God yes. Status screens and a tutorial announcer. Again, this was leaked early. It actually starts on April 8th. Fun times in internet file security. Impressions: Not even closing my eyes and trying desperately to think back to 2006 and mindlessly consuming harem fanservice shows could blunt this one. It jumps right in to assuring […]
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