I continue to be impressed by the correct apostraphe placement. Impressions: I love how serious this takes itself on every level while just straight up ignoring how absurd and silly everything about the character designs and visuals are. Basically, a bunch of fetish sex dolls shoot each other. It's like if you replaced all […]
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