Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls made a powerful debut final month, setting venerable fighting sport studio Arc System Works to work on what appeared prefer it may as nicely be Marvel vs. Capcom with out the Capcom. We knew Marvel Tokon would differ from these older games in its 4v4 battles, and a few new screenshots have the FGC selecting aside some extra wild changes.
Our first have a look at the in-battle UI reveals solely a single health bar for every team, suggesting that all 4 battlers will certainly share that life pool. That is in distinction to Marvel vs. Capcom, the place every character has their very own life bar, which may slowly get better partially whereas that fighter is on the sidelines.
Extra just like MvC is the truth that every character has three assist varieties. However in contrast to MvC, the place these assist options are distinctive to every character, right here it seems that every team will have a “shooter,” “vertical,” and “assault” assist, with any character with the ability to fill every slot. The query, after all, is how a pure melee character may slot into a “shooter” class with out an apparent projectile to fireside.
In fact, that is all hypothesis based mostly on a handful of screenshots proven on the (*3*), and it is totally doable that the UI is obfuscating how these mechanics work in some method. However we’ll discover out fairly quickly regardless, since Marvel Tokon is ready to be playable at Evo subsequent weekend, with a dev panel set to broadcast from the present on August 1 at 8pm PT / 11pm ET.
One different level of wild hypothesis that will not be resolved at Evo, nonetheless, is the dimension of the sport’s roster. The screenshots embody our first have a look at the character choose display, showcasing the six fighters that’ll be playable in the first demo. Some followers have already analyzed the spacing on that screen to strive and work out the dimension of the sport’s last roster. That rely places it at 35, and I’ve seen estimates go as excessive as 40, which sounds fairly bold to me, but it surely’s wanting like a meaty choice regardless.
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