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This game uses a stripping mechanic that leaves enemies in their underwear after combat. One game mode allows players to dress a female character in a revealing outfit (e.g., lingerie/underwear) and follow the camera as it moves around her figure. The game text and dialogue also contain sexual references. The words “f**k” and “sh*t” appear in dialogue. In one fighting mini-game, players use knives and cleavers to slash at each other, resulting in brief splashes of blood.

System Requirements

• OS *: Windows 8.1 or later
• Processor: Intel Core i5-750
• Memory: 8 GB RAM
• Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GTX 560
• DirectX: Version 11
• Storage: 2 GB available space
• Processor: Intel Core i7-4770
• Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

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Akiba’s Trip: Undead & Undressed PC Version Impressions

Full disclosure: I have a seriously soft spot for this game. I played Akiba’s Trip quite a lot on the filthy filthy Vita, and it’s very much a popcorn game, in that it’s never particularly filling but it’s extraordinarily more-ish. I like it quite a lot, despite myself.

Still, it’s not the sort of game I’d think would make a particularly smooth transition over to the PC. For one thing, it’s a relatively niche Japanese title, which isn’t the sort of thing that normally makes for fantastic porting jobs. For another, it’s a third-person 3D beat-’em-up. That genre can certainly work on PC, but it usually takes a fair bit of adjusting to get it to feel natural. But you never know.

For the uninitiated: Akiba’s Trip is a tremendously silly beat-’em-up in a pseudo-open world. Actually, “tremendously silly” might be an understatement. This is a game in which you fight against vampires by punching them until their clothes are weakened enough that you can strip them, exposing their skin to sunlight, the most well-known vampire slayer this side of Buffy. You also do this to humans, but they just run away in shame instead of exploding into purple mist – and yes, everyone’s also trying to strip you .

With the exception of a few fan-service CG images, the stripping is played for comedy rather than sexuality, and the game knows how ridiculous it is, playing up pretty much every aspect of this in the dialogue. It’s light-hearted, fun, and silly. It’s also set in a rather lovely digital version of Akihabara (supposedly pretty accurate to real-world Akihabara at that point in time, complete with real stores and the like), and has plenty of posts on its fake Twitter and fake email accounts to add yet more character to the game and the world.

It’s freely explorable, has an RPG-like levelling system and equipment, and plenty of side-quests to complete and characters to chat with. And yes, you also strip men, and regularly get fanservice-y pictures of under-dressed male characters.

With the svelte 2GB download out of the way, let’s fire it up and have a look.

First up is the obligatory launcher, which fills me with both joy and terror. The good: we’ve got English and Japanese options for text and voice; we’ve got resolution options (up to 1920×1200, assuming it’s not locking anything off for me); we’ve got anti-aliasing; and the game lets us use sliders to determine how many characters we want to appear in the world. We can even customise pretty much every control option imaginable, right down to how to access the in-game menu.

Also, the eagle-eyed among you will have noticed that the controls include “Unison Strip.” Yup. I was serious about the clothing removal thing.

In terms of more middling stuff, those character sliders only have three settings each so it’s not really something you can fine-tune, and the anti-aliasing option is literally a checkbox rather than the ability to choose 16x MSAA or whatever.

YOUR PANTS ARE MINE NOW.

On the side of abject horror we have the fact that a launcher like this makes me immediately suspect that the game is a direct port with no PC-specific options within the game itself, and that’s usually a pretty worrying sign for ports. Then there are the keyboard controls. Yes, we can customise them, but that doesn’t mean that they’re not mildly horrifying.

Looking at them in more detail, it looks suspiciously like the default controls are a clumsy attempt to directly map a controller to the keyboard. WASD to move, with Q and E mapped to what would be the shoulder buttons, and then the spellcheck-annoying PL;, to act as Triangle, Square, Circle, and X buttons. Except that three of those are also mapped to the three mouse buttons, which I guess is something. I will offer a genuine salute for making sure that every function can be mapped individually, though, and not just directly mapping gamepad buttons with all of their possible functions.

So let’s actually try playing it, with keyboard and mouse. After the world’s best anti-piracy message, FRAPS tells me we’re hard-locked to 30FPS (spoilers: this goes for every single part of the game, not just the cutscenes and/or menus) which doesn’t surprise me in the slightest. So let’s hit New Game, and, uh…

NOTICE: Anti-piracy messages don’t have to be dull strings of white text on black backgrounds.

Sorry, I’m having problems hitting New Game. Um.

Right, okay. So the mouse cursor appears on screen, but can’t actually be used to select anything. You have to use WASD to select things instead, and then the left mouse button to confirm. Except that occasionally didn’t work, and I had to use Return. And this gets really confusing when pop-ups asking “Are you sure? Yes/No” appear on screen, which are the sort of occasion when the mouse is basically perfect for quickly hitting one or the other, and you mouse over “No” and left-click and you just selected Yes because the mouse position doesn’t change the options.

Sadly, no, you can’t change your hairstyle or anything like that.

Also, every key pop-up in the game shows gamepad controls, and yes, I unplugged mine and restarted the game to see if that would change this. It didn’t. I’m vaguely impressed that it showed me controls for an Xbox 360 controller, considering that the game has never been released on a Microsoft system, but that’s still bloody awful. Press “Back” to change character? Which key is that mapped to, again?

But we’ll persevere. I don’t know what key Back is mapped to, so I’m going to have to just change my protagonist’s name (the “Change Character” options let you select the other major characters and rename/re-dress them) and then continue onwards.

One of the things I love about Akiba’s Trip is the dialogue. It’s a very, very knowing game, and it doesn’t take itself even remotely seriously. Your character has been lured into a medical lab for “tests” in exchange for rare collectible figurines, because your character is kind of an idiot. Surprise! They’re not quite on the level and he’s been turned into a Synthister – a super-strong, super-fast human with a serious weakness to direct sunlight, so essentially a man-made vampire. Exposing too much skin directly to the light is very dangerous, and the chap behind it wants you to harvest life energy from people in Akihabara for Reasons.

You can, naturally, respond to every line of dialogue with GIVE ME MY FIGURINES ALREADY.

You’re suddenly rescued by a mysterious girl who gives you a brief tutorial in punching and blocking, and it’s at this point you discover that holy shit the mouse and keyboard controls are bad.

It doesn’t look so bad on paper. You move with WASD, and that makes sense. You use your three mouse buttons to attack high/mid/low, and that makes sense. You block with E. Not ideal, but workable, surely?

Well, the mouse movement and camera rotation is unbelievably sluggish and imprecise, making targeting a pain in the ass, and you can’t change mouse sensitivity without quitting out of the game, opening up the launcher, and adjusting a slider that gives no indication of values. WASD isn’t ideal for a game with a full range of analogue movement, with particular attacks relying on “pressing the left stick away from the enemy”. And – in that nebulous way that’s impossible to describe – it just feels a bit horrible.

That’s actually quite a lot of trouble with no gamepad.

If you’ve played around with emulators before, you’ve probably experienced the joy of mapping a control pad to a keyboard before. With slower-paced games – RPGs, say – it’s bearable. With others, like fast-paced fighting games, it’s kind of painful. And as analogue sticks and four shoulder buttons became the standard for controllers, it got more and more of a nightmare to map things properly.

That’s basically the problem here: control-wise, this feels like trying to run an emulated game and mapping everything that matters to the keyboard, and maybe shonkily mapping a few keys to the mouse. It just feels wrong . It might be possible to configure everything to work “properly” on mouse and keyboard, and I suspect most of us could get used to even the worst controls, but it’s something that’s really crying out for a gamepad.

So, after the initial fight, I save and quit, sigh as the game crashes on exit, plug in the 360 pad, and get back to it.

You can talk to basically everyone. Lines repeat, but each “type” of person has a unique pool to draw from.

Suddenly, everything is infinitely better. The game is playable! Flowers are blooming around me! Birds are singing in harmony with me! I can see a rainbow! All of which might actually indicate a serious neurological condition because it’s night and the curtains are shut, but I’m suddenly having fun, so let’s ignore that.

The camera is still a bit sluggish (which I do actually remember from the Vita version) and it’s a game that could really do with a proper lock-on mechanic, but I don’t remember that bothering me too much originally so I’m fairly sure I’ll get used to it again here.

Okay, so it’s more like a message board than Fake Twitter, but that’s not the point. The same commenters pop up again and again, offering another set of characters to enjoy.

What may or may not bother you is that this is a really basic PC port. Its stylised appearance means it looks fine, but it’s not exactly impressive, and it’s really not a game built for a high-end PC rig. 30 FPS lock, borderline mandatory gamepad controls, a miniscule set of options, and basically no PC-specific options within the game itself mark this out as a port, rather than a super-specific PC version.

But! There are a few bonuses which I don’t remember from the Vita version (but which may have been on the PS3 or PS4 equivalents), like the frankly amazing ability to really screw with the graphics. You can adjust the fog colour and distance, the colour of characters and their shading, the thickness and colour of the cel-shading lines around everything, and plenty more. As an example, here’s the game by default:

And here it is after I’ve horribly fucked with the character colours and shading:

And again after I’ve played with the edge thickness and colour, thus proving that I will never be an art director on a game:

This is the sort of silly little thing I love. It’s also the sort of thing I pretty much expect from this game, ridiculous as it is. It’s sad you can’t mess with a few other things to make it look a lot less washed out – post-processing, say – but I’m happy to see options like this to begin with.

Akiba’s Trip: Undead & Undressed isn’t going to win awards for what is a seriously bare-bones port. You may want to be careful with purchases: while my computer’s capable of running this and another game at the same time, it does claim to require DirectX 11, and its specs aren’t the lowest I’ve seen (presumably because this is a not-particularly-optimised port of the PS4 version). By the same token, there are a few reports of crashes and graphical issues, although I encountered none of this except when quitting. The advantage it has, mind you, is that areas load rather quickly on PC so traversing Akihabara doesn’t take long, and in the little bit I’ve played, NPCs didn’t take forever to spawn in, which was a bit of a problem on the Vita version.

And, thanks to the visual editor, you can make the game look like your graphics card is having a seizure.

It’s also not likely to win any awards for its gameplay, which is a tad repetitive, but is buoyed up nicely by the sheer character and ludicrousness that infuses pretty much every moment of it. For me, that’s enough: I’m happy to have the opportunity to play this on PC, and I can run it in a window or fullscreen, plug in a gamepad, and lose myself to an hour of stripping pseudo-vampires in modern-day Japan while reading insane posts on fake Twitter. It’s really not a good port, and – honestly – it’s not even a particularly great game, but it’s the sort of thing I really, really like, despite its flaws, and I’d happily pay £18 for it again. Buyer beware, but if you want something that’s as quirky as it is light-hearted, this might just fit the bill.

AKIBA'S TRIP: Hellbound & Debriefed

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AKIBA'S TRIP: Hellbound & Debriefed

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• Opening phase This phase spans from the beginning of the game until the mission to defeat SGV
• Midgame phase This phase spans after defeating SGV until before defeating the DBP twins
• Endgame phase This phase spans after defeating the DBP twins
• Low equals Casual Difficulty or higher
• Medium equals Gamer Difficulty or higher
• High equals Otaku Difficulty or higher
• Extreme equals to Holic DIfficulty.
• Complete all side missions. Completing them usually rewards skills and unique clothings and weapons. Each ending routes has its ows side missions. There are also 2 or 3 (semi)hidden side missions. Some side missions also yield a unique item that are needed for a nickname. Refer to side missions section on further info.
• Complete the Rooftop Arena Weapon #13 is dropped by the final enemy in this arena. You will also get nickname #16. Aside from that, this will also unlock the Akiba Martial Arts Tournament which has more unique clothings and weapons.
• Complete the Baseball Rock-Paper-Scissors This can be found at Rooftop. Talk to named NPC Hokutono to start this. This is especially a good and easy way to collect unobtainable clothing at the early phase of New Game since you can get the clothings without any necessary skills.
• Complete the Akiba Martial Arts Tournament. These technically are included in the side missions. However, they are unique variations for each playthrough and they may reward special clothings and weapons. Refer to Akiba Martial Arts section for further info.
• SW Main Street is a very good stakeout map to collect clothings and weapons at any point in the game. Almost all NPCs can spawn there with the exception of Foreigners. Go to the intersection and you can look all entry points easily and see if your targe NPC appear.
• There are 2 ways to initiate combat with NPCs. First is by shoving them aside. And the second is by bumping into them repeatedly until they get angry. Sometimes NPCs will run away when you initiate combat with one way. If so, then try do the other way to initiate combat. It may yield different result.
• The UFO Catcher in Station Front is a place to find many types of weapons. Some of the them are obtainable only at this place. Refer to the UFO Catcher section for detailed info.
• All accessories except accesory #32 can be bought at the following stores : OKKY, OKKY II, third rabbit at Junk Street and Junk Shop. Accessory #32 can be found at the UFO Catcher. Refer to UFO Catcher section for detailed info.
• Skills are sold in shops, reward from side missions, related to ending routes and leveling up your character (you need to be lvl 35 to unlock all level related skills).For other special skills refer to Skills section for additional information.
• There are 4 ending routes. Every one of them is required to unlock unique character models. One of them has 2 variants that also unlocks to nickname#44 and nickname#45.
• There's a semi missable item (#64) that are required for nickname #54. It is sold at Station Front until the cutoff point. After entering the Station, turn left and past the Convenience Store and talk to the NPC there to buy it. Note that sometimes different NPC will not sell this item. If so, just reenter the Station until the NPC that sells it spawn .
• Steel Maids These female maids has a unique metallic appearance. They will flee if they see you and cannot be engaged in combat if they flees. To combat them, enter Camera Mode. Wait until they turn away from you then you can engage them. This NPC will flee from combat if she receives considerable damage or lost too many clothings. Try to focus on strippng one part of clothing when fighting them. These maids spawns on Back Street and the Park.
• Steel Otakus The male counterpart of Steel Maids. Their behavior is the same as Steel Maids. They spawns on Junk Street and Rooftop.
• Women in blue clothings.
• Women in bar maid attire and triangle bandanna.
• A waiter in black shirt and red apron. This variation may also be fought in Sister's room.
• A waitress in black shirt adorned in yellow color and an apron.
• A waiter in yellow shirt and black apron. This variation only appears in Otaku difficulty or higher.
• Women in red clothes. This variation only appears in Otaku difficulty or higher.
• Backstreet at the intersection that leads to Maid Cafe and Junk Shop.
• SW Main Street at the intersection to the 3rd exit.
• UD+ at the left side of the big open area.
• Station Front to the next of the Vintage Clothing Shop
• Sign Holder This NPC wear a bear costume. It enters the map from one entry point then walks to another entry point and then disappears and will not reappear again until you reenter the map. This NPC seems to run away if you try to combat them by pushing them aside. To combat it, bump into it repeatedly until it got angry and attack you. (You might need to be hated by Akiba Residents for this to work) This NPC is also to be the only source for Weapon #53 and Weapon #62
• #340 - Special Reward from UFO Catcher.
• #268, #275-277, #279-283, #288-290 - From Akiba Martial Arts Tournament
• #104-105, #162, #230-232, #302-303 - Hidden Events/NPCs
• #252-253 - Sister's Room
• #13 - Complete Rooftop Arena.
• #106, #111, #112, #117, #118, #121 - UFO Catcher Prizes
• #109-110 - From Akiba Martial Arts Tournament
• #90, #101, #104, #114 : Hidden Events/NPCs
• #103 - Akiba Martial Arts Tournament , Hidden Events/NPCs
• #113, 124 - Sister's Room
• #35 - From Side Missions
• #44, #45 - Can be bought at Maid Cafe
• #64 - Buy at NPC. Refer to General Tips Section
• First Round The enemy you want to find here is Nadeshiko. She has the appearance of a cheerleader. All 3 pieces of her clothings (#279-#281) are unique and she also has a unique weapon (#110). However, if you played on difficulty lower than Otaku, some of her clothings will be replaced by more generic versions
• Second Round The enemy you want to find here is a witch. All 3 pieces of her clothings (#275-#277) are unique and she also has a unique weapon (#109). However, if you played on a low difficulty, her weapon will be replaced by a non-unique weapon. (At Casual difficulty she has a non-unique weapon, at Otaku difficulty she has her unique weapon)
• Semi-Finals The enemy you want to find here is Mokyurin. She has white clothings and a unique hat (#268). However, if you played on a high difficulty, her hat will be replaced by a non-unique hat. (At Otaku difficulty she has a non-unique hat, at casual difficulty she has her unique hat)
• Finals The enemy you want to find here is GI Jane. She has the appearance of a soldier. All her clothings are unique (#288-#290). However, if you played on a low difficulty, her hat will be replaced by a non-unique hat. (At Otaku difficulty she has a unique hat, at casual difficulty she has her non-unique hat)
• Exhibition There's only one possible enemy here and he has 2 unique clothings (#282-283) and a unique weapon (#103)
• Fighting Sara Accumulate 200 Maid Points at Maid Cafe and you'll get an invitation to fight at Rooftop. Defeat her and get her unique clothings (#104-105, #162, #302-303) and unique weapon (#104). You will also get nickname #13. Note that she doesn't have her unique weapon at Casual difficulty or lower. She also has a different set of clothes on Holic difficulty
• Feeding the Homeless At the beginning of the game, buy French Bread from the Convenience Store at Station Front. Then go find the homeless man in Back Street. Give him the French Bread. Later on, talk to him again and he will give you weapon #101
• Book of Secrets At Coexistence route, talk to Yatabe to gain weapon #90. You must have full relationship with all factions for this to work. To do that easily, donate to fundraisers to the max. The donation can only be done before the cutoff point.
• Fighting Master Defeat at least 300 Shadow Souls and complete the Rooftop Arena. Then go to the park to find her. Defeat her and get her unique clothings (#341-#342) and weapons(#103, #114). Note that she can also be fought at a side mission on NIRO route. But she won't drop weapon #103
• The strongest bear Right after the cutoff point and further, if you have abysmall relations with all factions. There's a chance that a bear will spawn at Rooftop near where Hokutono stands. Defeat him to get unique clothings (#230-232) and nickname #14.
• King's Clothings Sell 200 different clothings to Vintage Shop to get this reward.
• Give sister 5M across all playthroughs
• Play Holic difficulty
• Fully stripped the little sister
• Donate 1M to Suzuna's Fundraiser
• Buy "Cindy" for 10k or 20/30k. Can only be on different playthroughs.
• Clear Sister Route
• At Side Mission "Goodbye, Lady" choose "Sorry I died …" at last choice. Then check the scribble pad
• Check the pad when you can't have any more clothes
• Between "Freedom Fighters" and "Meet-Up" (Only NG+)
• Between "They Call Her the Stripmaster" and "Chasing Shadows" (Only NG+)
• Between "Hunting for Henchmen" and "Draw Out Yu Abeno" (Only NG+)
• Between "Crowd Control" and "After the Black-Haired Girl" (Only NG+)
• Between "The Master's Teachings" and "Accept a Few Side Missions"
• Between "Meet Mr. X" and "Off to NE Main Street"
• Between "Serving the Master" and "Stop DBP's Plans"
• Between "Back to Base, ASAP" and City-Wide Battles
• During City-Wide Batles