Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls Is a 4v4 Fighting Game From the Developer of Guilty Gear

Arc System Works, the developer of the Guilty Gear series, is making a 4v4 Marvel warring crippled called Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls for Sony.

Announced during Sony’s State of Play June 2025, Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls is owed retired connected PS5 and PC via Steam and the Epic Games Store astatine immoderate constituent successful 2026.

In a station connected PlayStation Blog, Reed Baird, Senior Producer, XDEV, PlayStation Studios, confirmed the inclusion of iconic Marvel heroes and villains specified arsenic Captain America, Iron Man, Spider-Man, Doctor Doom, Storm, Ms. Marvel, Star-Lord, and Ghost Rider (Robbie Reyes) – each with Arc’s unsocial twist connected their quality designs and gameplay styles.

A 4v4 tag warring crippled sounds overwhelming, but Game Director and Lead Battle Designer, Kazuto Sekine, insisted that wouldn't beryllium the case.

"Generally, a squad VS warring crippled requires the subordinate to larn aggregate characters, but for Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls, you lone request to maestro 1 quality successful bid to play the game," Sekine said.

"We person designed the mechanics successful specified a mode that you tin execute a assortment of actions with either accepted warring crippled inputs oregon elemental inputs. With the property of a fewer buttons, aggregate characters tin look connected surface to supply backup oregon onslaught unneurotic – creating a caller and breathtaking squad VS conflict experience.”

Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls is owed retired successful 2026.

Visually, Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls has the Japanimation benignant Arc strategy Works is known for. As for gameplay mechanics, each quality has a bespoke acceptable of Normal, Special, and Unique attacks inspired by their abilities and powers successful Marvel lore. And of people determination are cinematic Ultimate Skills.

“Team VS warring games person a agelong contented of 2v2 oregon 3v3 squad formats, truthful this is thing we discussed in-depth wrong the improvement team," Sekine added. "We went backmost and distant galore times, from reasoning we mightiness beryllium amended disconnected making a 1v1 crippled oregon sticking to the established 3v3 format.

"At its core, we felt that the entreaty of squad VS warring games is the strength of battles with aggregate characters connected surface astatine once. Additionally, 1 of the appeals of Marvel comics is seeing the immense formed of characters coming unneurotic to make each kinds of unsocial team-ups.

"With these 2 ideas successful mind, we concluded that creating a 4v4 squad VS strategy would beryllium the champion mode to not lone make those over-the-top moments, but to further germinate the tag warring genre."

Most stages besides diagnostic aggregate areas, with transitions that play a "strategic role." Sony suggested fans cheque retired the screenshots from Marvel’s New York City to spot what you tin find.

In lawsuit you missed it, here's everything announced astatine Sony's State of Play June 2025 showcase.

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