With some big exceptions, story modes in fighting games are usually a bit of an afterthought as the bulk of dev time likely goes into balancing combat and character movesets. MARVEL Tōkon: Fighting Souls is looking to introduce some length and depth into the genre with its story called Episode Mode, which will function as a playable motion comic in the four-vs-four tag fighter, according to a new interview with devs. Image via ARC SYSTEM WORKS “We had a manga artist draw the base manga, and then we added movement to each panel to advance the story, which is a fairly time-consuming way to present it,” ARC SYSTEM WORKS producer Takeshi Yamanaka said in an interview with 4Gamer (via machine translation). “We have prepared five teams, and it has enough content to provide nearly 10 hours of gameplay in total.” When it comes to fighting game story modes, Mortal Kombat immediately comes to mind as a series that focuses on the narrative, especially since Mortal Kombat 9 back in 2011.…