Is XD the secret BEST Pokémon game?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 31 มี.ค. 2024
- A year and a half after Pokémon Colosseum, Genius Sonority released Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness, a game that supposedly fixes every single issue with its predecessor. Is it true? Does that make XD the BEST Pokémon game then? Or are both GameCube installments definitely not worth the trouble? There's only one way to find out!
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Hope you enjoy the video, and have/had a great April 1st! No tricks here, just Pokémon XD. Speaking of, you would think that after this many hours of playtime, I would get the names of the Purify Chamber and the Battle Bingo right... but no.
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That's not true, the joke is that you didn't like Colosseum :D who could not love it?
I bet saving whenever you want feels like such a godsend after Colosseum.
So I just checked your site, but you forgot to mention the prizes for completing Mt Battle in XD, which is your choice of Johto starter. Every time you complete 100 battles you can get one, and each one has a special move. Frenzy Plant, Blast Burn, or Hydro Cannon. And it's the only way in gen 3 to get the Johto starters with those. And also gives people without Colosseum or Emerald a way to get them, or Emerald but you don't need to finish the national dex first or only finish Mt Battle twice for the two you didn't get.
"Wait, those are Power Rangers! They have the colour and everything!"
*slams table*
If you ever want a true challenge, attempt to complete Orre Colosseum. Its a much more scary beast than the 100 man Mt. Battle challenge.
I haven't watched it myself yet but it looks like he already has a video where he did just that.
I think the beauty of the shadow lugia fight is that in your first playthrough, you're most certainly going to have a full party of non-shadow pokemon by then and when you face lugia, most would use the master ball, but using it is a bait and switch because that makes the actual fight harder since now you don't have a free catch on one of the legendary birds, and shadow lugia will get sent to your pc, so there goes the best shadow pokemon resist in the game. Then, the real challenge starts there: catching all 6 shadow pokemon in a single battle.
The only shame is the other 3 mons being rhydon tauros and exeggcutor(maybe a reference to high tier mons during the rby days?) Since they aren't too terribly difficult to catch and besides tauros and maybe rhydon, their damage output is carried by shadow moves being super effective on non-shadow mons.
Yeah they're all Safari Zone Pokémon, pretty strong for gen 1, and I think all used by Prof Oak in the scrapped battle against him. I always considered them a trio themselves because of that.
You should still use the Master Ball on Lugia, you should just have an open slot in your party for it for the Greevil fight. Shadow Lugia is the best tank for that fight, since it takes a quarter damage non-shadow mons take on top of Lugia being a wall in general, and using the Master Ball lets you not waste turns healing it. All of Greevil's mons have much better catch rates than Lugia, so unless you sleep/freeze it and have an excessive amount of ultra/timer balls, it's not really worth wasting that many resources just on Lugia.
You also don't need to catch all 6 shadow mons in a single battle. You can rematch him until he has no more shadow mons, letting you get more balls if necessary since the birds have really low catch rates. I did it over the course of 2 battles my first time, so it isn't that much of a hassle. As you might be low on balls when you get to Greevil, because of just how many shadow mons are in Citadark Isle, especially the last few that have low catch rates, it might just be faster to beat him to restock than to have to run all the way out then back in.
I caught Lugia in the master ball, caught all 3 birds in the first fight, only missing... Exeggutor! Every shadow pokemon caught first try, except Exeggutor
I actually think it’s easier to pop the Master Ball on Lugia, as that means you have a completely healthy team going into the final battle.
@thephantomist7199 I thought you got healed after Lugia? I could be wrong but I thought that you did
The only thing that really makes me sad about XD is that they got rid of The Under. Love the hell out that place in Colosseum, not to mention the absolute bop of a theme.
Worst part is The Under is in the game files for XD.
@@Nickbronline double wailord battle was the best thing ever
@@Nickbronline Well that's a shame
Kinda funny how XD fixed a lot of issues with Colosseum, only to then introduce a bunch of its own issues. Those push notifications are a living hell
Not sure if you got it, but once you get all the Shadow Pokemon Mirror B shows up at the top of the Lighthouse with a Shadow Dragonite for you to catch.
he knows and he did not get it.
8:00 tbf, the orre region is based on arizona, and here in the states we kinda tend to let things rot
Because I'm pedantic, FRLG had the help screen that shows the type match ups. I remember studying that diligently when I was young. =)
The teachy TV was a fun side activity
It also had a list of which types counted as Physical and which counted as Special. That was something I also looked at so often
thank you Lyra I like having actual videos to watch on april fools that arent silly jokes
I'm glad you gave XD a chance. I honestly didn't mind it becoming battle heavy at the end because it felt like the stakes where getting higher. Plus there ARE some puzzles but even then there is combat sections around them so I get it. I think the level curve in this is so much more natural and all of the side modes are fun. I think catching all the Pokemon is still worth it in XD cause most of the Pokemon learn either exclusive moves or Egg moves they normally don't learn. One example being Salamence with Dragon Dance which I can't express who INSANE THAT IS. I'm glad you enjoyed and I hope the rest of your Gen 3 living dex is smooth sailing from here on out.
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If yall weren't there for stream, Lyra is severely underplaying how this joke happened live 😂 iirc, we got four notification popups before we even got past the dude passed out at the front desk LMAO
2:05 because the games have been telling you exactly how effective your moves will be against an enemy pokemon given you've encountered it once since sword and shield? the only time you'd need a type chart over the effectiveness labels is if you're fighting something you've never seen before and its type isn't immediately obvious by looking at it
I can understand the argument against reusing content from previous games, but if it means that we get a better, more enjoyable experience, I don’t mind so much. Heck, XD and Colosseum reused Pokemon models and animations from Pokemon Stadium, and I don’t think anyone really complained, even if the gen 1 models were showing their age.
Ironically, many would argue that pre-gen 6 animations were far better than what we started getting from X and Y onwards.
It frustrates me, because the number 1 criticism of Pokemon is always "its just the same game every time", when I really think the constant urge to reinvent itself is exactly whats holding the series back
i think its important to remember that much of colleseum, XD, and especially stadium and battle revolution's dev time was strictly the models and animations, with very little time put into much of the rest of the games. not that these games are bad, but they are lacking, especially if you didnt own the supplementary pokemon games of the gen
the animations are great, but i see a lot of people pointing and saying these animations are proof game freak is just lazy when i harshly disagree.
@@dialga236 they are though lol they have way more then genius sinority did
@@dialga236The main criticisms towards modern games that pretty much having me scratch my head is regarding reusing models when it's always been the case in previous games such as this and even other series like shin megami tensei even persona 5 reuses some models with the same mesh from the ps2 days with upscaled textures. And let's be honest if we had the long attack animations from colosseum and PBR people would be complaining that they're too long if you can't skip it.
@@dialga236 Crazy thing is, I don't think Game Freak would've needed to try THAT much harder to match the old 3D games. They just need better cinematography to sell the impact of the attacks, and hide the fact that the pokemon are spending the entire battle 10 feet apart, never actually hitting each other.
Even though you said "no tricks" in three pinned comment, I'm going to assume that the complaint that "I returned to a town 5 years later and the buildings were the same" is a joke, because that would be an absurd complaint if it was genuine
Lyra has never traveled and it shows
Yeah that seemed odd to me like, idk, maybe the towns could be expanded and have new buildings but most stuff in most towns stand for longer than 5 years. And it's a sequel in the same region, of course there's going to be returning to old spaces. That being said there's no excuse for Snagem Hideout to still be that covered in trash lmao
Pokemon xd gale of darkness was my first ever Pokemon game. Not having played or knowing of colosseum's existence until I was an adult, XD was so much fun and had no idea so much was reused. Makes me think of XD as the ultimate/best version of a Genius Sonority Pokemon game.
"The latter half of the game is nothing but combat."
Like the entirety of every main series game?
Isn't this game entirely combat anyways?
lmao are you insane no
He doesn't like the actual combat. If you've seen his previous videos, if he isn't overleveled and one shotting he acts like it's bad game design instead of acknowledging he just sucks at the game. Did it with the previous Colosseum game too. He only really likes mindless catching as long as it's easy. Hell, did you see in the footage how he keeps knocking out Shadow Pokemon? You should rarely if ever need Mirror B. to show up.
@@dialga236 I'll admit I haven't played the latest pair, but if they're anything than the ones before them, yeah, it's all battling. Unless you arbitrarily decide that wild battles aren't battles, then 90% of the gameplay of the main series games is pokemon battles. (this is also not a bad thing, since that is intended to be the focus of the game)
@@cephelos1098 i just think that the field exploration (at least in the older games) adds a lot more then people realize, and if you strip it away there isnt as much there, yk? if it genuinely was pure battling and nothing else, people would just play pokemon showdown instead of the actual games
I love this game so much. Easily my favorite, seeing as battles are indeed, my jam. However, there IS a soft lock of sorts in this game that I found by complete accident. If you fail to Snag the Shadow Voltorb that Miror B. has in the cave Poké Spot, it will NEVER appear again. This means that you can’t catch the Shadow Dragonite at the end of the post game. H as to restart a whole save file because of it, which sucked.
If you knock out Shadow Voltorb, you can get it from later random Miror B. battles. It only disappears forever if you lose the battle with Miror B.
It is an absolute travesty that the Realgam tower minigames never carried forward to any future games. Those puzzles and games were so fun and well enough designed that they could have been an entire game on their own.
don't understand the complaints about the battles given that's what every pokemon game is
agree that the side content stuff is cool
The problem is that they take ages to complete because of 2 factors. Yeah Stadium animations are pretty but take way too long even the fainting animation takes way too long, combine that with Double battles naturally being longer than regular battles and you have regular trainer battles that drag the game to a halt and then you add to the fact that you have to try and catch trainer's shadow Pokemon as well which slows down things even more than they were before.
As a combat enjoyer, I see this as an absolute win
As someone who played XD without playing Colosseum (only GBA games) - the whole thing felt absolutely mindblowing and new. Playing Colosseum after felt terrible because it was just so clearly worse than XD.
If you want the most fun, I would recommend skipping Colosseum entirely and only playing XD
This is the game that builds up an incoming Mecha Groudon fight...only for said Mecha Groudon to send out regular-ass Pokémon.
And people wonder why the sight of the Starmobiles actually makes people happy while Weird Mutant Lusamine and the aforementioned Mecha Groudon don't.
I remember when I first saw the SciVi trailer and being like "no guys, these aren't Pokemon to battle, that's just a really cool backdrop for the fight". Felt a bit awkward after the fact.
man so awesome to see you back. i love living dex content since ive started work on my own and long videos like these are both very enjoyable to watch and keep me motivated to continue working on it :)
Wow I literally just commented on the last video yesterday or the day before asking about when XD was coming, I love this. I just started doing my own living dex this weekend and I'm using your guide and playing through LeafGreen now
Update: I've beaten LeafGreen a few days ago and have since beaten Colosseum. I've been taking my time with Emerald and just catching stuff as I go. I need to do all the purifying and 100 battles in Colosseum before I move on to XD.
Great video! I always found those type of "Pokémon Types Explained" videos because the type matchups follow a certain logic ig. I've been playing this franchise for so long that I have basically 100% of the chart memorized. See you next video :)
One thing I love about this game is when fighting The Big Bad Guy 14:20. In most Pokémon games, you have to keep battling big bad guys until you win. But if The Big Bad Guy wins, he mocks you and the game continues
My brother ran into this guy unhealed and underleveled and found this out the hard way; I'm pretty sure he was more annoyed than anything lmao
Yes new content!!! I’ve almost finished my gen 1 living Dex so hopefully i can catch up to you in time ;) not looking forward to gen 3 lmao
Omg didn't got the notification glad I checked the channel !
Keep up the awesome work.
Glad you liked XD. It’s really underrated and gets unfairly lumped with Colosseum. They’re not the same game. XD also has way more replay value given its variety of Pokémon and ability to purify Pokémon earlier and easier.
They SHOULD be lumped together...
And remastered as a bundle.
@@Bird-wz7nx I second this opinion.
If you like the cd battle challenges, I think you'd probably have a good time with Stadium 2's Pokémon Academy?
I finished my living gen 3 dex last year after being inspired by your videos. They’re great by the way.
I remember banging my head against a wall just wanting XD to be over. It felt so padded.
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This part I’m going to have to disagree with you on.
Like, I get why you’re not a fan of the old locations returning. You weren’t a fan of Colosseum (which is perfectly understandable), so you don’t feel any nostalgia for those old locations, but back then, I think most people who bought XD after having already played Colosseum did so because they enjoyed at least _something_ about Colosseum (besides connecting Game Boy Advances to battle each other using the 3D animations, of course) and wanted more of it. For people like me, getting to see these old locations along with new ones was a treat!
And, like, you overstate how unchanged they are. Sure, places like the Snagem Hideout, Shadow Pokémon Lab, and Agate Village are practically identical, but it does make some sense. Both Team Snagem and Cipher were out of the picture during the gap between games, so why would those locations change significantly? And Agate Village was meant to be a sorta time capsule untouched both by the long-ago desertification of Orre and advances in technology and such; it’s not going to change in just 5 years. But other locations did change substantially. Pyrite has replaced the building Cipher used to use as a base of operations with a new TV broadcasting station. Realgam Tower has changed drastically with the new minigames and battle simulator. And while Mt. Battle is mostly the same, it at least made it less of a chore than in Colosseum for the story mission.
There’s also Phenac, which-while virtually unchanged as a location from Colosseum-has a pretty cool bit with how each and everyone in the town has been replaced with one of Cipher’s goons in disguise. That was a nice twist!
And their inclusion is sometimes perfectly sensible if not necessary at times. Like, given that we have to purify Shadow Pokémon still, and the only way to do so until the Purification Chamber is complete is via the Relic Stone in Agate Village, we kinda have to be able to revisit Agate Village. The return of Cipher means that it makes perfect sense for us to have to return to the Shadow Pokémon Lab, since that was once one of their primary bases for major operations. The Mt. Battle game mode has returned, so the location kinda has to be present in the story mode, and the nature of Orre’s traversal system means we basically need to have a reason to go there for the location to be made available, anyways. The same idea goes for Pyrite, Phenac, and Realgam, since they host the three major colosseums in both games. (I kinda wish the Under returned, too, so we could get that BGM again and so that we’d get the Under and Deep Colosseums again.)
And on top of all of that, there are enough new locations to more than make up for the returning ones. Only the middle of the game features a bunch of returning locations; most of the locations in the first and last parts of the game are completely brand-new. The Lab you start out at, Dr. Kaminko’s lab, Gateon Port, the remains of the S.S. Libre, the Shadow Pokémon Factory, and Citadark Isle are all completely new, as are the new Poké Spots.
Maybe they could’ve made some additional changes here and there, namely in Phenac and the Shadow Pokémon Lab, but I don’t think their remaining largely identical is a problem. It’s not really any different from how many locations in the Kanto region are practically identical in the Gen II games. Pewter City and Pallet Town in particular have almost no differences between Gens I and II aside from Brock having a new team, and Fuschia City has even less stuff than it did before thanks to the Safari Zone being shut down. Sure, it’s not a perfectly fair comparison since, aside from the Indigo Plateau, all of the Kanto locations in Gen II are technically in the post-game, while the returning locations in XD are visited during the main story mode, and the time that passed between Gens I and II was less than the time that passed between Colosseum and XD, but the point still stands. Especially when we also look at Black 2 and White 2, which is perhaps the most direct comparison one could make since they’re direct sequels that take place in the exact region with new locations added to that same region.
Just because they’re reusing some assets and locations doesn’t automatically make it lazy.
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Nice review, the reaction after missing the evolution skip really made the day for me!
This was one of my favorite games. I remember my mom bought it for me after I had surgery. Love your videos
I actually live in the US state that Orre was based on
Hey Lyra!!!! So happy you enjoyed Pokémon XD. It was my most favorite when I was a child, and I'm happy it lived to your expectations ^^ Great video!
And well, I think I personally enjoyed it more because I did NOT play pokémon colosseum, so the repeated scenarios were not really repeated for me :D
XD was my first main series Pokemon game, and its still to this day my favorite game in the franchise
Glad to know you had a better time with this.
It's good you were able to enjoy XD despite not liking Colosseum! After your Colosseum video, I was interested to see what you would think of Battle Sims/CDs since people seem pretty split on them, but it's good you were able to enjoy them and see them as a good teaching tool. XD does a better job of teaching deep battle mechanics than any other Pokemon game, and those are such a big part of that!
I fully understand what you mean about type matchups. I've played nearly every generation, but still fall into that childish mindset of "It's blue, that must mean it's a Water type!" and have barely figured out the type chart. It just doesn't click for me, for some reason. I was so glad when Gen 7 cut out the middleman and just tells you if the move will work, but I'd be content with the game telling you what type the opponent is mid battle. Love your videos!
I think the newer games handle it well enough. You're supposed to be out exploring and discovering pokemon for yourself, of course you're not going to know what works against them until you've recorded the information post-battle, unless another person tells you.
Fun fact: XD's Shadow Moves were actually split between being Physical and Special, meaning GS beat GF to the punch on type not determining physical vs. special
Ahahaha! Thank you for including the running away from the plot to go catch something content! I remember laughing like a hyena suring the stream too! Sometimes it's the little things that make your day and that was mine today.
That and leaving in the accidental evolution of shroomdude 😂 i remember being there, noticing he wasnt paying attention, and hoping it would finally happen 😂😂😂
@@wulfywulfynrir1296 Oh my goodness yes! I was so sad that I missed that during stream. But also, it had to happen at least once! XD
@@MarthChan it was literally the LAST possible level, he learned spore on the next level up 😂
Even worse, it was after a greevil fight trying to catch his shadows, so the reset actually lost a decent bit of effort lmaooo
@@wulfywulfynrir1296 Oh dear! That is frustrating! Especially with such a rough match! But goodness! It made for a few moments of entertainment for us enjoyers.
something I liked about XD was the limited, peculiar encounters. as well, pretty much every purified Shadow Pokemon has an egg move or a special move it otherwise would never learn. there's a fair few Pokemon you might never use in the I other Gen 3 games that because of when you get them and what moves they get, become valuable team members in XD. I kind of randomly fell in love with Swalot because Gulpin is one of the earliest Shadow Pokemon you can snag, and Swalot ended up being tanky and using Yawn all the time. XD has a lot of good Kanto and Hoenn Pokemon, whereas Colosseum was kind of dominated by exceptionally mediocre Johto Pokemon.
plus the flexibility of choosing between five eeveelutions allows you more options.
and then the Pokespots give you nine more options that don't even need to be purified, plus there's in-game trades for three of those, yielding Meditite, Larvitar, and Shuckle. so it's theoretically possible to get Tyranitar and a Pure Power Medicham on your team with some effort. Trapinch being one of the Pokespot encounters means Flygon is a viable team member, which is just fantastic.
I was so mad when i encountered a shiny mudkip during Pokemon bingo instead of any of the shadow pokemon during the campaign
At least you were able to get the Jhoto starters in Colosseum. To get them in XD, you need to complete Mt Battle's 100 floors. Not the outside version like in Colosseum, but the in-game version that you can use for level grinding. When you get to the top, you can pick a single starter that knows the elemental Hyper Beam of their type, which were exclusive to the Kanto starters before this. And what level do you get these starters at? 50? 70? Maybe 100!? You can get a Cyndaquil, Totodile, or Chikarita at a whopping level... 5........ Level 5! You also need to complete Mt Battle once for each starter. As you need Colosseum to get the legendary cats and Ho-oh, there's no reason to do this challenge except to have the elemental Hyper Beams on more than just the Kanto starters.
XD is like genuinely really good for filling the dex as well in gen 3 as it has a lot of version exclusives or rare safari mons. I remember replaying it over and over again when I was young for that... ( I was young didnt realise miror b gave you as many tries as you need haha)
Plus the egg moves/ exclusive moves on the mons was a nice touch. 😊
My favourite Pokemon game of all time.. probably because it was my first experience of 3D Pokemon and gives me good memories from my childhood. So much fun.
Around 9:40 I had a Ceave Gaming flashback :).
13:25 solution, do not fail capture 👍
26:02 would you rather 6 pokemon tied to mirror b?
about the cool pokemon bingo and SIM battles, that's so great! i don't know how much of pokemon stadium 2 you've played, but there's actually a side-content thing you can successfully complete, starting from beginner friendly to more intermediate, where there is a classroom that teach you some of the more unusual mechanics of the game. i remember this is where i learned that defense curl boosts the power of rollout on the next turn! things like that. of course, with it being only up to Gen 2, it doesn't have abilities and such. but there are still fun lessons, as well as a library where you can read up on these mechanics too. overall though, i'm glad Gale of Darkness was actually a pretty good upgrade mechanically to coloseum, but it still looks like the poor pacing of the battles kind of takes it down a few points. ashame!
Shroomdude is really Ender spiritual son
Orre Colosseum is a battle area for pros of Gen 3. It is not meant to be a cakewalke since the first 2 sets are stall heavy.
3rd set gets aggressive and so on.
I hope they released a remake of gales of darkness where they removed pokespot and bring routes to the games adding new area for the orre region where they can have new alt version of Pokemon, new evolution, even pre evolution , coliseum turn into a dlc, and 3-4 more dlc, it be awesome and hope It happen
So that’s why you disliked Colosseum, huh. Because the prior games didn’t bother teaching you how to play due to the absurdly low difficulty making learning type matchups pointless, and the fact that the teaching is horribly unengaging. That makes a lot of sense.
Don’t even have to watch the video it’s literally the best
This game was so nice, so good memory
love this guy but what accent is this? in the clips from his streams it's undetectable yet in the video itself there's an accent present
He's French
Yeah, reusing assets is lazy. That's why no Pokémon who has appeared in a game should *ever* appear in another one. And why it was so disappointing to see Kanto in Johto. We've already been there, so there's really no reason for it to still exist.
Loving the sarcasm! And yeah, I don’t think it’s lazy for them to reuse the same locations like this. There are enough brand-new locations to make up for it, and we’re still in Orre; would we expect all of these places to just disappear in just 5 years?
And some either just make perfect sense such that they sorta had to be included (Agate Village is required for purifying Pokémon (at least until the Purification Chambers are finished), and with the return of Cipher, having to return to their old Shadow Pokémon Lab makes perfect sense, and it also makes sense for it to remain largely unchanged since Cipher was gone for awhile, so why change it?) or used in a unique way (Phenac Town’s gimmick of all the citizens being replaced with Cipher’s goons was great).
And it’s not like they’re all identical. Realgam Tower is heavily revamped from its Colosseum counterpart, having lots of brand-new content and new areas. Pyrite Town has replaced the old building Cipher used to work from replaced with a TV broadcasting station. And while Mt. Battle’s structure is mostly unchanged, firstly, not having to deal with as many battles during the story mission makes it far less of an issue during the story, and second, given that the Mt. Battle gameplay mode is still present, the location has to be in the game, and we have to have a reason to go there for the location to even show up.
We also have to consider that not everyone who plays XD will have played Colosseum (so these old locations wouldn’t really look old to them), and I’d imagine that most people who bought XD after having played Colosseum did so because they enjoyed at least _something_ of Colosseum’s story and/or gameplay, so for them, getting to revisit old locations again would be a treat much like getting to re-explore Kanto was in the Gen II games. I just wish the Under stuck around, too.
What a fun looking game!
I wonder how much it costs.
uploaded 3 weeks ago?
youtube, my homie, why dont you tell me?
Honestly though, it’s really pissed me off that XD might be at the very least the peak of spin-off titles (other than Sky)
I 100%'d Colosseum and XD months ago and had a BLAST!, it was more fun than expected. Even though XD is probably better than Colosseum, Colosseum's Master Ball Glitch and Steps Glitch made it a bit more bearable.
XD really did teach me a lot about pokemon as a kid, especially since I didn't read anything.
Hyper Mode vs. Reverse Mode.
Hyper Mode has 95% crit chance for Shadow Rush. Reverse Mode does not. Reverse mode damages itself on it's own. Hyper Mode does not.
Hyper Mode prevents item use. Reverse Mode does as well.
I am always amazed how people get annoyed at Hyper Mode. Like, you have a 95% crit chance on a 90 power move, 100 accuracy and neutral to all types. Recoil and lack of healing maybe concerning, but the only time you might be in trouble is the final gauntlet as healing is limited. You can always go back to the healing machines in other dungeons.
Your heart gauge is slightly inaccurate. Both games you can walk and the heart gauge will open slowly. Scents work as well. The higher the level, the longer to purify.
XD is indeed faster due to the purification chamber AND you don't have to go to Agate village every time.
To be fair, Colosseum doesn't even try to tell you that Hyper Mode makes Shadow Rush a crit machine. That doesn't justify XD neutering it, but if not for the internet, I wouldn't have known.
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1. The game shouldn't have to spell it out for you. I used Shadow Rush instantly after my first Hyper Mode and realized I crit almost every hit. The game did tell us, a lot of people just didn't realize it. That's on them.
There's also a long period of time to learn this since purification takes a while story wise. You battle a lot.
2. The game also never tells you the Pokemon will ignore you if you don't select Shadow Rush, yet people understand this instantly.
I think the nerf was necessary. Having a super effective move that crits all the time? Very broken. As it would also make Shadow End practically a OHKO for the physical attacking Pokemon.
2:39 "he thinks we are a brony" wait... what?
I put this video on shortly after I got out of bed and now it's like 10 hours later and I've somehow barely made it through the first third of this video lmao ADHD brain.
XD was such a cool experience when you played it as a kid. Like, secret Bonsly!!
XD IS NOT the best Pokémon game. But it Is the best home console Pokémon RPG.
Oof, that subtle jab at all the Switch games lol
Because XD's shadows can't be shiny, it makes it the 2nd best to Coliseum.
Note: You can still shiny hunt in XD.
Bro I have a copy that worked on wii, but wouldn’t work on the GameCube so I resurfaced it but haven’t finished the process and now it doesn’t work🤧🤧 I still have it, I just need to polish it with compound and hopefully it still works, it did still work at one point but the GameCube laser reader is older then the wii so it wasn’t strong enough to produce any picture or sound. TLDR: I probably messed up my copy of Pokémon xd gale of darkness, but haven’t finished the process.
Hope you're having a good day
In my opinion it is, this game was a pain of a journey but i loved every bit of it.
Pokemon XD🔥, thinking bout pickin it up again it just pricey AF
I keep getting Colosseum and Stadium mixed up.
Honestly in terms of graphical quality, consistently fun gameplay and hard but fair difficulty...
I'd personally say so.
This game i am not kidding when i say this, _looks better than scarlet and violet for me_
Now yes, the stadium models are very much the low points _especially if you pay attention to the shadows_
You will never unsee square jumpluff.
But literally _EVERYTHING_ made originally for this game still holds up, even in battle revolution where they had to touch up the models, the collosuem and xd gen 3 models hold up _stupidly well_
Not to mention, this game has some of the strongest villains, grunts, and especially npc trainer designs.
They are all so striking, yet deceptively simple and it literally conveys every individual npc personality in _seconds_
My personal favorites being dakim, chobin, eagun, and _especially_ the protagonists.
A lot of people complain Micheal was a downgrade compared to Wes, and while i can agree on that;
Micheal is like three times as more developed.
He's a child prodigy, he runs the simulators daily, he _became_ the purification lab's ultimate weapon against cipher.
You could tell me he was a cyborg and I would _absolutely_ believe you.
Its not a main series game but it did something new.
It broke the usual
-choose starter
-Rival chooses starter with type advantage(if the rival isnt dumb)
-you beat 8 gym leader
-beat rival several times along the way
-beat evil team when you reach 6 or 7 badges
-beat elite four
-be the champion
XD was very original.
With that being said, I never played that game. Id definitely upgrade my NSO subscription if that game drops in the NSO.
I'm pretty sure part of this video was about how XD copied a lot of content from Colosseum, nearly 1:1 though, so it's not *that* original.
That being said, I definitely prefer it to Colosseum, but a lot of what made XD great, was already attempted by Colosseum (and in some cases, done better in that game; since they went back to the protagonist being a child, instead of whatever age Wes from Colosseum is)
it's 1 of them. i am still torn between this and colosseum. can't decide which is better so....both.
Oh dude, the fight with Greevil is my favorite in the entire franchise! It's a TON of fun trying to steal all six shadows from him, given that if you fail, all snagged shadows are returned. I hold off my master ball in case one of the birds decide to be a bitch and leave a slot for XD001 to make things easier.
2:40 do I smell bad emulation 😅
Damn i thought you give up xD.
And yes its pretty good.
It's better than Coliseum but still not that good.
@@diegomedina9637 better than sword and shield for me.
The answer is yes, this game is peak. Pokémon was never able to get anywhere close to this perfection again
SV's Blueberry Academy dlc got pretty close, with the npc's using some actual double battle strats, including weather teams and earthquake + flying/levitate, alongside very high level pokemon. One of the battles even requires the player to abandon their previous team, and create a brand new one, using only newly obtained Pokemon from within the academy.
HGSS were pretty great.
The changes to hyper mode are actually something I dislike about XD to be honest. Reverse mode barely serves a function anymore and is only slightly negative (because you only take recoil damage in reverse mode, and it's not even all that much). With Colosseum's hyper mode, you had restrictions, yes, but you also had that near 100% crit Shadow Rush. There were tangible negatives to hyper mode to drive home that being a shadow pokemon is in fact not good, but the damage increase (on physical pokemon anyway) still allowed you to somewhat benefit from hyper mode, creating a risk-reward proposition. In XD it's not restrictive, not beneficial, it barely is anything at all. It feels neutered, rather than rebalanced, which in my opinion is a bit of a shame.
i highly recommend JelloApocalypse's playthrough of this one and the prequel. Their additions are HILARIOUS
Is rebuilding a city every five years normal???
Actually if you purify every shadow pokemon here you get a reward too: Mirror B challenges you with a shadow dragonite that you can catch and purify! Although it's just a dragonite (with special moves, I think), so I don't think it's worth
Pretty sure he's unlocked from just catching all of the other shadow, not from purifying them all. For its special moves, it's got Dragon Dance (an egg move, only obtainable via breeding with the Kingdra line, Gyarados, and Altaria), and free Earthquake (only obtainable via limited TM), so I'd say it's pretty worth it, especially for the double battle strats (flying + EQ)
The worst part about the two games is just the speed. The battles are SOOOOOOOOOO slow. I have never experienced anything like it. Everything takes ages.
Clearly you've never played Diamond/Pearl
Is it slower tha daimond version? Genuine question, I just haven't experienced it.
@@SrelathonYou must have never played Colo or XD, if you think this is even remotely comparable.
I just played both and didn't have this issue. Perhaps you suffer from TikTok brain rot?
Yeah I played part of Colosseum a few years back and forgot how slow it was, and then XD sped it up quite a bit. But even then I recently played XG (A romhack of XD) and the battles were still pretty slow
Good luck getting them all.
celebi is only obtainable in the Japanese version
finally a new vid 😊😊
Off rip, completely shitting in scarlet and violet. Yes it doesnt have a type chart in the summary, but you know what it does have? Tags in every single move that tell you which ones are “super effective” and “not very effective”
Tldr; yes.
Yes, yes it is.
I hope both Colosseum and XD Gale Of Darkness get a remaster
I miss when Pokemon did creative things, the only thing to stand out was Legends Arceus in recent years
Thankfully they are making another
Mirror B. is uncomfortably skinny.
Long live Vaporeon!
It would be if you could actually buy it
Is it a secret though?
It’s no secret. The answer is simply yes.
RAWR XD