Publishers XSEED Games and PQube have announced that Akiba’s Beat, Acquire’s action RPG with a musical twist, is releasing on May 16 in North America and May 19 in Europe for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita. It will be available physically and digitally on both platforms.
XSEED’s Tom Lipschultz explained how Akiba’s Beat relates to the previous Akiba-related game, Undead & Undressed:
The answer is? it doesn?t!
?Well, not entirely, anyway. It is from the same developer, Acquire, and it does share the same setting, but everything else is completely new: the story, the characters, the gameplay style, and even the tone! For those who don?t know (or can?t tell from the name), Akiba?s Trip: Undead & Undressed was a bit of a risque brawler we published back in 2014, tasking players with stripping the clothes off of vampires so they melt in the sun. It earned a well-deserved M rating from the ESRB, and was an awesome game with a great tongue-in-cheek sense of humor and a heaping helping of Japanese cultural satire. Akiba?s Beat, on the other hand, is a (mostly) non-risque action RPG that tasks players with traversing surreal ?Delusionscape? dungeons and fighting monsters in action-packed battle scenes. It has a much longer and more complex narrative, a bigger cast of all-new characters, a more involved and nuanced battle system, a more narrowly focused satirical tone (still satirical, but less in-your-face about it), and ? most notably ? ...