PlayStation Studios, Arc System Works (ARC) and Marvel Games have joined forces to make the latest team combatants, Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls! Discover the Marvel universe like never before with characters and redesigned steps, an impatient soundtrack, intuitive game mechanisms and breathtaking visuals that will keep you at the edge of your seat. Whether it is your first fighting game or you are a veteran of the genre, ARC has incorporated controls and gameplay mechanisms which are easy to collect and play, while offering depth and versatility for high -level competition.
“From the start, we aimed to make Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls a title that could be appreciated by a wide variety of players,” explains the game director and battle designer Kazuto Sekine.
“Generally, a Team VS Fighting game demands that the player will learn several characters, but for Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls, you need to master only one character in order to play the game. We have designed the mechanics in such a way that you can carry out a variety of actions with traditional combat game inputs or simple inputs. With the press of a few exciting buttons.
“Since the first day, our longtime employees and confidence in PlayStation and the Arc System Works team have paid incredible quantities of talent and passion to reinvent the Marvel universe in a way they can alone,” said Michael Francisco, principal director of product development, Marvel Games. “Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls demonstrates that they are absolute masters of their profession and are real marvel fans at heart. The players are in a wild ride.”
Characters
Enter the melee with Marvel's emblematic heroes and villains such as Captain America, Iron Man, Spider-Man, Doctor Doom, Storm, Mme Marvel, Star-Lord and Ghost Rider (Robbie Reyes)-each with a unique arc touch on the conceptions of their characters and the styles of play.
Arc producer, Takeshi Yamanaka, says: “There are so many incredible Marvel characters that it was quite difficult to choose our list, but we had criteria for the selection process. First and foremost, we wanted to include characters who we feel to give us characters and styles. I have never been playable in a combat game before. »»
Yamanaka-san continues: “At the start of the project, we experienced a shaders to recreate a visual style of more western comics, but the Marvel team expressed the desire to look at something more arc.
Gameplay mechanisms
From short -range blows to cinematographic cinematographic skills, each character presents a tailor -made set of normal, special and unique attacks inspired by their capacities and powers in the Marvel tradition. Arc made great efforts to ensure that the style of play, the movement and the feeling of these legendary characters are fresh, new and completely unique to Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls.
But it is not only the individual gameplay of the characters that has been improved; Significant dedication has been reintegrated and redefined what it means to be a fighter of the label team.
“The team's matches against fighting have a long tradition of 2V2 or 3V3 team formats, so this is something that we discussed in depth within the development team. We have gone back and forth several times, thinking that we could better make a 1v1 game or stick to it in 3V3 established format. ”
Sekine-San continues: “Basically, we estimated that the attraction of VS fighting team games is the intensity of battles with several characters on the screen at the same time. In addition, one of the calls of Marvel Comics is to see the vast distribution of characters meeting to create all kinds of unique teams.”
“With these two ideas in mind, we have concluded that the creation of a 4V4 VS team system would be the best way not only to create these exaggerated moments, but also to evolve more the kind of fight against labels.”
Steps
The steps come to life in Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls, filled with Easter eggs so that fans in eagle eyes can find. Most steps also include several areas. These transitions between areas are not only full of action and amazing to testify, but they also play a strategic role. Discover Marvel's New York City screenshots to see what you can find.
More to come
Today's announcement is only the start of our trip. From characters and stages to gameplay modes and online experience. There is so much more than we can't wait to share with you!
