The makers of the BlazBlue series announced on Tuesday that they are going to be bringing Chrono Phantasma Extend to Europe later this year. While the company hasn’t said exactly when it will be coming to Europe, or to the United States, PQube did say that this will be the first iteration in the long running series that will be featured on the new generation of consoles which means it will apparently be on the PS4 and the Xbox One both. The company also said it will be coming in both a digital format, as well as a physical format.

The new version of this well loved series is going to be bringing a number of new features with it, including a total of 28 playable characters. That library includes the newest character in Celica A Mercury and fan-favorite Lambda. There is also going to be a focus on Remix Heart, which will bring a special focus on the funny female characters in the series. While the game is going to be focusing on the multiplayer action, with more than 64 lobbies available for a ton of different ways to play with other people, there is also going to be a nice focus on single player.

In fact, the creators of the game have said there is going to be more than 30 hours of single player gameplay.  Everything the game has to offer will be on display when BlazBlue Chrono Phantasma Extend finally hits European shores later this year.

BlazBlue: Chrono Phantasma Extend was the last major title from Arc System Works and arguably represents the height of the series. However, creator Toshimichi Mori is already planning the next title. Speaking to Siliconera, Mori said that, “I am planning to have the next story sometime next year and the next game will have the last 25% of the story.” It also seems that it will more than 30 playable characters by the time it comes out.

Mori brought up a rather interesting point of discussion though. “What do the fans think about tag team battles?

“There are two possible options. One is you would pick two or three characters like the Capcom vs. SNK 2 or simply choosing characters and tagging out like Tekken Tag Tournament. In Capcom vs. SNK 2 players choose characters and they come out in a certain order compared to Tekken Tag Tournament which has characters switching in real time. If you consider the PlayStation 4 system, both of these are possible. Those are the two directions I’m considering, what do you think of this? The flashiness might need to be cutdown if we implement this though.”

Finally, if you’re curious about that BlazBlue and Guilty Gear crossover, then you’ll need to keep waiting. “I know the fans want to see a crossover with Guilty Gear but I don’t know how long that will take. If we are going to do it, we want to do it right. Ask Ishiwatari about this later.”

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