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NEWS: XSEED Confirms Dual Audio for Akiba's Trip: Undead & Undressed

The only way for the protagonist to defeat the vampires is to strip their clothing and expose them to the sunlight.

XSEED showing localization companies how to do it right. Now if only IFI could learn a thing or two.

XSEED showing localization companies how to do it right. Now if only IFI could learn a thing or two.

Meanwhile, a sound engineer copies the English line and matches it to the Japanese counterpart. For battle sounds, the two waveforms have to be around the same length to fit the animations. Xseed’s team was there, too, just in case a line needed to be changed on the fly. “According to keikaku,” an Internet meme from Death Note, was supposed to be one of the lines in Akiba’s Trip: Undead & Undressed, but the recording was too long. Everyone in the room started throwing out suggestions like “Just as keikaku” and after around five options “According to plan” with a jokingly serious tone was chosen.

“We found so many Gundam references [Hatsune] Miku references, everything you can think of that Acquire themselves put in,” said Tom Lipschultz, Localization Specialist. “The whole game itself is making fun of Internet culture, Akihabara culture, Japanese pop culture, and basically nerd culture altogether. It seemed like thematically it was appropriate to basically localize it in the same manner. We kept pretty much all of the original references in the game and snuck in a few of our own.”

Xseed’s script includes a Star Trek joke where one of the nerd characters in the game yells “Shaka, when the walls fell.”

Speaking of strip action, Akiba’s Trip: Undead and Undressed has some brand new content for the West. The game has unlockable strip portraits which you can use as wallpaper for the game’s menu, which is designed like a cell phone. The Japanese version only had female strip portraits, but Xseed’s release includes brand new strip portraits for male characters.

razisgosu wrote:

XSEED showing localization companies how to do it right. Now if only IFI could learn a thing or two.

Since it's common knowledge that Xseed said no to Monster Monpiece that's ain't saying a lot. That and the content is much more extreme.

razisgosu wrote:

XSEED showing localization companies how to do it right. Now if only IFI could learn a thing or two.

Are you sure XSEED would've done the same to MonMon had they licensed it instead of IFI?

Dunno about you, but I think "stripping loli in monster costumes (nearly) naked by rubbing the screen" is at least one level above "stripping vampires and expose them to sunlight".