An argument for "girls make stupid faces." Impressions: I personally subjected myself to six plus months of translating a game about an alchemist running a store for wayward idiots, but as with the actual Gust Atelier series, this is very little like any of that. Yes, Kamidori or Mana Khemia or even Persona would […]
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