Remember AKIBA’S TRIP: Undead and Undressed? You could be forgiven if you have, it has been quite some time since it was published. First released on the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita in Japan back in 2013, it eventually received a port to the PlayStation 4 and PC. In Japan, the game will be receiving a Director’s Cut edition sometime in 2023, and EU and US license holders Nippon Ichi Software America and XSEED Games have confirmed their plans to dust off the game and offer the new content as brand new DLC next year on the PlayStation 4 and PC.
This DLC, “Kati’s Route,” features a new story route focused around lovable Finnish exchange student, otaku, and part-time maid Kati Räikkönen, and is considered the “true ending” for the game. Outside this brief blurb, we have no further information on the content of this release. While Akiba’s Trip: Undead and Undressed will receive the DLC on all existing platforms, XSEED Games has also confirmed that a home video release of Akiba’s Trip: Undead and Undressed Director’s Cut is also in the work for the Nintendo Switch.
Expect to hear more about Akiba’s Trip: Undead and Undressed Director’s Cut and the DLC next year.
About Akiba’s Trip: Undead and Undressed
AKIBA’S TRIP: Undead and Undressed places players in the role of Nanashi, an otaku mysteriously transformed into a vampire and thrust into a conspiracy of “Synthisters” plaguing the electronics mecca. Alongside a colorful cast of allies known as the ‘Akiba Freedom Fighters’, Nanashi must defend his fellow otaku from vampire predators, discovering that the best strategy to defeat them is to strip them of their bare essentials and expose them to the cleansing power of the sun!
Akihabara’s seen it all, from Japan’s post-war reconstruction to the economic bubblegum crisis of the ’80s. Always on the cutting edge of progress, with a little something to offer even the most unconventional of appetites, it was almost inevitable that this singular technocracy of indulgence would turn into the perfect hunting ground for “Synthisters” – vampires who prey upon the life energy of the town’s unsuspecting figurine-chasers, maid café connoisseurs and cosplayers.
Akiba’s Trip: Undead and Undressed tells the story of one such unfortunate soul: a young man named Nanashi who was lured into a trap and transformed into one of the walking undead. However, he was spared the worst of his fate by the bloody kiss of a mysterious Synthister hunter named Shizuku. Together with the rest of his companions in an organization unofficially dubbed the “Akiba Freedom Fighters,” Nanashi and Shizuku must uncover the truth behind the Synthister plague and save Akiba from being overrun by violent, antisocial energy vampires.
And of course, the best way to fight vampires is to strip them down to their skivvies so they melt in the noonday sun…
