Guilty Blaz: Cross Tag FighterZ

Guilty Blaz: Cross Tag FighterZ (ギルティブレイクロスタッグファイターズ) is an upcoming 3 on 3 tag team 2.5D fighting game developed and published by Arc System Works, to be released on PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, and Microsoft Windows in 2022. It will feature characters from the Guilty Gear, BlazBlue, Dragon Ball, Persona 4 Arena, Under Night In-Birth, RWBY, Arcana Heart, Senran Kagura, Akatsuki En-Eins, Granblue Fantasy and Nasuverse franchises by Arc System Works, Shueisha/Bandai Namco Entertainment, Atlus, French Bread, Rooster Teeth, Team Arcana, Marvelous, Subtle Style, CyGames and Type-Moon respectively. It is the sequel to the crossover BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle.

Gameplay
The gameplay carried over from its prequel game BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle, as well as some from Guilty Gear 2.5 fighting games, BlazBlue: Chrono Phantasma Extend and Dragon Ball FighterZ, with yet another additional revamps:
 * Each side has specific Resonance Blaze/Cross Combo Effect traits, such as Guilty Gear's Roman Cancel, BlazBlue's Drive Crest, Persona's Burst (Persona comes out beside its user), Under Night In-Birth's Chain Shift, RWBY's Semblance Crest, Arcana Heart's Arcana Spirit and Crest, Dragon Ball's Sparking, and Granblue Fantasy's Elements (based on the effects from original character artworks)
 * New Eye Cut-In for non-Persona
 * Eye Cut-In only appeared when Resonance Blaze has finally been activated
 * Distortion/Resonance/Astral Skill Starter animation is now GGXrd/DBFZ-styled cutscenes, leaving UNI-styled 2D’ed Infinite Worth cutscene animation no longer in use
 * Most of the layouts and functions are from the prequel Cross Tag Battle with some changes and updates:
 * Now has 6 Buttons: A, B, C (Cross Attack/EX), D (Cross Charge), 2 Partners
 * Run is now back to Tap twice and Hold Forward. It can also use Simple Dash input A+B on the ground
 * Passive Link Reverse Beat are now Universal for mostly A and B only. Does not work on Dive Kick related moves
 * Universal Jump Cancel (including Double Jump) and Super Cancel
 * Reversal Action becomes Super Cancellable
 * Crouching B button acting as a Sweep as DBFZ
 * Air Throw becomes available with two differences:
 * One as a combo starter, which can be throw tech'ed, and opponent can still recover
 * re*Another act as a combo ender like the one from Melty Blood, and opponent cannot recover while being grappled, yet has faster recovery after combo ender throw occur.
 * C and D Buttons are now based from DBFZ
 * For C Button, namely Cross Push (Standing, Wall Bounce), Cross Launcher (Crouching), Cross Overhead (Forward, Ground only)
 * Air Neutral Cross Attack is commonly a universal Air Combo Finisher, while Downward Cross Attack is based on specific characters (whether Launcher, Knockback, another Air Combo Finisher or Dive Attacks)
 * Cross Dash acting as a Jump Cancel replacement for Cross Push and Launcher, and Smart Combos. If Cross Push & Launcher are used in Cinematic Attack, they can be Jump Cancelled
 * If certain characters have non-Air Combo Finisher Cross Attack (including dive attacks), or have an aerial Cross Launcher to be performed after ground Cross Attack (except Overhead)/Cross Rush/pre-Cross Attack aerial Cross Launcher, it can still be cancelled to Jump and specials, as well as Passive Link)
 * If Cross Overhead presses simultaneously w/ 1 available Partner to be summoned, it will become Clash Assault, as the player will glow white
 * For D Button, namely Cross Dash, and Cross Rush. The former simultaneous directions are universal, except for forward-based, which is for the latter Cross Dash
 * If cancel from special/EX moves, it will become Cross Homing. Cost 0.5 gauge
 * Down+D for Cross Gauge Charge, Hold button will keep Skill Gauge increasing
 * Hold the button, or after the first Cross Rush was used for Air Combo Finisher
 * Hold 1 Assist button during Cross Rush to force Snap Back opponent and change to one of their teammates
 * Any dive kick related normals can only be Dash Cancel
 * 2+A+D is only for specific characters like Ragna, Tager and Wagner.
 * Cinematic Attack can only be applied in ground moves, which can only be available once if used. Air C normals, Air specials or jumping attack-based moves which has their own Air Combo Finisher, including some of their EX versions has their own separate damage properties respectively. Air Combo Finisher-related cause Hard Knockdown once, if hits the ground
 * Resonance Blaze properties changed:
 * Press ABCD to activate
 * Gives characters additional boost aside transforming Distortion Skills into Resonance Skills, and can still be used anytime except no Exceed Accel as BBCPEX
 * If 1 or 2 Partners Down, Resonance Blaze time will increase
 * Partner Button has three functions
 * Tap once (either neutral or simultaneously w/ press Left/Right) will summon assist
 * Partners has their own available assist gauge
 * Activates Resonance Blaze Buttons for Cross Combos. If secondary Partner isn’t summoned first, you can still use your secondary partner's assist
 * Can be cancelled during Distortion Skill
 * Hold to Tag-In
 * Simultaneously press w/ Cross Dash will Tag-In quickly, acting as a new Cross Burst
 * C+D for Vanish, Cost Level 0.5
 * Press A/B/C during guard for Cross Guard
 * Can deflect non-beam projectiles
 * No longer cost bar
 * Partner Down scene is now based on DBFZ
 * Skill Gauge max level is level 9 instead of Resonance Blaze only
 * Astral Skill can now be activated w/out Resonance Blaze, but only after all opponents’ Partners Down. Level requires: Level 3. Based on GGXrd on the Instant Kill scenes, and not power-up nor projectile-based
 * Dragon Ball cast's Level 3 needs rework to fit in the Instant Kill scene
 * Stage Interaction can only be occurred on stage specifics in specific conditions:
 * If using Cross Vanish, or specific Cross Push, or specials/EX/Distortion/Astral Skills that has Wall Bounce properties once, Wall Bounce becomes Wall Freeze
 * If using twice, Wall Freeze becomes stage interaction and results opponent went into Slide Knockdown state.
 * If using either Cross Push, Cross Vanish, specials/EX/Distortion/Astral Skills as a KO move
 * Dramatic Vs. Intros & Finish can only be occurred on character and stage specifics when Cross Push or Cross Vanish is used as a finisher against the last opponent

Storyline
In progress

Characters
All characters' models and effects from Blazblue: Cross Tag Battle and any other previous 2D fighting game are now in actual 3D with only 1 intro, 1 win, and 1 victory poses with some additional revamp/update. One of the characters who appeared in BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle are reduced into DLCs each monthly seasons. The roster size is similar to that of Dragon Ball: Xenoverse. (NOTE: Character inclusions still in progress)

Guilty Gear

 * Sol Badguy
 * Ky Kiske
 * May
 * Millia Rage
 * Zato-1
 * Chipp Zanuff
 * Potempkin
 * Faust
 * Venom
 * Dizzy
 * Slayer
 * I-No
 * Sin Kiske
 * Ramlethal Valentine
 * Elphelt Valentine
 * Leo Whitefang
 * Raven
 * Answer

BlazBlue

 * Ragna the Bloodedge
 * Jin Kisaragi
 * Noel Vermillion (Mu-12 as an Instant Kill form)
 * Rachel Alucard
 * Iron Tager
 * Hakumen
 * Nu-13
 * Hazama Honoka
 * Tsubaki Yayoi (Izayoi)
 * Makoto Nanaya
 * Azrael
 * Kagura Mutsuki
 * Naoto Kurogane
 * Nine the Phantom
 * Yūki Terumi (Takehaya Susano’o)
 * Es Mitsurugi
 * Jubei Mitsuyoshi

Dragon Ball

 * Son Goku
 * Vegeta III
 * Trunks Briefs
 * Son Gohan (Adult) (Super Great Saiyaman as an Instant Kill form)
 * Piccolo Jr.
 * Yamcha
 * Android 18
 * Frieza
 * Cell
 * Beerus
 * Android 21
 * Bardock
 * Zamasu (Fused)
 * Cooler
 * Jiren the Gray
 * Janemba
 * Broly (DBS)

Persona

 * Yu Narukami
 * Yosuke Hanamura
 * Chie Satonaka
 * Yukiko Amagi
 * Kanji Tatsumi
 * Naoto Shirogane
 * Mitsuru Kirijo
 * Akihiko Sanada
 * Aigis
 * Labrys
 * Elizabeth
 * Yukari Takeba
 * Sho Minazuki
 * Rise Kujikawa
 * Tohru Adachi
 * Marie
 * Margaret

Under Night In-Birth

 * Hyde Kido
 * Linne
 * Waldstein
 * Carmine Prime
 * Orie Ballardiae
 * Gordeau the Harvester
 * Merkava
 * Vatista
 * Seth the Assassin
 * Yuzuriha
 * Hilda the Paradox
 * Bloody Chaos
 * Nanase
 * Phonon the Chermeti
 * Erika Miyashiro Wagner
 * Gaien Enkidu
 * Londrekia Light

RWBY

 * Ruby Rose
 * Weiss Schnee
 * Blake Belladonna
 * Yang Xiao Long
 * Jaunne Arc
 * Nora Valkyrie
 * Pyrrha Nikos
 * Lie Ren
 * Cinder Fall
 * Emerald Sustrai
 * Roman Torchwick
 * Neopolitan
 * Qrow Branwen
 * Winter Schnee
 * Adam Taurus
 * Penny Polendina
 * Sun Wukong

Arcana Heart

 * Heart Aino
 * Saki Tsuzumura
 * Kamui Tokinomiya
 * Konoha
 * Maori Kasuga
 * Mei-Fang
 * Lilica Felchenrow
 * Lieselotte Achenbach
 * Fiona Mayfield
 * Petra Johanna Lagerkvist
 * Zenia Valov
 * Akane Inukawa
 * Weiss
 * Scharlachrot
 * Minori Amanohara
 * Pistrix
 * Dark Heart

Senran Kagura

 * Asuka
 * Yumi
 * Homura
 * Miyabi
 * Renka Mikagura
 * Ikaruga
 * Yagyu
 * Hibari
 * Yozakura
 * Shiki
 * Yomi
 * Hikage
 * Mirai
 * Ryobi
 * Murasaki
 * Kagura
 * Jasmine

Akatsuki EN-Eins

 * Akatsuki
 * Kanae
 * Sai
 * Fritz
 * Marilyn Sue Dajie
 * Dawei Ye Lue
 * Blitztank-Z (original character version, exclusive to this game, a sole prototype of the original Blitztank)
 * Ernst von Adler
 * Murakumo Zero
 * Mycale (Perfecti)
 * EN-Eins
 * Kati
 * Anonym-Guard
 * Valkyria

Granblue Fantasy

 * Gran
 * Katarina Aryze
 * Charlotta Fenia
 * Lancelot
 * Ferry
 * Ladiva
 * Percival
 * Metera
 * Zeta
 * Vaseraga
 * Beelzebub
 * Narmaya

Voice Cast
It will feature voice acting in both English and Japanese. Almost every voice actors from the previous games and animated reprises their roles.

Guilty Gear

 * Sol: Joji Nakata/David Forseth
 * Ky: Takeshi Kusao/Sean Chiplock
 * May: Satomi Korogi/Eden Riegel
 * Millia: Yumi Sumimoto/Tara Platt
 * Zato & Eddie: Takehito Koyasu/Matthew Mercer
 * Chipp: Yoshihisa Kawahara/Edward Bosco
 * Potempkin: Takashi Kondo/Armen Taylor
 * Faust: Takashi Kondo/Kaiji Tang
 * Anji: Canna Nobutoshi/Kae Min
 * Dizzy: Kazue Fujita/Amy Lucas
 * Slayer: Takaya Hashi/J. B. Blanc
 * I-No: Kikuko Inoue/Amber Conner
 * Sin: Issei Miyazaki/Lucian Dodge
 * Ramlethal: Megumi Han/Laura Stahl
 * Leo: Tetsu Inada/Jamieson Price
 * Nagoriyuki: Taiten Kusunoki/Evan Michael Lee
 * Giovanna: Mayumi Shitani/Lilimar Hernandez
 * Asuka: Tomokazu Sugita/Derek Stephen Prince
 * H. Chaos: Makoto Takahashi/Robbie Daymond

BlazBlue

 * Ragna: Tomokazu Sugita/Patrick Seitz
 * Jin: Tetsuya Kakihara/David Vincent
 * Noel: Kanako Kondo/Cristina Vee
 * Rachel: Kana Ueda/Mela Lee
 * Nago: Masaru Suzuki/Ethan Murray
 * Gii: Saeko Nogo/Cindy Robinson
 * Tager: Kenji Nomura/Jamieson Price
 * Hakumen: Tetsuya Kakihara/David Vincent
 * Nu: Kanako Kondo/Cristina Vee
 * Hazama: Yuuichi Nakamura/Doug Erholtz
 * Tsubaki: Asami Imai/Julie Ann Taylor
 * Makoto: Tomomi Isomura/Cindy Robinson
 * Azrael: Hiroki Yasumoto/D. C. Douglas
 * Kagura: Keiji Fujiwara/Grant George
 * Terumi (Base): Yuuichi Nakamura/Doug Erholtz
 * Nine: Rie Tanaka/Amanda C. Miller
 * Naoto K.: Nobunaga Shimazaki/Billy Kametz
 * Terumi (Susano'o): Kenta Miyake/Ray Chase
 * Es: Mayuka Nomura/Eden Riegel
 * Mai: Saori Hayami/Stephanie Sheh
 * Jubei: Masaki Terasoma/Kirk Thornton

Dragon Ball

 * Goku: Masako Nozawa/Sean Schemmel
 * Vegeta: Ryo Horikawa/Christopher Sabat
 * Trunks: Takeshi Kusao/Eric Vale
 * Gohan: Masako Nozawa/Kyle Hebert
 * Picollo: Toshio Furukawa/Christopher Sabat
 * Yamcha: Toru Furuya/Christopher Sabat
 * Android 18: Miki Ito/Colleen Clinkenbeard
 * Krillin: Mayumi Tanaka/Sonny Straits
 * Frieza: Ryusei Nakao/Daman Mills
 * Cell: Norio Wakamoto/Dameon Clarke
 * Beerus: Koichi Yamadera/Jason Douglas
 * Android 21: Houko Kuwashima/Jeanie Tirado
 * Bardock: Masako Nozawa/Sonny Straits
 * Zamasu: Shinichiro Miki/David Gray
 * Android 17: Shigeru Nakahara/Chuck Huber
 * Cooler: Ryusei Nakao/Andrew Chandler
 * Jiren: Eiji Hanawa/Patrick Seitz
 * Broly: Bin Shimada/Johnny Yong Bosch
 * Kefla: Yuka Komatsu & Yukana Nogami/Elizabeth Maxwell & Dawn M. Bennett
 * Caulifla: Yuka Komatsu/Elizabeth Maxwell
 * Kale: Yukana Nogami/Dawn M. Bennett
 * Roshi: Masaharu Satō/Mike McFarland

Persona

 * Ren: Jun Fukuyama/Xander Mobus
 * Yu: Daisuke Namikawa/Johnny Yong Bosch
 * Aigis: Maaya Sakamoto/Karen Strassman
 * Yosuke: Showtaro Morikubo/Yuri Lowenthal
 * Chie: Yui Horie/Erin Fitzgerald
 * Yukiko: Ami Koshimizu/Amanda Winn Lee
 * Akihiko: Hikaru Midorikawa/Liam O’Brien
 * Mitsuru: Rie Tanaka/Tara Platt
 * Labrys: Ayane Taketatsu/Cindy Robinson
 * Elizabeth: Miyuki Sawashiro/Tara Platt
 * Sho: Kenichi Suzumura/Todd Haberkorn
 * Rise: Rie Kugimiya/Alexis Tipton
 * Adachi: Mitsuaki Madono/Johnny Yong Bosch
 * Margaret: Sayaka Ohara/Marisha Ray
 * Ryuji: Mamoru Miyano/Max Mittleman
 * Anne: Nana Mizuki/Erika Harlacher
 * Makoto N.: Rina Sato/Cherami Leigh
 * Sumire: Sora Amamiya/Laura Post
 * Akechi: Soichiro Hoshi/Robbie Daymond
 * Zenkichi: Shinichiro Miki/Tom Taylorson

Under Night In-Birth

 * Hyde: Ryohei Kimura/Kyle McCarley
 * Linne: Ayane Sakura/Sarah Ann Williams
 * Waldstein: Koji Ishi/Keith Silverstein
 * Carmine: Takashi Kondo/Greg Chun
 * Orie: Saori Hayami/Erica Mendez
 * Gordeau: Kosuke Toriumi/Ian Sinclair
 * Merkava: Hidenobu Kiuchi/Ben Diskin
 * Vatista: Nao Touyama/Xanthe Huyhn
 * Seth: Yuki Kaji/Mark Whitten
 * Yuzuriha: Ayumi Fujimura/Erica Lindebeck
 * Hilda: Hatsumi Takada/Allegra Clark
 * Chaos: Yoshitsugu Matsuoka/Bryce Papenbrook
 * Nanase: Mayu Izuka/Christine Marie Cabanos
 * Wagner: Shizuka Ishigami/Brina Palencia
 * Enkidu: Shunsuke Takeuchi/Jason David Frank

RWBY

 * Ruby: Saori Hayami/Linsday Jones
 * Weiss: Yoko Hisaka/Kara Eberle
 * Blake: Yu Shizumura/Arryn Zech
 * Yang: Ami Koshimizu/Barbara Dunkelman
 * Jaunne: Hiro Shimono/Miles Luna
 * Nora: Aya Suzaki/Samatha Ireland
 * Pyrrha: Shizuka Ito/Jen Brown
 * Ren: Soma Saito/Neath Oum
 * Cinder: Yuko Kaida/Jessica Nigri
 * Roman: Shinichiro Miki/Gray G. Haddock
 * Emerald: Kikuko Inoue/Katie Newville
 * Neo: Konomi Fujimura/Casey Ann Williams
 * Adam: Yuuichi Nakamura/Garrett Hunter
 * Qrow: Hiroaki Hirata/Jason Liebrecht
 * Winter: Ayako Kawasumi/Elizabeth Maxwell

Arcana Heart

 * Heart: Mikako Aikawa/Kira Buckland
 * Dark Heart: Yuki Nagano/Kira Buckland
 * TBA

Senran Kagura

 * Yumi: Yumi Hara/Megan Harvey Taylor
 * Homura: Eri Kitamura/Kate Higgins
 * TBA

Akatsuki EN-Eins

 * Akatsuki: Shinobu Matsumoto/Kaiji Tang
 * Sai: Shion Hibiki/Chris Hackney
 * Kanae: 724/Elizabeth Maxwell
 * Wei: Shinobu Matsumoto/Richard Epcar
 * Adler: Reiji Nagase/William Salyers
 * Blitztank-Z: Kenichiro Matsuda/Ike Amadi
 * Murakumo Zero: Shinobu Matsumoto/Kaiji Tang
 * TBA

Granblue Fantasy

 * Gran: Yuki Ono/Kyle McCarley
 * Djeeta: Hisako Kanemoto/Erika Harlacher
 * Lyria: Nao Touyama/Kira Buckland
 * Vyrn: Rie Kugimiya/Sandy Fox
 * Katalina: Miyuki Sawashiro/Erica Lindbeck
 * Charlotta: Kaori Nazuka/Cristina Vee
 * Lancelot: Yuki Ono/Stephen Fu
 * Ferry: Madoka Yonezawa/Cristina Vee
 * Ladiva: Tetsu Inada/Patrick Seitz
 * Percival: Ryota Ohsaka/Anthony Sitoy
 * Metera: Ryoka Yuzuki/Faye Mata
 * Zeta: Kana Hanezawa/Mela Lee
 * Vaseraga: Fumihiko Tachiki/SungWon Cho
 * Beelzebub: Katsuyuki Konishi/Adin Rudd
 * Narmaya: Mao Ichimachi/Stephanie Sheh

Nasuverse

 * TBA

Original

 * Zamanos: Shinichiro Miki, Yuuichi Nakamura, Kenta Miyake, Makoto Takahashi/David Gray, Doug Erholtz, Ray Chase, Robbie Daymond

Trivia

 * Since the voice acting is under co-operation with Funimation, all characters’ English voices aside from RWBY are now credited, unlike its prequel game.
 * All reused Character BGMs are based on their latest main fighting game series appearances.
 * This marks the first time for the sides who appeared in BlazBlue Cross Tag characters outside RWBY, Persona and Senran Kagura cast to be in 3D, instead of being motion capture into sprites and redrawn.
 * Characters model design will be based on original series, one of them co-developed with another companies who made the models such as from Atlus, Examu, CyGames, Marvelous, French-Bread (co-joint with Subtle-Style) and Rooster Teeth, while graphics for environments are made in a same level.
 * Characters from Guilty Gear, Dragon Ball and Granblue Fantasy retain their models aside having improvement graphic.
 * It is also the last game where Amanda Winn Lee reprises her role as Yukiko in English.
 * Blitztank-Z is similar to Jack-X’ appearance in Street Fighter X Tekken, such as capable of speaking, the sole super prototype between their predecessors or/and successors.