9 Best Video Games Of 2020 You DIDN'T Play

4. Captain Tsubasa: Rise Of The Champions

Sometimes you just need to hit a ball so hard, a giant eagle made of your own sheer willpower can be conjured to see it through.

Also, it helps if this power translates into genuinely knocking the goalkeeper off their feet when they try to get in the way.

Such is what happens every match in Captain Tsubasa, the latest in a long line of titles to adapt this legendary anime, but the first to truly nail that sense of overblown spectacle associated with its most spectacular moments.

Like Dragon Ball FighterZ and Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot, there's something about video game engines finally catching up to the visual splendour of anime as a medium, that feels phenomenal to control in real time.

Captain Tsubasa operates largely on a 50/50 split for its offence and defence. Alongside powering up shots or one-off teamwork moves, you're either gonna dance around the opponent or steal the ball... or you're not.

The back n' forths between teams become electric, the pace far faster than the likes of FIFA or Pro Evolution Soccer. When that builds to a player launching an air-rupturing screamer of a shot, there have been few things more satisfying this whole year.