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Intermission 6: 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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Scott it was
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horrible Charles it got
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Charles Jean Emma calm down who got
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Professor
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Xavier Shadow King I felt his presence
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just before Professor Xavier helped us
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Escape uh-oh that ain't
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good we have to get additional help and
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rescue Charles
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immediately both of you take it easy and
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tell me exactly what
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happened Charles Xavier I demand a word
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with
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you of all the times okay people let's
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split into two teams some of us will go
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meet Magneto the rest of us will stay
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here and watch over the
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professor okay uh as you can see we are
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picking a team to go deal with
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Magneto uh I could have had people
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suggest what team to use but given the
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nature of this Mission I felt it was
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just better to choose my own team and I
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went with some characters that we
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haven't seen in a while and one that we
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haven't seen at all in colossus's
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case and we'll see how this
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goes Colossus as you'd imagine is very
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physical but he's actually not the
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strongest character we have in terms of
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strike stat both Rogue and Beast have a
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higher stat at the moment and will
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continue to do so because I'm going to
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put some points into
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focus and some into body
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agility and a few more into strike I I
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feel bad he he is actually quite strong
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it's just um
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both beast and Rogue have skills that
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increase their
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strike and he kind of lags
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behind uh here's his
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skills power smash is just basically you
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know a powerful punch attack but it's
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very slow
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and you hit like one person with it it's
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not bad it's just um not ideal
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especially for right now uh concussion
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slam basically has an arc radius so it
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hits everything in front of
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Colossus and you know has some good
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knockback some good
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destruction H not too bad in the way of
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damage either especially if you're
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hitting multiple enemies at once steel
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skin titanium skin uh as you can see
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reduces his physical damage and beam
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damage and reduces pain pain and last
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for 24 seconds which is quite uh quite
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nice Colossus charge acts in the same
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way as ice bands ice tracks Magma's lava
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tracks where it's um done by hitting the
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jump button
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twice and it's basically about as
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effective as either one of those
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abilities
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so not going to use it might of course
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is always a lost with these
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characters knockback adds a little extra
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push to his
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attacks but
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um not too sure how much Focus I'm going
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to put into that right now since he's
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mostly going to be hitting
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people I figure you know Critical Strike
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comes in handy in this case and uh just
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a little bit of toughness
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there night crawler you you've seen a
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little more
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often but he's good people he's good
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people so we have leap of faith and
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Sucker Punch
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um Critical Strike
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actually take a point away from Critical
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Strike and put it into teleport frenzy
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because that's good stuff too always
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good stuff with the uh the
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teleport then we have Beast uh really
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haven't seen beast in a
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while and um as you can see he has 34
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points in
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strike so yeah he's going to get a few
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more points in strike
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now and uh let's see pinball we're still
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not going to be using propeller lash
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though we
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are beastial Feats isn't bad but I just
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don't have the points to put into it
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just
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yet because because I'm going to be
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putting points into Critical
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Strike so yeah he's got acrobatics maxed
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out he has grappling masked out which is
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an extra 10 agility and 10
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strike and you know reflects Punch Kick
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damage so he's he's um surprisingly
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tough he's
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probably one of the strongest characters
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you can use in this
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game it's not bad not bad at
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all and
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Iceman again going with good amount of
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points into Focus couple
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into body and one into strike and
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Agility you know no real Rhyme or Reason
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to it just it's what I choose to
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do put more points into deep freeze you
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know it's uh comes in handy ice shards
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still nothing ice equipment we are
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maxing out though that's fun stuff stuff
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little extra damage reduction and damage
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bonus and uh I've got a few points left
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over but I'm not really sure what I'm
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going to put those
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into as you can see level 23 you can get
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ice Forge for two
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points and I can get that for one point
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so I might as well just hold on to my
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skill points for a little bit
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longer and maybe maybe I'll go with uh
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some toughness or
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something I'm very focused with the
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direction I want to take Iceman in so I
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have a lot of points left over
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for concussion
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blast and everybody looks all set
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there I did not call for his children I
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want Charles Xavier
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immediately and more uh dialogue without
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voice acting since we had to choose our
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characters so uh yeah it's Colossus
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talking you the professor is not here
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but we speak for
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him very well you have undoubtedly heard
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of the torture chambers Havoc uncovered
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in Canada this should prove to you that
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humans see us as little more more than
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animals well that's the price you pay
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for free health care you know if you you
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get free health care you're going to
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have to torture a mutant every now and
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then it's just that's how things go
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Canada's still a pretty awesome
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Place yeah Xavier has brainwashed a lot
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of
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you there's also the small matter of a
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prisoner you've
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taken you are free come and join your
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master
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oh bloody lovely I knew you'd come he's
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a great as I told him Magneto don't
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forget about his loyal followers no sir
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he's a stender blokey is
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a enough
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toad you are so
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overdone H Magneto's here to be awesome
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because Tony Jay voices him and uh Tony
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J's voice is just forever awesome don't
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really know if it's a good fit for
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Magneto though it
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just you know but whatever I mean he's
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his voice is still will always forever
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be awesome I came to offer you a chance
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to redeem yourselves as homo
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superiors join me battle lines have been
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drawn and the time for war draws near
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yay think about it he's right he has the
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power to create Better Lives for all
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mutants
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that's a pretty awesome power I
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wonder uh how many mutants actually do
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have the literal power to create a hell
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on Earth I would guess maybe about five
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somebody will provide examples I'm sure
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I have restored my headquarters on
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asteroid M from there I will create a
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new world order one where homo superiors
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take their rightful place as Gods at the
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top of the genetic food chain sounds
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delicious cease all mutant activity or
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face instant termination oh oh and here
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we are we're right into the middle of a
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[ __ ] huge battle with tons of
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Sentinels so you can see why there's
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kind of no real point in having people
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choose a team here it's just some real
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hectic action we even have Magneto havoc
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and a couple of acolytes in on the on
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the fun here as you can see
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Magneto just chilling like a villain on
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penicillin because he was
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Ellen and yeah so basically you just
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smash the [ __ ] out of all these
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Sentinels they keep coming
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though there's his uh clap thingy not
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not too helpful against the Sentinels
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but it will be eventually against other
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characters that can get slammed smashed
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and
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[ __ ] but we're holding our own one
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stronger come
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on there we
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are yeah I put up his little uh Shield
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there downside is Colossus isn't like
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just he's not killing these guys fast
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enough so he's
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standing in front of a sentinel trying
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to smash him and he just kind of ends up
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getting the [ __ ] kicked out out of them
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every now and
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then uh Beast let's check out what Beast
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is up
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to same issue with Beast you know just
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these Sentinels take a lot of hits they
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can do a lot of damage so you don't
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really want to be standing in front of
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them just smack
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them but you don't really have too much
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choice I mean I could have used
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assistance could have used some more
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ranged
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Fighters but you know where's the fun in
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that this is why I brought Nightcrawler
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along with his teleport flurry and a
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hammer of
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nimrod he is this oneman Sentinel
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killing
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machine very
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fun so yeah just look at all this action
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where' Magneto go there he is hey
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Magneto come on come
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on help
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us help us Magneto you're our only
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hope no you're not night crawler is look
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at that [ __ ] awesome night
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crawler combo combo oh that's fun
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stuff basically spam that take out a sen
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all by
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himself and we finished
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hooray oh yeah just five left
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Wolverine cease all
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mutant you see violence is all Humanity
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has to offer us doesn't he ever shut up
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look no m Target acquired primary
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objective secured
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withdraw follow them X-Men No we need to
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regroup
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