So I was at Skynugget's house a few days ago, and we played X-Men Legends again. I guess this is turning out to be our game of the season...
I'll give you the game from my perspective.
The first thing you notice when you play this game is that the graphics are mostly pretty good, though slightly repetitive.It's sort of hard to tell the difference between the characters, and as a result, I sometimes end up wandering off into space punching the air because I think I'm playing as Wolverine when I'm actually Cyclops.
You can play by yourself, or with up to four people (by daisy-chaining your controllers). The 2-player mode is supremely fun because you can mess with each other. Since both characters have to stay on the screen at all times, you can hold your partner up and make them mad (teehee, Skynugget). There's no real way to play against each other, unless you count competition for leveling which doesn't even really make sense.
You can destroy practically everything but the ground in this game. Seriously. Benches, trees, lampposts, most interior walls, chairs, desks, trash cans, desks, refrigerators that are not cabinets (WOMAN), and pretty much everything else succumb to your destructive impulses. In my opinion this is actually the best part of the game...Doing this gives you items that heal your HP and energy. The HP healers become supremely valuable as you get more and more underleveled. You can combat underleveling by visiting the Danger Room, which pretty much gives you unlimited enemies to beat.
My favorite character is Wolverine because he's super strong. He does a lot of super great claw attacks that do a lot of damage.
Skynugget and I have problems with dying in this game. For the longest time we had no idea that some of the barrels explode when you attack them, and there was much carnage. Also, Skynugget jumped two of our characters off a cliff! Tsk tsk. Then again, I fell off a few times too. So I guess we're even on the accidentally-killing-characters scale XD And then for the longest time, we had no idea that you could revive dead characters. We had to look it up online because the instructions for my copy of the game are missing. Turns out you just need money and an access point. Who knew?! (It's actually not called an "access point". It's an "Xtraction Point". I just like to refer to things in Persona terms. Don't judge me XD)
The glitches in this game are plentiful but useful. For instance, if you jump at the right time to the right place, you can jump on anything. Skynugget and I spent a while just walking along the side of a cliff. Also, if you get close enough to some enemies, they can't hit you. This is true of the tanks and the Sentinels. Super useful. Also, dead characters still level, which is weird. But again, useful.
I just can't believe this game is working out so well for us. I bought it at the thrift store, and I totally expected it to not work, or at least require some cleaning, or be so so so bad that I would never want to play it. Actually, I didn't have to clean it at all, it works great, and I'm really looking forward to playing it with Skynugget again.
I'm writing this post in Computer Science. Terribly exciting. BYE
~Pigeonmeister
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