This X-Men Game is IMPOSSIBLE - X-Men Legends Review 

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Xavier: This game has been a pain in the- [Gets an ad for Tik Tok] Xavier: -ass.

Fun fact: Deadpool's first videogame appearance ever was in the second game. He was also voiced by John Kassir. Good times.

Xmen legends walked so Ultimate Alliance could run .

The problem I had with X-Men Legends was your characters don’t start to feel like their comic book counterparts until the final legs of the game. Then you beat Master Mold and it’s over, with no new game+ option or even a stage select. There is no way to start off with full powered up characters, which I feel was a major flaw.

8:35 The gamecube version actually does allow for multiple saves.

The early game in this is hard. The best way to do it is to make sure you fight everything to gain experience while also taking advantage of the danger room. If you are low on resources you run a danger room mission to refill them. A first time run through of a mission enemies will drop items and money. You also gain experience to help with those tunnels at the end. If you go barebones and try to blitz your way through that tunnel section will murder you and you will pretty much be gated at that point.

This is creepy, I was just thinking about this game.

"Finally, a game where I can have my team roster be wolverine...and people he's slept with". Me: haha Me: *sees cyclops* Me:wait.. *W U T*

I actually prefer X-Men legends to all those that came after it. I liked the respawn system that forced you to level up and learn to use other X-Men. I liked the skill system more too. And even the health items. I liked learning how each character could interact with their environments. And you, sir, only had a hard time because you ran into every fight with fisticuffs and Cyclops. Yes, there were often huge mobs of dudes just waiting to kill you on the other side of a door or wall. You have Jean Grey and Storm at your side. USE THEM!! Storm and her chain lightning made her my #1 sniper!! All of her points went into energycapacity and lightningbolt upgrades. Fighting sentinels? Really tough! Unless you have Iceman, Gambit and Jubilee. Iceman freezes/slows them and then Gambit/Jubilee can actually charge them and make them blow themselves up! Too many enemies to feasibly punch your way out of? Use Emma Frostto mentally dominate them and make them

I was literally talking about this game at 8am. Me and my brother back to back crane style the two legends games. Collossus and Wolverine then Iron Man and Deadpool. I loved these games especially more than UA2.

29 year old me Coming back to this game years later after it was released, it wasn’t that hard. Yeah characters died a lot but I always made sure to just switch in new members during save points instead of wasting the creds to revive them. The only real pain in the ass mission was the final boss.

If you thought this was difficult, you shouldn't try Wolverine's Revenge...

I accidentally fell into a fan as Wolverine during his Weapon X flashback level, had to restart like 2 or 3 hours back cause I forgot it didn't have autosave. I sold it back the following day

I remember I used to farm for health items in the danger room .doing missions and just failing on purpose cause once you complete a mission it won't drop health items

I dont rly struggle if i can get past the ice caverns. But my God. The harp facility and ice caverns... Nightmares.

A lot of people don't know that you can grind to get levels in Danger Room missions if you deliberately fail them. You still get XP for defeating enemies There's also a danger room disc on the final morlocks sewers mission that gives you insanely stupid amounts of XP when you defeat a certain type of enemy This game also has really awesome voice acting and a spectacular soundtrack.

I wAs 8 yEaRs oLd aNd I bEaT tHis gAmE juSt finE.

The key to this game during the ice caves and morlock levels and many others is to be Jean Grey. She can make bridges and when there are a lot of tough enemies just use her telekinesis power and throw them off the bridges 😂 makes it so much easier and you still get all the xp.

I’ve been replaying the game with family and it’s weird how painful it is.

So games that pissed Xavier off Spider-Man 3 Amazing Spider-Man 2 (I could be wrong and he just thought it was bad) Arkham knight Deadpool by high moon studios And X men legends Oh and making the black suit was a nightmare

Start the video just to immediately say BRUH 😂

X-MEN Legends 2 review when, Xavier? :)

Lol remember when Iceman had consistent character traits and didn't have his sexuality and entire personality changed just because some dumbass author thought it was a neat idea?

Xavier, did you hear that we're getting the TASM suit in Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered on the PS5?

You can have multiple save files on the Gamecube version. And you’re supposed to use the Danger Room to level up if you’re struggling against the enemies or need more health potions. I was out of health potions and got my ass kicked during the Sentinel flashback level so I went to the Danger Room and farmed health potions and leveled up. It was a breeze after that.

take a moment to appreciate the guy that messed his keyboard up with doritos shit. Man is a legend

Xmen legends 2 is beyond epic. WAY better than the first one for Damn sure. If you look up top 10 X-Men games it's usually #1. Just as good as mua if not better imo. Also had the best rpg elements out of the entire series

The game gets significantly easier and more fun in the later half, as the x-men all get levelled up. I think the third level is the real trial early on. In the last levels, you can utterly dominate enemies, having your whole team lay in with heavy hitting attacks.

you put yourself in x-men legends, on the couch in xavier's mansion, playing x-men legends, on a television on an entertainment shelf/cabinet that exists in the game, that's so cool.

This game is a classic! It’s always been one of my favorite games of all time especially as a huge X-men fan. I wished they made a third game. And if they do, keep the same writing/tone as the first 2 games. You could tell there was a lot of care in the game that kicked off blum’s legacy as the main stay wolverine voice actor, but it paved the way for MUA. Anytime I play the games, I just play XL1,2, and MUA1. I dug MUA 3 since it’s fun, but I wish they kept the tone of MuA1 and the previous legends games. Legends 2 is solid though, especially since they had Deadpool and Ironman as a back door that lead to MUA.

This game was what made me fall in love with Cyclops. With the destructive environments, I realized I didn't have to OPEN doors, I just had to *_look_* at them. Oh.. oh yes.. YAAAS! Marvel vs Capcom 2 further cemented my adoration for Slim after it came out on 360. All that said, I always missed manually leveling characters in Ultimate Alliance 1. It made sense, as they catered stats to fit the characters, but I recall having a really broken Wolverine and Colossus by the end of the game which made me squee with joy. But then I miss the costumes and custom grab attacks in UA2. Haven't touched UA3 as I'm a single-console-basic-bitch aka Xbot. Thanks for putting this out, X. Can I call you X? I'm calling you X. He's the superior super fighting robot anyway, you should be proud of your namesake. I'm sorry to hear you got boned on a sour channel deal. Always enjoy your vids, bud. Even though I'm like.. 14 years older than you. P.S. I noticed them Mutant Apocalypse jams in the background. 😛

This is one of the best superhero games. I think that a X-Men: Legends 3/or a Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3 (on PS or Xbox) is long over due.

I like Jubilee's voice in this. She's annoying in the animated series.

I’m such a pro at that game Hard at first but once you’ve mastered the gameplay and beaten the game more than once everything is so simple lol I’ve been there before in the beginning as a kid so I understand how frustrating playing x- men legends can be . I think this game has the best story plot , better than x-men legends 2

Nice to finally see ya cover it! X-Men Legends *slaps* (So does Rise of Apocalypse and both Ultimate Alliances of course, but I have a real soft spot for those first two, especially Legends 1) Actually replayed it somewhat recently, good times. Legends 1, 2, and that Origins Wolverine tie-in are the 3 best X-Men games in my book. Should probably check out the other few ones they got sometime ̶b̶u̶t̶ ̶I̶ ̶d̶o̶n̶'̶t̶ ̶s̶e̶e̶ ̶t̶h̶o̶s̶e̶ ̶b̶e̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶t̶o̶p̶ ̶c̶h̶a̶n̶g̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶a̶n̶y̶t̶i̶m̶e̶ ̶s̶o̶o̶n̶ ̶b̶e̶c̶a̶u̶s̶e̶ ̶m̶u̶h̶ ̶n̶o̶s̶t̶a̶l̶g̶i̶a̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶y̶'̶r̶e̶ ̶j̶u̶s̶t̶ ̶s̶o̶ ̶g̶o̶o̶d̶...

Legends II really was superior, and I actually played that one first. Good memories with both either way. Also -- loved the SNES X-Men: Mutant Apocalypse soundtrack in the backhalf!

Unexpected but not unwanted

I don't remember this game being that hard as a kid. My brother and I beat this a good 3 or 4 times. Maybe it's just better in co-op.

I managed to beat this game when I was like 12 somehow. One of the hardest experiences gaming I’ve ever played, because this one didn’t have cheat codes but I was determined to win either way.

You can also use Jean Grey to make those bridges. And to constantly be stocked on health/energy packets and make some loot is to replay early Danger Room missions (without completing the objective, otherwise money and packets don't respawn). That was also a good way to level up and grind. The ones with a time limit were the best ones for all that grinding and stocking up.

6:35 Looks like someone wasn’t a fan of the danger room. Who else remembers playing the missions and then quitting them in the last seconds to milk tech bits again.?

12:26 You needed to do the same thing in Superhero Squad Online.... I miss that game so much 🥺

Omg I love this game so much. Finally a recent video on it. I used to play age of apocalypse at my cousins place then MUA was my first ps2 game, and I managed to get the first x men legends and (despite hating it and thinking it was inferior) I got to loving it. My ONLY hate for it is that it didn't have a saved statistic for leveling and no extract ability like the later games. Music of the game is just MWAH. It's actually fairly easy if you get the hang of just spamming your main R2 X move, and also just make sure to increase things like iceman's cold crush so punches do ridiculous energy damage even on physical resisting guys. It does suck that wolverine and cyc are mandatory inclusions along with a flight character and bridge maker. Iceman is also one of the best characters so having him on a team is just. Great.

This game is my whole childhood, I can't believe it's this hard for the reviewer to play? I don't remember but were there difficulty settings? I genuinely don't remember it being that tedious and hard. I did play often with friends, but still, this game was pure joy to me.

This shouldn't bother me, but you can have multiple save files... The game is telling you in the clip that there is insufficient room on your memory card to make more saves. I used that all the time to make sure I didn't save myself into a tight spot back in the day.

Diego left me dying on some parts, I’m happy you u got to finish this, even with the help.

I couldn't as a kid and even struggled as an adult. When I finally did, it was the best feeling. I still replay the game. A remaster would be crazy.

little bits of info I remember about the game 1. Characters like Iceman Storm Jean Gambit Jubilee Magma & Nightcrawler it's important to upgrade energy consumption and efficiency so they can fly/glide and use their abilities almost *infinitly* 2. Cyclops and Storm need piercing upgraded to further chain their energy attacks 3. Other than Iceman; Jean Psylocke Emma Frost & Magma could also make paths 4. There are actual combos into launchers and abilities 5. You could use the environment as apart of your combo finishers for extra damage either sending them flying backwards or through an object 6. Jean could levitate objects and enemies (bigger objects when fully upgraded vs barley lifting and pushing enemies back with 1 skill point in the ability) by pressing and holding her telekinesis ability; you could throw said enemy or object in any direction with left joystick 7. Gambit & Jubilee could detonate any environmental or enemy type 8. Nightcrawler could teleport room to room even through walls and clear entire levels 9. You could play as Havok and the Brotherhood in the Danger Room (minus Magneto)

My six year old daughter got so mad trying to play this shit, she took the disk out of her PS3 and broke it in half, then put it in the toilet. Lmiao. She was PISSED! she has my temper. 💜

I never found the game overly difficult and it's personally my favorite even over MUA.

0:00 Well... its kind of weird to think that that's uncommon because of the size of the ladder category.

Thanks for the new upload man, the stuff you had to go through for this is crazy 😜

This game drove me crazy too! I got both X-Men Legends games at the same time, but couldn't make it further than a couple missions in either game. I refused to even attempt Ultimate Alliance because of how frustrating this was.

Love X-Men Legends II Rise of Apocalypse.

besides beating this game as a kid best memory tied to this was actually having a limited edition flavor creamy pesto cup o noodles. the best flavor I ever had. maruchan thank you for spicing up my childhood while I was stuck on the marrow mission, and playing as a walking professor charles. legends Indeed

This game is basically just an X-Men encyclopedia with punching.

I’m sorry to hear you’ve been in dire straights lately. This was a great video though! You’ve managed to keep your content consistently good despite all that. That’s pretty inspiring to me as an aspiring content creator.

Your mistake in the beginning was poking with Cyclops. Poke with Iceman since his attacks slow the enemies. Then run in with Wolverine to finish them off. Also, if you're having trouble with Master Mold at the end, just use Nightcrawler's super. If it's completely leveled, and you have the right gear, it's an OHKO.

The problem of health packs, energy packs and tech bits was an easy one to solve. You got to keep any items you got from Danger Room challenges whether you completed them or not. And you could access the Danger Room from most Xtraction points. However, the courses stopped giving you items once you completed the course so all you had to do was find a course that was generous in giving you items and never complete it. Either don't complete all the objectives or quit. The Qualification Exam 100 (which you find in the second mission) was very good for this. After you find it, you can get as many items and tech bits as you wanted.

I only played this game a few years ago and had the exact same experience as you at the start - distinctly remember everyone being incapacitated except Wolverine and Rogue because of their durability, leaving them to infiltrate this Baltic fortress alone. Which to be fair, felt very true to the comics. My only complaint about ultimate alliance is that you never really felt like you were struggling, characters are seldom down for long. This on the other hand had a genuine feeling of peril.

This is the first video I've seen of yours. Looks like most issues came from not exposing enemy weaknesses. Physical resistant ones mostly 😂

Dude I beat this when I was 5 years old. Like fucking christ and i did on my lonesome, trust me it wasn’t easy. but taking the time strategically enhance as you go, was definitely the way. You can’t fully operate like Ultimate Alliance but the beginning elements that later bled into UA are manageable to get through. I will admit. The ending is harder than a mf tho

this game was lit as hell, just use jean grey, storm, beast/wolverine, and Jubilee/Gambit, max out jean and storm's fury abilities, beast for your tank, and jubilee/gambit for your ranged damage and CC and play EVERY SINGLE DANGER ROOM MISSION. also, Jean grey and Magma can make bridges, and you can use Flight to carry your allies over the bridge areas if necessary

Co-op'ed this with a bro a few years back. Don't really recall struggling this much, it was mostly just kind of a slog because the levels go on for fucking ever. I think it just wasn't balanced for singleplayer.

This game was basically my gateway to being an X-Men fan and comic related things

Did you unlock Iron man?

I remember playing this as a kid. My mom got it for me for Christmas one year. Never heard of it. And never got past the FUCKING FIRST LEVEL!!!! I think I was 9 and played on my gamecube alone with no memory card, so I often had to replay the first stage of most of my games. Yeah, playing this alone, was a pain in the ass. Mystique beat my ass too many times to keep trying. After a long time and even longer after I finally got a memory card, I finally came back, beat Mystique after a couple more tries. I then moved onto the next stage and got Cyclopes. Then it got so much harder that I never picked it up again. Sometime later I'd play the second one on the ps2 and have a much better time.

9:32 Me trying to convince my dad to play any From Software game without breaking a controller

I have so many great memories of this game, the second, and the first ultimate alliance on PS2 doing couch co-op with my best friend through junior high and high school. I remember Storm was a beast if you upgraded her ability that her melee attacks did electricity damage, she'd still wreck the enemies that were physical resistant

I think that this was the first game that I seriously tried to optimize my gameplay. I remember having trouble on the second mission too, so I took to grinding in the danger room up to level 10 at minimum before continuing the mission. On real slow summer days I would grind up and plan stat allocations for the whole cast until hitting level 20. From that point on it was fun playing an elite team of overpowered xmen for the rest of the game. But seriously, the x mansion and all the little details made me fall in love with the xmen franchise more than any other piece of media.

Since insomniac is making a new Wolvie game hopefully Steve Blum reprises the role he’s definitely made the character his own

"Bobby you are trying TOO hard." Yup. In hindsight he really exudes performative straight.

For me when I first played this game recently on the PlayStation 2 one good thing is there’s so many save slots. the difficulty of this game it’s kinda hard to get used too for new players who don’t play rpgs but when u get used to it it’s easier. The tunnels and other areas of the game can be difficult but used grind and try to manage ur resources and u will be fine but on the second time playing the whole game again it’s so hard on the last mission

This was well worth the wait! The review was really in depth and hilarious!

This game is what made me fall in love with Deadpool almost 20 years ago. I don't know if it's the GameCube version but I don't remember it being nearly as difficult as shown.

Despite the game's flaws i still liked it as kid and it's sequel which is probably the best x men game (not counting wolverine origins) and btw sorry for what happened to you we all went through shit this year you desserve better

I feel like this video has a higher production level than usual. I enjoyed the bits of visual humor, like the keyboard and unsub button sequences. Keep it up!

I was so hyped over this game as a kid when it first came out but it definitely had some really frustrating moments. I died a bunch on the single player intro and still do any time I go back to it. My first playthrough I accidentally saved on that part with the bomb timer when the timer was too low to do anything and had to start the game over because its the only save file. Didn't go back to the game for months after that but when I did my game glitched out bad on the Marrow boss fight and had to start over again. I was also having trouble with the enemies overall difficulty but later on figured out as long as you stop to fight every single one so you dont miss out on any leveling up you'll be pretty good. Also some grinding in the danger room helps too.

Your memory card must have been close to full because xbox, ps2, and gcn versions all give up to 10 save slots.

I enjoy your content, but I know the villain you truly are. You took over Xavier's channel at the end of the Spider Man PS4 review, but I've never forgotten. We'll stop you someday

I knew I wasn't the only one! I could NOT get past the first few missions when I first played it, but I mean I was 7 lol

Couldn’t you fly over the bridge parts (instead of saving Ice Man) and the rest of the team spawned near you? Also Jean Grey was surprisingly helpful, she would just push enemies back or you could throw them at each other from a distance... or even throw them off the map/over the edge LOL Good times... miss these games

I spent days in Danger Room, it was a drag, but worth it so I could continue, I'd never played a game like this before, but once I did that I found it a little easier, playing solo was a pain though, the AI would not care how low their health was or use all the healths. Sticking in Danger Room a lot made me feel a lot like Cyclops though

The demands went crazy Lmaoo 😂

I'm curious, why do you dislike Ultimate Alliance 3 so much?

Hey man, I wanna say I'm sorry that you're going through all this stuff. I've seen your channel ever since you Spider-Man (Bomb Squad) retrospective. I know you can make it through this. You're a wonderful guy form what I can tell, and a lot of people would love to help you out. We love you all Xavier ❤

I loved this! A great breakdown of a mind numbing game. You guys make a great team!

It's funny that so many people have started playing this. I think Josh is and I am too. I only played it for the first time after MUA 1 and 2. I really don't care for the having to use characters and I'm glad you brought it up. These guys REALLY must've liked Iceman. At the very least Jean can make bridges and she's better, but you can't use her in the tanker level. I can only think of the Family Guy Iceman bit when I go into his room.

I remember this game being too easy. Storm and Cyclops have a bonus that stacks where two characters use a special move at the same time. "Same time" is incredibly generous. I actually liked this health system because you can just stand on lava and heal through the damage. Also throw enemies into each other.

Two more things: i soft locked myself first time through at the same spot you did. When I replayed it, I grinded a little before doing HAARP and it was a lot easier. I want to say lvl 11 or 12. Grinding was needed for the flashback missions too, especially sentinels. But I'm noticing the elemental enhanced characters aren't doing their animations, did you not buff storm, jean, iceman with electricity/psy/ice on their basic hits? That would help a TON against those resist people. Lastly, were you using the combos for stun, knockback, or uppercut? It makes mobbing a lot easier since you can disable the group and attack isolated enemies.

That final boss fight is one of the worst things to ever be in a video game. I don’t think I’ve ever finished it because I had so much difficulty with it and I gave up on it

Also someone on patreon please request xmen legends 2 I'm on a tight budget so I cant even donate a buck but I will watch the ads for ya dude

Used to play this and the other X-Men legend games a lot back in the day with my brother and cousins

15 years later and I still remember being stuck on that ice level because I didn’t use the freeze move or when I finally figured it out he died before I could get there Lmao

I never had that much problem with this game. In fact, I remember the others being too damn easy. My biggest issue was idiotic partners committing suicide by jumping into bridgeable pits/gaps.

Oh man, I remember this fucking game. It was 5 years ago, I was maybe 14 or 15 and playing it in my GameCube. Not sure if I’m remembering correctly but I believe I was stuck in this unbelievably ridiculous sewer level that just kept kicking my ass. Long story short, I have yet to ever complete the game and yet to ever finish that damn level

X-Men legends is the sole reason why I’m paranoid about saving my games at times. I played this when I was 9 I lost my shit because I had no clue how to manage health and all that dumb shit 😂

This game was soooooo great. A real thrill to play was a long time x men fan. That boss fight against saber tooth and avalanche was a tough one. I swear I thought i was never going to win that one but i dod surprisingly. Im having gond memeories of training the team in the danger room

Same here, I still never past the 2nd level, still never beaten Pyro. Most unfair game ever.