Akiba's Trip: Undead & Undressed

 PlayStation Vita
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7.4

Mixed or average reviews- based on 77 Ratings

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  2. Mixed: 14 out of 77
  3. Negative: 13 out of 77
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  1. Bitrip
    Aug 26, 2014
    8
    Akiba’s Trip: Undead and Undressed aka Akiba’s Trip 2 is an Action Roleplaying game that takes place in Akihabara Japan (pronounced ah-kee-ha-ba-ra). Visually, the locale shows striking similarities to New York City. Akihabara tries to create an atmosphere where game and anime worlds come to life. As such, the streets of Akihabara are covered with anime and manga icons, and cosplayers lineAkiba’s Trip: Undead and Undressed aka Akiba’s Trip 2 is an Action Roleplaying game that takes place in Akihabara Japan (pronounced ah-kee-ha-ba-ra). Visually, the locale shows striking similarities to New York City. Akihabara tries to create an atmosphere where game and anime worlds come to life. As such, the streets of Akihabara are covered with anime and manga icons, and cosplayers line the sidewalks handing out advertisements. It’s a video game fan’s dream come true.

    I don’t want to give away any of the plot, but the game combines two genres we don’t often see coming together here in the west. Visual Novel & Action RPG. It does so brilliantly, in fact it even gives the player choices during dialogue, allowing every player to shape and mold the story according to the choices they make.

    For reasons I won’t explain, during combat your main goal is to strip your opponents clothing off of them! It’s a hilarious tactic that’s fleshed out incredibly well. You lower their clothing’s durability by attacking different parts of their outfit via the triangle, circle, and cross buttons. Once a piece of clothing is damaged enough, you can initiate a grapple to remove the item. You can pick up items your opponents drop, including clothing, weapons, and money.

    Exploring Akihabara is a pleasure as you can shop at most of the stores, and citizens lining the streets are full of dialogue and unique behavior. You often travel with a companion character who does their best to aid you. You can access your email and faux twitter accounts via smartphone. The game does a good job of making you feel like you are really living in Akihabara.

    So far I love it, the production values are high, there are easter eggs hidden everywhere, and the characters are all unique enough to make me want to actually talk to them. The combat controls aren’t quite as tight as I would like, but they still manage to get the job done. Depending on how long the campaign is, and how many possible outcomes there are…I can see myself playing this game well into 60+ hours.    … Expand
  2. brandog0
    Aug 13, 2014
    8
    So far I love this game! it's really fun and the story seems very interesting, some people may not like it and im sure critics will give it average reviews but if you're a true otaku and love anime such as myself and wanna walk around Akiba this is the game for you!
  3. GoldenGumiho777
    Aug 12, 2014
    10
    It was a great yet sexy game where many of the feature is unique from both the choice of dialog and yet to the quirky moves place on the fighting. It is a jrpg so it has its weirdness yet awsomeness to it
  4. LegendaryJoey
    Aug 13, 2014
    10
    This game is so much more than stripping girls. First let me say there are as many if not more male enemies that you end up stripping, and over time you stop even noticing...its just another mechanic to get through the fights so you can continue the story progression. Which is the true brilliance of this game. There are so many dialogue decisions that you need to make as a character andThis game is so much more than stripping girls. First let me say there are as many if not more male enemies that you end up stripping, and over time you stop even noticing...its just another mechanic to get through the fights so you can continue the story progression. Which is the true brilliance of this game. There are so many dialogue decisions that you need to make as a character and with 45 different possible endings they actually matter.

    The cast of characters is memorable and each one of them feel well placed. Of course you can only get to really delve into one characters story per play through but the way they do new game plus makes replaying feel like a new experience each time.

    I am a huge fan of visual novels and have been hoping for more western releases of these types of games. Hopefully other people have as much fun as I did with this game and we can show Japanese developers that they can make money over here as well.    … Expand
  5. NoiNorac
    Nov 19, 2014
    10
    Buy new.
    "The gameplay is a nice mix of Yakuza and Way of the Samurai, and the narrative is a very comical attempt to lovingly mock the tropes in anime while doing its own thing."
    Once again the ace translation team at XSEED are a wonder as they manage to bring a very Tokyo-oriented game to life for anyone not very knowledgeable of Japan to enjoy. The gameplay is a nice mix of Yakuza    Buy new.
    "The gameplay is a nice mix of Yakuza and Way of the Samurai, and the narrative is a very comical attempt to lovingly mock the tropes in anime while doing its own thing."

    Once again the ace translation team at XSEED are a wonder as they manage to bring a very Tokyo-oriented game to life for anyone not very knowledgeable of Japan to enjoy. The gameplay is a nice mix of Yakuza and Way of the Samurai, and the narrative is a very comical attempt to lovingly mock the tropes in anime while doing its own thing. The cast is likable and the endings are all interesting, with one in particular taking you for a high ride. Fast-paced, funny and a joy to play, this game is worth the asking price.    … Expand
  6. INU4SH4
    Aug 14, 2020
    8
    Akiba's Trip is a seriously underrated and misinterpreted VITA game. Sure, it is extremely whacky, over-the-top, and targets a very small niche of players but in essence, I believe it is a classic VITA game. If you're the kind of player who doesn't get offended with fan-service easily. And oh boy there is a lot of fan-service. The whole game kind of spins around fan-service and for me itAkiba's Trip is a seriously underrated and misinterpreted VITA game. Sure, it is extremely whacky, over-the-top, and targets a very small niche of players but in essence, I believe it is a classic VITA game. If you're the kind of player who doesn't get offended with fan-service easily. And oh boy there is a lot of fan-service. The whole game kind of spins around fan-service and for me it is a deconstruction of the whole fan-service in Japanese fiction.

    The story is pretty dumb and you shouldn't go expecting anything deep. As long as you go expecting a lot of craziness and a non-sense plot and gameplay, you'll have a good time. The gameplay gets a bit repetitive at times but collecting all the different panties is actually quite unexpectedly fun if I may say so myself.    … Expand
  7. KNX2501
    Jul 17, 2021
    9
    Es un excelente juego para la consola, con buenos personajes, excelente ambientación en el distrito de Akihabara con nombres y logos de tiendas reales es una delicia explorar toda la zona. La historia es bastante entretenida y las peleas son bastante divertidas.

    Es un juego que sin duda debe estar en toda consola Vita.
  8. Psvitareviews
    Mar 28, 2023
    10
    One of the best games on the vita free roam is always nice exploring akiba and fighting other npcs and striping their clothes you can call this game anime gta controls are good and there isn't long loading screens

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64

Mixed or average reviews - based on 17 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 17
  2. Mixed: 14 out of 17
  3. Negative: 2 out of 17
  1. The Digital Fix
    Jan 9, 2015
    60
    It’s certainly not a joke game, and the writing quality does elevate it for those who have an appreciation of the material that is being targeted, but the whole combat mechanic becomes so tiresome so quickly that you can’t help but wish the game could have been shorter, the story more focused, instead of the more positive elements of the game losing some of their sheen from hiding behind the rest of it.
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  2. TheSixthAxis
    Nov 14, 2014
    40
    Although there’s a niche that will no doubt revel in the game’s eccentricity, those who cringe at otaku culture will find very little value here. Even looking past its more tasteless tendencies, the game’s combat is average and its design is repetitive. Still, it’s a complete write-off by any means, in part thanks to its vibrant depiction of Akihabara and the surprise inclusion of English voiceover.
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  3. DarkZero
    Nov 10, 2014
    70
    In the end, a few technical shortcomings keeps Akiba’s Trip from reaching true greatness, but not from becoming a very recommended title.
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