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X-Men Legends
by Jamesman
Publication date 2009
Publisher Let's Play Archive
In the fall of 2004, Activision released the Raven Software-developed X-Men Legends on multiple platforms.
An interesting take on the "comic book game" genre, XML is an action RPG, in which you create 4-person teams from the 14 playable characters, and earn experience and money to increase their abilities.
Storywise, the game's focus is on "new" character Alison Crestmere, who is of interest to both the Brotherhood of Mutants and the X-Men. She's mostly just an excuse to shoehorn character backstories into the game with some groan-worthy writing, and you're rarely (if ever) required to use her in missions.
Speaking of missions, they can get quite long. I'm doing my best to have efficient playthroughs of each mission, and I also intend to have updates consist of multiple videos covering each mission. Because of this, updates may not be too frequent.
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okay here's a little bonus video for all
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you folks out there we've got a danger
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room menu here and as you can see we
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have freshman sophomore junior senior
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X-Men and Legend difficulty courses
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right now we only have the first three
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available to us freshman courses are
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pretty much tutorials the majority of
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them you just use magma to learn how to
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do certain things like breaking [ __ ]
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throwing people couple of
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combos then you have teamwork things and
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combined Powers then you have qualifying
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exams now for those you need to beat
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them and then you can go to the next
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level of courses like so I would need
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the qualifying exam for the junior
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course to get to the senior
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course anyway so yeah the Freshman
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course not really worth showing anything
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there so more course uh you get a better
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idea of what's going on because you
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mostly use teams of your choice to do
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things protect and defend um you
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basically have to keep civilians or
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items from being destroyed by the
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enemies Focus you have to focus on
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killing a certain enemy type and these
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cases it's the Morlock Goths and you
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fight a bunch of other morlocks and you
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just have to kill the goth
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and all that fun stuff and then you can
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see we have challenges these are
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character
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specific and they give you rewards that
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are usable by those
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characters and then you have combined
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Powers that's just to do uh combos with
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your special abilities survive assault
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is fun assault means you just kill a
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whole bunch of people let's check this
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out just for
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example and here just like any other
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Mission you can choose your team uh just
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for the hell of it I'm going to stick
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with the default here which is these
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guys you can see them I don't have to
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explain
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them you may now begin your
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course so yeah we have to kill a set
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number of enemies within a time limit
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you know not too hard especially with my
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guys being level 20 or
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so job bam super
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yeah we're already 11 15th of the way
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there again now one thing I will point
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out is there's destructible items
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there's enemies to kill and the first
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time again you well I shouldn't say the
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first time anytime you do this Mission
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prior to completing it enemies and items
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or yeah enemies and destructible items
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will drop equipment energy packs Health
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packs money but after you complete the
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mission don't going back to it as I am
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now it they don't drop
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anything so if you're going to
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usea a mission or something to grind up
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experience it's best to keep doing it
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but not completing the mission that way
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you can keep getting energy packs and
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health packs to keep up your
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strength and you know you get money and
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you get items
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and all that fun stuff
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generat next I need more power to do
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that so yeah we're uh almost done here
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generating Five Guys left to uh eat the
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[ __ ] out
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of make that two more guys left to kick
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the [ __ ] out of all objectives have been
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successfully achieved course is now
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complete and then that tells you how
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much experience that you earned during
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the mission and then you have those
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little icons there they basically are
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for
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uh beating a mission
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quickly um
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teamwork
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something
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and not taking a lot of damage and if
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they glow orange it means you completed
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those bonuses and those don't do
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anything at all you get nothing for
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doing that so to hell with
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it now let's show off of a couple of
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these little character specific
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challenges I'm not going to do
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everybody's like Beast for example I
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haven't used them in forever so I'm not
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really going to worry about showing him
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off at the moment but we've used Rogue
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and cyclops pretty recently so let's uh
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let's see
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Cyclops the course is now active good
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luck and here you see we have to defeat
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two
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Sentinels in two
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minutes and you get unlimited energy
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during these challenges which is fun
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times generating a no there's two
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Sentinels and see as you can see you
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break stuff you get help I can't hold
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out much longer get
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items and uh yeah we got Sentinels you
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did not complete all objectives bombs
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you may repeat this course at any time
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and when you get defeated you can just
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restart it or you can try another one
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there's no penalty for not finishing the
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mission and you keep everything that you
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had collected during the
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mission you may commit so let's try that
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again and this time let beat the [ __ ]
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out of these
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guys just Spam your uh optic blast oh
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one down generating opponent
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and one to go when to go no one to go
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there's no when to go all objetives have
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been successfully achieved course is now
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complete and we've earned the visor of
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Retribution now what's interesting is
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[Laughter]
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um it says the recommended level to for
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doing that mission is level 12 so I
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could have pretty much done this as soon
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as I got this and um I'd either beat it
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or I'd fail it if I was around level 12
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I guess according to them I'd have a
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better chance but the item that you get
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here the visor of
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Retribution you have to be level 20
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before you can equip that so there's no
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real rush to do these challenges because
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I couldn't use the rewards
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until only recently and some of the
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characters still couldn't like Beast I
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believe isn't level 20
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yet so yeah uh they just give little
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boost to their mutant powers like
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cyclops's
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visor
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is uh this is a good question it's I
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think it's like
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20% added bonus to yeah it's uh 20% to
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cyclops's optic damage and it uh gives a
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little Focus boost
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too anyway Let's uh see what Rogue has
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for challenge
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the training course has loaded you may
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commence oh boy this is uh not voting
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well we have to defeat 20 enemies and
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then we have to defeat Mystique all
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within 2 minutes generating oppon
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thankfully Rogue is ridiculously strong
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she can hit multiple enemies with her
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strike attack nicely done and 20 enemies
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thing is not really much of an issue
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everybody just kind of generating goes
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down faster than Jan gray excellent
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oh I don't mean that necessarily
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sexually she dies a
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lot maybe she doesn't really die a lot
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but sheating she sure as hell seems
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to not in not in the game in the comics
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and maybe cartoons especially uh I've
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been watching the new one Wolverine and
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the
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X-Men and uh yeah she first episode
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she's offed
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can't get a break can
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she so yeah we've uh defeated uh the 20
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guys all objectives have been
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successfully course is now complete and
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we get the gauntlets of Wrath which is
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uh adds 20% damage boost to rogue's
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power attacks and it also increases the
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duration of her stun attacks by 20% and
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uh adds a little bonus to the body
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stat now here in the Junior course we've
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got Wolverine storm and
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Iceman and uh we haven't really used
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Iceman too much but I'll probably do his
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anyway uh but for right now let's do
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Wolverine and then storm
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later the course is now active good
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luck okay now this is similar to Rogues
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where we had to defeat a bunch of
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enemies and then defeat special enemy uh
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the
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director probably not as much of a
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threat as say Mystique because I don't
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even think director has anything special
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going on with him but uh generating
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opponent here's a bunch of guys
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excellent little bit tougher this is a
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junior course instead of a sophomore
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course but not too much of a
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challenge generating let's see what you
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got granted Wolverine's not as strong as
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Rog but he still hold his
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own again you ain't
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getting generating I said he's holding
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his own please don't die Wolverine Jesus
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Christ got that dude just in that
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doorway over there who's just firing his
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gun at congratulations you have
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successfully completed the course I Okay
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I uh okay I didn't even realize I killed
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the director that is a surprise
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okay well hey I'm I'm just the best
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there is at what I do I
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guess and in typical fashion his claws
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of Rage give 20% boost to his claw
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attacks and now let's do
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storm the course is now active good
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luck oh and now hers is a little bit
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simpler she has to kill 10 enemies as
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opposed to 20
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and then after that you uh have to kill
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Maro well oh defeat
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Maro and this is a reference to the
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comics where Maro is the leader of the
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morlocks at the moment generating and in
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the comics it was I believe Calypso was
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the leader of the warlocks at a point
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and storm defeated her to become the new
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leader of the morlocks not not
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deliberately like she didn't really like
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have a heart on for becoming the leader
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of
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morlocks it just happened
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thec so yeah that's a reference to that
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event and there's marrow marrow and H
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it's a bunch of
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dudes generating
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a so uh it's as you can see it's been
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working for me so hard to just Spam that
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chain lightning
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and generating
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a maybe even uh
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little Shield
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there better luck next generating equip
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now the only downside is Storm's
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lightning is powerful but Maro takes a
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lot of hits
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to really finish off she's getting there
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though you don't really have to focus
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too much on or just Bam Bam Bam
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generating
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opponent and there we go excellent job
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hooray you have completed all course
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objectives hooray and I got the goddess
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medallion
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uh I said I'd do Iceman but I got him
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and Beast and I've got a couple of
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challenges here in the senior
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course that I can't access yet and some
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that I'm going to be
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getting so uh I might as well save
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something for a future
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video and that's that hooray
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