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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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where's
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Remy he said he'd be
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here I don't like this something ain't
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right Wolverine how can you live being
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so suspicious of everything and everyone
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the only reason I'm still living is
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because I am so
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[Music]
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suspicious mutant DNA identified
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activate primary objective destroy
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mutant
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subjects look out it's a trap D so
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stupid yeah so this is our team for this
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special little submission this is a
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flashback where we play as these four
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characters Nightcrawler Cyclops
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Wolverine and Je gray fighting Sentinels
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in New
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York so let's distribute some of our
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stat points to these guys Nightcrawler
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is more about agility and using his
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teleportation Powers than he is about
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attacking flat out with force and his
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teleportation and
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Agility keep him from taking too much
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damage so you don't have to worry about
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body too much but maybe just a little
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bit focus is where you really want to
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put your points into and a little bit in
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agility so here's his uh skill tree we
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have teleport leap which lets you go
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through walls and attack people and just
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his typical bamp thing if you will it's
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pretty neat teleport flurry lets him go
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just batshit crazy and teport all around
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hitting multiple enemies I like this I
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like it a
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lot but I can only like it for two
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points worth at the moment Shadow blend
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it uh it's another little
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temporary ability lasts for 15 seconds
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on its first
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point and it makes it harder to hit you
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apparently but what it really does is it
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decreases damage and it increases
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agility
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so now we have leap of faith this is
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pretty good but it only works if
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Nightcrawler is controlled by the
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computer and what it does is it has a
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percentage chance of resurrecting a
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character when they've been
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killed might as well put a point into it
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for now Sucker Punch increases a chance
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for criticals when doing a Teleport
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attack this is also pretty good cuz it's
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a 3% bonus and then a 6% bonus is the
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next time
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around and that does stack with normal
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criticals I believe could be wrong but
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I'm at least that's what I read haven't
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really tried it out
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yet acrobatics is also very good because
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it's a permanent increase to agility and
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it lets you double jump which isn't as
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big a deal but the agility boost
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is now we have
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Cyclops Cy cops is a ranged fighter with
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his optic blast but he's also competent
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up close sometimes you may find yourself
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having to beat the out of
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somebody so when it comes to application
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of stats I would
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say couple points into strike couple
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into
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focus and maybe a couple into
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body now here's his skill tree optic
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beam is you know his old standby a laser
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blast and that's ideal because you
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target somebody you shoot at
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somebody optic sweep is a
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more a widespread
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attack and it can hit multiple enemies
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causes some knockback but it's also
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generally a lot weaker than the optic
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beam as you can see at the base it
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starts with 9 to 11 versus 4 to 5
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it's good to maybe have a couple points
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in it just
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uh you know knock some enemies back get
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them out of the way but for flat out
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damage to hit
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somebody you know that's ideal
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tactics is another little you know
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temporary pretty much everybody's got
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one of these and what his does is
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increases his striking and Agility we
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don't really need either right
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now and we do want leadership that adds
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the damage and experience boost for
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combos much like storm if you have both
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of them on the team at the same time
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they do stack which is very nice
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accuracy and Critical Strike the
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increases there are very minimal and
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it's not really worth investing the
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points except in the case of
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Nightcrawler who has the stacking
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criticals for his
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teleport Point Blank shot though is
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pretty good increase a 10% damage if
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you're within 10t of an enemy combined
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with his optic beam that's pretty good
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that's
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ideal and we've got two points that I'm
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not going to use
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yet so we have Jean Gray you remember
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Gan gray don't have anything new for her
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Wolverine though he's a brawler so you
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want
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strike and you want a little bit of body
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maybe a point in agility a point in
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focus and then a couple more in
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strike he starts off with the brutal
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slash it's just a simple striking attack
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he also has claw flurry which is kind of
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like the teleport frenzy for
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Nightcrawler except without the
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teleportation he just kind of goes
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batshit
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crazy and he's got this uh feral rage
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increases agility and movement
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speed not that great so brutal slash few
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points there claw flurry actually does
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have its benefits but not right
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now healing Factor healing factor is
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good it reduces pain and it has a
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health increase you know it regenerates
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your health over time but I'm not going
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to be doing too much standing around in
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these videos
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so oh well sharpness though it adds
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damage and destruction to all claw
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attacks that includes his brutal slash
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so a few points there a little
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increase it's pretty nice and the next
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level up that we can get for it also
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adds
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bleeding for enemies and then you have
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Critical Strike and expertise expertise
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is good because it's a permanent
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increase to striking and
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Agility okay so back into the game now
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and there's some people
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running and this is the end of the
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screen there so as you can see this is
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pretty linear you only really have one
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way to go it seems like there'd be more
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ways but there aren't here's a sentinel
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they are mental resistant which means
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Gan gray can't do to
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you can do to
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her Sentinels have a whole bunch of
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attacks they've got the ground laser
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like that some of them shoot lasers
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other ways some of them have uh like a
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need gas blast attack and as you saw
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earlier he targeted Gan gray and then
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fired homing missiles at her you cannot
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get away from those until they blow you
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up so there's another little save point
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here
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and we just head off to the next area or
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do we no we do not because there's
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actually an Alleyway over here that you
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cut through and you pick up a danger
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room
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disc then you just break down this wall
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and then you can go back on your way to
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the next
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area okay
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switch over to
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Wolverine and we got two of them this
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time so now I'm going to use Wolverine
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Wolverine get over here or I'm done is
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pretty strong pretty powerful combo and
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most importantly pretty
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fast he's uh not as strong as and maybe
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some other people but he makes up for it
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with his
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speed I'm the best I horn as you can see
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you have to defeat all the Sentinels
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that you come across
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unfortunately some more people running
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around and you unfortunately can't kill
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them as much as I would really like to
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over here some cops doing their
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job so we
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two where to
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indeed why we cut right through this
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alley of
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course just smash some get it out
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of my
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way we head out over this way for a nice
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little health pack and a nice little
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Sentinel
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combo as you can see they have some
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pretty devastating attacks they are
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strong I mean they are designed to hunt
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mutants so for them to not be strong
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would be kind of
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silly now I can try to show off
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Nightcrawler coming up but before I do
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that I've got one other thing to take
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care of
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oh actually I forgot about this guy
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right here so he uses his teleport gets
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up near the enemy and hits them more
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mental
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damage and that's his flurry attack
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which he jumps around and hits multiple
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times as you can see he's pretty weak so
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him and Jean Gray are not really all
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that useful for this
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Mission but they do allow for some
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setting up of combo attacks combo
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comboed
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inoperative power
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combo all right that was
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good that was good good in the
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neighborhood some more
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cops it's uh I don't know if you saw it
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there or not but the cops actually do
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have their guns drawn and they do fire
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at the
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Sentinels not that they really do much
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but it's it's a nice
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little touch there I appreciate
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it coming out this way there's
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another ter of
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Sentinels
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combo yeah
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combo combo all right one down
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and have to
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go there you are you can see them
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shooting at him now AC but I don't
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believe they actually do any damage it's
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just a nice little
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touch render the
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inoperative now we just have one more
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area to run
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through and before I do
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that okay here's another
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Sentinel try to take him out of as fast
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as possible combo combo
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combo combo all right now you see one of
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eight sen ready for a scrap there's a
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whole lot of Sentinels over here
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okay now this is the Park area as soon
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as we go into the Park area we're going
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to have a bit of trouble on our hands so
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I'm switching over to Gan gray and I'm
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going to do something she leveled up
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earlier you saw I gave her a skill point
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into flight so I could do this come up
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here you get some
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goodies everybody else follows you
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somehow not sure how and here's a comic
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book not bad
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huh not bad at all but the only way that
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you can get this is if you have somebody
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that can fly so if you don't have
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somebody that could fly you're kind of
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screwed I'm just hoping my team comes
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down here there we are oh yep there's
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everybody yes now what we want to do is
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we want to just kind
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of stay outside of the
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park we want to try and only draw out a
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couple robots at a
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time and we also want to pick up a
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couple of these little packs that we
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find around the
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area because if you go like right into
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the middle you face like a whole bunch
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of these
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at combo combo all right yeah we're
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going down pretty good when you only
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have one of them to single out you can
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kind of get everybody on his case get a
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lot of good combo attacks in
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there oh that's just bait
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see I need more power to do
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that combo that's a scanner I don't want
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to get scammed cuz cyclop cannot take a
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to save his life right combo
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oh look at this this is bad times bad
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times combo so I'm going to try to get
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everybody out of there to
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regroup spiking
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get these guys on little more singled
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out or get them up on something combo
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combo
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combo one down fre to
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go
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combo follow
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me come on pull back pull back
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combo now one thing I should point out
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that safe point there that's all you can
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do there is save same as same goes for
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the first one you saw earlier if
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somebody dies they're dead if you lose
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everybody it's you're I don't
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have enough power speaking of I
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am now completely out of energy and I
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got two of these to deal with so
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myet oh good Wolverine's out too but at
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least he can do his physical damage with
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just some simple melee attacks do a good
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job of hurting people
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Cyclops leveled up which refills his
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energy
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combo
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combo I hate that those gas things there
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you end up targeting them instead of the
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Sentinel so you have a hard
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time yeah well you end up wasting all
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your trying to hit them cuz you
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don't realize you're
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attacking right a poison gas or
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whatever the that's supposed to be
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and thankfully a lot of these things do
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drop some goodies not all of them but
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most of them and you might find that you
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need to
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restock get over here just take out this
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guy as fast as freaking possible and we
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are done
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