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Captain Tsubasa: Rise of New Champions(JP) is a soccer game for the Nintendo Switch based on the Captain Tsubasa manga series. The game retells the story of the manga and anime as Episode Tsubasa as well as lets the player explore new possibilities in the original story mode Episode: New Hero.

Gameplay[]

Captain Tsubasa: Rise of New Champions includes offline and online multiplayer modes, and a single-player story mode split into two sub-modes: Episode Tsubasa, allowing players to experience the original storyline, and Episode New Hero, allowing players to create their own character and level up in a fashion similar to the FIFA series' Player Career mode or Pro Evolution Soccer's Become A Legend mode. In New Hero, players can choose to represent Nankatsu Middle School, Furano Middle School, Toho Academy, Musashi Middle School, Otomo Middle School or Hanawa Middle School before playing in the Junior Youth World Challenge, an international U-16 tournament.

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Development[]

Rise of New Champions was developed by Tamsoft, based on the 2018 anime series Captain Tsubasa, and produced by Tsuzuki Katsuaki, who described the game design as similar to arcade soccer games.

Marketing[]

In April 2021, Bandai Namco Europe and the Ligue de Football Professionnel announced a partnership through which 17 of the 20 2020-21 Ligue 1 clubs (not including Paris Saint-Germain FC, Olympique Lyonnais and Olympique de Marseille) would have their kits unlockable through a two-week event in April and May 2021.

Reception[]

The game got mixed reviews.

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