History VideoGame / VirtualOn

'''''[[LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex A Certain Magical]] [[{{Crossover}} Cyber Trooper (Virtual-ON)]]''''' (2018), a crossover title between the series and ''A Certain Magical Index'', was announced in March of 2017 after roughly 15 years of inactivity for PS4 and Vita. [[RecursiveAdaptation It was adapted from a novel series of the same name]].

* WaveMotionGun: The Raiden's iconic shoulder lasers, which were originally mounted on ''battle-cruisers''. [[CaptainObvious Get hit and much pain ensues]].
** It almost [[OneHitKill one-shots]] [[FragileSpeedster Viper-II]]. Of course, that's assuming you're firing the regular standing laser. The dashing and air varieties are significantly weaker.

* AdaptationDeviation: In the original light novel, Index piloted a standard model Bal-Bados. However, in the video game adaptation, she instead pilots an entirely new Bal-series Virtuaroid, "BAL-RIooN", which is designed to resemble Index herself.

* LimitBreak: Every Virtuaroid's special move, although most of them aren't very practical.

* SkySurfing: Temjin's Gliding Ram attack. [[AwesomeYetPractical Not only does it look cool, it hits HARD.]]

* {{Deconstruction}}: Ultimately one toward fighting game genre as a whole.

* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: All male Virtuaroids, when attacked heavily, will show signs of damage through falling parts, exposed inner frames, etc. Fei-Yen and Angelan are immune to this, instead having their armor parts look disrupted and damaged, but otherwise intact.

** Created by Hajime Katoki, Temjin resembles a Franchise/{{Gundam}} a lot. It also does a VictoryPose that is the same as the iconic pose of [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam RX-78-2]]. It also runs like Sonic the Hedgehog.

** Raiden resembles [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam Doms]], and was very likely inspired Tieria's Virtue and Seravee in ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam00''.

** Kagekiyo is strikingly similar to the Musha Gundam concept.

'''''Cyber Troopers Virtual-ON: FORCE''''' (2001), [[CodeName code-named]] [=VO4=], is the series' third installment debuting on the Sega Hikaru hardware. The action was slower than in ''Oratorio Tangram'' (although this was justified in the story that a reaction on the planet Mars made the non-native-built mecha move slower), but featured 2-on-2, allowing up to four-players simultaneously. The game is considered a [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks step back]] from ''Oratan'' and was not well-received. Not to mention there's also a much smaller variety of Virtuaroids to choose from[[note]]If you count the basic Virtuaroids series only. Some like GRYS-VOK, Dordray and STEIN-VOK were merged into VOX series.[[/note]]. To compensate for this, they gave the Virtuaroids ''several'' different variants, but only to make the game even more confusing and annoying. On December 21st, 2010, the game received an {{Xbox 360}} release like ''Oratorio Tangram'' did. However, it was released only in Japan as a retail game but the game is [[RegionCoding region-free]]. It includes a brand-new mission mode that's more-or-less ''Virtual-ON: MARZ''[='=]s campaign stripped of a storyline.

* SecretLevel: If you take too much time beating the first five enemies in ''Operation Moongate'', you end up at [[SecretCharacter Jaguarandi]].

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Lilin Plajina tried to get rid of Jaguarandi, consider as an annoying "bug" in M.S.B.S. network at time, by using Guarayakha to contain it. While it seem to work, now Jaguarandi can manifest itself in physical world using Guarayakha and its replica.

* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: All male Virtuaroids, when attacked heavily, will show signs of damage through falling parts, exposed inner frames, etc. Fei-Yen and Angelan are immune to this.

** And now an official CrossOver with {{Vocaloid}}'s Miku Hatsune as of [[{{Doujinshi}} Comiket 80]], [[http://www.oratan.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=518 courtesy]] of Sega.

* FemBot: The Fei-Yen and Angelan series, [[TokenMiniMoe Guarayakha]], the Rose Sisters.

* TheAce: The [[RedBaron White Knight]] in ''MARZ''.

'''''Cyber Troopers Virtual-ON: MARZ''''' (2003) for the [=PlayStation=] 2, being an OddballInTheSeries, is essentially a single-player focused version of ''FORCE''. While including a HackAndSlash-style story mode which fleshes out the nature of the ''Virtual-ON'' universe, ''MARZ'' unfortunately stripped down the gameplay even further in several aspects (especially thanks to limitations of the [=PlayStation=] 2 hardware), causing fans of the earlier three entries in the series to [[FanonDiscontinuity completely disown this game]]. The series made a notable appearance in ''[[VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsAlpha Super Robot Wars Alpha 3]]'', with JackOfAllStats Temjin (strangely piloted by the MissionControl character from ''MARZ''), RobotGirl Fei-Yen the Knight (piloted by the second MissionControl character from ''MARZ'' and the Fei-Yen series' supposed creator) and AceCustom Virtuaroid Apharmd the Hatter (piloted by the HotBlooded Sergeant Hatter) as playable characters. They also appear in ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsK'' for the UsefulNotes/NintendoDS, which actually incorporates ''MARZ''[='=]s story. ''Virtual-ON: MARZ'' has been re-released exclusively in Japan on UsefulNotes/PlayStationNetwork on March 2013.

* OddballInTheSeries: ''MARZ'' counts as this. It is a HackAndSlash-style action adventure game with ''VideoGame/SengokuBasara'' elements, rather than simply a one-on-one fighting game, though there's more one-on-one matches too.

** One mission in ''MARZ'' requires you entering maze to stop three missiles from launching into the air. Failing this mission gives you a DownerEnding Game Over.

** One mission in ''MARZ'' requires you to stop three missiles from launching into the air. Failing this mission gives you a DownerEnding Game Over.
** Also in ''MARZ'''s DYMN Chaos missions, if you let collapse level to 100% before you collect all the fragments, DownerEnding Game Over again.

** Subverted, according to ''MARZ''. Tangram is a DamselInDistress TrappedInVillainy and you must rescue her by ''shoot the red eyes on her cover/shells''

* FinalBoss: [[WeaponsofMassDestruction Z-Gradt]] (or [[TrueFinalBoss the original Fei-Yen]]) in ''Operation Moongate'', [[GeniusLoci Tangram]] in ''Oratorio Tangram'', [[DualBoss Ajim and Guerlain]] in ''Force'', and Tangram [[RecurringBoss again]] in ''MARZ''.

** In ''MARZ'', some missions require you to protect an ally from getting killed, or securIng some items. Failing to do so will transport you back to main menu or worse, gives you a DownerEnding Game Over.