Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-112.202.173.119-20170718024417/@comment-25936766-20180211000536

The Devil&#039;s Advocate WP wrote: VedranTheII wrote: It deserves reiterating given how...unprecedented the rwby crew is in the game.

Speaking from a pragmatic standpoint, 4 new characters in a crossover game is iffy in and of itself, especially since those originate from a non gaming IP.....

I don't think it is iffy at all. Crossovers between established game franchises and non-gaming properties have proven quite successful in the past. Plus, RWBY have had a video game made about them already....

It is weird, though not quite for the reason Vedran said.

Persona 4 Arena, BlazBlue, and Under-Night InBirth, all have 2 things in common: 1st, Arc System Works developed those games, either alone or in part. And 2nd, all those 3 games are Fighting Games.

RWBY's one and only videogame, Grimm Eclipse, has nothing to do with ArcSys in any way, and it's not a fighting game of any sort whatsoever, nor does it even have a PvP mode. Their movesets in BBTAG don't draw from Grimm Eclipse either; their moves are all based on what they do in the show and trailers.

So RWBY stands out like a sore thumb in BBTAG, since there's nothing to link it to any of the other franchises, let alone Blazblue, beyond the man behind BB being a RWBY fan. And while RWBY is somewhat popular, it isn't a big IP either; the only franchise there who might be even less known than RWBY is UNIB, and not that much.

Now, if they were Guest Fighters instead of (at least marketed as) one of the 4 franchises represented then it'd be different, since one can "invite" fighters from.....weird places (Like, say, Noctis from Final Fantasy XV....in Tekken 7). But as one of the "mains"? It's a strange decision, not necesarily bad but still strange.