Marvel Tokon don't make a LICK of sense

0:00 Look, if you've played fighting games before, you know it's not your first rodeo dealing with fighting game story modes, continuity errors, characters that are dying are just coming back in the next game, and character assassination. Alex, I think when it comes to team games, they have their own story tropes because the games are more like side series. The stories [music] are more are more catered to be like a oneshot. In team games, the best way to get a vast array of fighters to team up in the most irregular way is a celestial power, forcing them [music] in a team

0:32 tournament. Every fighting game does this. They run this formula. BB [music] tag, KOF, you name it. In Marvel Tokon, we're introduced to Champion, which good on Arxis for making me believe [music] that this was an original character because ew, they took my man to Turkey and had this man's cranium [music] looking right. Why is he built like that? The way it goes, Champion goes through the galaxy searching for strong fighters from planet to planet. And if [music] those planets lose, they get wiped off the

1:03 map. Next stop is Earth. And he challenges Earth to bring their strongest fighters composed of four fighters. [music] And have these teams of four run into a tournament. And the winning team will be the team to represent Earth and save it [music] from destruction. Simple story, right? Now, here's my problem. Before Earth, the last planet who fought and lost against the champion was allowed teams of 100. And Earth only [music] gets four. Now, why is that fair? And the reasoning

1:34 isn't even better. The only reason why these teams are comprised of four, not only because of game design, but because the Fantastic 4 did such a great job saving people across the galaxy. Man, what? They're not even in the game. a game of team of four and we don't have the trademark [music] flagship team of four. I know champions as I better keep that full of four. After the announcement, the promoter gives out invitations to a select you to be captains of these [music] teams so they can build a team up to enter into

2:06 the tournament. These captains are Captain America, Spider-Man, Ghost Rider, Storm, [music] and Doom. The way these episodes play off is that the selected team ended up being tasked to be the sole saviors of the Earth. So, it's a lot of whatifs. Also, side note, promot out of all the [clears throat] episodes, it seems like the standard case because as far as it goes, there was a ceremony for the Avengers honoring the team with Hulk, Thor, Iron Man, [music] and Captain America where the timing couldn't be any better. From the looks

2:37 of it, the group has gone their separate ways. Thor most likely in Asgard. Hulk cast aside cuz he's Hulk. Tony is Oh, and you know what? He he right. He just here pulling up to the the ceremony late after the first squabble for leadership. Captain America is looking for a possible third looking for Black Panther. Arus ain't [ __ ] cuz they set up Shi. It was in the most here [ __ ] Damn. We don't got Tchala. Y'all got Sherry. I don't know where all the Sherry hates coming from. She may not be

3:07 Tchala, but she's still cool. But it seems like it's it's not just like but it [clears throat] seems like just in the real world in universe her capabilities are being put under questions even after convincing them that the Avengers are capable. Captain America reconciles with Hulk after being cast out for being who he is which is kind of crazy work from from Captain America. The most accepting member being like, "Hey man, you have to go. You you you we can't have you here no more. We can't have you doing all that Hulk smash stuff." Besides that, once the team was completed, every team gets tested by the

3:40 promoter if they're deemed worthy to challenge the champion. Cuz the champion pays no mind to a sorry ass team. Promoter acting like that one worker that's [music] been working one year too many at a job, begging you to leave while you still can and begs the team to end the reign of terror of the champion. Because let's be honest, if you was working under the champion, are you giving him your 2 weeks notice? Avenger episodes very basic where each interaction was y'all the Avengers. Y'all got it. Do what you guys do best. Save the world. Kind of boring. The

4:11 X-Men episode was basically the Avengers but X-Men. But you can't have an X-Men story [music] without mutant hate. From the jump, a bunch of humans are hunting a young [music] mutant child only for Storm and Magic to save the day. Whoever was writing these scripts giving these new mutant slurs cuz ain't no way my man dropping the the [music] slur gan freak with so much hatred was crazy. The champion's arrival came at the [music] worst time possible for the X-Men cuz they just got packed which is safe to

4:42 assume was Phoenix [music] Cyclops. The next DLC, which is basically evil Cyclops boosted by the powers of [music] a primordial god, got everyone on bed arrest except Wolverine, Storm, and Magic and later joined by Danger, a piece of alien tech gifted to the X-Men. Brother, I seen the comic book Danger and Lord have [music] mercy. They aris once again changing a broke nigga's life. Most of the story is just the same until they run into Doom's team cuz thank you to [music] pissing me off, man. I know how far you're willing to go

5:12 for mutant kind. But I know Doom could give two Latvarian [ __ ] about mutants. He enslaving them once it's over, gang. Just cuz they denied you off their team, you're joining literally Satan. One last thing about this episode. Whoever chucked that bottle at Wolverine, my brother, are you okay? Marvel humans are the worst. They glaze the Avengers, but yo, let it be an X-Men. Let it be an X-Men that saves [music] them. They start spazzing out as if they Yo, they curse their whole bloodline. But chucking a bottle at Logan is some crazy [music] work historically. Yo, he is a

5:45 historical fade chaser. Have your intestines skewered on his claws. Amazing guardian. Dear god amongst the sorryest team the teams and lore. I don't know if y'all seen CEOs cuz this weber was everywhere. [music] Top 32, top eight, top four, everywhere. But I swear look Spider-Man, Star-Lord, Penny, Miss Marvel. Oh my god. The world is being saved by some lame ass [ __ ] [screaming] hate Miss Marvel outside of the the game. She cool, but man, she makes herself look sorry in this

6:16 episode. She's the reason why Spider-Man loses the invitation to challenge the champion. She was ready to immediately forfeit certain fights. Frame one, after talking about some, "Yeah, I can make a change. I can make a difference. Trust me, man. I get being a fan, but can we not worry about getting an autograph from the world ending? What an autograph going to do when the world is being enslaved, being turned into Planet Fitness?" So, I'll say that might be the lesson of the [music] story. Finding a place where people accept you for who you are. Psych. Ain't no way Peter

6:47 putting the this sorry ass team and the DI hire Penny because it's an anime game. Throw marketable Penny in the mix and Spidey is still carrying not a single scratch on anybody. That fight with champion Peter is fighting for dear life trying to carry the weight of three dead weights and himself against a a literal primordial god, the samurai outrider. This got to be bottle of the barrel, pocket lint, tissue, and penny ass team. How in the world [music] are Ghost Rider, Blade, Loki, and Deadpool

7:19 teaming up? What do they even talk about? What do they have in common? But maybe that's the goal. The sheer randomness of this team. Plus, I love Deadpool. Yeah, he's revered for reference slot, but in Tokon, he's a gem. I mean, they're just oozing with fighting game references. Even like from yo, from most well-known to the most niche [music] champions looking for a fighter. Robbie was chosen to be one of the candidates as a as a captain and [music] he wanted zero part of it. You know what you do when you want to motivate somebody you know damn well they don't want to enter? Kidnapping. Took his little brother.

7:51 They said, "If you want your brother back, join. Find yourself a team." We got to talk about Robbie Reyes in this car. this [ __ ] ass car. Every interaction, Robbie is the voice of reason. And that demon in that car is the voice of violence and suffering. Brother, it's not that D gang always trying to catch a body with every single person. Can't even say a hello without this car being wishing death upon you. That rag tag team band of misfit. For the most part, the story is very comedy oriented, especially you're not going to get much serious stuff done, especially when you have Deadpool. Most of the

8:22 time, people like, "Oh god, it's Deadpool." Or it's the other side where it's like, "Oh my goodness, why y'all working with Loki? Y'all know what he does?" But for the most part, you're very, very, very comedic. I think out of all the people that got done worse was Doom Steam embarrassed. Imagine losing the set and you got to hear a a Deadpool ass [ __ ] talking about, "Man, better luck next time, buddy." And I know that I know that hurts Doom immensely. Doom's already plotting at least 100 ways he wants to possibly kill Wade. [music] I can't blame him. And for the rest of the story, it is pretty much very simple

8:53 where the team save his brother. Actually, you know, Robbiey's brother was living life, eating good, living lavishly, out of care in the world. You're even, you're not even thinking about your brother that's stressing right now. But all in all, pretty good story. It's always good to have where there's always going to be at least one comedic story cuz I feel like a lot of them do take themselves a little bit more seriously, but this one was just straight comedy. Nights of Doom. No. No. Absolutely not. No, no, no. How down bad do we have to be where Doom is the last

9:23 hope for the planet Earth? Nothing good comes from it. It's just a band of evil ass people. This whole episode is Doom being evil. At least there's some cool villains like Carnage. Nah. Nah. My god. Every character I like, man. I know. Like, hey, I know he means like killing kids, but dog be so be so for real. Guess I got to throw him in the other box of children killer. Anything for Lat. I guess villain arcade stories always make you feel bad for winning. Dude really is a hater cuz tell me why

9:57 he pulls up to champions frame one after not getting an invite only for the champion to eat his hits like like lunch and pelt this man back to Lveria with no effort on some if you're so mighty. Go grab an invitation yourself. It's yours. arcade mode as a villain really be making you feel bad cuz like you're laying waste to the whole cast for all the wrong reasons. The whole way through everybody is saying I get the three of you guys being in this bad posy but

10:29 Magneto bro you have the consciousness to know that these are not good people. How low can you really go? And internally Magnus [ __ ] is eating Magneto up bro. Norman gets a pass though. He's all anti-abuse, but the waves, bro. He They They They They chose the right Norman Osborne to add to the game. It's the one with the wave. Come on, man. You already know he proper. Anyway, get your cliche villain ending with Doom. Beats everybody. Gets the the title of champion of champion

11:00 Doom and everybody applauded. Yeah. Marvel Tokon episodes were pretty fun. good amounts of fan service for Marvel fans alike, but also doesn't take itself too seriously. Fun short stories with nicely drawn [music] panels as cutcenes. Now, if only the rest of the game could work, am I right?