Whole lotta people tripping to their deaths here. Impressions: This was a lot bloodier than I was expecting, although to be fair, since the promos had mostly CGI car chases and one dude's power is trans-marbles, I was expecting the amount of blood to be somewhere around the level of Sonic the Hedgehog. It […]
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