Hey everybody, I’m Takeshi Yamanaka, Producer of MARVEL Tōkon: Preventing Souls.
Earlier right now on the Arc World Tour 2025–2026 Finals in Korea, we revealed the second staff to look within the sport: the Superb Guardians. If you happen to haven’t seen the newest Group Reveal Trailer but, you should definitely test it out beneath.
A brand new staff takes the stage: The Superb Guardians
The Superb Guardians are a staff made up of heroes from a brand new technology.
Main the group is your friendly-neighborhood Spider-Man (voiced by Josh Keaton), who solutions the decision with each nice energy and nice duty. He’s joined by the up-and-coming Ms. Marvel (voiced by Dalia Rooni), the profit-seeking house pirate Star-Lord (voiced by Scott Porter), and the interdimensional gadget whiz Peni Parker (voiced by Risa Mei).
How did these 4 heroes come collectively? How will they face an amazing risk? Can they work as a staff regardless of their variations? You’ll discover out in Episode Mode, the place their story unfolds!
New playable character: Peni Parker
One of many newly introduced characters is Peni Parker. A Japanese-American pupil, Peni is a superb (and possibly slightly eccentric) younger scientist.
She pilots SP//dr, a strong mech go well with created by her father, and fights because the spider hero of a parallel universe. In MARVEL Tōkon: Preventing Souls, Peni brings SP//dr into battle, utilizing a variety of devices and distinctive instruments to improvise methods on the fly.
Although she grew up in the USA, Peni sometimes slips into talking Japanese. Hold an ear out for a way this element is delivered to life throughout completely different language voiceovers.
Our Grasp of Ceremonies seems: The Promoter
The trailer additionally introduces a mysterious new determine often known as the Promoter (voiced by Sabrina Fest). Her true identify is Xirena Awhina, and she or he’s an Elder of the Universe — an historic alien race that has existed throughout the cosmos since time immemorial.
True to her title, Xirena travels the galaxy organizing leisure on a supernova scale.
The Promoter invitations our heroes to a high-stakes event that can decide the destiny of planet Earth.
How will our heroes, and villains, rise to the problem? And is the Promoter appearing alone? Keep tuned… extra will likely be revealed quickly.
New function: Computerized Group Identify Era
We all know gamers love constructing their very own four-character dream groups—and giving them a reputation to match.
Beginning with the most recent construct, we’ve added a enjoyable new function: Computerized Group Identify Era. (No, we didn’t patent it!)
Based mostly in your chosen characters, the sport robotically creates a staff identify that references Marvel lore. The identify seems on display and is even introduced by a hoop announcer. Check out completely different combos to find cool, stunning, or simply plain enjoyable staff names.
Enhancements primarily based on the Closed Beta exams suggestions
Based mostly on suggestions from our two Closed Beta exams final yr, we’ve made various refinements and enhancements to the sport.
Watch this video for an summary of the most recent gameplay modifications.
Detailed patch notes can be found on the Discord Server.
To everybody who performed the demo and shared their ideas—thanks! Our growth staff is constant to fine-tune the expertise proper up till launch.
Play the most recent demo at EVO Japan 2026
Subsequent, we’ll be bringing the most recent hands-on demo to EVO Japan 2026, going down in Tokyo from 1- 3 Could.
This construct will function Peni Parker as a playable character, together with the Knowhere battle stage, which is carefully tied to the Superb Guardians staff, bringing the full of playable characters to 12 and 4 levels to select from at EVO Japan. If you happen to’re attending EVO Japan, we’d love so that you can cease by and provides it a attempt.
See you at EVO Japan 2026!
