Oh and also, one of XSEED's guys has shared some stuff about Akiba's Trip 2. Plenty to read in both of these posts if you're interested:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=103471055&postcount=338
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=103497977&postcount=362
- There is no connection between this game and the original Akiba's Trip on PSP. If anything, this title is kind of like a series reboot. It's... a little odd in that respect, since you rarely get to the reboot of a series until at least game 4! ;) That's part of why we dropped the 2 from the title, since this really isn't a sequel.
- To clarify the omission noted in my forum quote, the Japanese advertisement flyers and load screen images will be remaining in-game, untouched, no problem. What's being removed is the text accompanying the flyers -- text which basically just notes each store's hours, address, telephone number and a basic description of what they sell (most of which is graphically present on the flyers anyway, making the textual content a bit redundant in the first place). The reason this is being removed is because we were unable to translate it for legal reasons, and unable to leave it in Japanese for policy reasons -- which makes sense on both counts, when you think about it. 130 different companies supplied Japanese text for inclusion in the game, but did not approve any English versions of that text... and if a game is being published in English, having actual text (that you can scroll through and such) left in Japanese just looks really sloppy.
- PS3 or Vita?
This is entirely up to personal preference, because I'm not kidding when I say the two versions are so 100% identical to one another as to be virtually indistinguishable (at least, as far as I've been able to tell). What this means is that the Vita version looks pretty damned good for a Vita game, while the PS3 version looks kinda ehhhh for a PS3 game, so if you're the type of person who prefers seeing hardware pushed to its limits, I'd say go Vita -- whereas if you just want the most comfortable gameplay experience in your living room, go PS3. Performance-wise, neither version is better than the other, so you're unlikely to buy one and feel envy toward the other. ;)
