Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls has launched to ‘Mixed’ reviews on PC storefront Steam , despite dev Arc System Works prioritising various improvements after the game’s open beta . The criticisms are broad and varied, but largely pertain to performance issues as opposed to the core game itself. …
… The PC port has performance problems, bugs, intrusive DRM, and no Linux support. Only 48% of PC users have given Marvel Tokon a positive review on Steam, a slight improvement over its launch score of 37%, but still quite poor. …
… The team is already hard at work on the performance you deserve, with improvements lined up for day one." These improvements include reducing the high CPU usage that players quickly picked up on, which should boost overall performance, and fixing the stuttering that always knew to strike at the wor… …
… However, the game struggled to sell well at launch. …
… That means that only 26 percent of sales come from the Steam version, which is undoubtedly due to the poor reception. Even before Marvel Tokon actually launched, its open beta had everyone fearing for the PC port’s performance at launch , which turned out to be just as bad. …
… What followed added fuel to an already contentious launch: players trying the cracked version began reporting dramatically better performance than the official Steam release. …
… This leaves you completely open to being attacked by your opponent and is easily punishable if poorly timed. …
… A new Tweet confirms more performance fixes are on the way, but it hasn't helped in terms of keeping players happy in the meantime. Of course, much of the launch heat has fallen onto the lap of Sony, which continues to be at the center of numerous controversies. …
… Between design issues that will likely alienate some hardcore players and brutal performance issues on Windows PC, this launch has been far from super.
… Another popular negative review says, "either the netcode or the poor performance makes the online play very bad, with rollback spikes." A user on the r/games subreddit echoes this same frustration with performance, saying "The CPU utilisation in this game is straight up bonkers. …
