Toaru Majutsu no Index (PSP game)


 * This article is about the upcoming PSP game. For the franchise overview, see Toaru Majutsu no Index.

Toaru Majutsu no Index (PSP game) is an upcoming fighting videogame based on the Toaru Majutsu no Index universe. It was developed by ASCII MediaWorks and was released for the PSP handheld console on January 27, 2011. The video game features an original story by the author of the series, Kazuma Kamachi. The opening theme is ANSWER interpreted by Kurosaki Maon.

Gameplay
As with many fighting games, players choose a character from a lineup, and engage in hand-to-hand combat with an opponent. It is primarily a competitive two player series, but a human player can fight an AI-controlled character for practice, amusement, or to advance the game's story.

Players engage opponents in various locations derived from the Toaru Majutsu no Index series, like the bridge where Mikoto fights Touma or the streets of Academy City.

Elements
Aside from the special moves that characters have (called Overdrive moves), there are team-up moves called Unison Raids. These moves can only be performed when the player uses a pair of characters with a certain frequency, and an amount of "partnership" is required. This "partnership" factor can be increased by playing the VS CPU modes, with a maximum level is 5 (3 being the minimum requirement for a Unison Raid). Partnership appears to shorten the time needed to call the player's support character.

Story Mode
The player is to pick among five character routes which unlock certain characters as the story progresses. Each of the five routes follow a certain storyline, and requires fighting against certain characters to advance to the next stage. Upon completing a stage, the character defeated by the player will be unlocked in the roster of characters available for use in the Versus Mode. After completing all five character routes, the player unlocks a final chapter. In the final chapter, it is revealed that the mysterious voice is a magician from the future. At the end of Touma's route, that voice is, in fact, talking about the player's memory loss and not Touma's.
 * Kamijou Touma - the player relives Touma's experiences and the combats he faced throughout the Light Novel series. This includes fighting against Stiyl Magnus, Kanzaki Kaori, Misaka Mikoto, Accelerator, Sasha Kruezhev, Tsuchimikado Motoharu, Oriana Thomson, and Acqua of the Back (Kazakiri Hyouka makes an appearance only, and Sherry Cromwell is excluded from the story.)
 * Accelerator - after recalling the experiences that Accelerator has in the Sisters Arc, he works with Tsuchimikado Motoharu, who eventually betrays him. It appears that he works with the dark side of Academy City, with Mugino Shizuri and Accelerator's past "mentor" Kihara Amata involved.
 * Mugino Shizuri
 * Kanzaki Kaori
 * Sasha Kruezhev

The player is revealed to be an esper from the past, and is actually controlling the characters of the current period. The future magician reveals his intentions of changing the present using the player, however, the player will reject the idea, thinking that it is wrong, and Touma comes and helps the player break the future magician's illusion.

VS Mode
Versus Mode allows players to play against AI-controlled opponents, either in Solo Mode (where players fight against opponents without any support) or in Cooperative Mode (where a player fights against an opponent with a support character each).

Some characters are available as exclusively supportive characters (Index and Last Order), and cannot be played as a main character.

Training Mode
Training mode, a player is transported to the training area stage, where here, a player can train their their skills on a character. The AI des not fight back, and immediately recovers health after incurring damage.

Usable characters

 * Kamijou Touma
 * Index (support only)
 * Misaka Mikoto
 * Accelerator
 * Stiyl Magnus
 * Kanzaki Kaori
 * Tsuchimikado Motoharu
 * Misaka 10032
 * Shirai Kuroko
 * Last Order (support only)
 * Sasha Kreuzhev
 * Itsuwa

Unlockable characters

 * Mugino Shizuri (CV: Ami Koshimizu)
 * Oriana Thomson
 * Acqua of the Back (CV: Hiroki Takahashi)
 * Fuze = Kazakiri

Other characters

 * Kihara Amata (non-playable character) (CV: Keiji Fujiwara)