The PlayStation 4 Initial limited edition have the Discipline 55, which have a 500 page booklet named Chronicle 20 for celebrating 20th anniversary of Virtual-On series and the Original Sound Track CD 「Cyber Troopers Virtual-on Official Sound Data 18」.
The PlayStation Vita Initial limited edition have the Toaru Majutsu no Archive ( とある魔術の 電脳紀要 ( アーカイブ ), Toaru Majutsu no Den'nō Kyō (Ākaibu) ?), which has a 100 page booklet, a new short story written by Kamachi Kazuma, Toaru Majutsu no Virtual-On no Subete, a radio drama comprising of the staff of the Toaru Radio no Index and Toaru Radio no Railgun shows, the theme song "Get Ready!" sung by Index and Mikoto as well as the sound CD Toaru Majutsu no Den'on Mokuroku which contains the full version of the song. The game has a couple of limited editions that bundles other products.
The game was released on Februfor Japan and Mafor South Korea, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. Release Ī demo for the game was released on Decemfor Japan.
The soundtrack was later released on the same day as the game on the Toaru Majutsu no Virtual-On Original Soundtrack CD, bundled together with the PS4 limited edition of the game. The game's soundtrack will be composed by Koshiro Yuzo of 7th Dragon fame. The theme song " Get Ready!", composed by Iuchi Maiko will be sung by Iguchi Yuka and Satou Rina as their respective characters, Index and Mikoto.
J.C.Staff, the animation studio that worked on all animated Toaru Majutsu no Index and Toaru Kagaku no Railgun content was later tasked on animating the promotional video for the game, which was first later released on Septemin the 2017 PlayStation Press Conference in Japan. Katoki Hajime is retained as the illustrator and mecha designer for the games. As there were many playable characters that were killed-off in the crossover novel, the story in the game is essentially a reset of the events in the novel. Like the novel, the story is written by Kamachi Kazuma, and is a sequel to the crossover novel.
While developing Watari Juro felt it necessary to have the game be released on a home console first instead of the arcades. When designing the mecha, since Index was the main heroine, Katoki Hajime suggested in giving her a mecha with her silhouette, ending up with the unique Bal-Bados (BAL-RlooN) mecha Index pilots. Who would pilot which mecha wasn't decided until Watari Juro could consult talk with Kamachi but he always had a vague thought that Kamijou Touma would pilot Temjin. According to Watari Juro, they chose to have the mecha that were used in the second game Cyber Troopers Virtual-On Oratorio Tangram (which is later reflected on the crossover game's own logo) for the collaboration as it just had the right amount of mecha in the game. ĭespite the initially cold response from both "Toaru" and Virtual-On series fans, Watari Juro was confident that they were heading to a good direction after the release of the crossover novel. For newer players, it is a way to stand out of the crowd as there are now many new robot fighting games and for those who don't know of the game's history would only look at the game as something of "more of the same". For the older players they wanted something that could surprise them, and this is where the "Toaru" series comes into the picture. According to Watari Juro, producer of the Virtual-On games, the reason for the collaboration project was that since the Virtual-On series has been dormant for more than a decade, they needed entice previous players of the Virtual-On game as well new players.