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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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[Music]
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okay so we're about to start the Arbiter
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Mission and this is the team that I went
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with and speaking of teams I've got a
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partner of my own uh gummy Joe
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hey there
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everyone all right so we're see how this
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goes and uh so we got Beast here haven't
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used him since the Juggernaut flashback
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and I'm putting all my stat points into
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strike so that he can beat the [ __ ] out
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of people max out his propeller kick
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because Beast likes to break dance max
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out grappling equip equip uh ability
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because you know he quips a lot while he
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beats the [ __ ] out of everyone he does
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it kind of just on his own it's kind of
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neat maybe you could like da people with
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his you know
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verbosity yeah he uh they did a really
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good job getting that real X-Men feel
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going on here I think with just the
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little onliners and all the different
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abilities now uh you saw me equip
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Nightcrawler with the hammer of nimrod
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you'll see why in a little bit and I'm
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just going over my team stats and
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everything I man I haven't used him in a
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while God he's just like a big ball of
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snow in that P portrait yeah that's his
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that's his classic look yeah I know he
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uh looks like
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day I went with this team pretty much
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based on my love of Chuck because the
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guy that suggested it had a big mic
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Avatar and everybody watch Chuck it's a
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good show Chuck is a fine show indeed
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yeah
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and uh so yeah I got a couple extra
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points left over for Iceman that I'm not
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going to use just yet cuz he'll be level
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15 soon enough and then I can put them
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into something
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useful and off they
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go okay so we're on the Arbiter and in
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case you don't remember Brotherhood is
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here and we're trying to stop
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them and we've got some more generic
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human enemies and oh
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Sentinels looking much smaller than they
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usually do you know in The Conch books
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but hey yeah well there's different
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types of Sentinels some of them are a
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little bit bigger some of them are a
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little bit smaller
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incoming night
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crawler I love the fake Accents in here
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like Rogue has the most atrocious accent
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in this thing yeah even the normal
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American accents are pretty bad help me
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I'm in trouble we'll do
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and uh there you saw beast get
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teleported out of danger By Night
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crawler's leap of faith which was a
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pretty cool
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touch that is pretty much badass you
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know yeah uh his leap of faith ability
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has a chance of saving somebody if
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they're going to die and it's a nice
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little touch you just get bamp out of
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Danger get a chance to refill your
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health let's see what you got the Iceman
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looks so weird I just can't get over
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it oh he look weird but he's really
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awesome probably characters in G that
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will probably leave
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a there's equip
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equip now these cranes here uh you
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destroy them to shut off the tubes to
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prevent the Sentinels from continuing to
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come out how did the crank open the
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tubes
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wait I I don't know it's just one of
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those things
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marble yeah I'm on it and um you can get
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up to four
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Sentinels up to four Sentinels will come
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out of a tube but I don't want to deal
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with that and here you can see Iceman's
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ice ability the ice armor ice equipment
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whatever it's called at this time he's
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covered in spikes and we get spikes on
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our hands which increases our defense
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and offense
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abilities sometimes I don't know my
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own it's pretty Co another clip hey oh I
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love my Clips m and more Sentinels you
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have to destroy all the cranes in this
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area before you can get to the next area
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otherwise I would have just ran through
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here right Sentinels they are a little
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on the tough side um you saw me fight
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them in the Sentinel
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flashback and they can give you a little
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bit of trouble because if you get hit
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they hit
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hard but thankfully I gave night crawler
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the hammer of nimrod which gives him a
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massive damage burst
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against and with his teleport flurry he
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hits multiple times so like four hits
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for hundreds of damage each time he can
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almost single-handedly take out a
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sentinel by
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himself too bad the Sentinels didn't
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kill your off X morons going down he's
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distinctly less quippy than a beast X
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morons love how blob's so freaking
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[ __ ] you got
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try stop me cre
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puff time you freaks learned a lesson
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and they just explained what was going
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on um you remember Forge saying that the
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Brotherhood attacked Mir Island and
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stole a
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device and it allowed them to MK DNA for
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mutants so that's why the Sentinels
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aren't attacking the
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Brotherhood because they don't are they
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just like attack you with giant stick
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cuz that looks
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like they're like electrified batons or
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something like that so sticks see what
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you got magic whacking
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sticks and these guys are the grso
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soldiers I'll call them Garo soldiers
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it's it's
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easier and they're part of the Arbiter
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crew and we're supposed to protect them
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and we're doing a great job doing an
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amazing job I require assistance and
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here's a new Sentinel type it's the
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Sentinel controller not too much
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different from the regular Sentinel but
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they have a few different
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attacks thankfully Iceman slows down so
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much that they can't do
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anything yeah that was kind of Lop side
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with
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it I love Iceman's freeze ability just
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cuz nobody can do jack
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[ __ ] so we're going on up here to find
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some stuff going
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on find some stuff going on that was
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excellent English yeah there we are
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crane controls we have to find a way
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into the ship now instead of using one
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of the many doors we've
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passed the
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X-Men oh God that reminds me um in
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Marvel timate Alliance there's this one
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part we had to like push a block into
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like a floor of glass and it took me
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forever to figure this out like I spent
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hours just going back and forth all over
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the damn place trying to find where the
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hell it's supposed to go and and when I
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found just like I hate you so much model
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it seems to be seems to be the emo of
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these types of games where if you need
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an entrance you make one by Smashing the
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[ __ ] out
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everything X-Men here to save the day by
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breaking [ __ ] and killing off the crew
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yeah this is going to do one for for
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mutant uh human relations I can tell
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saving you be sure to thank the X-Men
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for doing a good
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job and you see like there was the gerso
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officers and uh the Sentinels they're
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both mental resistant which isn't a big
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deal because we actually don't have any
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mental characters right Gan gray is not
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usable for this
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Mission and she's the only one that we
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have at this time o a stat Point yeah I
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only have only have beast and
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Nightcrawler that could get up there and
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I figure the stat point was better used
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for Nightcrawler because I don't see
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myself using Beast too much because it's
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German therefore Uber heads up people
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yeah I'm sure there's some uh irony in a
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German being a mutant and the target of
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like genocide and everything it's not
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blueeyed and blond haired trying to wipe
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out my
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people now that turret there is a power
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damer and if you get into its range it
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drains your energy
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so you have to destroy it fast or from a
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distance Cyclops can do it from a
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distance with his optic blast but trying
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to aim that thing is such a
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[ __ ] because Cyclops is a [ __ ] so you
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basically just walk in and just punch it
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to death pretty much which seems to be
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beasto basically walk in
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punch he's pretty much the uh the
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brawler like Wolverine Rogue and so on
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they have mutant abilities that you
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really put to use but him someone kill
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guys damn it yeah brotherhood's been
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here doing our job our job for
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us and um you know this team I'm pretty
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happy with this team I probably would
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have switched out Beast for storm but
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other than that everybody else is pretty
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handy it is a pretty sweet team except
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for Cyclops because he's an [ __ ] but
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that's just my opinion yeah but he does
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come in handy later on now I destroyed a
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terminal there that shuts down more
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Sentinel dispensing tubes and no
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Sentinels came out to begin with so it
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was kind of confusing cuz usually one
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comes out and you got to deal with them
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right power dampener and lots of
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freaking
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dudes one thing I hate sometimes the AI
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just gets so screw and they just run
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around like idiots instead of you know
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helping right
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but you just push the L push the L2
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button and they just kind of get their
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[ __ ] together and come in and I don't
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have enough
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energy now you got these force fields
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that we can't get past so you'd have to
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go through that door there and go around
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to operate the controls to shut it down
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or Nightcrawler with his awesome
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powers and then you can just skip the
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whole thing and go right to the exit
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after dealing with these
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guys so are famar with Comics yeah I
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think it' be cool if like night like
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grab a guy and teleport into like the
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Great Wall of China or something you
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know just take him straight off the map
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well his uh more powerful teleport
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abilities let him teleport allies around
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which is pretty cool and as you saw
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there he can also leap off of the walls
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and dive at enemies which is pretty cool
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just one of the many little
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touches so you're familiar with Comics a
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little bit I'm pretty familiar
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yeah uh let's talk about Beast then is
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there anything at all that's interesting
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about
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Beast well I mean my enemy everyone know
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as you can probably tell from this you
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he starts off pretty human looking in
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the first couple of Cs and then mutates
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in and then you would eventually mutate
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into you know the guy that Kelsey GR
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trade yeah the Cookie Monster yeah the
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Cookie Monster basically the much more
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verose uh Cookie Monster uh yeah at some
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point he gets like kidnapped and this
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alternative dark this alternative evil
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Beast takes his place and has to fake
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his way around pretending he knows
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what's up and whatever all the inside
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jokes and everything are yeah the uh
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dark Beast was from the Age of
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Apocalypse timeline was don't have
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enough yeah where uh Beast was a jackass
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and somehow he found his way into the
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regular
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timeline and from what I read he was
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retconed into being the creator of the
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morlocks yeah something like that
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um I don't even know where to begin
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figuring that out I don't even know the
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morlocks yeah and the only other thing I
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know about him is now he looks like a
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kitty cat yay he looks like a kitty cat
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yeah he mutated in some strange other
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direction became cat basically so that's
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kind of uh that's kind of assistance kid
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cats are always
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awesome it's just you know I'm on I
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guess you can't have anyone the two
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normal in this game they all have to
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freaky like it's not enough that night
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crawler's
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all is all dark blue and teleports all
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over the place he has to look like a
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demon let's see what you get with his
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little pointy tail and his fangs and
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glowing red eyes and consider yourself
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defe a gun turret that I just smash the
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[ __ ] out
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of um there are sometimes where you'll
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find yourself on the other side of them
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and just smash them without them giving
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you any trouble head up but not this
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time not that they give you too much
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trouble to begin
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with try to smash the wall yeah I'm very
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upset to find that there are some things
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that just cannot be truly utterly
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destroyed but over here is a
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Sketchbook yay or
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sketching
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exactly when I get enough of them I'll
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show some off in the future that's a
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basic weakness augmentor why would you
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ever want to augment your weaknesses
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would you want you like augments the
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weaknesses of the enemies
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oh I don't know how that works exactly
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but apparently it does you're weaker
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help
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me combo yeah the Sentinels are really
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made into [ __ ] in this Mission
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because of Nightcrawler's Hammer of
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nimrod and Beast just kind of cleans up
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with a spin kick and of course Ice's
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freezing them to death yeah they just
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don't stand a chance andsy they're like
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do that now do that well one thing I did
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give him he has the um tactics ability
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which increases his strike and and
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Agility and I upgraded that to strategy
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so it affects nearby allies as
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well another force field oh no however
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are we going to get past this we're
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not clever o yeah because that force
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field there there's no control to turn
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it off so if you go past it with night
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crawler you're going it alone just look
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out
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which is entirely possible I mean you
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can see him kick ass a single teleport
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flurry on a single enemy takes him out
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but since there's no way to regroup with
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your team you can't go to the next area
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without
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them I'm just gang raping that dude yeah
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know
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really it's good thing there's no like
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video cameras around here or anything
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yeah you just defense is human look out
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but see we're health we're helping these
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guys we're on your side why do you fight
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us we're showing you how awesome the
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Xmen are so that you will love us look
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how cool we are by killing
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you another soldier that I killed just
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for the hell of it night crawler levels
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up I read somewhere recently actually
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that a Nightcrawler supposed to be a the
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son of Mystique and some other mutant
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whose name I forget but yes something
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like that I remember hearing I didn't
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know but I change it because you know
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nothing is certain in the con conflix
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world yeah nobody ever stays Dead all
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relations are subject to [ __ ]
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yep lost H Cyclops just blasting [ __ ]
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out
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of yeah I mean I do admit that he comes
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in pretty handy and at close range with
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the point blank shot
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but just I don't know something about
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him rubs me the wrong way he's a jerk I
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mean that's why but
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not he's a jerk I think it's the fact
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that he has uh head trauma and yet he's
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the leader of the X-Men like I just kind
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of picture him being this borderline
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[ __ ] guy and he's like telling
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everybody else what to do just kind of
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seems as backwards that's right the
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headon is why he can't control his I
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right why he needs
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visors so we're going along everything's
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going pretty good so far haven't
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suffered too many
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problems incoming killing people
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destroying power dampeners and listening
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to Nightcrawler's German accent my go
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keep
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coming sounds a cur clink
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God he freaks out out every time there's
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a grenade thrown like
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anywhere he's like Minecart incoming
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it's like Jesus Christ dude
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