Sorpasso Games Develops Ghosts of the Mountain Pass, A Public-Road Battle RPG
Sorpasso Games, an individual developer based in Italy, is working on Ghosts of the Mountain Pass, a single-player public-road battle RPG. The game draws on Racing Lagoon, which Enix released in 1999, and on Genki's Tokyo Xtreme Racer series. It is planned for PC via Steam, with no release date set. English is the only supported language for now, and a Japanese localization is under consideration. The setting is Italy's Riviera region in the late 1990s. Players race local street racers on mountain passes that overlook the sea and on ring roads along the harbor, and they build up their own car from parts they obtain. Across one summer they follow the truth behind a public-road race that was abolished after an accident decades earlier, along with the pasts of the people who still drive the night roads. Races are one-on-one and run on public roads, in a format compared to the SP Battle of Tokyo Xtreme Racer, where the stamina gauge falls faster the more an opponent pulls away.