Akiba's Trip Plus

We are happy to announce today that we will be releasing the flashy, wild action RPG title, AKIBA'S TRIP: Undead & Undressed, on the PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system and PlayStation®Vita handheld entertainment system in summer 2014. Released as AKIBA'S TRIP 2 in Japan, the all-new standalone story in AKIBA'S TRIP: Undead & Undressed takes players on an eclectic trip through Tokyo's "Electric Town" electronics district, in which they will battle vampire-like foes in over-the-top, highly stylized role-playing action.

ABOUT

In AKIBA'S TRIP: Undead & Undressed, players work to repel a brooding malevolence from Tokyo's popular electronics district, Akihabara (Akiba for short), which has been painstakingly remodeled in the game to resemble its real life counterpart. Akiba has been invaded by creatures known as "Synthisters," who prey like vampires on the otaku patrons of Akihabara, but feast on their will to live and energy to socialize rather than their blood. Only direct exposure to sunlight can destroy the Synthisters, and it's up to players to ensure that that's just what they get. If only it weren't for those pesky clothes protecting them from the sun's harmful rays...

That's where players come in. It's their task to roam this sanctuary of anime and gaming fanatics, identify the outwardly human Synthisters with the help of a handy smartphone app, and then beat and pull at them until they've been relieved of their clothes, exposing them to sunlight and sending them to the netherworld. Everyday objects from baseball bats to comic books to motherboards can be used as weapons, and players can take their enemies' unique clothing for their own personal use as well.

STORY

AKIBA'S TRIP: Undead & Undressed tells the story of a young man named Nanashi, who was lured into a trap and transformed into one of the undead. Lucky enough to be spared the worst of his fate by the kiss of a mysterious Synthister hunter named Shizuku, Nanashi is sworn to rid Akihabara of the Synthister threat. Together with the rest of his companions in a club unofficially dubbed the "Akiba Freedom Fighters," Nanashi and Shizuku must uncover the truth behind the Synthister plague and save Akiba from being overrun by their kind.

As noted, the game will be released physically and digitally on both platforms, will have at LEAST Japanese audio (we're looking into the possibility of dual audio right now), will not be content-censored in any regard, and will still contain all existing depictions of licensed businesses in their original Japanese.

Strangely, there will be an omission due to legal reasons, but it's... not what you might think. Basically, the textual information accompanying the game's collectible ad flyers was legally unable to be translated -- it had to be left in the original Japanese, period. We're talking information like... the business hours, address and phone number of each business represented. Most of which is present on the graphical flyers anyway (albeit, again, in Japanese). And because user-interactive Japanese-only text is kind of a no-no in an otherwise English-translated western release, we had no choice but to remove that information -- so when you view ad flyers, you'll be viewing the untranslated graphical ads for these Akihabara businesses only, with no accompanying text.

But that is literally the only thing that had to be omitted, and we're actually hoping to make up for it by actually adding something -- but I'm getting a bit ahead of myself there, and I don't want to get anyone's hopes up if it turns out not to be possible.