With even less movement than a Touhou boss. Impressions: Yeeeah. This is more action oriented, but good god, it does not have the animation nor direction chops for it. All the fights were just people standing rock still as random magic circles appeared around them and then fired, disappeared, or fired and then disappeared. […]
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