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X-Men Legends Mission 1 - New York part 1
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Jun 3, 2025
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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today on rvn world news we examine the
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growing mutant Menace it's a concern of
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worldwide proportions this scene took
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place in Russia two weeks ago as a young
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mutant stood in defiance of the
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military and in the Far East the
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authorities attempted to quell an
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uprising at a mutant camp but they had
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little success we interrupt this
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newscast with a breaking story a young
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woman named Allison crir was identified
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as a mutant the genetic research and
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security organization is now responding
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to that report but a mob has formed and
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tempers are flaring help somebody help
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me Mom Mom I'm not a mutant I swear I'm
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not Mom grab the girl and get out of get
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out of my
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way come here
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you mind if I cut
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in stop stop stop fighting stop it right
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now
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stop
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stop freeze Moody
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hey bub you should have called in sick
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[Music]
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today hello everybody this is James man
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and we are playing X-Men Legends this is
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the PlayStation 2 version but there
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shouldn't be any differences between
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this and the other versions
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available now as you saw in the intro
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there we met Alison crestmere who is
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more or less a new character for the
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game storyline and we are starting off
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with wolver green now we do get other
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X-Men to play as and eventually we can
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have a four person party but for right
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now we just have Mr tiny
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Canadian and there's our first enemy
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anti- mutant troops now if you don't
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know the story of
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X-Men uh there's mutants who have
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evolved special
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abilities and normal humans some of them
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don't mind them some of them hate
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them as you can see with these guys and
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then uh there's the X-Men who are a
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group of mutants that want to create
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peace between humans and mutants and
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then there's the
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Brotherhood which feels their Superior
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to humans and wants
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to basically Destroy All
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Humans or enslave them you ain't getting
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enough possibly keep them as
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pets so as you can see with Wolverine
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green you've got some pretty basic
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brawling combos
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here and you can also use your mutant
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abilities when I press R2 you can see
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the selection come up we only have one
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at the moment but it's effective against
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these
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guys damn
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effective and then that's an energy pack
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you can refill your energy Health packs
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refill health you're going down your
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mutant
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attacks and skills use energy
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and getting the [ __ ] kicked out of you
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uses up health so it's good idea to
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manage both and not
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die you can also do this throwing the
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[ __ ] out of people cuz I love throwing
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people love it can't get enough of
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it cannot get enough of
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it so yeah Wolverine Wolverine's
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abilities if you don't know is primarily
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he has an advanced healing factor which
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means he can recover from almost any
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injury up to and including close-range
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nuclear blasts that burn him down to his
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skeleton he also has these
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claws am I playing too rough for you and
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that's Avalanche one of the members of
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the Brotherhood he can short answer is
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he can create earthquakes as you just
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saw so now we have to take a minor
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detour even though with Wolverine claws
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he should be able to climb right over
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that wall think you're bad mudy but oh
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well and speaking of his claws it used
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to be thought that those were added when
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he was given his adamantium
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skeleton which he was able to withstand
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due to his healing Factor sweet dream
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but it turns out that he actually does
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have bone claws and the adamantium was
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just bonded to the
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bone in his claws just like every other
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part of his body so there you
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go one of those strange little
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things don't really know how that counts
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as a mutant ability I mean having extra
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razor sharp bones what the hell kind of
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mutant has that I mean really that's
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just
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silly and these guys are chasing me but
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they're not going to get me
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nuh-uh well maybe he might no he's not
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oh oh come on come on oh
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I love playing around with these
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guys and he gave us our first piece of
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equipment ain't no one standing and I
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leveled up so let's take a quick look at
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the character
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screen yes this is an action RPG you
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earn experience points and improve your
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stats and equip armor and whatnot so we
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have strike attack defense hit points
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energy points and energy regeneration
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rate now you also have ai levels for
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your computer controlled characters not
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too many options just just enough and we
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can put a skill point into one of these
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four and we can also put a skill point
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into one of our abilities here we have
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our full skill tree for
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Wolverine um abilities that are blue are
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ones that we have not met the
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prerequisites for usually uh level
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requirement grade out ones require
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um an ability prior to that like
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eviscerate needs brutal slash leveled up
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to a certain degree and the ones that
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are white are what we can level up so we
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have healing Factor Critical Strike and
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expertise and might as well just put
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this on we have a backpack belt and
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armor so there we are we got our fancy
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new backpack on let's see what you got
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and I like that combo it's a nice little
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popup combo gets you up in the air away
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from
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attacks and it can take out those
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anti-mutant troops in uh just one combo
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string now there's a loading screen for
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mystique mystique's ability is she can
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change her appearance including her
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voice as you saw in the opening
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movie
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um so there you go now here's a friend
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hey Wolverine it's
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Cyclops what are you waiting for come
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on oh dick
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move what's going on
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[Laughter]
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here you're finished Mystique give
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up fool you think I came here
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[Music]
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alone yep so that's another example of
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M's power now she can't copy abilities
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of
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mutants so she tends to stick with uh
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more Conventional Weapons like guns and
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knives and
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whatnot so next time you know she's
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she's good for disguises but not too
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good for fighting except for the fact
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that you know guns are pretty
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dangerous and
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so these are the Brotherhood thugs
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they're just random generic soldiers for
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the Brotherhood mutants and look at this
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we're splashing around in the fountain
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in Central Park hey we're just like the
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cast of Friends huh
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[Music]
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you ain't getting
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them we should they should make a
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friend's action RPG that's exactly like
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this H you're one of the mighty
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X-Men and there's pyro another
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Brotherhood member he has the ability to
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control fire he can't make fire but he
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can control it which is why he has a
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flamethrower strepped to his back and
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the nozzles to his wrist so he shoots
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the fire out and then enip
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it some more Brotherhood
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thugs smash the [ __ ] out of these guys
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with my slash attack who's
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next oh
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countered now as you can see a lot of
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things in the environment are
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destructible I've been smashing the [ __ ]
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out of trash cans to pick up items and
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you can do the park benches plants a
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whole lot of
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things I will annihilate you just dodge
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that dude pick up
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these and double
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back figure there's no point in killing
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everybody if I can avoid him all the
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better now we can smash through the
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drainage
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pipe keep going on ahead this guy is
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[ __ ] dead though I'm going to beat
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the [ __ ] out of him I tell
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you oh there we go so here's that fire
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again an obstacle that you would think
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Wolverine could just easily surpass but
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no no no no there's a fire hydrant with
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an X over it now that's a
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clue there we are you smash it it sprays
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the water out and puts that fire out
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here's an extraction Point here you can
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save your game load your game and when
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you have other teammates you can change
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your team members at one of
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these another Brotherhood
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Thug another Brotherhood
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Thug ah you got trash can
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son now the only reason I'm fighting
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these guys is to see if they drop any
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goodies cuz kind of need them early on
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there we are say good night Bob
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you want to try and pick up you want you
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want to stock up as much as you can I'm
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trying to avoid destroying everyone and
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everything in my path but certain things
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you need to be prepared
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for like this you are destined to lose X
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yep we are now in a trap and there's
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Mystique with her
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guns and her
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grenades and
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and with her quick
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punches and kung fu
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skills
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now it's ideal to go after her when
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she's firing her guns or throwing her
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grenades because that way you can get in
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without her countering because she does
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attack just a hair faster than you and
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it can really screw you up the game's
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over X-Men so now she summons some more
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thugs while she runs
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away just got to beat the [ __ ] out of
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these
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guys oh
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grenade thankfully that guy dropped
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another energy pack for
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us item management it's really hard to
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do in this first level because you just
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have nothing and no
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one but there you
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go it's nice to have a game that doesn't
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necessarily Hold Your Hand
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oh you stupid [ __ ] with your fast
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punches so you just kind of want to keep
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your distance to try and get her to use
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her guns then you get
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in or you wait for her to throw a
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grenade I'm fading quick yeah and her
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guns do a lot of damage if you're right
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there now you see she morphed into us
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but she can't do any of the things that
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we can including our uh claw
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so she just continues to fight the same
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way that she did
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before and we continue to fight the same
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way we did before I will annihilate you
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now she morphs into a Brotherhood Thug
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and summons some more
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guys now the interesting thing about
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this I've done this fight quite a few
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times so I'm pretty sure it's always the
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last one left that after you drain their
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health it turns back into myque even if
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it wasn't the one that she originally
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was if you keep track of
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them she's almost dead unfortunately we
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are now out of
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energy but it doesn't matter
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Wolverine someday some way I'll see you
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die you're done darling and I ain't even
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worken as
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sweat okay now we have our first
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dialogue tree we can ask questions or we
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can just skip it but might as well ask a
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question or two right where's blob
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taking the kid she's ours now Wolverine
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you'll never see her
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again we'll get her back mistake even if
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we have to cut down each and every one
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of you brotherhoods
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psychos what's so special about her the
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crestmere child has her
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uses you always got some plan Brewing
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don't you
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[Music]
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Mystique it's time to save
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Allison you'll never catch
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[Laughter]
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blob now you heard in the dialogue there
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some times it sounds really drowned out
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and muddled and I'm not quite sure
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why uh and other times it doesn't it's
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just the way it was recorded I
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guess oh well one fight down and a bunch
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more to go
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