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.

Playable Characters
It is confirmed that there will be 20 default characters and 20 DLC characters, totaling of 40 characters.

RWBY

 * Ruby Rose
 * Weiss Schnee
 * Blake Belladonna (Free DLC)
 * Yang Xiao Long (Free DLC)

BlazBlue

 * Ragna the Bloodedge
 * Jin Kisaragi
 * Rachel Alucard
 * Hazama
 * Noel Vermillion
 * Azrael
 * Iron Tager
 * Makoto Nanaya
 * Nu-13
 * Es

Persona 4 Arena

 * Yu Narukami
 * Yosuke Hanamura
 * Chie Satonaka
 * Yukiko Amagi

Under Night In-Birth

 * Hyde
 * Linne
 * Waldstein
 * Gordeau

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 then-confirmed playable characters.

On October 15th, 2017, Weiss Schnee was confirmed to be in the 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.

On January 13th, 2018, Blake Belladonna was confirmed to be in the fighting game as one of 20 confirmed DLC characters on the Arc System Works Fighting Game Award 2017 show for BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle.

The game is set to be released on May 31th, 2018 in Japan and June 5th, 2018 in North America.

On February 7th, 2017, Blake along with Yang were confirmed to be free DLC characters on the EVO 2018 Special Promotion Trailer for BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle.

Downloadable Content
It been announced by Arc System Works that the 20 DLC characters can be purchased as a pack called "Additional Character-in-One Pack”. The download code for the pack will be included in the BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle Limited Box.

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.

Links

 * Official Website
 * BlazBlue Offical Twitter