Sony held a massive surprise in store for those who made to the end of its State of Play presentation today. Coming in as a collaboration between PlayStation Studios, Arc System Works, and Marvel Games, Tōkon: Fighting Souls is slated to be a tag team fighter featuring everyone's favorite heroes and villains from the Marvel comics universe. Watch the debut trailer above.
Developer Arc System Works, which has previously worked on series like Guilty Gear and Blazblue, has revealed that the focus on this project was making sure it was easy to pick up and play by anyone. To put this into perspective, the studio says that while other fighting games require learning each character's moves to play them effectively, Tōkon will only have one way of playing for all available fighters.
"From the beginning, we aimed to make MARVEL Tōkon: Fighting Souls a title that could be enjoyed by a wide variety of players," explains Game Director and Lead Battle Designer, Kazuto Sekine. "We have designed the mechanics in such a way that you can perform a variety of actions with either traditional fighting game inputs or simple inputs. With the press of a few buttons, multiple characters can appear on screen to provide backup or attack together – creating a new and exciting team VS battle experience."
So far, Captain America, Iron Man, Spider-Man, Doctor Doom, Storm, Ms. Marvel, Star-Lord, and Ghost Rider (Robbie Reyes) have been revealed as playable characters, neatly filling the trailer's four versus four battle. Each character has a Japanese flair to them too, such as Iron Man's unique Gundam style for his armor.
As for why the studio went with the 4v4 Tag Team battle solution, the team said that the team-up nature of superheroes was the inspiration for that, making sure that players can fill the screen with all sorts of powers they are familiar with.
Tōkon: Fighting Souls is coming to both PlayStation 5 consoles as well as PC sometime in 2026. More announcements with reveals for characters, stages, gameplay modes, and online mechanics will be coming up until launch as well.
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