BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle

BlazBlue Cross Tag Battle is an upcoming crossover tag team fighting game consisting of characters from the licensed fighting games series which Project BB Team is involved in: Arc System Works' own BlazBlue, Atlus' Persona 4 Arena, French-Bread's Under Night In-Birth and Rooster Teeth's anime-styled web animation RWBY. The character art for this game is drawn by Higuchi Konomi who previously worked as a character designer for the XBlaze series.

RWBY

 * Ruby Rose
 * Weiss Schnee

BlazBlue

 * Ragna the Bloodedge
 * Jin Kisaragi
 * Rachel Alucard
 * Hazama
 * Noel Vermillion

Persona 4 Arena

 * Yū Narukami
 * Yōsuke Hanamura
 * Chie Satonaka

Under Night In-Birth

 * Hyde
 * Linne
 * Waldstein

Gameplay
This game will be a 2-on-2, two dimensional, tag team fighting game, which allows the player to switch between characters during a fight. Each character from both players has their own health bar.

Development
Before BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle' s reveal, Rooster Teeth teased the possibility of a RWBY fighting game being revealed at Evo 2017 on their Twitter account. During the Evolution Championship Series, it was announced that Ruby Rose is going to be in a crossover fighting game created by Arc Systems Works and will include characters from BlazBlue, Persona 4 Arena, Under Night In Birth and RWBY. The game is set to be released in 2018. A demo of Ruby in the game was tweeted by Gray Haddock on October 3rd, 2017. On October 6th, 2017, Arc Systems Works released an early demo gameplay trailer of the crossover fighting game featuring the seven playable characters.

On October 15th, 2017, Weiss Schnee was confirmed to be in the crossover fighting game in the second character introduction trailer of BlazBlue Cross Tag Battle. The game will be released on PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch and Steam.

Trivia

 * Due to RWBY being a North American production, RWBY characters start out with speaking in English as their default language voice instead of Japanese.
 * Currently, only RWBY characters are known to get dual audios between English and Japanese.
 * According to Toshimichi Mori on Famitsu Interview:
 * Under Night In-Birth characters' sprites will be redrawn to match out BlazBlue graphics.
 * Currently, there are no plans to include characters from other franchises such as from Guilty Gear in this game, despite Arc System Works' awareness of this requests and wanted to expand it in the future, if possible.
 * The game's main target crowd is the fans abroad rather than in Japan.

Links

 * Official Website
 * BlazBlue Offical Twitter