Blazblue Cross Tag Update announced (new crossover series)

[NeutralDrow]

If you don't want it spoiled, go <url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sE3m_GpVLA>here.

Otherwise...

Spoiler

Wait, do the youtube embed and spoiler tags not play nice? Oh well.

It's Arcana Heart.

I wasn't into RWBY yet when the game first came out, so I didn't get to live that moment of "wait, WHAT?!" incredulity and excitement in 2017 when Ruby Rose showed up at the end of the very first trailer, though it was fun to watch reaction videos from the time and imagine.

Holy carp, I don't have to imagine it any more. Sure, this is an already-existing fighting game series, so it's theoretically not the same blindsiding that RWBY had. But it still caught me completely off-guard, and it's my favorite fighting game series of all time, so I'm extremely happy.

Now, if they just added Nora or Pyhrra, I'd probably faint from happiness, but that's probably too much to ask. >_>

Also, taking bets on that bit at the very end. There's gonna be a sixth series in the crossover? What's it gonna be?

*fingers crossed for Melty Blood or Fate*

 

[Dreiko_v1legacy]

Neptunia and Senran Kagura were seen as likely candidates but I always hoped they'd add arcana (also glad they finally gave me Seth) so I'm happy enough, I hope Kamui is one of the early additions after Heart though.


As for Fate, I guess they do have Saber from Nitro+ but for everyone else they'd have to make up the sprites as they go and won't be able to reuse assets so it'd be less likely. If I had my dream pick it'd prolly be Ar Tonelico chars though, but I don't expect that ever coming to pass.

An important thing to note is that the Heart sprite they retouched was an SD sprite from ah3 (and not her HD sprite from N+), so that DOES actually leave the window open for GG and even Melty chars to be included.

 

[Lufia Erim]

Too bad this games is Dead. There are just way too many Fighting games at the moment. The player bases are spread too thin. For both Casual and Hardcore players.

Blazblue Cross would have been the ideal time to merge Blazblue and Guilty gear together and make on large continuing Fighting game and merge the teams.

Because at this rate,it is literally impossible for fighting game fans to play all these games, which are great individually, but the playerbase just drops so hard 1-3 months after release.

 

[Dreiko_v1legacy]

Too bad this games is Dead. There are just way too many Fighting games at the moment. The player bases are spread too thin. For both Casual and Hardcore players.

Blazblue Cross would have been the ideal time to merge Blazblue and Guilty gear together and make on large continuing Fighting game and merge the teams.

Because at this rate,it is literally impossible for fighting game fans to play all these games, which are great individually, but the playerbase just drops so hard 1-3 months after release.

What system are you on? These games tend to be active on ps4 the longest. I am one of the mods of the discord for this game and it's still pretty active over there so you may wanna check it out if you're looking for games.

 

[NeutralDrow]

Neptunia and Senran Kagura were seen as likely candidates but I always hoped they'd add arcana (also glad they finally gave me Seth) so I'm happy enough, I hope Kamui is one of the early additions after Heart though.

Funny thing for me is, I'm not sure who I'd want to see enter from AH above the others. Fiona and Petra are my mains from the games, but I don't necessarily favor them from a character perspective. Kamui would be pretty high up, though.

I wonder how they're going to incorporate the arcana system. They had limited versions of the other games' unique mechanics, so I guess they could just have the AH characters use their in-story arcanas...or they might limit the arcanas, since the AH characters are far more completely designed (they're modular, unlike BB's drives or P4A's personas). If it's the former, and arcanas are part of the character inclusion, I'd love to see Kamui with Anutpada or Lilica with Tempestas.

And the Astral heats. Wouldn't it be cool if the AH characters could choose between their Critical Hearts and Arcana Blazes? Or I guess they could pick whichever's more visually-impressive for each character and give it the cinematic treatment. Though Kamui's CH is impressive enough on its own, and already incorporates the time-stop ability.

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Okay, seriously, you're right, Kamui has to be there.

As for Fate, I guess they do have Saber from Nitro+ but for everyone else they'd have to make up the sprites as they go and won't be able to reuse assets so it'd be less likely. If I had my dream pick it'd prolly be Ar Tonelico chars though, but I don't expect that ever coming to pass.

I keep seeing that title and mistaking it for Atelier...which is another game series I would be hyper-stoked to see. You're right, though, probably really unlikely. Melty Blood's my honest guess, since it has sprites to reuse, and was made by the same company as UNIB.

Too bad this games is Dead. There are just way too many Fighting games at the moment. The player bases are spread too thin. For both Casual and Hardcore players.

Sad to hear that. I feel kinda lucky I play fighting games single-player by preference. Sure, they don't necessarily last long, but I don't usually play the same game longer than 2-4 weeks at a time regardless.

 

[Dreiko_v1legacy]

Atelier and Ar Tonelico are both made by the same developer so it's an understandable mistake haha. Ar is more of a standard rpg with psychological elements and an emphasis on music, it even has its own fictional language called Hymnos that they composed music in, mixing in some Japanese for good measure. It's a really unique jrpg series.


Arcana will most likely work like in nitroplus boasters where Heart had Love by default and there was no switching around. They did work those arcana properties around a bit to be more in tune with the game. (so for example triple Love ball was just a regular special)

I expect Weiss and Akane personally, outside of Kamui and maybe Konoha (she had Bang colors). Would be funny if they added Kira though XD.

 

[PurplePonyArcade]

I'll try it again but really was not feeling it.

 

[BrawlMan]

I didn't get Cross Tag Battle, because I can't support DLC practices where you have to re-buy sprites of characters from past games, aside from the RWBY character. Two of which became free DLC due to backlash.

I will throw a bone and say Woolie did a fun video on Cross Tag Battle last night.

 

[Dreiko_v1legacy]

The sprite reuse thing is kinda over-blown since sprite-based fighters of the same generation always reuse all the old sprites of the existing cast, maybe adding a few more for a new move or super, with each new version. Yet it's not made a big deal out of.

You also have games like marvel ultimate which is reusing animations from Tatsunoko vs Capcom for the original wii. A game from a generation and a half ago lol.

The amount of the cast of this game that was dlc freaked people out but in the end you still got something like 24 chars out of the gate for 10 bucks less than a normal new game and all of the RWBY chars which were added were free dlc too, they just released the game too soon cause they wanted it to be out by evo which caused half the cast to not be done in time. They normally release it in Japanese arcades first but they rushed it so much that they only recently finally got it out to arcades.


It's one of those cases where the marketing screwed the pooch and when you read all the details it's just another fighter. No better, no worse.