Why does this exist again? Impressions: I gotta say, I was pretty exhausted of this by about five minutes in. Yeah, I know that it was a bit subversive fifteen years ago to have a bunch of nonsense spewing moeblobs turn into murderous lunatics, but when the twist is not just gone from the […]
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