Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls, the new anime-styled tag-team fighter from Arc System Works, has been praised for its combat and story mode but criticised for offering little genuine costume variety. Rather than distinct alternate outfits, most characters are limited to colour palette swaps of their single anime-inspired design, which the author argues undercuts a genre where iconic costumes are a major part of a character's appeal, especially for a roster as visually rich as Marvel's.

Some palette swaps loosely evoke other comic looks, such as Wolverine's classic and X-Force colour schemes, but many well-known costumes, including Spider-Man's black symbiote suit and Magneto's white Krakoa-era outfit, are unavailable. True alternate costumes exist only for five characters, Captain America, Iron Man, Storm, Spider-Man and Doctor Doom, and only if players buy the Digital Deluxe ($84.99) or Ultimate ($99.99) editions rather than the $59.99 standard version. The article notes this echoes past criticism of other Arc System Works titles like Dragon Ball FighterZ and NetherRealm's Injustice 2, both of which similarly relied on colour variants over full costume changes.