Ex-Final Fantasy XV director Hajime Tabata has revealed the first project his new studio JP Games will be working on. The Pegasus Dream Tour is the first official game of the International Paralympic Committee. The game will launch worldwide in 2020 in time for the Tokyo Summer Paralympic Games.
The Pegasus Dream Tour is a RPG being developed for multiple platforms including smartphones to help promote next year’s Paralympic Games. The game will take place in a fictional metropolis called Pegasus City and will have players take part in virtual Paralympic Games.
Below is the official description of the game:
The Pegasus Dream Tour, which marks the first title to be released by JP Games, is a completely new sports role-playing game, where players participate in a virtual Paralympic Games that takes place inside a fantasy metropolis known as Pegasus City. Here, players awaken their special abilities or “Xtra Power,” in an alternate Paralympics world dynamically rendered in ways that only video games can achieve. The makers are planning for the “Pegasus Dream Tour” to be accessible on various platforms, including smartphones.
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