That new Marvel Tokon fighting game sure looks great, doesn’t it? The mixture between Arc System Works’ flashy anime style and, well, Marvel characters is a winning combo visually. The new tag-team fighting game is doing something a little different compared to previous Marvel-involved titles.
Rather than the three-on-three matches from the Marvel vs Capcom days, this is a four-vs-four with a couple of twists. Attacks change based on how you form your team, and you’ll need to do a little work to utilise the team properly. It’s like a great big iteration of a classic formula without overhauling it too much.
Now, the team has put out a fairly hefty video detailing how to play for beginners.
It’s an 11-minute video, and for the most part, it is fairly average instructional information for a fighting game until I remembered that this was coming from the team that did that Dragon Ball Fighter Z, which tried to level the playing field with similar simplified controls.
That’s for those of us who weren’t born with the innate ability to contort a controller while you “lab”.
Marvel Tokon is continuing Arc’s work on making fighting games easier for babies like me
Marvel Tokon is carrying that legacy on, and while it’s doing some neat things for the concept of tag team fighters, it’s clearly being designed with Marvel’s general audience in mind. Everyone deserves to make Doctor Doom look good in the face of that menace, Spider-Man.
While it’s making the general mechanics of the game easier to jump into, there’s also a benefit for putting the time into the game. These “Quick Skills” will deal slightly more damage if you do the traditional button input method, forcing those who want to get that bit deeper into the game to actually learn its mechanics.
That’s all well and good, but what about those of us who have repeatedly convinced ourselves that purchasing a fighting game is a good idea? Why I own Street Fighter X Tekken, I’ll never know, because the moment the game moved further than demanding fireballs from me, I flaked out. That’s just one example of a silly purchase, never mind the half dozen Mortal Kombat and Tekken games I’ve tried to get into.
This is EVO’s fault, really
Arc’s latest Marvel Tokon trailer is clearly designed to convince people like me that this time it might be different. A large reason why people like me get convinced to try fighting games is because of this weekend’s major tournament, EVO 2025. The event is massive, with prize pools for multiple games, and Marvel Tokon will be available to play in public for the first time.
However, EVO is the cream of the crop of fighting game players, and every single time I get convinced that yeah, I can do what these people do. Except I can’t (yesterday I almost tripped over a puddle), but at least Arc Sys is planning around those like me, who essentially want to smush my action figures together without too much trouble.
Marvel Tokon is set for release next year, published by PlayStation Studios on PS5 and PC. Sony is so giddy over this new fighting game, they’ve even made a fight stick with a dystopian para-military name, FlexStrike. It’ll be “on display” at EVO, which is an equally funny thing to think about. This fight stick is in a glass case like it’s a prized zirconia, ready to be stolen in a heist.
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