While Akiba’sTrip might seem like one ‘those’ types of games, the ones that appeal to lonely and horny young men, it’s actually not like that at all.

It takes place in a near perfect (at time of release) replica of Akihabara, Japan. It’s amazing how much little details went into the environment alone.

The combat controls can be a little difficult, and feels repetitive pretty quickly sometimes, but is a solid beat’emup regardless.

The plot is ridiculous and over the top, but in a stupid fun sort of way. The characters are likable and relatable, and the voice acting is pretty good.

Overall just a stupid fun game.

A guilty pleasure of mine. It's super janky but also super fun. The worst part about it is the fact that best girl Kati doesn't have a route. Oh well, Rin is also really great!
Might replay in the future to hunt achievments.

EDIT: HOLY FUCKING SHIT THEY JUST RELEASED A KATI ROUTE DLC FOR A 10 YEAR OLD GAME OUT OF NOWHERE I CAN'T BELIEVE IT TEENAGE ME IS SO FUCKING HAPPY RIGHT NOW I WAITED FOR SO LONG I NEVER TOUGHT IT WOULD HAPPEN INSTANT UPGRADE TO 5 STARS

(Original Rating: 3.5 stars)

The difficulty selection has three options: casual, normal, and gamer. I knew from that screen alone that this was going to be a so-bad-it's-good game.

The clunky combat is pushed to it's limits on gamer difficulty. Large difficulty spikes are littered throughout the story. Some of the missions are nearly impossible without carefully micromanaging your companion, abusing weapon hotboxes, and constantly disengaging to heal.

The story for this game is wild. I don't want to spoil anything, but just know that the villains' motivations are hilarious.

If you're looking for a so-bad-it's-good anime game, then consider picking this one up.

First things first, since I played this game in its original vita release form, I definitely experienced some performance issues while playing that were fixed by the PS4 port. Since these have been updated by my understanding I won't raise them, but I want to note their existence on vita.

With that being said, my opinion on U&U is a little strange. I really disliked the monotony of the gameplay and the artificial difficulty, and none of the side quests were particularly interesting. The pacing of the narrative is super weird, going from nothing happening in the first 10 or so chapters to more or less everything at once. Shion's route is an inconsistent mess that uses one of my most hated tropes of all time.

And yet I'm still really fond of U&U! The other main girls are all really interesting and awesome, the main antagonist owns every minute of screentime they get (which admittedly is not many, though Director's Cut may fix this) and the lore has a lot going for it too. Nana's subplot is straight up adorable if you go all the way with it, the replay value is neat... in general U&U just feels like a very weirdly cosy game. Also, yay for equal fanservice between the men and women!

However, with Director's Cut existing... I really can't recommend the vanilla PS3/vita releases anymore. Even without playing DC just yet the devs pretty much admitted these versions were unfinished without the "true ending not told ten years ago", so really I'd say just go straight to DC rather than the original game, there's nothing in them that isn't also in DC aside from maybe slightly better lighting.

Akiba's Trip : Undead and Undressed is certainly an interesting game. On one hand, it's a fun, goofy sandbox beat em up game, that certainly doesn't hide what it wants to be. The story is fine, as well as the characters, and there's high levels of customization for all the playable characters in the game, which is undoubtedly fun to play around with. But like what another review has mentioned, it is a fairly low budget game, isn't really a looker, can be shallow at times, and isn't great on other consoles, or run particularly well. Thus, it could be a pick up or pass depending on your taste.