced by Captain Tsubasa: Rise of New Champions, the game no longer feels like a casual sports game, but rather a high-paced action game.
Although Captain Tsubasa: Rise of New Champions has done many new things to change the age-old formula of the football genre, at the same time, he is also “stumbled” by countless technical errors scattered everywhere.
Before each match starts, there is always a running short video about the two teams facing each other.
Everything was fine until the commentator spoke and the subtitles popped up.
During the first time watching this scene, the writer immediately realized that the subtitles were blurred and a bit blurred, but because they did not see much importance, they ignored them.
Later on, this got even worse that… the bottom half of the screen was almost completely blurred and the subtitles were no longer readable.
Continuing with the theme of cutscenes, I also noticed that the game couldn’t seem to handle them properly because the game kept dropping FPS every time the video was entered.
It’s fine if it’s just once or twice, but this happens for nearly every scene in the game.