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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0:30
Peter I promise you I'll do all that's
0:32
humanly possible to save her but this is
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the most unusual case I've looked for
0:39
viruses parasites and tissue damage but
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I can't find anything wrong with
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her I do not
0:48
understand Peter there is no physical
0:51
reason she should be in a coma and to
0:54
make matters worse her body has begun to
0:55
shut
0:57
down doctor
1:00
please I beg of
1:02
you don't give up hope I've asked Forge
1:06
to see if he can create a life support
1:07
system to keep your sister
1:09
alive do you think he will
1:13
succeed knowing Forge he's putting the
1:15
finishing touches on the devices we
1:20
speak n she's [Â __Â ] ilana's so [Â __Â ]
1:25
yep here we are in Mir Island and over
1:27
there is moy and Mard who probably has
1:29
one one of the more
1:31
subdued Accents in the game not that
1:34
it's particularly good but you know they
1:38
didn't go overboard with it like I I was
1:41
expecting it to be like oh Peter we
1:43
can't do anything for your sister I do
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not know what's wrong with her
1:49
freedom I love you what have and that's
1:53
oh I do not have the power okay I'm done
1:56
now all right so here's a
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Moira ah a new X-Man eh where does
2:02
Charles find such Splendid
2:05
people what can I do for you
2:08
lass yeah the accent's not too terrible
2:12
but uh they make sure to get all the
2:15
Scottish uh lingo in there are you Dr
2:19
Moira MCT tager I that's me I done the
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mutant Research Center here on mure
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island are you a mutant uh
2:30
no but my son Kevin was the poor
2:35
lad what happened to
2:37
him I believe in his case his mutation
2:40
truly was a curse it drove him to
2:43
Madness he escaped the research center
2:46
and went on a killing
2:47
spree yay the X-Men had no choice but to
2:50
destroy him
2:52
boo yeah uh she finally asked somebody
2:56
if they were a mutant and it turns out
2:57
they're not a mutant uh at least in this
3:01
particular t uh timeline
3:05
um maybe not in the other timeline it's
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it's hard to say anyway hey we got more
3:09
things to ask her what is this place
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this is the mutant Research Center from
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here I study mutant genetics and Aid the
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Xavier Institute whenever and however I
3:22
can how' you come to be involved with
3:24
the
3:25
X-Men Charles and I were very good
3:27
friends back in college
3:32
what's wrong with
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Ilana I honestly don't know her body is
3:37
shutting down for no apparent
3:39
reason perhaps it has something to do
3:41
with her ex
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Gene what's an ex
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Gene that's the gene that gives mutants
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their special
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abilities so one little Gene is the
3:54
cause of all this trouble between humans
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and
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mutants I I suppose you could say that
4:02
what goodbye doctor goodbye
4:06
lass yeah I there's there's two women in
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this room right now I don't even know
4:10
where to begin explaining what their
4:13
deal
4:14
is H Ilana especially I just finished
4:18
looking at her wikkipedia entry and holy
4:20
[Â __Â ] oh God it's it's worse than the
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freaking
4:25
Phoenix but here's somebody over here
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who is pretty decent
4:31
hey you don't be afraid would you mind
4:34
talking to me a little
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while yeah it's Multiple Man
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everybody you wouldn't by any chance be
4:41
a mutant would you sure am I'm Jamie
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Madrick AKA multip man but floating here
4:48
I feel more like Lily Pad
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man very funny what's your mutant
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power duplicates of me are created when
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my body experiences any sort of impact
5:02
even something as simple as snapping my
5:04
fingers needless to say I'd never lose
5:07
in a boxing
5:09
match I really wish you could play as
5:12
him in this game just uh H who should my
5:15
team be uh how about multip man multip
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man multip man and multip man just a all
5:22
multipl Man team would be pretty
5:24
awesome why are you floating in that
5:27
vet this is a lip tip bath I'm soaking
5:30
in it to regain my strength after
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battling the Brotherhood guess I kind of
5:35
uh overextended myself and lost control
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of my
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clones so you have trouble controlling
5:42
your powers
5:43
too hey who doesn't every once in a
5:45
while we're mutants not machines there's
5:48
no cut off switch that automatically
5:50
gets thrown when we go past our
5:54
limit you fought the
5:57
Brotherhood yeah well I had some help
6:00
from Forge and Moira but uh yeah I
6:02
fought them they did a lot of damage to
6:04
the facility Forge is still trying to
6:06
sort things
6:09
out bye hope you feel better soon thanks
6:14
I uh I'm feeling better
6:16
already everybody [Â __Â ] wants goddamn
6:20
[Â __Â ] magma and she's like what 12
6:26
goddamn multiple man you're still kind
6:28
of cool though
6:31
and uh come on camera cooperate there we
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go and there's Colossus just you know
6:40
chilling my friend Wolverine tells me
6:43
you are magma a recent addition to the
6:46
X-Men I am
6:48
Colossus stupid question
6:52
time who are you I am Bor nikolov
6:57
Rasputin or simply Rasputin as my
7:01
English-speaking friends call
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me from your accent I take it your
7:07
Russian D there is no greater country or
7:11
more beautiful land on this
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Earth how I love the Splendor of Mother
7:18
Russia you almost sound like a
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poet me a poet yet but I do love to
7:27
paint it is a passion of of
7:31
mine oh
7:34
boy I kind of kind of kind of wish that
7:38
she would ask him if he was a mutant and
7:40
then he would just like smash her face
7:44
into a
7:46
jelly how are you able to hold up that
7:48
regulator back at the nuclear plant I am
7:51
able to transform my body into an
7:54
organic metal that grants me Incredible
7:57
strength as well as the ability to
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withstand high
8:02
temperatures wow that's
8:06
amazing perhaps but I still enjoy my
8:10
flesh and blood form it is only then
8:12
that I am truly able to sweat and put my
8:15
back into my
8:18
work I'm very sorry to hear about your
8:21
sister's
8:22
illness I doo am sorry but I refuse to
8:26
give up on my sister to lose ilal would
8:29
be more than I could bear wouldn't be
8:32
the first time uh oh oh uh so sorry guys
8:36
spoilers uh take care
8:39
Colossus thank you
8:42
Allison yeah uh Colossus is a mutant
8:45
Ilana is a mutant but I couldn't even
8:48
really begin to tell you what her deal
8:50
is
8:51
because H let let me let me just say
8:56
this uh she gets kidnapped when she
8:59
she's like 6 years old and taken to the
9:01
limbo Dimension where she's raised by
9:04
demons and trained in Magic so you'll
9:08
forgive me if I don't look
9:11
into explaining that any better here's a
9:15
Sketchbook look at
9:17
that and going back over here there
9:21
should
9:22
be
9:25
something I know it was you Alex what
9:28
have you gotten yourself
9:30
into look all I ask is that you meet
9:34
me you couldn't have picked a worst
9:37
time Scott you really need to see this
9:40
for yourself then you'll
9:42
understand I don't know I need to hope
9:46
to see you there Scott I've got to go
9:49
bye bye
9:51
Alex oh I'm sorry I didn't mean to
9:55
interrupt you
9:57
didn't if you don't mind am I asking who
10:00
is
10:01
that someone who needs a swift
10:07
kick Yep this game is just full of
10:09
little noots to this and that and it's
10:12
uh pretty cool can't talk to Cyclops
10:15
though after that he's just being moody
10:17
it's uh his mutant time of the month
10:21
needs a tampon for his
10:23
visor [Â __Â ] you Cyclops your [Â __Â ]
10:27
attitude go suck my ass
10:31
ass but here's somebody who's cool this
10:34
is Forge also known as Lou Diamond
10:38
Phillips computer shut down the power
10:41
grids in the third fourth and eighth
10:43
sectors invalid
10:47
command I made you I can break you you
10:49
chunk of of uh oh oh hi miss my name's
10:55
Forge what can I do for
10:57
you hi I'm Allison I mean I'm
11:03
magma nice Workshop you have here thanks
11:08
I use it to build any new equipment Dr
11:10
mctaggert might require you see I have
11:13
the ability to build any type of
11:16
machine that's got to
11:19
be the weirdest mutant power you've ever
11:21
heard of yes I know everybody says that
11:24
until they need me to build a machine
11:26
for them that is
11:30
are you having trouble with your
11:33
computer ever since the Brotherhood
11:35
stormed through here the main frame's
11:36
been acting flaky it's constantly
11:38
turning systems on and off won't take
11:40
any of my commands say could I ask a big
11:44
favor of
11:45
you like
11:47
what would you mind manually rebooting
11:49
the institute's supercomputer I needed
11:52
to program the life support system I
11:54
built for
11:55
Ilana rebooting a supercomputer sounds
11:58
pretty technical
12:01
there's nothing to it I do it myself but
12:03
I have to be here when the Mainframe
12:05
comes
12:07
online sure I'd love to help out what do
12:10
I do go to the primary core once you're
12:14
there contact me over the radio and I'll
12:16
walk you through the steps to rebooting
12:18
the
12:20
computer okay Forge I found the primary
12:23
core what should I do
12:26
now wait a second Allison I just found
12:28
out I can't shut down the computer
12:30
defense systems they'll attack anything
12:31
that moves in there maybe I should get
12:34
one of the other X-Men to handle this
12:36
please do there's no time to waste Forge
12:39
Ilana will die without your help and you
12:42
can't help her until this computer is
12:45
working I have to agree Allison time is
12:47
running out you're very brave to do this
12:50
no she's not nah I'm just looking
12:53
forward to a good
12:54
fight huh you're starting to sound like
12:57
Wolverine no she's not
12:59
okay Allison move into the room and I'll
13:02
talk you through the steps to rebooting
13:03
the
13:05
computer Mary Su to the rescue everybody
13:08
yep so this is
13:10
how yeah that didn't work right but yeah
13:13
we've got to uh reboot the computer by
13:16
killing danger room robots and stay
13:20
down we this is some [Â __Â ] computer
13:23
right
13:24
people and they just explode these if
13:27
you need them and you know magma
13:29
probably would need
13:31
them um the thing that got cut off there
13:35
was Forge telling us that we need to
13:37
raise the bridge to get to uh the
13:39
control panel because that's that's how
13:41
computers work you know every time my
13:43
computer doesn't work and I called Del
13:45
tactical support and they uh some guy
13:49
says okay sir now what I need you to do
13:51
is please go
13:53
and raise the bridge so that you can go
13:56
to the a draw panel like what the [Â __Â ] I
14:00
guess you could and you think I'm joking
14:02
but I'm
14:03
not now you're supposed to do this and
14:06
hit this the system monitor but
14:11
no let's just do this it's fine it's
14:16
well you have to come down here anyway
14:17
to do this because there's blockage on
14:20
that bridge and you have to clear off in
14:23
order for to raise up so you got to come
14:26
down here
14:27
anyway and and I just hit
14:31
this and break
14:35
that oh it work last time damn it you
14:38
Wen so tough we'll see if it works
14:44
again okay go up come
14:47
on Bridge control there we go yeah so
14:51
you just do that cut out a little bit of
14:53
a
14:55
middleman but uh I can always go back
14:57
and hit that button anyway
14:59
this panel isn't doing anything
15:02
Forge yeah from my monitor it looks like
15:04
the core is out of
15:06
alignment so what should I
15:08
do there are two core control stations
15:12
find them and access the core they
15:14
should automatically
15:16
align okay so now we have to find two
15:20
things and align them so we go back down
15:23
here or not I forgot there was a wall
15:27
there don't you judge me
15:30
we pick up this power enhancer and I
15:32
will
15:34
just beat up this Danger Room Center
15:37
just because he's in my way I don't like
15:40
the look of his
15:41
face yeah look at that they just explode
15:44
these [Â __Â ]
15:46
packs it's uh pretty pretty
15:51
cool so yeah this is what happens if you
15:54
push this bridge won't go up I'll have
15:56
to clear it off first
15:59
okay be careful Allison yeah you're
16:02
supposed to do that but I chose not to
16:04
because I am free to make my own choices
16:08
now you jump down over here on this side
16:11
of the wall good job Allison now you
16:14
have to find the other core control
16:17
station yep oh where could it be oh my
16:21
goodness this is some
16:23
amze that's more like it the core is in
16:26
alignment now head back to the primary
16:28
control and access
16:30
them I've got it covered
16:32
Forge yeah now we just go right back up
16:36
and go to the control panel and have our
16:40
fun and uh all kinds of fun
16:44
and lots of
16:48
fun how's that
16:51
Forge it worked great job Allison the
16:55
computer is coming back online you
16:57
handled that like a pro
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but what about
17:01
Ilana I'm already using the main
17:03
computer to help her thanks Allison you
17:06
probably just saved her life
17:08
[Music]
17:15
boo okay Moira I finished downloading
17:18
the program how do things
17:21
look that's done it Forge ilana's life
17:24
signs are stabilizing your talents truly
17:27
are a gift from heaven P I couldn't have
17:30
done it without Allison she's the
17:33
hero well then I thank you Allison you
17:36
saved iana's life oh anyone could have
17:39
done
17:41
it nonsense you deserve to be
17:43
congratulated
17:45
lass thanks I'm just glad iana's
17:49
better X-Men meet at the xjet now yeah
17:53
Iana just a picture of Health it's time
17:55
we left for the Mansion people [Â __Â ]
17:56
idiot Colossus you're welcome to to join
18:01
us since Dr mcag is sending Ilana to see
18:05
Professor Xavier at the X mansion I will
18:08
go too
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