Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls review – Avengers assemble for 2026’s best fighter

Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls – fighters assemble (Sony Interactive Entertainment)

There’s a brand new Marvel fighter in town and it’s an impressively unique take on both the fighting game genre and the superheroes themselves.

The days of licensed video games being low quality shovelware, where the majority of money is spent on acquiring the licence rather than making the game, are thankfully long gone. The general standard of games based on movies, TV shows, and comics is now extremely high, to the point where it’s more a sign of quality than an indication that you’re about to be ripped off. And Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls is the latest proof of that.

The turnaround has not simply been a case of making better...