From the Guilty Gear and Blazblue series, to games such as DRAGON BALL FighterZ, to now Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls, Arc System Works continues to remind the game industry of why they are the best of the best in terms of creating the most stylish and accessible fighting games on the market. People who put hundreds, if not thousands of hours into games like GG Strive and Dragon Ball FighterZ will find something to love here, it's a treat for fans of fighting games and Marvel superheroes. After completing the Episode Mode of this game and learning the starting roster, this game is my personal contender of my Top 5 fighting games alongside Dragon Ball FighterZ and Street Fighter 6.
However, with this release there is a major elephant in the room which is Sony/Playstation. This game launched and is still somewhat in a very poor state and had one of the worst Steam/PC launches I have seen since Monster Hunter Wilds last year. Many people could not get this game running at 60 FPS, even on a RTX 5070 GPU or above, due to Sony's awful DRM and PSN requirement, not only making performance worse but blocking the game in over 100 countries. The game also does not work on Linux at all, which also will hurt the playerbase. It's very hard to find Ranked or Causal matches on PC due to the horrible lag the game launched with to the point where PS5 players turned off crossplay.
I bought this game because I adore Arc System Works and they usually always make banger fighting games, so I will recommend this game, with the caveat that Sony is attached to this release and they have made some very poor decisions with it.
Sony, not only have you killed physical discs for PS5 and PS6 but you also almost killed an entire playerbase of a fighting game you planned to last for a decade. You can do better and you SHOULD.
TL'DR: Game's amazing, but Sony is doing some ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ again. I recommend waiting a bit longer for more patches. Also, Sony, please ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ get your ♥♥♥♥ together.
Game: 9.5/10
Sony: 0/10
