BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle

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BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle is a 2D fighting game developed and published by Arc System Works, released on PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch and Microsoft Windows. It features characters from the BlazBlue, Persona 4 Arena, Under Night In-Birth and RWBY franchises by Arc System Works, Atlus, French Bread, and Rooster Teeth respectively.

BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle has received mostly positive reviews from critics and audiences due to its visuals, music, online functionality and overall fighting system, praising the very deep game mechanics. However, critics have pointed it out it's lack of content available and the DLC practices were highly criticized before the game's launch.

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Plot

A singularity called the "Phantom Field" is mixing the reality of Blazblue with three other chosen universes, members of those worlds abruptly summoned while instructed by a "Phantom Field", the mysterious voice itself that they must protect the keystone in order to return to their homes. But as the Keystone is divided into four among the groups, it results in a battle to acquire them.

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Gameplay

The gameplay in BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle is much different from previous entries of BlazBlue, Persona 4 Arena and Under Night In-Birth. Yet, some of the gameplay mechanics from the main latest installments of these three said series are retained while having some additional revamp for this game. Cross Tag Battle features 2v2 battles and tag-ins similar to Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite and Tekken Tag Tournament 2.

Characters

Cross Tag Battle has a total of 40 characters with 20 in the base game and another 20 available as Season 1 DLC. On June 7, 2018, Arc System Works president Minoru Kidooka confirmed that Season 2 DLC is planned. Blake Belladonna and Yang Xiao Long were each scheduled to be downloadable content available for free, with the remaining 18 characters available for a premium. In the PC version's release, Blake was made available at launch as the 21st base character, while Yang was added via update patch at her release date, leaving only 18 characters of Season 1 DLC.

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Development

In an 2016 interview with Forbes, Mori Toshimichi revealed his interest in making a RWBY fighting game, which attracted Rooster Teeth's attention.

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.

On July 16, 2017, BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle was announced at the Evo 2017 championships following Ryusei Ito's victory in BlazBlue: Central Fiction. Ragna the Bloodedge, Jin Kisaragi, Yu Narukami, Hyde Kido and Ruby Rose were revealed to be in the game via the announcement trailer. Later, it was announced that Konomi Higuchi would be the game's lead character designer. According to game director Toshimichi Mori, Cross Tag Battle would be released exclusively on consoles. Some characters from Under Night In-Birth were redrawn for this game to match out BlazBlue graphics. There are no plans on including other characters from other franchises such as Guilty Gear.

According to the producer, the game's main target crowd is the fans abroad rather than in Japan. Accordingly, Cross Tag Battle is the first BlazBlue game since Chrono Phantasma to be dubbed into English, with an option to toggle between English and Japanese voices on a by-character basis.

Controversy

On January 13, 2018, Arc System Works announced that there will be twenty paid Season 1 DLC characters for the game, resulting in Cross Tag Battle launching with only half of its planned roster at 20 in the base game. This caused backlash from fighting game fans, with the arguments that the game mostly reuses assets from earlier Arc System Works fighting games, and that half of Team RWBY will be sold separately. During the EVO 2018 lineup announcement stream in which Cross Tag Battle was announced for the main lineup, Mori announced in a trailer that Blake and Yang would be free of charge, allowing players to enjoy Team RWBY at no additional cost. In addition, he said that costs for the DLC characters would not exceed that of the title's retail cost. This was confirmed by Mori in an interview with "Dengeki PlayStation".

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Reception

BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle received generally favorable reviews. Famitsu magazine awarded it a score of 35/40 based on four reviews (9/8/9/9).

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References

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External links

• Official website

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