XSEED Games has confirmed AKIBA’S TRIP: Undead & Undressed will have both English and Japanese voice-overs when it launches in North America this summer.
With nearly 10,000 lines recorded for its English-language debut, AKIBA’S TRIP is XSEED’s largest voice-over project to date.
The publisher is also adding a new feature for the English release: illustrated “strip portraits” for prominent male side characters, which the company says will provide “equivalent gender balance alongside the game’s existing female portraits.” The portraits can also be used as wallpapers for the protagonist’s in-game smartphone.
AKIBA’S TRIP will launch for PlayStation 3 and PS Vita this summer. View some new screenshots at the gallery. Find a story summary below.
In AKIBA’S TRIP: Undead & Undressed, players work to repel a brooding malevolence that has suffused 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 on the otaku patrons of Akihabara like vampires, 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 the protagonist and his companions 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, 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.
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 walking 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 his friends from an organization unofficially dubbed the “Akiba Freedom Fighters” (as well as his cute yet socially awkward little sister), Nanashi and Shizuku must uncover the truth behind the Synthister plague and save Akiba from being overrun by their kind.
