Fantastic. I had this as April 4th, because that's what the official site shows, but I guess we've got early airings again on certain streaming sites. Oops. That's yet another goddamned Monday cheat power RPG world show then. Impressions: The popups about things like… picking up items were bad enough, but then it turns […]
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