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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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so here's our team for the Morlock
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tunnels we've got Wolverine in his
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weapon x scarb if you can really call
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that Garb it's more like
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underwear uh there's Nightcrawler and
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his classic comic book style his 9s
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outfit I guess which wasn't really too
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different from uh how he what his normal
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skin looks like
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let's that's his extreme gear which kind
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of looks like a freaking bondage suit
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it's kind of
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creepy night crawler there that's what
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he normally looks like in this
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game and then there he is in his uh
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slightly older outfit here's Jean Gray
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in her Phoenix costume and there's
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Cyclops in his old school X-Men uniform
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now as you can see I've did a little bit
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of leveling up with these guys and
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that'll make my job a little bit easier
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for this
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Mission so I've got brutal slash maxed
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out and brought it up to eviscerate
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which replaces brutal slash it's just a
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more powerful version does a shitload of
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damage which is really nice haven't
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gotten a claw flurry or feral rage yet
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not sure if I will and now that I've
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gotten characters over level 15 I can
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get their extreme power and you'll see a
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new little thing on the screen and I'll
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explain that when it comes up
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sharpness I've got to level three and
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expertise I've maxed out but I got four
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points I'm going to put them all into
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Critical Strike with Wolverine you do a
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lot of melee fighting so it makes sense
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to improve his Critical
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Strike we got
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Nightcrawler haven't put anything into
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his teleport leap yet but his teleport
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flurry is maxed out and that does
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multiple attacks it's four attacks for
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50 to 63 physical damage it's not too
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bad I mean he's not really a physical
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guy but that makes him jump around a lot
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hit multiple targets and pretty much
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keeps him out of danger leap of faith is
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at level three 75% chance to resurrect a
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character within 30 ft only if he's
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controlled by the computer so we're
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going to let him be controlled by the
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computer acrobatics is completely maxed
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out which gives him 10 agility stats or
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10 agility stat points and I got four
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points to give him into Sucker Punch
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which is it or well three points can't
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put anymore 9% bonus to critical if I do
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a Teleport attack and he's going to do a
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lot of
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teleporting and I'm going to put one
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point into mutant Mastery which improves
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his energy by
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10% it's not a whole lot but it does
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help Cyclops I've already distributed
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all his points I got optic beam up to
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optic blast which also does piercing and
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I believe that means it goes through the
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enemy and hits whatever's behind them
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which is very nice tactics I got up to
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strategy which gives uh striking and
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Agility bonuses not only to Cyclops but
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now to all the
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teammates and that's a really good
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deal and then we've got leadership and
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Point Blank shot all up both up to level
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three 75% damage and 15% experience
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bonuses very nice and Point Blank shot
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30% more damage when you're at close
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range and finally we got Gan gray
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telekinesis I put the one point into a
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long time ago psychic shout is now up to
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the
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Max and we got telekinetic Shield to
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telekinetic shell and again that now
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affects all nearby allies instead of
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just her so a nice protective damage
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reduction Shield
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it's nice it's very nice and then I'm
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going to give her a point into mutant
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Mastery as well because she can use the
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energy she's very energy
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based and that should do
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it okay now if you remember we are here
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to find out what happened to Gambit and
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we don't want any trouble with the
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morlocks but I have a feeling trouble's
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going to find us okay so first thing I'm
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doing is switching to Jean Gray because
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believe it or not this is her Mission
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she
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is really freaking excellent at
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this and I'm just going to take a quick
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visit to forge just to show off this is
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his new inventory he's got some improved
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versions of some items here and he's got
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a lot
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more of the basics like see you have
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basic strike enhancer but now you have
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regular strike enhancer
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and he also has a few more of these
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uniques um some of them you still can't
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use just yet uh like the death Birds
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Javelin you need to be level
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20 things like that opal of
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aamus I hope I said that right
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23 I mean the idea is you buy them now
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use them
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later and I'm probably going to buy a
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couple of things a little bit later on
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but for right now I'm good
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okay enough
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around go over here to a
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door
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huh soon you ain't going to be so pretty
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oh well somebody's hitting us through
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the walls so might as well make an
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entrance and there are the morlocks
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combo combo you're lucky you're still
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breathing all right took care of those
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guys here you're going to see them quite
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often morlocks are mutants that have
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gone to live in the sewers because they
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don't feel like they can function in
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normal
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life um usually this is in response to
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having physical mutations that really
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make them stand out as being different
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and
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whatnot yes and now I'm just going to
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point out down at the bottom you see the
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little circles with the X icon in
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we're going to start finding little
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pieces of whatever that fill out those X
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icons and when it's full that's when you
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can use an extreme power if you have it
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unlocked and right now we can only fill
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up the first one soon you ain't going to
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be so pretty so I said this was Gan
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Gray's Mission thanks for playing
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because she is surprisingly awesome
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these are the Giants they are strong
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they're physical resistant and you've
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been seeing the claws which are energy
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resistant well you know what mental does
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not count as energy
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and neither of these guys are resistant
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against it
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no so you might be able to see where I'm
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going with this along with her psychic
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shout she can pretty much take anybody
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out in one to two
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blast soon you ain't going to be so
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pretty which is good because you might
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not see it now but hey I'm in trouble
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over here sooner or later you're going
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to start seeing larger groups of enemies
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and it be
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comes quite quite important to deal with
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them quickly and
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efficiently and being able to do a whole
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lot of damage to the roots and the
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Giants and
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everything I can't close that with Gan
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gray but I can close it with Cyclops and
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that prevents more morlocks from coming
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out of
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there which is good because we don't
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really want to get surrounded by these
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guys you're done for
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pre Well jean Gray's taking a little bit
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of a hit here cuz I'm putting her like
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into the foreground putting her right
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into the middle of the
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fight and uh she's not a fighter but you
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know she does some good damage here so
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it's good to try to remember to put up
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the shield but you also want to not
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waste too much of your energy
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either another thing that you might
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notice about this area is
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joke that it's
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really small like really claustrophobic
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lot of narrow areas lot of small rooms
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and
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whatnot me again X-Men everything's very
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twisting and a little mazik and I've
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gone through here quite a few times
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already and I still find myself getting
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turned turned around so I'm going to try
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my best not
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to but I make no
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promises see just Bam Bam Bam just
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psychic shout over and over psychic
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shout bam look at
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that
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bam bam now not only does that do damage
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but it also reduces their striking and
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Agility and some other good stuff I
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believe just open this door now see
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there's a big crowd of these claws here
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and I just look at that look at that
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that is
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beautiful all right so here done for is
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the entrance to the Morlock
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Haven but we can't get in there because
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it's filled with
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water so we have to go shut down the
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main water
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pumps here beating up those guys to get
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them out of my face all right so we go
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into the East trunk
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line here there are two items to get
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after I just feed these claws SC for the
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you see this you can make a bridge here
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but as you remember Bridges kill people
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so I'm just going to fly over with Jean
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Gray I'm going to scout around the
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team's been separated but I get a comic
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book this is going to be fun and then I
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just fly right back over over and sooner
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or later the team is going to be
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regrouped there we
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are anyway boxes break those and you get
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a Sketchbook and that's good good
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times and finally just going to have
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Cyclops make a new door and here is our
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first water
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pump and we have shut it
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down the only way that the X-Men know
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how to do anything by destroying the
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out of it
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yes so one side down one to go let's go
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to the West trunk
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line here there's only one item to get
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and it's right over here right near the
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start I could use some help over here
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it's a danger room disc Focus
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2011
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combo and we destroyed the other water
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pump
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combo so with both of the pumps dealt
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with the water is now clear and we can
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get down here to Morlock Haven
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