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Black Clover: Quartet Knights Game's Videos Preview Vetto, Charmy
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Bandai Namco Entertainment America began streaming on new character trailers on Tuesday and Friday for its Black Clover: Quartet Knights game for PlayStation 4 and PC via Steam. The videos preview the playable characters Vetto and Charmy.
Vetto
Charmy
Bandai Namco Entertainment America also announced on Wednesday that it will run an open beta test on PS4, starting on August 17 and ending on August 20. There will be eight maintenance periods during the test. The open beta will feature 4v4 Online Battle (Ranked), Training Mode, Customization Mode, and 14 playable characters, including the new playable character Fana.
The game will launch in the Americas and Europe for PlayStation 4 and PC via Steam on September 14. The game will launch in Japan for the PlayStation 4 on September 13. The game had a closed beta test on July 15 and 16. People who pre-order the game in Japan will receive a download code adding young Yami as a playable character, and a "Black Asta" skin.
The game's playable characters so far include Asta, Yuno, Noelle Silva, Mimosa Vermillion, Gauche Adlai, Magna Swing, Luck Voltia, Yami Sukehiro, young Yami Sukehiro, Vanessa Enoteca, Charmy Pappitson, Klaus Lunette, Mars, and Fana. The game will also feature an original female character named Karuna.
The third-person magic shooting game will allow for four-vs.-four matches, and players will make their own teams to participate in cooperative battles and face off against rivals. Da-iCE is performing the game's theme song "Limits."
Yūki Tabata launched the original manga in Weekly Shonen Jump in February 2015, and the manga has more than 4.8 million copies in print. Viz Media is publishing the series digitally and in print in North America.
The television anime adaptation premiered in Japan last October, and Crunchyroll is streaming the series in Japanese with English subtitles. Funimation began streaming the show's English dub last October. The anime will have 51 episodes. The show debuted on Adult Swim's Toonami programming block last December.
Sources: Email Correspondence, Bandai Namco Entertainment America's YouTube channel via Gematsu, Siliconera
Disclosure: Bandai Namco Filmworks Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Bandai Namco Holdings Inc., is a non-controlling, minority shareholder in Anime News Network Inc.
