After playing through Wolverine I thought I would try LJN's other attempt at making an X-men game with
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel's X-Men on the title screen).
Here is my first attempt. This can be improved and my goal is around 5 minutes 15 seconds though I am not confident I can cut that much off. The fastest realtime speedrun I could find finishes in 7 minutes 43 seconds or roughly 2 minutes 15 seconds slower than my run.
To beat the game you play as one of the X-Men (Wolverine, Cyclops, Nightcrawler, Iceman, Colossus, and Storm) and then a second player or the AI controls another X-Men character. The goal of the game is to get two keys in each level and use these keys to get through otherwise impenetrable walls defeating the bosses (Boomerang, White Queen, Sabretooth, Juggernaut) collecting a floppy disk that they drop and escape the level. After you beat the four levels you enter a code and go to the secret Magneto level. This level is set up in the same way except you get an end screen when you finish this level.
This game is crap. I technically play as two-player but it is essentially 1-player as I simply kill off the second (non-Nightcrawler) character as fast as possible. I do this because Nightcrawler is both far faster than any of the other characters and he can pass through walls, but doing this removes some of his life. This ability allows me to skip collecting both keys, go straight to the boss and creates far shorter paths. Playing single player would have the same strategy as your partners AI is terrible and kills himself quickly, he just does it slightly slower than he would if he is controlled.
Then the boss fights. You don't actually have to fight them or collect the disks making this a game of avoiding things and then going back to the beginning. And actually the third boss never even shows up.
The attack you use is "Use Mutant Power" which for half the characters is a sort of humping motion and for the other half is shooting a laser but as I kill off the other characters as quickly as possible you don't see either of these attacks much.
As I said I know this game can be improved. The ways that I can improve this is 3 fold. First 3 of the levels I end the level with health remaining so I can pass through more walls than I currently do which would save time. Second I could just find better routes in general (which I know I can do on 1 of the levels). Finally if I can find a way to kill off the other character either faster or in the same number of frames but being further through the level it would speed up the level.
I know this game is crap but my hopes is that if I beat it quick enough it could be entertaining enough. Let me know what you guys think.
