Marvel Tokon's Anime-Inspired Excellence Cured My Superhero Fatigue
Audiences get tired of anything when it becomes omnipresent, superheroes included. After playing the game, I've realized that Marvel Tokon's cool factor is more than skin deep. It's right there in the game's name and logo: "Tokon" literally means "fighting souls" in Japanese, with the giant kanji character in the background.
- ▪Audiences get tired of anything when it becomes omnipresent, superheroes included.
- ▪After playing the game, I've realized that Marvel Tokon's cool factor is more than skin deep.
- ▪It's right there in the game's name and logo: "Tokon" literally means "fighting souls" in Japanese, with the giant kanji character in the background.
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My biggest question going into Spider-Man: Brand New Day, a movie I was very skeptical of after years of disliking modern Spider-Man films, was "why is Spider-Man fighting random ninjas?” Then I saw the movie and realized the answer was incredibly simple: "Spider-Man fighting ninjas is really cool." I was not just surprised but also delighted. Audiences get tired of anything when it becomes omnipresent, superheroes included. But when you add an unexpected element, when you make it cool, you get people to care.I had a similar but slightly different question before firing up Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls ($59.99, available on PC and PlayStation 5), the new superhero fighting game developed by Arc System Works and published by Sony: "Why does this Marvel fighting game have an anime…
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