Well it’s not so much that he’s dead as that he’s not living in my Xbox anymore. I liked the game mostly, but a particular boss fight made me put the controller down.
Now, DeadPool is a badass character, and I like that he’s in the game, but the boss battle is completely r-word.org. First off, you’re randomly teleported up onto this narrow walkway. That’s fine for the most part. But then you’re fighting this guy that can block and teleport around most of your attacks. The only really effective way to attack him is to do a timed block and counter attack, for which there’s only one animation. How many times can DeadPool stab Wolverine in the liver?
So after five minutes or so you make it past that section and now DeadPool apparently has laser eyes. I’ll admit I haven’t read the comic in a while, or seen the Wolverine movie, but since when does DeadPool have laser eyes?! Anyway, he starts blowing up sections of the narrow walkway. You get time to dodge off them usually, but each time I fought him, he’d catch me unawares or I’d get stuck on something and end up falling to my death. You die instantly, with no chance to grab on, and you have to do the entire battle over again. Each death costs at least a good five minutes of gameplay, making each failure more frustrating than the last.
And now, more interesting games are before me: Yakuza 3, God of War II & III, and who knows what else. I doubt I’ll be going back to Wolverine. Sorry, bub.
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