YMMV / X-Men Legends II

• Can't Un-Hear It: Richard McGonagle as Apocalypse for his very good and deep voice.
• Complete Monster: Apocalypse is once again presented as a extremely cruel Social Darwinist. Apocalypse starts the game by conquering Genosha, locking all the Genoshan mutants in a makeshift prison so he can test them for harmonic DNA, a particular DNA type that will increase his own power. When the X-Men come to liberate Genohsa, Apocalypse attempts to destroy the Genoshan Sea Wall, which would have killed almost every mutant in Genosha. After Genosha is liberated, the X-Men track Apocalypse's forces to the Savage Land, where they attempt to destroy the technology that keeps the Savage Land in tropic temperatures; this would result in the inhabitants of the Savage Land freezing to death. Later Apocalypse manages to conquer New York City, dropping a bomb that flattens several neighborhoods, just to make room for his tower. Apocalypse again imprisons the mutants and tests them for harmonic DNA, while having his forces attempt to drive the human refugees into the sea, setting up anti-aircraft guns to prevent anyone from rescuing them. Apocalypse is such a powerful and cruel foe that the X-Men and the Brotherhood team up to stop him.
• Even Better Sequel: The game was able to take the good elements of the first game and improve it. It helps that the Brotherhood of Mutants are playable characters.
• Funny Moments: After unlocking him, Deadpool is full of this, such as proclaiming "And now, I'm better at whatever it is Wolverine does!" after levelling up; but the Crowning Moment comes if you have Deadpool in your team when you face him as a boss - the two Deadpools start arguing about who's the real Deadpool.
• Game-Breaker:
  • Magneto. Developed judiciously, he can clear entire rooms in seconds, has excellent crowd control and is pretty much unkillable, while sending the entire team's XP through the roof and solving every puzzle on his own.
  • Bishop and Gambit are considered the best support party members because they possess Energy Fury. Energy Fury is a party boosting skill that vastly increases all melee damage from attacks and powers to absurd levels. This is the reason characters like Nightcrawler and Deadpool above are considered gamebreakers.
  • Bishop's second super move, Super Conductor, gives everyone infinite energy for a few seconds. Great power on its own, but now, take that ability and combine it with Iron Man and his motion amplifier ability + repulsor rays and everything up to the final boss will go down in seconds.
  • The X-Men franchise's biggest Joke Character, Toad, can become this with the right accessories. His attacks hit hard, cover a lot of area, and best of all, if an enemy is stuck to the floor with his sticky spit attack (or even an attack that leaves the goo as a side-effect of its main use!) any gear that does add damage of only a certain type will deal that damage not once, but over and over and over while the enemy is stuck. You'll find even the toughest Giant Mooks taking one step into the goo and dropping dead after a couple seconds of rapid-fire Hit Flashes. Bosses don't get stuck, but will still continuously take damage while they're walking through it. A properly leveled and equipped Toad is the only character you need.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • Iron Man's parts can be found in a cave... without a box of scraps.
  • X-Men: Apocalypse would have a Japanese trailer featuring Deadpool.
• Inferred Holocaust: Apocalypse quite blatantly nukes Manhattan. The sheer loss of life this must have caused is never touched upon.
• Just Here for Godzilla: Non-X-Men fans get the game just to play as Iron Man.
• Low-Tier Letdown: Colossus is considered the worst party member bar none. He's a tank character that can't deal any real damage on his own, all his attacks are far too slow, and Colossus himself moves so slow he'll lag behind the other party members often and miss out on fighting mooks. Hilariously, there's at least one online character guide that says the best way to use Colossus...is to bench him for another party member.
• Polished Port: The PlayStation Portable port had extra levels and characters such as Cable.
• Retroactive Recognition: Apocalypse was Victor "Goddamn" Sullivan!
• Squick: Toad has a party buff that boosts everyone's speed... by spiting slime on his team members.
• That One Boss:
  • Sugar Man can kill a character in one hit, and there's no way to tell this attack apart from his regular ones, which hit like a truck. What's worse is that Sugar Man has a nasty case of Gang Up on the Human and will follow the character the player controls all over the room, ignoring the rest of the party unless they get between him and your character. AI teammates never seem to get hit with the OHKO attack either. The battle boils down to controlling a character with a ranged attack, firing a couple shots at him, then running away once he catches up to repeat the process (made easier if you have Magneto, Storm or Jean, who all have strong ranged attacks and can fly).
  • Mr. Sinister, with an attack that causes everyone to run away from him, is more annoying than dangerous (but he's dangerous too, with a little red beam that will take you out.)
• Unexpected Character:
  • The game in particular used some very obscure characters as bosses. Most notable would be Grizzly, a Brainwashed and Crazy good guy who appeared in two comics before being Killed Off for Real, and Zealot, a one-shot bad guy who made the mistake of opposing Magneto's rule of Genosha and was Killed Off for Real at the end of his three issue arc.
  • The addition of Iron Man was pretty unexpected, and pretty awesome.