Pokemon XD: Gale of Darkness Retrospective and Review - A Game Ahead of its Time
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- Опубликовано: 23 мар 2021
- Retrospective look and review of a game released during the end of the GameCube's life cycle, Pokemon XD: Gale of Darkness.
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Pokemon XD Gale of Darkness came out in 2005, the game was made to be a sequel to Pokemon Colosseum. As time went on, people speculated if there would be a sequel to XD but, to this day as of 2021 there is no sequel to Gale of Darkness. In the recent Pokemon 25th anniversary stream, they didn't even note of Pokemon Colo/XD's existance and prices have spiked on Ebay for the original copies of this game. Join as we take a retrospective look at the game and the challenge that is present in its story mode as we analyze the bosses in this game as well.
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It always annoys me when people demand a stadium remake when coliseum and XD deserve remakes more
None of those games deserve to be riped of ANY dignity they have and get a remake developed in less than 2 years. Unless they give the game to the original company and they give them actual time. To make a quality game. Of pokemon. Or we can just... use dolphin.
One thing that i think is sooo much better than the modern pokemon games in these spinoffs is how good the pokemon animations are. All their idle animations have so much character and when they get hit the actually recoil! It adds so much to the game imo
My favorite parts of the attention to detail is trainer reactions to their Pokemon being hit, as well as the camera angles during battles. I like seeing more than just the back of my Pokemon during attacks.
@@theglacier3367 just started pokemon XG: next gen rom hack and the animations and character reactions are good af
@@alepepperoni2563played it on my channel and I loved using my Kanto Team on the hack
If you notice, all of the Kanto and Johto mons use their animations from the Stadium games. Take a look at Jumpluff's shadow, for example - it's just as polygon-y as an N64 model
@@ShermTank7272 oh that's really cool. makes sense!
Its sad these games don't get more recognition given that to this day they have the best animations ( including battle revolution as its also genius sonority) best music, best story, and is fresh gameplay wise in that you're playing a challenge run of limited pokemon, hard opponents, and ffs its not the same collect all 8 badges beat elite 4 again and again.
It's funny how these big gaming critics criticized the games for "rehashing old ideas" yet will literally give every main series game an extremely high score despite the fact they've been using the same formula for decades. Like how are you going to complain about reusing old formulas, but also complain that they're not enough like the main series games?
That’s exactly why I loved the game. When I played XD I thought man I wonder how the next future mainline console Pokémon will be like only to find out game freak just butchered it with SW/SH. I wish game freak would take the series in this direction back when these games had polish and detail.
@@Forged4War206 mainline Pokémon gets old it’s was the same rodeo every damn entry almost with minor adjustments here and there yet they criticized XD for actually changing that tired cycle and trying to give it a different direction and narrative. The games straight to the point and I love it for that.
This game has a really sick ROM hack called XG: Next Gen that's a ton of fun
After 11 year old me beat Colosseum & Gale of Darkness, Ruby, Sapphire and Emerald became suddenly easier.
He is beginning to see
Master those games, and the new generations of Pokemon become a joke in challenge
I still have my copy of xd. I got good enough to the point where I could catch every Pokemon in a normal ball. Except Lugia. I had that master ball for a reason.
Let's not forget the biggest fix of all: we no longer need to go to a PC just to SAVE THE GAME. I love Colosseum, but the save feature was extremely annoying and infuriating. I personally love Colosseum's darker theme more, and the best Miror B theme, but XD does fix all of the issues that Colosseum had to make the game mechanics be both more playable and enjoyable (except for the removal of The Under, you shall be missed).
And I want sequels for these games as much as the next guy. Yes the dream might never become a reality. But at the same time, they made a Pokemon Snap sequel last year, about 20 years after the original game, so I guess almost anything is possible.
Youve inspired me to play this now, didnt realize how good this game looks
Facts. There is also a really fun modded version of the game that has way more Pokemon and the fairy type. It's called Pokemom XG, it's very fun.
“Honestly, who chooses Flareon? Lol”
Me: D:
If memory serves me right I always used Espeon or Jolteon with Vaporeon getting picked maybe twice. But after resetting so many times for a decent nature I settled on Hasty and chose Flareon who is holding up pretty well
Only one I've never played with is umbreun
Same tbh. The only ones I haven't used in XD are Espeon and Umbreon; you can already get 'em in Colosseum so what's the point??
Me too
Also me!
I know it's pre physical/special split and so Flareon isn't the most logical of battle choices, but I chose it during one of my early playthroughs all those years ago and I was hooked. It honestly feels weird not choosing Flareon now, it tries it's best despite its given setbacks and I relate to it
Pokémon XD still remains my favorite right up there with gen 2. Miss this game dude, it definitely needs a port because these eBay listings are insane.
Just emulate them. There's even an XD mod that adds a bunch of stuff called pokemon XG: next gen
@@MegaVirus700 not the same experience tho 😢
I love this video. That's exactly how I feel about XD, the game felt much more polished and like an upgrade over Colosseum, and the Dark Lugia was epic. In fact, I had 2 memory cards, one for perma-dark Lugia, and another for a purified Lugia.
And I love Miror B's battle theme. Only a few tunes in this world are catchier.
Pokemon colosseum and xd are both classics that were both ahead of their time I like it when the crowd in xd makes an excited noise when a legendary is sent out
I own both Colosseum and gala of darkness and I love these games because they are more challenging than the main games
I'm glad someone else is giving XD the treatment it deserves. Gen 3 was my first major foray into the world of Pokemon, with this and Emerald being my first ever games. I even had a special Gamecube that had art of Shadow Lugia and the Legendary Birds!
Sure, the wild Pokemon selection could've been more diverse, and the Shadow Pokemon selection, while improved from Colosseum, has a few duds meant solely for capture and purification and, well, not much else. But other than that, the game was pretty good from what I remember.
The character designs are unique for the people, I love the soundtrack with a burning passion, and the extra features in the game are nicely integrated.
My choice team was:
1. Jolteon
2. Claydol
3. Sharpedo
4. Breloom
5. Zangoose
6. Flygon
That last one is a pain to get by level up, but hey, that's what Mt. Battle is for.
I get a feeling that I'm not the only one who rocked Jolteon and Houndoom combo. I mean, that combo was surprisingly strong and held up pretty much the whole game
One of my all time favorite games. Really enjoyed your review!
Me too I get emotional every time i think about it
If you miss or kill a shadow Pokemon, you can get it from Miror B. on the top of the lighthouse. Just fight him over and over to get all! :)
I LOVED THIS AND WAS LOOKING FOR A VIDEO OF MY TOP 3 FAV POKÉMON GAMES EVER THANK YOU YOU ARE THE BEST MY FRIEND 🐐🙌🏻💙
Love your content. Great review of a fantastic classic!
4:46 if you catch a wooper in one of these zones, you can exchange it for a larvitar early on
larvitar with dragon dance
you know, Flareon in this game is pretty good because you can buy Fire Blast early giving you heads up with high base power moves compared to the other Eeveelution. Yes, you can get Thunder too for Jolteon but Fire Blast actually hits while Thunder needs rain to work. Also Tutor moves are more in favor to Flareon with moves like Double Edge complementing its attack stat and Shadow Ball being physical.
I think in that game Umbreon might be the worst considering Dark is Special and thats one of its worst stats.
I’m playing through it right now and reset so many times for a decent natured Eevee. After settling on Hasty I settled on Flareon and I must admit he isn’t bad. But guaranteed I was never going to use Umbreon
The worst part for Umbreon is that bite and faint attack are its best STAB moves
@@Moonstriker2514 Yeah Umbreon benefitted the least when it came to STABs. Luckily it can be a good support with Screech, Confuse Ray, Toxic and Helping Hand.
To be fair to Umbreon, he was never built to attack, he was built to annoy you with toxic stall
Cant get the toxic tm as early as colosseum
Dude what a great video overall congrats
Thanks man, next one gonna be even better. Going to make a video on Smash 4 soon. Similar in length
ive been trying to play this game for such a long time, a good 13 years, and finally on thursday, im going to finally buy it.
So considering if you actually went through with it, how far are you now in the game
I love this game! I remember as a kid that last volcano section use to annoy me cause the enemies was so tuff especially the bosses you have to fight
I never finished them, but I absolutely love these games. I enjoyed them and thought that it was a good thing they diverged from the main games. Plus I think the moves here look so much cooler compared to the way moves look right now, like in sword and shield. And love the music. You feel the intensity trying to make sure you get the shadow Pokémon without killing them. I wish more Pokémon games were like these. I love the darker tones. Did anyone else put on their tv really loud and got your heart jumped when a random person came at you from above? Oh my childhood.
Walrein is awesome in this game
I got my copy for $20 bucks a few years ago. It’s crazy it just in price
That’s lucky since it usually goes for at least $50
@@ImpactTurns $50 is steal, I seen it go for $200 now
The first Pokémon game I ever played was this one. It's also my favorite. The story, the MUSIC (so fucking good), the animations of the Pokémon, their moves, and even their recoil, everything just ties together so nicely and that's what I love about it. I've been playing it since 2009 when I was 6 and I have loved it ever since. Colosseum may be more difficult, but I feel that this one had more passion. I love it so much
Loved this game back in the day. Pokémon Revolution should have been real progression. I mostly used it to see my Pokémon’s 3D model. Both tons of fun though.
One of my best teams came from this game, that being aggron, tyranitar, maenectric, sableye, Vaporeon and houndoom though was later replaced by salamence
That’s a champion stomping team.
Hey dude, do you have access to an I card? When you mentioned your retrospective on colosseum around 3 minutes into the video, it may have been a good idea to use an I card to link to itt.
My cousin had this when I was a kid it's my favorite pokemon game but I barely got to play it
They won't remake or remaster them because if they did, they'd have to admit SwSh had cut content to be sold back to us as DLC which those games weren't perfect, but they were a lot more fun had an actual challenge plus stakes you as the protagonist was involved in the conflict unlike in SwSh. The Pokémonbad,
Actually think this game can be played the least grindiest of all Pokemon games. If you make sure to keep on catching shadow mons, like you're supposed to, you can swap out team members with the new ones you get as you go and get higher level ones. Shadow pokemon resist shadow moves but you got the upper hand of learning original moves as you go that can be used to hit other shadow mons for good damage while they can't do much to yours since shadow resist shadow. I think this is the optimal way to play. I've played up to the final boss with a main team with little to no switching mons out and just sticking to the ones I wanted to use and leveling up, but catching shadow mons are made so much harder since shadow moves do super effective damage to my mons. Only get so many chances to catch shadow mons before being knocked out.
Expensive! But glad I have it. Now I need to buy the Manuel's booklets for Colleseum and XD to store.
If you want to softreset for Lugia's nature then you have to save before, catch Lugia, and place it in the Purification Chamber which you have perfectionated beforehand. That way Lugia's nature will show up. It only took me three turns before I ended up with Bold nature.
I'm currently EV training every shadow pokemon from this game. They give you pokemon with special moves like Rapidash with baton pass and Golduck, Arcanine and Dugtrio with Charm.
I just ordered pokemon gale of darkness for 180$ and got coliseum not to long ago these were and still are my fav games of all time such a great game both well worth the dollar
Now I don’t feel so bad buying XD CIB for 215. It was mint tho and even included the cool poster!
@@truthxbexheard1 that's steal I would have paid 300 easy
heya, who made the art at 5:46? It looks really good!
Xd was one of my first pokemon games and i loved the whole thing from the shadow pokemon to the music from mirror b to the annoying sister Jovi
Id love to see a third game be the gen 10 games. They could make it that the wild pokemon duking sought after have become abundant and new discoveries are made daily. What if the legedaries were the origins of shadowfication and purification.
I still have my physical copies of Colosseum and XD
Bruh they showed Pokemon Duel but not colo/XD??
Yes LMAO
They showed fricking Channel but not the GOOD GameCube titles! :/
I don't think they showed Pokken either
If you are in current year*, you should definitely check out the mod XG Gale of Darkness. It adds a good spin to the game if you've played it 20 times already.
Damn I remember this I Hage the game and the disc plate of the original GameCube
Ive been trying to see if nuzlocking xd is viable. Its very limiting but if you know what youre doing you can get a solid team. You do have to baby everything though. Most of my attempt has been the eevee show.
extra dimension!!! i never knew that
It's insane how hard it is to get this. I was happy to find it on an second hand games website were he had one copy left. He was kind and gave me a good pricing when he already knew how much more he could have gotten for it. I thank this man, this summer i catch Shadow Lugia!
Pretty sure colloseum made a very brief appearance in a small clip but not mentioned by name
never see people talk about this game, i played the shit out of it on gamecube as a jit
I actually still have the game to this day.
Somehow I managed to get every shadow pokemon (including Dragonite) and purify every single one of them.
The only thing I haven't done is complete the Battle Tower.
It really is sad how despite these games often being considered as one of the most underrated and potentially best games in the franchise, Nintendo/GameFreak pretend like they don't exist. They're never mentioned in any anniversary videos, referenced in any of the games, etc. Hell, I think it's even more insulting that they actually included Shadow Pokémon in Pokémon GO, yet pretend like it's some completely new and fresh idea that has never been done before. It's treated as if it only exists within the Pokémon GO universe, and there's zero mention of the Orre region or Cipher. It's such a huge slap in the face to Genius Sonority. Not only are their games completely ignored, but now GameFreak is taking their ideas and retconning them. These games were revolutionary for their time in terms of graphics, story, and fresh ideas, yet so many years later Pokemon still just sticks to the same general formula.
The new Legends Arceus game is probably the first game in 16 years that actually felt like Pokemon finally trying something new for once, yet unlike Genius Sonority, the game lacked a ton of polish and passion. It's hilarious that a small scale company was able to make two incredible games that still to this day, stand the test of time better than some of the more recent main series games made by a multi billion dollar company.
I know this is a better version of Colosseum... but i like Colosseum more
Putting Lugia on the cover isn’t exactly non-fan service, though.
It was fan service for me.
@Hunter Zalo Honestly Lugia was really just a McGuffin. Lugia never really played a part other than in the opening cutscene. I would argue that Zekrom/Reshiram in B/W was the ideal version of what Lugia should have been in this game.
shadow lugia is better shiny than actual shiny lugia
5:36 I do
🔥 Dare to be different 🔥
You didn’t have to shit on flareon 😭 you’re right tho
I feel like Gale of Darkness was mechanically much better, but the atmosphere and challenge were seriously hampered.
Here in 2022 and wishing and hoping for a new shadow Pokémon game or remakes on the switch
The best Pokémon game. Replayed it recently and I already want to play it again.
Try using Walrein, Gardevoir, Ampharos, Houndoom, Breloom and Ursaring
Also you won't need an Electric type if you teach Thunder Bolt to Gardevoir it does have Shock Wave when its Purified.
@@AdamDawson3 I already used Gardevoir and Houndoom in my most recent playthrough so I'm not using them again in my next, but I may use those other ones.
@@DaSheepKiller I used Ariados which you get as a Spinarak took it through the whole game it was amazing also catch a Trapinch at the Rock Poke Spot as Flygon will be useful and Gardevoir is amazing as it Houndoom
If you go hunting for a certain Pokemon(can't remember which one) at one of the poke spots you can then trade it for a larvitar with fucking dragon dance
I choose Flareon my favorite fire type in the Eevee evolutions
By the time, XY remakes start. They'll need to upgrade everything.... can you imagine a Chibi-head remake for X and Y? 🤣🤣...sheet, you might as well play the old games.
Is there actually any proof of Wes being originally planned to be the final boss in XD?
If I find the exact source, I'll link it. I heard it in Chuggaconroy's walkthrough of Pokemon XD. But I trust the guy.
@@ZachHonest Ya same, but besides that there seems to be almost zero evidence to back it up, With people commonly linking that and nothing else as a source I'm not saying the guy is necessarily lying but it is a bit weird that his video is the only one that seems to imply such an idea was thrown around during development.
@@internetual7350 I guess if its confirmed fake, then it can be voided. But otherwise, its still an interesting idea to think of what possibly happened to Wes in Pokemon XD.
@@ZachHonest Yes certainly interesting but I'm not really convinced unless we get some undeniable evidence, always a possibility though.
@@internetual7350 There isn't proof that Wes was meant to be the final boss of XD, besides it would't make sense due to Colosseum's ending, it's a simple rumor that Chuggaconroy said with no evidence to back it up
Lol my brother used Flareon and told me my Jolteon sucked when we were younger.
Just a heads up it almost always seems cheaper to buy the Colosseum and/or XD:GoD disc and case separately, it may taking a little bit of searching and waiting but that's how I got mine.
Why couldn’t pokemon battle revolution be like this
bro I bought Pokemon BR as a kid, thinking it was a sequel to XD. I was super sad I remember when I realized it.
Thats why I wanted a wii in the first place just for that game when it came out but i missed the game
Great review. Let's be honest, GF hate this 2 classic games. Fuk them.
For some reason i always tought Wes was Mickael dad...dont know why
They need to rerelease colosseum and XD gale of darkness for the switch
The psp could do portable 3d graphics
The music, animations, rash characters, difficulty, colosseums. All good stuff ended after bw2. Actually connected my dusty old wii to play pokemon XG. Its actually extra awesome after all the ridiculous useless pokemon game creators of these times.
Wes being a villain is false there is no actual proof of him being a villain.
@Maxwell Long Except the whole reason he quit was bc he thought stealing Pokemon was going too far... why would he suddenly decide it's okay now??
The original Legends Arceus.
They really gave attention to the fucking usb link
I remember playing this game in my younger years for like 2 years straight and I remember the ending being so hard that I went to the battle mountain and kept grinding and had my team to incredible high levels like almost 200 and 190s I remember my team being ariadose at 202 and scyther and I tried so hard to evolve him but scyther didn’t have the evolution in the game
You can't go above level 100, so this doesn't make sense unless I'm misunderstanding.
@@k.d.2589 yeah I am confused as well unless he is meaning the Pokémons stats to be up to the 200s mabye
i chose flareon
I heard that Wes being the villain in XD is an urban legend
Honestly I would be disappointed if it was Wes
That's false.
There's no actual proof he was.
Genius Sonority is better at making Pokemon games than Gamefreak ever was. The battle CDs are genius, no pun intended. Having to IQ your way through battle situations put in your face. Then there's bingo. Both of which Gamefreak never ever attempted even. Despite these games being meant as more story driven and not a replacement of the gameboy games in any way at all they still seem to have more side content that matters and are fun, than the mainstream games. Animations are still to this day objectively better than ANY of the Gamefreak Pokemon games, sword & shield included. That's a statement not open for discussion. Gamefreak did good with battle frontier in gen 4 where it peaked with online multiplayer co-op option for the battle tower alongside many modes. Ever since this aspect has been watered down and now we just have a basic battle tower without multiplayer.
I think gen 4 took inspiration from this game when moving the physical/special split from typings to moves in that gen. Physical attackers will have shadow rush or some other physical shadow move while special attackers will have shadow wave and such that are set as special attacks. Obviously they couldn't go and change the core mechanics that Gamefreak had set in stone at this point so they went and did what they could with the shadow moves that were their creation just for their games. If they had the freedom to do anything I bet you Genius Sonority would've been the one to make the gen 4 changes first.
XD
Not that hard to go back to playing when you go back to even further GBA ewww lol
You just dropped a massive spoiler in the first few minutes.
It is a review of a game that is 18 years old.
bro is this skychi
Lore wise the 1 shadow per team was cause they earned it in a contest
That explained the random trainers in Pyrite Town having them. Cipher Peons & Admins only having 1 each was never explained or why it was that so many Cipher Peons never used Shadow Pokemon, however I remember it being suggested that Shadow Pokemon took a long time to make in Colosseum comparable to the length of time it takes to purify them.