The Steam page for Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls has been updated, confirming 20 characters will be included in the launch roster, leaving some to wonder if that's enough for a 4v4 fighting game.
When it comes to fighting games, it's typically customary for a tag team fighter like Marvel Vs Capcom to launch with a pretty big roster due to the individual characters being less developed than you'd find in something like Street Fighter to accommodate a bigger selection of fighters – and to make it easier to remember the movesets of multiple fighters. 2XKO launching with only 12 fighters is one of the biggest criticisms about the struggling fighter, and with Marvel Tokon having 4v4 battles, some are expecting Marvel Vs Capcom 2 numbers.
But despite having four times the amount of characters per game than Street Fighter 6 it looks like Marvel Tokon isn't going much further than Street Fighter's 18 character roster. The game's Steam page was updated ahead of the PlayStation State of Play later this week, and added the now-removed blurb "Choose from an expanding roster of 20 iconic Marvel characters at launch."
Over on Reddit, some have found this number a bit shocking. "20 characters seems like a pretty small number for a 4v4 game," one user says, comparing it to 3v3 fighter Marvel Vs Capcom 3's 36-character roster, adding, "Basically a single team - any team - comprises of 20% of the entire playable roster. It doesn't seem worth the $70 asking price Sony will inevitably put on it." While another adds, "Marvel vs Capcom 2 is a miracle that spoiled me so bad with a base roster of 56 characters."
However, others point out that despite the 4v4 team structure, Marvel Tokon isn't exactly played like a traditional tag team fighting game. "I played the beta and it’s not really a 4v4 tag game. It’s a 1v1 game with assists. With shared health bar, there is not a lot of inherent gain from tagging out," one user notes, while another explains, "people forget that it's not a Marvel vs Capcom game. the shared health-bar essentially just turns it into a standard fighting game with a character-switching gimmick, not really a proper 'tag fighter'."
