Akiba's Trip: Hellbound & Debriefed
Akiba's Trip: Hellbound & Debriefed is the precursor to Akiba's Trip: Undead & Undressed, the smash hit that introduced a Western audience to the seedy underworld lurking in the shadows of the haven of “otaku”…
Akiba's Trip: Hellbound & Debriefed is an adventure developed by ACQUIRE Corp., released 19 May 2021 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Akiba's Trip: Hellbound & Debriefed is
Akiba's Trip: Hellbound & Debriefed is an adventure game developed by ACQUIRE Corp. and released in 2021. It was published by Marvelous USA, Inc.. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
Supernatural creatures are stalking the pop culture mecca of Akihabara—and you know that because they've turned you into one of them. Their only weakness, and yours, is sunlight, which means there's only one way to stop them: call them out on the streets, knock their clothes off, and expose their skin before they can do it to you. Arm yourself with a rolled-up poster, a guitar, a laptop, a magical girl wand, or (if you insist) an actual weapon, then hit Akihabara's colorful streets. Browse recreations of real-life shops circa 2011, mingle with Akiba's residents and tourists, and discover the town's many secrets. Will you work with the secret paranormal-hunting agency, give the creatures a…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Akiba's Trip series
Akiba's Trip: Hellbound & Debriefed is the seventh of 9 entries we hold in the Akiba's Trip series. It arrived 4 years after Akiba's Trip 2+A. The next entry was Akiba's Trip: Undead & Undressed - Kati Route in 2021. Its critic score of 20 is 23 points below the series average of 43. The highest-rated entry is Akiba's Trip: Undead & Undressed at 64.
How it was received
Akiba's Trip: Hellbound & Debriefed holds a critic score of 20 out of 100. That places it above 1% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2021 averaged 74, so it scored 54 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Akiba's Trip: Hellbound & Debriefed launched on 19 May 2021, within three weeks of Biomutant, Resident Evil Village, Mass Effect: Legendary Edition and Returnal. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 8 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Biomutant, Resident Evil Village, Mass Effect: Legendary Edition, Returnal.
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