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Marvel Tokon Devs Confess Regaining Trust After Fumbled PC Launch Will Be 'Extremely Challenging'

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Marvel Tokon Devs Confess Regaining Trust After Fumbled PC Launch Will Be 'Extremely Challenging'

Arc System Works has apologized for the troubled PC launch of Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls, and admitted it will now be "extremely difficult" to regain player trust.

Producer Takeshi Yamanaka offered a post-mortem on the release of the studio's new superhero fighting game during an interview with VGC. He noted that, when it comes to the content itself, fans have mostly nice things to say about Marvel Tokon, but the positivity isn't being shared by users across all platforms.

"They’re playing matches every day, they’re in training mode, they’re coming up with new combos, and we see them posting those on social media," Yamanaka said. "However, at the same time, unfortunately, in the PC version of the game, there have been in-game issues experienced by many players, which we really apologise to the player base for all of these problems."

Marvel Tokon brought tag-team gameplay to PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X/S August 6, 2026. While reviewers largely lobbed high scores its way (IGN gave it a 9/10), those on PC instead took to Steam to leave reviews of their own.

Arc System Works' new fighting game plummeted to "Mixed" reviews in all languages less than 24 hours after launch as players reported stuttering issues and forced PlayStation sign-in requirements. a. Maximilian Dood) uninstalled the game in front of thousands of livestream viewers .



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