Since RWBY originated in North America, RWBY characters start out with English as their default voice.
Originally, the RWBY characters were the only ones to have dual audio between English and Japanese, until it was confirmed by Arc System Works that the characters from each of the three other franchises aside from RWBY will also have an English dub.
Cross Tag Battle marks the first time that BlazBlue characters who made their fighting game debuted in Central Fiction like Es and Naoto K., Senran Kagura characters who have yet debuted in anime adaptions, Under Night In-Birth, Arcana Heart and Akatsuki EN-Eins cast has been dubbed in English. While characters who were NPC prior to Central Fiction like Jubei, Nine, and Mai had previously been dubbed in English, this marks the first time that character has been playable.
Senran Kagura’s case, marks the first time to be dubbed in-game, rather than in anime only. However some of the casts' English voice actresses being recast.
Selecting characters' language individually is similar to other Arc System Works’ published only collaboration game, Lab Zero's Skullgirls (in its last 2nd Encore update). However, individual characters’ language selections have already been done by Capcom since Street Fighter IV onwards.
Though the English dubbing for all sides was confirmed however, unfortunately unlike other recent Arc System Works' fighting games, Dragon Ball FighterZ, non-RWBY English cast still uncredited, nor announcing the main title when switching to Western subtitles and voices. This should be fixed in the future update.
List of timeline alternatively takes place:
BlazBlue: Alternatively after BlazBlue: Central Fiction, given that Trinity Glassfield is not in the storyline, while Yūki Terumi had been dead and the only fighter who is forbidden to be resurrected, due to how dangerous he is, even without his true Takehaya Susano'o form.
Persona: Alternatively after Persona 4 Arena Ultimax.
Under Night In-Birth: Alternatively set between prequel-based Chronicle Mode and Arcade story Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late ([st/cl-r]). Hyde is the victor of Exe:Late story, but he and Linne are interrupted by Kuon the Aion's presence that lead to the duology conclusion in Under Night In-Birth II Sys:Celes.
RWBY: Alternatively set before Post-Volume 3 storyline.
Arcana Heart: Alternatively set before World Extinction arc of Arcana Heart 3 surrounding the rise of Omega and the interference of a Heart Aino-look alike from the alternate future, Dark Heart.
Senran Kagura: Alternatively after Senran Kagura: Estival Versus.
Akatsuki EN-Eins: While confirmed that Akatsuki's displaced involvement in Under Night In-Birth to be takes place after Akatsuki Blitzkampf (Ausf. Achse), with Under Night In-Birth II Sys:Celes serves as a conclusion of the duology where Akatsuki (as well as Type-Moon's Sion Eltnam Atlasia serves their purposes as its displaced guest fighters), it is unknown of which timeline this universe's involvement in Cross Tag alternative takes place, whether it is prior to or after EN-Eins Perfektewelt (Anastasis).
Cross Tag Battle marks the return of a Persona game to PC after many years of the port’s hiatus since the first Persona game, and ultimately led to the release of Persona 4 Ultimax (gameplay based on 2.0 Arcade version with all contents from 7th-generation consoles) in post-7th-generation consoles.
The first RWBY game to appear on other video game systems out outside Windows port.
The first Under Night In-Birth, Arcana Heart and Akatsuki EN-Eins game to appear on a Nintendo console.
The first Under Night In-Birth, Senran Kagura (not counting Dead or Alive 5 Last Round collaboration costume set) and Akatsuki EN-Eins game to appear on Xbox consoles.
Although this is not the first French-Bread-related game to be in Xbox console, it was Type-Moon's Melty Blood: Type Lumina.
The first fighting game for both the BlazBlue, Persona 4 Arena and Under Night In-Birth and Arcana Heart to be released before arcade, not counting title updates.
This is the RWBY series’ second video game appearance following RWBY: Grimm Eclipse, as well as the first arcade game for this series.
This is the first Senran Kagura arcade game.
This is the first time entire Akatsuki EN-Eins characters outside the first titular character himself to be included in this worldwide release game.
Prior to the EVO Japan Build, Under Night In-Birth and RWBY characters didn’t have secondary Distortion Drive.
Currently, non-BlazBlue cast members do not have their respective crests appear (the Persona Cast's Arcana Card and Persona Burst animation, the RWBY Cast's Semblance Emblems, Arcana Heart Cast's Spirit of Arcana Elements, Senran Kagura Cast's Shinobi Transformation School Crest) displayed for Resonance Blaze Activations. The Under Night In-Birth and Akatsuki EN-Eins cast has had most of them practically no emblems within their home series.
This is similar case to Astral Skill starter, whereas BlazBlue cast reused their Astral Heat/Resonance Blaze emblems, Persona cast reused Awakening/Eye Cut-In, Under Night In-Birth cast reused their Infinite Worth portrait (even the titular Akatsuki, who is a guest there), while Arcana Heart cast reused Critical Heart backgrounds, except RWBY, Senran Kagura, Akatsuki EN-Eins cast has none nor has their Semblance, Shinobi Transformation School crests and Instant Kill-like Perfekte Finish/EX/Final Special Attack portraits reused.
Currently, the character BGM's are reused from the characters’ first fighting game appearances. As of finalized version, only BlazBlue cast's BGMs are looped to fit well with the BGM style from other series outside RWBY.
As for RWBY cast’s case, their 4 titular characters’ BGMs are mixed between 5 current Volumes of their character themes.
Although Persona 4 Arena Ultimax and EN-Eins Perfektewelt are the latest sequel of Persona 4 Arena and Akatsuki Blitzkampf, the Persona and Akatsuki EN-Eins characters are miscredited as from the original Persona 4 Arena, and Akatsuki Blitzkampf’s final update Ausf. Achse. This is likely either an error on their miscredited logo representatives, as the Persona cast mentioning Labrys already joined the Shadow Operatives and Yu already returned to his old high school in this game’s storyline; or because the Japanese version of Persona 4 Arena has different logo naming on the “Ulti-” part, meaning this may apply to Akatsuki EN-Eins logos as well.
Unfortunately, as of 2022, it is revealed by Akatsuki EN-Eins that original EN-Eins Perfektewelt was in fact a beta with some incorrect character storylines, which could explain the reason why its titular protagonist is not in Cross Tag, with EN-Eins Perfektewelt Anastasis is its true proper version with all correct character storylines.
Currently, some Under Night In-Birth characters (mainly Hyde, Gordeau, Orie, Carmine, Mika, and Seth) still did not use their official full names, first names with nicknames, nor full nicknames in the official website, character select, and gallery for this game.
In promotional material, the four main characters from each franchise appear clock-wise: Ruby is on the top, Yu is on the right, Hyde is on the bottom, and Ragna is on the left. However, after the official artwork cover of the game was revealed, Ragna and Hyde switched positions.
Similar to Arc System Works’ other current game in 2018, Dragon Ball FighterZ, the beta demo only available outside PC.
It is revealed from the game’s datamine that Senran Kagura was planned to join this game, but was ultimately dropped while leaving the voice samples of Asuka and Yumi unused. Yet “Marvelous”, the name of the video game company which known developing Senran Kagura series, acting as one of the combo announcements for Crash Assault. As well as the green section that is used for ETC (Gameplay settings) originally meant for this series’ inclusions.
If this series cast were made playable, they would have in Examu-styled sprites since Homura's inclusion in Nitroplus Blasterz crossover fighting game, which somehow foreshadowed the appearance of Examu's very own Arcana Heart for this game.
The announcer of other Senran Kagura cast are eventually being added for potential Season 2. The main color is cyan, which is instead represents the current protagonist Yumi, rather than original protagonist Asuka.
Only Blake and the other characters of first 3 announced DLC packs appear in the first storyline as the opponents. However, Yang only appears in her CG portrait there.
BlazBlue is the only Episode to have 4 multiple endings.
Unlike Special/EX and Distortion Skills, Astral Skill is still written as ”Astral Heat”.
There has been also few controversial issues in PC version:
Graphic Issues on certain Driver. For NVIDIA user, there is a method.
The price on Blake is supposed to be FREE permanently, not with expensive currency $20. Blake was FREE in a few hours ago. The pricing is fixed alongside DLC Character Pack 1 after PS4 & Switch, with Blake is made default and Yang is available at update patch time release in this version.
File Assets are different than in PS4 & Switch.
Few issues on certain controllers, functions, and keyboards.
Examu, most commonly on their Arcana Heart series had been foreshadowed in the last EVO 2018 Trailer to appear in Season 2. Starting from Season 1.5.
Furthermore that Cyan color from Season 2 based on leaked data was thought to represents SUBTLE STYLE's Akatsuki EN-Eins series instead of CyGames’ Granblue Fantasy for quick promo purposes.
Eventually as of Evo 2019 announcement, the cyan color happens to none other Senran Kagura, with the color represents the tritagonist Yumi instead of the original protagonist Asuka. While Akatsuki EN-Eins color is brown.
It is one of the few post-console Arcade games to allow players playing with controllers on the Arcade machine, in this first case, PlayStation 4 controller.
In Season 2, there are unannounced characters added under announcer files, including recently added Akatsuki EN-Eins and supposed one of Season 1 representative series Senran Kagura, with both last series eventually being added in the latest season.
Despite both Akatsuki and Sion Eltnum Atlasia are guests fighters from SUBTLE STYLE's titular series and Type-Moon's Melty Blood, they are still listed on Under Night In-Birth section list by the announcer.
Eventually Akatsuki has been acknowledged to return to his home series, while Sion herself remained excluded due to her home series still excluded and only as Akatsuki’s color scheme, unless Sion herself is planned to be included, as Mori plans to include Nasuverse such as Fate series in this game.
As Arc System Work's original IP Guilty Gear and French-Bread's licensed game Type Moon's Melty Blood are still disconfirmed, meaning that Sion was initially unconfirmed, considered that she's a guest in Under Night In-Birth. For the former series' case, its storyline is yet finished, out of respect for the creator Daisuke Ishiwatari.
A decade later after the reveal of Under Night In-Birth, Melty Blood is both revived and rebooted, meaning Nasuverse is potentially qualified for future new contents. The reason Melty Blood is not included in Cross Tag, possibly because the remake is still in-development, with the Tsukihime Near Route section titled Blue Glass Moon starring Arcueid Brunestud and Ciel as the prime heroines of their respective routes were half-finished during for two years until the completion and first released at Japan in 2020, shortly before Melty Blood: Type Lumina was released several months after the release Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late [cl-r].
If Senran Kagura cast added to this game and would use Examu-style sprites as its character Homura since Nitroplus Blasterz, Akatsuki EN-Eins cast may uses French Bread-style sprites since Akatsuki's guest inclusion in Under Night In-Birth.
On Senran Kagura side however, confirms to be Arc System Works’ style sprites, means Homura will be redrawn from Examu into a same sprite style as Yumi, if she’s officially announced.
Only Akatsuki EN-Eins character Blitztank whose sprites isn't made by French-Bread.
The reason why the Season 1.5 DLC characters originally never had special team dialogues with one of their selected partners is related to the absence of Nine and Yuzuriha's seiyuu as of April 1, 2019, but they were eventually added to 2.0 except Yuzuriha's seiyuu did not return, as Mitsuru's seiyuu voiced Nine in her absence, while Yuzuriha remained voiceless in the said version. Unfortunately, Yuzuriha's new seiyuu, Hitomi Nabatame (known for her portrayal as Type-Moon's Bazett Fraga McRemitz) is instead being casted in, Under Night In-Birth II Sys:Celes, which is five years after Cross Tag 2.0 was released.
Similarly, before Ayumi Fujimura's retirement, the seiyuu of Arcana Heart 3 voice, Yumi Shimura retired in 2017 prior to the release of Arcana Heart 3 Love Max Six Stars, which could also explain why Saki is not in Cross Tag.
This is the second crossover game to have both Arcana Heart and Senran Kagura appeared in the same crossover game since Nitroplus Blasterz.
It was released before the announcement of Arcana Heart 3 Love Max Six Stars Xtend, Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late [cl-r] (and its true sequel Under Night In-Birth II Sys:Celes) and EN-Eins Perfektewelt Anastasis, including the remake of Tsukihime timeline entries (with Melty Blood remake series starts with Melty Blood: Type Lumina).
Senran Kagura: Estival Versus logo was used, because it is the last main installment game and the Senran Kagura series’ original genre being a hack n’ slash.
Excluding Blitztank, due to not being the primary character of its home series, Akatsuki is missing in Season 2/Special Edition cover art.
Currently, the character select in initial full Season 2 that adds another series to Cross Tag have them temporarily sharing a same row due to being each of them have no single secondary character(s) accompanying them, including Akatsuki EN-Eins, despite the said represented series have 2 fighters in it, until when some of their other represented fighters announced sometime after the initial full Season 2's release date. Just as their file listing being in a temporary number.
At the end scene of Season 2 episode finale has few series represented references and connections to each other:
Left and Right: Initial and Season 2 represented series respectively. If counting BlazBlue on the center side means representing the characters.
The reason why Akatsuki EN-Eins is between Arcana Heart and Senran Kagura is mostly because of the sprite style of its character Blitztank is different than the rest of its home series’ cast.
Upper (Persona and Arcana Heart): Atlus use to publish Arcana Heart's USA release; both are the oldest series before BlazBlue debuted.
Middle (Under Night In-Birth and Akatsuki EN-Eins): Akatsuki guest starring in Under Night In-Birth; both are dōujin fighting game series.
Lower (RWBY and Senran Kagura): Both are originally 3D series introduced to fighting game environments, the first one before RWBY was Senran Kagura via Nitroplus Blasterz on its character Homura, which also has Arcana Heart's title character too; both series' companies (not Marvelous, but Funimation, which owns Senran Kagura's English dub anime rights) are involved with Vic Mignogna's incident in 2019 - 2022.
BlazBlue on the center is because hence to the title being named “BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle”, and the center protagonist universe.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, all of Cross Tag's future plans for DLC are likely being postponed until further notice from Arc System Works, with the seven companies involving in this crossover game are currently busy with their respective projects prior to their possible return to produce DLC for this game.
Due to the passing of Naoto Kurogane's English voice actor, Billy Kametz in June 9, 2022, combined by Fujimura's (original Japanese voice actor of Nine the Phantom and Yuzuriha) indefinite hiatus from voice acting, then lastly the departure of BlazBlue series creator Toshimichi Mori in September 25, 2022 prior to co-founding Net Ease's Studio Flare alongside former Marvelous executive behind Senran Kagura series, Toshinori Aoki in Early 2023, with the current prime director Team Blue involved-contents is initially a localization director for BlazBlue series, Osamu Sugiyama, Cross Tag's storyline is currently end at a cliffhanger, as of Season 2.
According to an interview, Mori said that in the case of including a western franchise, he would love to see Marvel characters like Spider-Man in the game.
It is also mentioned that he would love to include 2B and 9S from the video game Nier Automata.
Despite Konomi Higuchi's departure from Arc System Works in February 14, 2020, Arc System Works can call and hire her back anytime when needed during her current freelancing career.
The shutdown of RWBY and Arcana Heart's former creator, Rooster Teeth (in May 2024) and Examu (in February 2020, even after being renamed as Team Arcana) does not affect Cross Tag Battle's removal, as the series still live through Viz Media (due to connection with the owner of a now defunct Rooster Teeth, Warner Bros.) and Team Arcana (creator of a namesake Arcana Heart, and current name of Examu), respectively. Thus, many of their future medias are handled by their current owners, in additions of having previous works and involvements preserved and unaffected to the previous releases.
