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Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls Review — 8.5/10, Is This the Marvel vs Capcom Successor?
Aug 9, 2026
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Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls Review — 8.5/10, Is This the Marvel vs Capcom Successor?
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I am giving Marvel Token Fighting Souls
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an 8.5 out of 10. That is an 8.5
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out of 10. Okay, it's a great game. Um,
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stick around if you want some uh
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context, you know, because there are
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some caveats. Uh, I did play this on the
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PlayStation 5 on the dual sense. By the
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way, uh, by the way, these hands will be
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50 years old next month. So, just
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letting you know it wasn't easy. Um,
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fighting games kill your they just kill
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arthritis, man. Jesus. Uh, so Marvel
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Token Fighting Souls is a great game.
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Um, it's different um than the past
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fighters I grew up playing, you know,
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like the in arcades. I started out in
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the mid late 80s with Street Fighter 1,
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Street Fighter 2. Uh, you know, a few
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years later, Mortal Kombat arcade. So,
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that basically started my love with
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arcade games. Arcade fighting games, I'm
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sorry, arcade fighting games. Uh so Arc
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System Works is the developer of Marvel
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Token Fighting Souls and uh it's only
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out in the PlayStation 5, PlayStation 5
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uh Pro and uh Steam in
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I believe the Epic Game Store, right? Uh
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the caveat with the PC version for what
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I've been reading, I haven't played this
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in the PC version. I've been playing
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this on the PlayStation 5 Pro. Uh is
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that the DRM? I guess it's frying some
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uh people's CPUs and it's slowing down
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the performance like really bad in some
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computers and gaming PCs and stuff. So
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um personally I you know Sony first
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party games launching day one on Sony on
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a PlayStation and a PC yet I wouldn't
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trust it. I wouldn't trust Sony with um
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first day launches with the PC
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unfortunately. So that's a caveat like
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from what I've been reading and stuff
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like they've been having major issues
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with the PC version. some gamers have uh
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with the DRM and stuff. All right, so
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this came out uh what a few days ago,
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August 6. So I put a good 72 hours into
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this game. Played most of the
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content, you know, parts of the whole
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game, right? Uh
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at first I would say that uh it took me
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a while to get used to the 4v4. Now I
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have played a 2v2 Marvel. No, I'm sorry.
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Was it Marvel vs. Capcom Infinite, the
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one with Thanos and Death and Thanos's
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weird son or some [ __ ] Uh, so I have
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played a a 2v2 fighting games, but most
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of the fighting games I ever played like
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growing when I was younger in, you know,
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modern times has been single. So, it
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took me a while to get used to uh Marvel
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Token Fighting Souls. It took me a
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minute 4v4 and you know
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like today I started finally getting
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used to you swapping the four players
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out and stuff and uh you know doing a
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the quick assist. One complaint with the
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game play at least I played a c you know
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I'm a casual fighting game guy by the
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way. I'm not no professional.
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Everybody's better than me at this game
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online right? So, I noticed that once
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you get into a corner in a match, people
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are just starting to link, not link
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attack, but they link attacks and they
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also do uh these sombo attacks, they
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switch out characters and they just
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basically mush your ass in the corner.
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There's nothing you could do, at least
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nothing I can do about it, you know? Uh
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I I'm just sitting there getting my ass
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hammered, you know, the the the the
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gauge just go health gauge just goes
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down, right? So, I don't know what's up
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with that [ __ ] I don't know how you get
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out of that. Somebody could probably let
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me know. Um,
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so I started out playing the episode
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which is episode content which is
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basically like the story modes. You can
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play as like the fighting Avengers uh uh
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samurai outr rididers etc. I I completed
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a few of the episodes. I got a few more
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to finish or two more one more to
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finish. So basically playing like as
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Avengers or you're playing as like ghost
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rider with blade and stuff and uh each
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of the is basically connects to the
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story mode. It's beautiful. uh the anime
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art direction, the cutscenes, the music
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on the PlayStation 5, this game has a
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great presentation as it should. It's a
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first party Sony game, right? Like we
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know first party Sony games on the Sony
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console, you know, that's the best work
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they're going to do, you know, most
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likely. Um I haven't not ever played Arc
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Arc Systems fighting game before. From
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what I understand, they use a lot of uh
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old IPs and they make fighting games out
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of them. So Marvel, I guess they want to
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keep the Marvel franchise alive, right?
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So they hand it off to them, you know,
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and you know, on a PlayStation 5, they
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did a great job. That's why I'm giving
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it such a high score, 8.5 out of 10.
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There's plenty of different content
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modes. Uh
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like I said, the episode content uh with
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the story modes feature, you know,
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really detailed cutscenes, great voice
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acting. Stories aren't that good. You
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know, I I would say the the uh Samurai
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Outr Rider story is probably the most
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interesting because Ghost Rider Blade
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and Loki and um uh Deadpool, I mean,
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look at them. They're they're they're
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outcasts or black sheep, so it's kind of
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they're not supposed to beat the
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champion, which is story story alert.
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Just story alert. I mean, spoiler alert
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is just basically like the Thanos of the
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game. He's like an elder guy, you know?
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He's [ __ ] purple like Thanos, too.
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and uh he's basically destroying the
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worlds left and right to find the best
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champion. But once he gets to Earth, you
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know what happens? He gets stopped, all
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right, by a team of uh heroes, right?
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And that's basically what the episodes
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are. They're four different episodes.
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And you play as like the Avengers, you
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play as like Dr. Doom and the Knights,
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or you play as X-Men, or you play as
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like uh you know, the Samurai Riders
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featuring Ghost Rider. And within these
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episodes, it teaches you a lot about how
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to play the games because each
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character, they have uniques, a unique
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abilities. Some have like Ghost Rider
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has this gauge where you got to like
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fill up, you know, he could overeat
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overheat if he uh fills up this gauge
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three times and stuff. Um, personally,
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uh, I don't know, man. It's like all the
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characters to me once you know their
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uniques and stuff like they're kind of
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similar in the button prompts and the,
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you know, on the dual sense to use like
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all the characters and everything. Yeah,
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they're different. Obviously, they're
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different. And and if you're a great
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player, you can really expose the
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differences, but for like a casual
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player, you could jump in and pretty
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much just do link attacks, hit the the
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unique button, which basically stops you
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stops you from having to do all the the
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the professional button prompts and
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stuff. So, it's it's pretty easy to just
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come in and do skills. Uh the hardest
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part for me learning about Tokon was uh
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the switching in and out to four
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different players and stuff and whatnot.
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But, you know, you put some time into
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you get better at you get better at the
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game. You start understanding the the
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players and what they can and can't do
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and what feels good. And as far as feel
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goes, this Tokan does not feel like
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Street Fighter. It doesn't feel like
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Mortal Kombat. So, you know, like I
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said, this is my first Arc Systems game.
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So, it feels like their game, you know,
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I guess. You know, it's their game and
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it feels like it's kind of fast. It's
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not as oomph as like Mortal Kombat. is
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not as methodical as like uh or I would
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say as crisp as Street Fighter, but it
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feels good enough to me at least once I
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started getting the hang of it and the
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feel of it and everything. It's it's a
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good feeling fighting game. I I will
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always probably prefer Mortal Kombat and
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Street Fighter or just because I've been
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playing them damn games for 30 damn
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years, you know? So, but that's about
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it. But this is a great game. This is a
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great start, you know, for this Marvel
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franchise with tokcon and Sony and
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whatnot. I except on the PC. They [ __ ]
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that up, I guess, pretty much at day
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one. Uh, they got to fix that. Um, so
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what else is there? What else have I
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done? So, yeah, the uniques, skills,
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all, you know, super ultimates and all
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that. Uh, like I said, you could put hit
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the unique button and, you know, R1, R2,
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and do a lot of that stuff pretty
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easily.
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Uh, they got combo challenges. They got,
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uh, oh yeah, dashes. You could like dash
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in the air like depending on like if
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you're using Iron Man or Spider-Man, you
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can like hang up in the corner in your
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webs or you can float around with Iron
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Man uh hover and stuff. So like uh for
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champion, he can't even really uh dash
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that good, you know? So it depends like
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I don't think Hulk can dash at all. So
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all the characters do have like a
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mobility,
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you know, thing that's tied to them and
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whatnot. As far as my favorite
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characters, I really don't have any. I
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like using today. I just started
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actually filling out, you know, champion
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pretty good. So, he's fun. Magic. Uh,
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Penny, um, God, what's her name? Peter
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Penny. Penny Parker, I think her name
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is. Dr. Doom, uh, Blade,
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uh, you know, a lot of a lot of the
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characters to me feel kind of equal. I
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guess it just depends who you're playing
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against really, but they all feel pretty
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good and they're there are different,
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you know.
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So, what else have I added in? So, I
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went to the social space. Uh, by the
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way, I just learned that you can
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actually take over replays in the social
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space in the casual uh lobbies where you
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watch other players play. You can
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actually like pause their game and take
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over like if you want to learn about how
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to stop a move or something. I haven't
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done it yet, so I can't tell you how to
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do, but apparently replay takeovers are
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a thing in this game. Just letting you
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know. Pro tip in the social space.
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Uh,
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so I did the Arcadium tutorial mode
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which has uh Arcadia Rumble, startup
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battle, Allstar Arena. I did all those
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all-star arena which is what the field
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you're seeing behind me. You basically
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just go through a route tree and
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fighting teams and stuff. Um,
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Arcadia Rumble features like your Chiba
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avatars. All the avatars in this game
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are cute. It's like a top down. It's
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like a like a rumble game over top that
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you start fighting people. this it's
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like mini games that are actually pretty
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fun actually. This is all multiplayer
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I'm talking about too. Uh so there's a
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lot of different parts of content. You
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got a good story mode. You got you know
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casual lobby that's fun to hang around
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with. There's also locks with everything
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you pretty much do as far as cosmetics
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and your profile and you know there's a
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lot of cosmetics that you can unlock and
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uh you know just badges and things that
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are tied to how you look and within
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different parts of the you know lobbies
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and things you're doing and stuff. But
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yeah, I'm not into the challenges. I'm
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not into the combo challenges. I'm not
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going to [ __ ] with that [ __ ] Uh my
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fingers and thumbs cannot take it. But
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yeah, they have all that. All the combo
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challenges, all the tutorials, all the
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help you need to really get good at the
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game if you want to put your time into
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it. Cuz it's a fighting game, man. You
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got to put your time into it if you
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really like want to be good at it and
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everything. Like it took me a good three
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days to just learn how the game plays
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pretty much. Just saying. So, yep. So,
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yeah. I'm going to give this a 8.5 out
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of 10.
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Marvel Token Fighting Souls on a
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PlayStation 5 Pro and I played it on a
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Dual Sense like I said. I'm trying to
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see if there's anything else I remember.
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So,
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yep. Story. Eh, story's me. You know,
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like I said, save the world from this
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from this elder purple Thanos
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[ __ ] named Champion. Um, plenty
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of combat, plenty of different type of
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game modes, mini games, uh, you know,
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practice modes, challenge modes. Uh,
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it's fun, you know, once you get into
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it, you know, don't b be dissuaded by
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you getting your butt kicked online, you
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know, just stick with it. Figure out
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what group that you want to run with the
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four your four main uh, heroes and
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villains and stuff and stick with them,
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you know. you know, you'll get good
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eventually, you know, especially like
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with me, like I always play single
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player, single, you know, fighting
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games. So, this was like totally out of
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my realm and [ __ ] But after I kept
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playing and practicing, getting the the
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the vibe and the rhythm of the game and
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stuff with the switching in and out and
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stuff, it's really fun. It's really fun.
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It's a solid game as it should be Sony
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first party game, right? Uh
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I talked about the dash. Yeah, the art,
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as you can see, the art is just crisp,
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man. Man, the art is just great in this
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game. Uh, like I notice how like the
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American version of Tony Stark's Iron
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Man out uh, you know, armor looks
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different compared to the armor in this
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cuz this is all more Japanese inspired
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like a more of a manga, you know, anime
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kind of look to it. So, I notice how
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Tony Stark's uh, Iron Man armor has a
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Gundam symbol on top of his like the
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little things like that. It's all
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beautiful to me. Like I said, the
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presentation in this game, you know, it
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I love the visuals. I love the the voice
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acting, the music, the themes. Like
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there's this anime theme with Penny
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Parker and stuff. Like I mean, I swear
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to God, I heard it somewhere before and
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I recognized that voice, the singer and
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everything. So
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yeah, it's a great game and uh that's
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about it. Make sure you check out
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Jason's uh video gamesource.com and make
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sure you check out Bobby Vegas Gaming,
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my brother streaming. And uh that's
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about it. 8.5 out of 10
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Marvel Token. Let's see how uh Arc
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System, you know, keeps trying to bring
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more characters and everything to the
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game and everything, how they support
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it. So, yeah, we'll see how many years
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this fighting game uh how good it does
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in the years to come. But that's about
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it. I'll see you in the next one
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