With Slay the Spire 2 now in Early Access on Steam, I’ve been slowly pecking at it, reliving playing the first game casually years back. I’ve been also looking at it just like any Gakumas player would–where do these two games overlap? I am not exactly a big Gakuen Idolm@ster player, in fact I am […]
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