Can We Get a Remake for Mega Man X: Command Mission?

As you all know, Onimusha: Way of the Sword sold over 1 million copies worldwide and counting at launch, making it a commercial success along with Resident Evil: Requiem and the all new Pragmata. The game industry is struggling in 2026, but Capcom, of all companies, has developed a trifecta of critically acclaimed games. 2026 is set to become a career year for Capcom. With Onimusha: Way of the Sword becoming a resounding success and Mega Man: Dual Override on its way, Capcom is open to reviving most of their IPs that have been dormant for years to decades. Everyone is petitioning and pushing for different games to come back. One of them being a franchise that was left off in a cliffhanger, the mature take on the Mega Man series, Mega Man X.

It is a sub franchise of the original Mega Man franchise that can most definetely make a comeback. Different cast of characters, serious and mature tone and the introduction of Reploids and Mavericks. Many people liked the series better than the original Mega Man because of its serious tone and dialogue we'd experience in the original Teen Titans. The first six games have 2D sprites and the last two games introduced 2.5D graphics. There is a turn-based RPG on the franchise, Mega Man X: Command Mission

This is a turn-based JRPG that can most definetely go toe-to-toe with Expedition 33 and many other turn-based RPGs. Great turn-based combat, Hyper Mode transformations, even more serious tone than most of the other games and characters that never appeared in any of the mainline games. The PS2 version sold 36,635 units and the GameCube version sold 18,599 units. Now that Capcom is looking to revive most of their dormant IPs, I think it's time we get a modern remake for Mega Man X: Command Mission.

Here's the thing. If you're playing the PS2 version, it runs on a rough 30 FPS, but has a decent random encounter rate. You will notice that Command Mission is one of the third-party titles within the sixth generation era that has technical limits on the PS2 version. But throw the same game to the GameCube and you'll experience that the game runs on a buttery smooth 60 FPS, but has an annoyingly higher random encounter rate than the PS2 version. I think we can see the remake run at 60 FPS on modern platforms and have the use of the RE Engine at 1080p resolution.

Remember what I said that the remake can have enemies visible on the field instead of random encounters? I think it's a bit absurd to have that since there are enemies visible on certain areas that get you to battles that you can't escape, so we can keep the random encounters, but to make it easier and less annoying, the rate can be set in options like in Bravely Default where we change the random encounter rate. We can set the rate of random encounters in options. These are actually the first two things I want for the remake; run at 1080p resolution in 60 FPS on modern platforms and the option to set the rate of the random encounter.

The next thing is innovative and cinematic combat system. The combat system in Command Mission is pretty much decent, but lacked some potential. But we can give it potential by bringing cinematic goodness to the combat system. This makes the pacing a lot better.

The next thing is obvious, changing the way we equip Force Metals. They are trinkets that augment a characters stats. I liked the Force Metal system. But my main problem is having a limited amount of Force Metal slots. For example, X has four available slots, but not everyone because Massimo, for example, has two available slots. But I think we can change it to equipping Force Metals in the same style as how we equip badges in Paper Mario, meaning that we can equip Force Metals without the use of limited slots. But the penalty will remain. If the Alert sign appears when hovering the Force Metal that will exceed the max erosion, equipping it will have a penalty that lasts until the battle ends, so be careful and watch what you're equipping.

And last but certainly not least, a New Game+. Many games, especially in the modern generations have a New Game+ and it's unlockable after beating the game for the first time. With New Game+, the current level, Zenny, Force Metals and weapons you have and the progress made in the Deployment Center in the original playthrough you cleared will carry over to the beginning of the journey. It makes boss fights a bit easier and can soar through enemies.

Let me pitch my idea. I would love for a Mega Man X: Command Mission remake to have a 1080p resolution at a buttery smooth 60 FPS on modern platforms, the use of the RE Engine, an option to set the rate of random encounters, innovative and cinematic turn-based combat, change the way we equip Force Metals without the use of slots and a New Game+ to have all of the items you acquired and the progress made in the Deployment Center in the original playthrough.

I genuinely think that the music, combat, art direction, serious tone, Hyper Mode transformations and everything else in Command Mission is brilliant. But that brillance is sullied by the PS2 version running at 30 FPS and the GameCube version running at 60 FPS due to the PS2 version's technical limits, the combat system lacking some potential and limited Force Metal slots. But a hypothetical remake can fix the respective issues. But overall, Command Mission is indeed a great game I played in my childhood and recently since the launch on the classics catalog. But why is that important to talk about? I'm glad you have asked.

During my childhood, I had trouble playing this game until I have gotten a bit better by equipping weapons that exploit weaknesses. And since the launch of the classics catalog, I have gotten a lot better. It's not just equipping weapons that exploit weaknesses, but going back to level up some more until I'm satisfied with it and doing something that I hadn't done during my childhood, defeating optional bosses to get Ultimate Armor and Absolute Zero. I tested out the new Hyper Mode and they both pack a punch.

The Great Redips battle was intense, but I didn't beat it once, but twice. The second run was much faster than the first run, all because the new Hyper Mode armor I acquired given me the ultimate cheese I need to defeat bosses in Chapter 10 in the fewest amount of turns and had to restock on Cure Alls because of the move Great Redips uses to apply status ailments on all.

Do you remember the Everlasting King battle in Bug Fables? It's quite similar to the Great Redips battle I have not beaten during my childhood. Over time, during my Bug Fables playthrough, it became essentially clear that the Wasp King literally has the same type of goal as Redips in terms of ruling fictional worlds. This is something that I want to talk about that I won't fit into the post.

With Capcom reviving dormant IPs, thanks to the success of Onimusha: Way of the Sword, I like to see Command Mission get remade with modern upgrades and innovative turn-based combat system in mind. I know the game was met with mixed critic reviews, but it at least sold well to be a cult fan favorite. It doesn't hurt to give cult fan favorites a remake because sales matter more than review scores.

Mega Man X: Command Mission came out on the classics catalog on the PS4 and PS5 because of the Mega Man X Legacy Collections and hopefully the Lord of the Rings: The Third Age will follow suit soon to go toe-to-toe with Mega Man X: Command Mission like it did with. I'll even do better than the last time I played it by equipping stronger gear and levelling up the party just enough to level the playing field. Trust me, if you live through turn-based RPGs in the 6th generation era, I'm darn sure you'll know what I'm talking about.

And one turn-based RPG being Legends of Starkadia is basically Super Mario RPG meets Mega Man X: Command Mission and Lord of the Rings: The Third Age. Doom Turtle needs your help building future planets. You can learn more about the game and how you can help make it happen by clicking the link to the post below.

https://rpggameroom.blogspot.com/2026/09/doom-turtle-needs-your-help.html

PlayStation Fans Deserve Better Than This...

Wow... just wow. I have been playing Mega Man X: Command Mission for few days straight and I have actually enjoyed it. I'll tell you more about my experience in a future post. Then a huge drama among PlayStation fans have came out of the blue and... fans have been fuming.

PlayStation became a brand back in 1994 when the first console came out first in Japan and 30 years later, the brand has celebrated its 30th anniversary with deals and merch. It became even more exciting because we have the revamped PlayStation Plus offering classic games released on PS1, PS2, PSP and PS3. However, as we get to the second half of 2026, things have took a turn for PlayStation.

First off, discs are being phased out for games that release in 2028. This became the source of sparking backlash on all sides. Overtime, it grew. A Change.org petition was created to reverse Sony's decision and a week long boycott was planned to be put into motion, but failed because Sony's decision to end disc production remains firm. The agreement shows that digital purchases actually offer licenses. When your account is banned, all of your digital purchases are gone. Now, I need to be clear that digital purchases on a Sony console should provide ownership like physical purchases, not revocable licenses. Sony ending discs in 2028 would be the last straw that they are seriously switching to Steam.

It was clearly dunked on. The event has been the source of controversy that we own everything. It's not theirs to take. We can assume that Sony could follow Microsoft's footsteps by doing a disc-to-digital feature. July 1 came, they announced that disc production will end for games that release in 2028 and beyond and heard nothing for six days amd made a post about the FlexStrike fight stick to ignore the backlash. In fact, the chat during the double-header State of Play was flooded with "No disc, no buy" and "Destiny 3" chants. Destiny 2 had to stop being supported as Bungie has to focus on Marathon.

If you were living under a rock, Guerilla was working on a live service game, Horizon: Hunters Gathering. This is a spin-off of the Horizon franchise that uses anime-style cel shading instead of realistic depictions the mainline games use. The game had a playtest and... whew. Negative feedback went all over the place that the entire development has been rebooted and left in the dust for quite some time. Now, if Hunters Gathering has been rebooted, they are starting all over and hopefully make it any less of a live service game since we noticed that live service games aren't sustainable as we thought. That's how Concord failed that it had to be shut down after its short-term development along with the studio.

It's also how 2XKO flopped despite all of the positive buzz. The team was laid off weeks after launch and six months later, active development ends, halting my opportunity to see Riven, Sett and anyone else in a giant pile of characters just itching to be in the roster. This had left us with the only tag fighter left to support, Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls. But luckily, a new patch for Marvel Tokon is in development to remedy most of the major issues in the PC version that became the source of having mixed reviews on PC.

It became a de facto shortcoming for the gaming industry, with the exception, of course, of the ones that are still sustainable for years, whether it's PC only games like League of Legends, World of Warcraft or CSGO to console games like Valorant and even Marvel Rivals. Even Overwatch. Overwatch, of all games, remains sustainable after dropping the 2 from the title and keeping it free-to-play under the Overwatch name and shows zero signs of dying. I think the reasoning for Overwatch's sustained retention is because the Overwatch team is actually small from the start. They knew that smaller and leaner teams that work on live service games have the tendency to establish an overkill player engagement at launch by developing games the right way without making any bad choices that spark backlash.

Here's the thing. Look at Brawlhalla. This game became a success to have future content for years to come because it was developed by a smaller team from the start. Now, imagine if 2XKO was developed by a smaller team from the start. When it releases, its player engagement becomes high to overkill and would show no signs of laying off some of the team. This makes it a vendetta to larger teams that had to be shrunk weeks after release.

Speaking of a vendetta, this brings me to my next point, Hideo Kojima. Kojima is a Japanese video game writer. He was with Konami on that time when he was working on the Metal Gear franchise. He left Konami to form his own studio, Kojima Productions. You know that they are the developers of the Death Stranding series, with Kojima being the head of the team. But what does a vendetta have anything to do with Kojima? 

Well, Kojima has a new single-player game in the works, Physint. It is supposed to be like a spiritual successor to Metal Gear Solid since it has a Tactical Espionage Action label and was supposed to be a PS5 exclusive. Unfortunately, Physint is going to Xbox as Kojima left Sony for Microsoft. This is due to Sony dropping the ball. They pulled funding from Kojima, been ballooning budgets, missing deadlines and spent time funding on a live service game like Concord. We already knew that live service games aren't as sustainable as we once thought, so why fund Concord? They should've kept the funding on Kojima instead of funding Concord.

Fans were set ablaze that Sony's fumbles allowed Kojima to shift the development of Physint to Xbox. This darning news really sets the drama about the situation surrounding Kojima. Here's the Kojima clip of a Mightykeef skit about being a PlayStation fan in 2026.

Now, I had to edit the clip to mute inappropriate words so that we can keep this post family friendly for everyone to read.

Kojima Productions has issued a statement saying that the studio is still in good health and still has ties with PlayStation despite losing the project to Xbox. Kojima working with Xbox must have unlocked multimedia forms, but the game is still in early development. Does this mean Physint is gonna be an Xbox exclusive? Absolutely not. Its PlayStation release is still likely.

If Sony is going all-digital, follow Xbox's footsteps by doing a disc-to-digital conversion feature. Also, funding should've remained intact with Kojima and shouldn't been funding on a dead live service game like Concord. That's my advice and rant that Sony needs to follow if they want to the backlash to pass and be alleviated.

Doom Turtle Needs Your Help...

There is an unfinished turn-based RPG that is developed by a small studio that needs your help getting it complete. Let's jump right in.

I'm back with a brand new post that I felt driven doing. As we know, the PS2 era was the golden age of gaming and became the sweet spot of games developed by Japanese companies despite some technical limits. Not just the PS2 era, but other eras as well. But there is one turn-based RPG that I heard them talk about subtly and it caught my very interest and blew my mind. See, I hunted for information and made a post talking about why was I so excited to revisit Mega Man X: Command Mission and hunting for information for a post talking about why I want to revisit The Lord of the Rings: The Third Age, and when I stumbled upon an unfinished turn-based RPG, I started to read more about it as much I could, so let's jump right into the post.

Indie devs are small developers that have the creative freedom in developing games. They take creative risks to provide innovations and have the tendency to make games without being burdened by shareholders and all that. These games have vibes from AAA games, ranging from Paper Mario to Kingdom Hearts. And there is one indie dev, Doom Turtle. Doom Turtle is known for making indie titles such as Ember Knights and the upcoming new card game, Welcome to Harmony. And what they have is a turn-based RPG and in a sense, a turn-based RPG that is a chaotic hodgepodge of Super Mario RPG, Final Fantasy X, Mega Man X: Command Mission and The Lord of the Rings: The Third Age.

Introducing Legends of Starkadia, a sci-fi turn-based RPG that stars an Earthling teen named Mikey, who would then get accidentally sent into a Starkadian Empire. He land face first in a battle between good and evil, starting in Scrap World. Along the way, Mikey meets few of his new allies that he must make in the fight between good and evil and save the Starkadian Empire.

The field outside of combat has the top down view Super Mario RPG uses. There are enemies on it and simply touching it normally will get you into battle. Your party strikes first by touching the enemy from behind and an enemy blitzkrieg occurs when it touches you from behind. When you have more than one character, you can switch between leaders using the buttons that switch leaders.

The combat in Legends of Starkadia has up to three characters in battle. In combat, you are introduced with attacks and abilities that require perfect timings to increase the effects like in Super Mario RPG. Legends of Starkadia introduced two mechanics similar to Super Mario RPG, the chain system and the teamwork abilities.

The chain system uses a gauge that holds up to five levels. When you make a perfect button timing, you'll increase the chain gauge. The higher the chain, the higher the effects will occur. But blow the timing, you'll break the chain and have to start from square one. Perfect button timings also increase the Teamwork gauge. It holds up to three bars and is consumed from using powerful teamwork abilities. Teamwork abilities are powerful abilities that are quite similar to Triple Attacks in Super Mario RPG. They vary by what characters you have in battle.

Each enemy has a weakness, so if any of the attacks match the criteria, the enemies get stunned and they take a lot of damage. For example, if the enemy has the picture of a sword, sword attacks match the picture to stun the enemy. While stunned, the amount of damage dealt increases.

With the explanation out of the way, here's what I think of Legends of Starkadia so far. I'm gonna say, the game is so near perfect. The combat is great, the teamwork abilities are awesome and making perfect button timings increasing the chain is an interesting touch. I get to play the game for free before the pricing model came. I even left a review on how much I have enjoyed this game and recorded my gameplay. But I didn't upload it until further notice.

Now, please be aware that the game is fully written, but it's not complete because since Doom Turtle is a small studio, the cost of developing future planets is a massive gamble. Currently, the game only spans on Scrap World.

Doom Turtle has recently posted an article that tells us that the transition to the pricing model is live and we have changed everything. What does that tell us? Well, if you look closer at the part of the article...

It shows that the game roughly had 28,000 total downloads. As of now, it has officially surpassed 200,000 downloads, which became a huge wake-up call for Doom Turtle to realize how important it is to continue working on future planets beyond Scrap World. In fact, it's more than enough to convice the team to offer us more ways to fund the development bucket, so we have several packs available.

The Supporter Edition comes with exclusive skins and the official soundtrack.

And here are the current music in the official soundtrack for Legends of Starkadia. There are currently nine tracks. If we look closer to the last three tracks...

There are three bonus tracks for planned planets, Sci-Fi World, Library World and Prehistoric World. This serves as a teaser to the next three planets beyond Scrap World. The soundtrack will have more themes once the game is in its complete form. Sci-Fi World will be the next planet where more characters beyond the first three will join the party

Steam listed this game as a sci-fi turn-based RPG to pertain to taking place in the galaxy holding 11 planets. And as you look at the splash art of this game, there are five characters on it to be in your party, hoping that we get to see more characters beyond the ones in the splash art. We know Mikey is the name of a teenager holding a baseball bat, the anthropomorphic pig is named Frank and the anthropomorphic duck is named Drake, but we don't know what are their names of the fat one holding a claw and the blue-skinned maroon-braided female character holding a pistol. We can be able to find out what their names are, which is something I can't wait, along with finding out if there are gonna be more characters beyond the splash art.

Just so you know, after looking at the splash art and reading the blurb, I wouldn't be shocked that the party in Legends of Starkadia would be fleshed out as the Lord of the Rings: The Third Age and Mega Man X: Command Mission down the line. I mean, we have Frank wielding an axe like Massimo, which is nice. But you know what would be an awesome feat? A character that throws playing cards and has abilities that are named after poker hand combinations like Spider.

The news from Doom Turtle is indeed hopeful that over 200,000 downloads is more than enough to convince the team to get back to work on developing future planets, but don't get your hopes up just yet, because right now, they are focusing on developing Welcome to Harmony, so whether a Spider-like is confirmed to be in Starkadia or not remains a mystery. It is beyond my sight and it's proven too early to for that. Once that's done, they can get back to work on this game and you are welcome to fund the bucket needed to develop more planets even further while they are working on their new project.

The game is available for $2 and the Supporter Pack is available for $5. Every purchase directly funds the developers' bucket needed to build the remaining chapters beyond Chapter 1. Here's the link to the game and the link to the Supporter Pack below.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2618160/Legends_of_Starkadia_Chapter_1/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/5243840/Legends_of_Starkadia_Supporter_Pack/

This is just the first post in regards to Legends of Starkadia. Expect follow ups to this post that cover updates.

BREAKING: Mega Man X: Command Mission is Coming to PlayStation Plus

In today's post that has some breaking news, I'm talking about a turn-based JRPG that I hadn't talked about in ages. And that is one of the turn-based JRPGs in my childhood, Mega Man X: Command Mission. Now, I played Mega Man X: Command Mission when I was a kid back in the day. I hadn't played this game for decades and guess what? It's apparently changing because Mega Man X: Command Mission is officially announced at State of Play to launch on the classics catalog September 15. If you're not familiar with this game, I'll explain it now.

Mega Man X: Command Mission is a turn-based RPG spin-off for the Mega Man X sub franchise primed to launch on PlayStation Plus Premium on PS4 and PS5. Command Mission's entails the original characters never before seen in any of the mainline games like Steel Massimo, Spider, Marino and Cinnamon. The original story involves X and his team's struggle with a criminal organization known as the Rebellion Army, led by Epsilon. Their goal is to turn Giga City into their nefarious... Holiday Inn resort to make Reploids a part of the Rebellion in the Northern Hemisphere. It's up to the Anti-Rebellion League to stop the Rebellion and bring peace to Giga City.

During combat, it uses a queue window to determine who is next to perform an action and is manipulated with decreasing or increasing speed. There are sub attacks that consume a small amount WE and Action Triggers that require at least 50% WE. The higher the WE, the more powerful it will be. Each character has a Hyper Mode, which offers temporarily fortified armor and augmented power. Examples include X's fire suit, Massimo's golden armor and... Marino's sexy Quicksilver armor. Look at them thighs. Look at how attractive and juicy they are.

If you need a better plan, you can equip Force Metals, trinkets that augment the character's stats. I equip Analyzer on all characters to unlock Analyze on the combat menu. With it, I can pinpoint the enemies' weakness and their stats. If the enemy's data shows that it can take 150% or 200% damage from water attacks, it is intended to convey an enemy being weak against water. Now this a sound strategy that is basically coined to explain how we exploit weaknesses in Visions of Mana and Pokemon.

But very loosely, an enemy, in this case, would be Mach Jentra, is weak against water, but strong against fire. You must use water attacks on Mach Jentra since he is weak against water. It is imperative to equip certain weapons that exploit weaknesses. That's what the star by the number of damage taken means.

The thing is, Capcom gave it a shot at making a turn-based RPG spin off for the Mega Man X franchise. While a fan favorite, it turned out to be a fail. If we look at the Metacritic scores and the sales for both versions, the PS2 version scored a 69 out of 100 and sold 36,635 units. The GameCube version scored a 67 out of 100 and sold 18,599 units. The PS2 version is relatively better than the GameCube version in terms of the rate of random encounters. One battle system designer has expressed his stark interest in making a sequel, implying that a hypothetical Command Mission 2 would have enemies present and visible on the field instead of annoying random encounters while Nintendo Life listed it as a game they like to see on the Switch. And guess what? Since we have GameCube games on the Switch 2, the GameCube version could one day be playable on the Switch. But I prefer the PS2 version.

Fortunately, there is one good news. With the success of Onimusha: Way of the Sword and Mega Man: Dual Override and a brand new Okami on its way, Capcom is looking to follow SEGA's footsteps by reviving more of their IPs that have been dormant for decades. Other than collections and the mobile game, Mega Man X could one day make a comeback with the opportunity for a Command Mission remake to have the same treatment as Expedition 33 with the use of the RE Engine, innovative and cinematic turn-based combat that involves pressing a button at the right time to deal more damage, enemies visible outside of combat, new features, better cutscenes and change the way we equip Force Metals without the use of slots and balance the bosses and the regular enemies' level range.

And not just Mega Man X. Whether you're a fan of Asura's Wrath, Viewtiful Joe, Darkstalkers, Final Fight, Breath of Fire, whomever you can think of!

Speaking of Breath of Fire, this leads me to my point. Since Mega Man X: Command Mission will be the first turn-based RPG of the mid 2000s by Capcom to ever launch into the classics catalog, the notorious Breath of Fire: Dragon Quarter now has more of a chance to launch into the classics catalog. This allows a precedent to be set, especially for fans of turn-based PS2 JRPGs in the golden age.

I know what you're trying to ask. Am I gonna revisit Mega Man X: Command Mission? Obviously, but this time, it's gonna be way different than the time I played this game in my childhood. How is gonna be different? Well, during my childhood, I had trouble because I kept on escaping battles and rushing through the game. But I can change that, by doing this.

Defeating the members of the Rebellion Army requires a little more time levelling up, so stalling and fighting more battles to level up the party enough before moving on is the way to do it. And also equiping stronger weapons and weapons that exploit weaknesses is a sound strategy, especially when defeating the bosses after a fewest amount of turns, so when I'm going against Wild Jango, I need to have fire-type weapons because thunder-type enemies are weak against fire. However, defeating Epsilon is gonna require more time in the oven levelling up the party.

Here's the beauty to this. If I get the party to lv. 35, I'll have a better chance of kicking Epsilon's butt and will be overkill during round two with Scarface. But if I get the party to lv. 40, I'll have a very overkill chance of defeating both Scarface during round two and Epsilon in a fewest amount of turns taken. In the sprit of commerce, I think I'll get the party to lv. 40, because it's an overkill way to defeat Epsilon in the fastest amount of time.

I have a Let's Play series planned for Command Mission, but for some reason, somehow, Remote Play shuts off on its own without warning despite plugging in an Ethernet cord, so sadly, it won't be until I figure out why it shuts down without warning. That or until Capcom decided to port it to PC.

Marvel Tokon - First Impressions and Thoughts

"drinks water* Marvel Tokon is dope. In fact, the game is so good and popular, I think it's gonna get years of love, so today, I'm gonna share my first impressions and thoughts about what do I think of Marvel Tokon so far.

First off, if you have been living under a rock, Marvel Tokon has recieved critical acclaim from various critics, indicating that this game has killed it with a Sonic Heroes-esque format in story mode that has five stories, 4v4 tag mechanics and a decent cast of Marvel heroes and villains.

Danger_Bot over on the official Marvel Tokon Discord announced that a patch is coming on Friday, which is today, to include fixes to performance issues on PC and provide PC and PS5 stability improvements.

And there are reactions to the post that are overwhelmingly positive because the patch they pushed in had alleviated performance issues that became the continuous point of contention since launch. It also have emojis of Marvel Tokon characters. The one with the most reactions is Black Panther. Both Black Panther and Magik came nip and tuck to each other.

The most recent patch came out and it remedies the issues in the PC version and brings in stability improvements for both versions, including fixes for several crashes.

All of the reactions are positive, praising devs fixing issues on PC. This post has the Wolverine emoji having the most reactions so far to honor his Battle Reborn Suit being available to all players for free and his new game by Insomniac coming out soon. It's a good thing I'm not playing it online until the patch comes out to fix issues. But enough with the patch. Let's get into the nitty gritty of this post.

Marvel Tokon is near perfect. The gameplay is decent and its 4v4 tag mechanics became the best. The characters and environment having a blend of American comics and Japanese manga are incredibly charming. The special moves are the best in the game. It has two ways to perform special moves, one button specials with directional influences like in Smash and motion inputs and attack buttons. Both are the same, but the motion input versions deal 100 more damage than the one button versions, which is how the "Good!" text appears in game. The comic book-style cutscenes in the story are the best in the game. I could just sit there and watch them as well.

So, when you assign your team on Battle Settings, the main menu screen displays the four characters on your team and the trim color varies by character you make as leader. That is the coolest thing about this. What you're seeing now has parts of the main menu screen colored blue because Magik is the leader of my team. Now, I will be the first to say, I am not a pro with Magik as I typically am with Annie in Skullgirls or Akali in 2XKO and will be with Atom Eve in Invincible VS when it comes to playstyles. But regardless, I had fun with her.

And what is even cooler is that it generates a front cover of your four-person team when you lock it in on the character select screen. It has the Marvel logo with the player number below it, a barcode on the lower left hand corner and the name of your team. I did find me a team already. What is the initial team I'm using?

Well, ladies and gentlemen, I present to you, Hellbound Shapeshifters, featuring Magik, Ms. Marvel, Star-Lord and Green Goblin.

But there is a small caveat to this. I am still working on learning Green Goblin since he rides on his glider in his Skill attack to contribute to his C-tier ease of use and his combos are a part of it. Star-Lord is relatively easy to learn. He gives you a nice dopamine rush when shooting projectiles as a typical gun and ball gamer. He is not a Noel-like, but he is fun, though. Ms. Marvel is essentially the Cerebella of Marvel Tokon with a lumpsum of punches. I did a livestream showcasing this team to use online. To make myself clear, the livestream dropped before the recent patch came out.

I can't help but wonder what this team makes me think of. I can't quite put my finger on it. Oh yeah, it sounds a lot like the Adventures of Flynt Buckler. You know, the fictional storybook in Escape From Ever After entailed Flynt's mission to defeat Tinder the Dragon became a backfire and new characters join in? It exactly sounds like that.

When you used the "It's Mahvel, Baybee!" term when Marvel Tokon was announced, it served as a spiritual successor to the Marvel vs. Capcom franchise. Marvel vs. Capcom has been a long line of tag fighting games for almost three decades, with games like Marvel vs. Capcom 2 being a masterclass in tag fighting. Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite, however, sold poorly to not have a second season. Well, Marvel Tokon is a spiritual successor to Marvel vs. Capcom, but it's not Marvel vs. Capcom.

But to the general public, there's nothing that can come close to Marvel vs. Capcom 2, until one game that did. And that's Marvel Tokon. Marvel Tokon proved that you can make a new Marvel fighter to be a masterclass to the general public. Again, Tokon is the masterclass of a Marvel fighter to be met with overwhelming positivity. This shows that Marvel has been a product for decades with web-slinging, slicing with claws, causing destruction and so on. The success of Dragon Ball FighterZ allowed Marvel Tokon to come to fruition as the masterclass of a tag fighter because they have rich innovation, right tools and resources and a smaller team. Speaking of, I seem to realize something.

Remember what happened weeks after 2XKO came out on console? Half of the team was laid off due to its flop at launch. The cause of this is that 2XKO has started development when the team was large. However, that contributed to laying off half of the team weeks after console release and ending active development in December after a year due to low player retention falling short of revenue goals, leaving a long chain of disappointment and sadness and the game available and online for the foreseeable future.

They knew that larger teams have no idea what they are doing while smaller and independent teams have the creative freedom and tendency to stay focused on making games properly without the distractions and establish an overkill player base. That's how Highguard became an utter commercial failure to contribute to shutting it down.

Here's the thing. Marvel Tokon was developed by Arc System Works, a small studio that Sony doesn't own. They only helped publish it, which makes it a stark difference in comparison to a modern AAA studios today. Now, imagine if a smaller, independent and focused team started developing 2XKO while staying small. Upon launch, the game would have an overkill player retention and momentum would reach the level needed for long-term sustainability because small scale teams are always focused and have creative freedom to develop games well. This is something that is basically intended to explain how Overwatch is the only commercially successful live service game that survived the impact.

Marvel Tokon isn't the only tag fighter that was developed from the start by a small team. Invincible VS and even SEGA vs. Capcom: The Next Level were developed from the start by small teams of Quarter Up and 4CYDE Studios. 2026 now has a trifecta of tag fighters that were developed from the start by small teams that have the tendency to take creative risks and drive a high-to-overkill player retention at launch. However, they have made a rocky launch like 2XKO did.

We can cross out Invincible VS for now because I don't think that it's gonna have years of support, especially since over 20 employees were laid off from Quarter Up. We'll cross it out and move on. SEGA vs. Capcom will be getting years of support like Marvel Tokon is since we have a treasure trove of characters and character themes just straight up confirmed during the livestream I watched. That's something we'll be looking forward to and I have future plans for it.

Well, that one just aged... poorly. Apparently, SEGA vs. Capcom has been sadly shut down and was given a cease and desist order due to the use of Capcom's characters and likeness. While I'm saddened to hear this darning and devastating news, this one is not depressing nor maddening for me. It genuinely stinks, but that's how things go sometimes. I think the reasoning for shutting down SEGA vs. Capcom is because it wasn't pitched to Capcom for approval. Now, with 2XKO ceasing active development in December and SEGA vs. Capcom shut down, we apparently only have Marvel Tokon left to support. But we were told to stay tuned to find out what original project 4CYDE is working on. What will the original project gonna be? Will it be an original 2v2 tag fighter to be a spiritual successor to 2XKO? We'll have to wait and see.

But thankfully, two things are happening in regards to Marvel Tokon. Firstly is longevity. Executives are planning to give this game a lengthy 10-year support it deserves, especially giving how high and amazing its player engagement is. A while back, I made a post that claimed that Marvel Tokon is the new heart of the FGC in exchange of the Marvel vs. Capcom heart. Now, I hereby add that Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls is the new chapter of the FGC to be in exchange of 2XKO's chapter in the FGC coming to a close on top of its active development ending after an ephemeral one-year run. I'm not saying Marvel Tokon killed 2XKO. It just couldn't stand a chance because of how low player retention is.

After looking through the scroll, no, book of Marvel characters, I have found not one, but two Marvel characters that could potentially be an Ulala-like and a Lux-like shoto in Marvel Tokon. And while it genuinely sucks and a total shame that after we lost 2XKO and SEGA vs. Capcom, I had to delete and edit posts that pertain to the future of both games, they are Songbird and Luna Snow. They are the two heroines to meet the criteria and they would be straight up dope in Marvel Tokon.

Not only we have Marvel Tokon because we also are experiencing another tag fighter on the DC side of things. And that is DCKO, a 2v2 tag fighter with various characters across the DC Universe. Suffice to say that DCKO is going to be left in the dust as it's gonna be a Mobile game.

Now, if there is one thing I want in Marvel Tokon, I would say an online co-op game mode. An online co-op game mode in Marvel Tokon sounds like a great idea to me. It allows four players on the same team to battle against four players, like how KOF and Dragon Ball FighterZ handled having an online co-op game mode to have three players against three players and how 2XKO handled Duo Play where two players work as a duo. Think about it, I can team up with three of my friends and take on four of our opponents. That would be straight up crazy, don't you think?

In conclusion and summary, Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls is dope. I loved the comic book stylization and the designs that have a blend of American comics and Japanese manga for characters. I am loving every second of it. These are my first impressions and thoughts regarding Marvel Tokon. Evo France is around the corner and that's where Marvel Tokon will have its first appearance at. Expect announcements in regards to Marvel Tokon there.