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I got ripped off

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 11 / 21
Date: October 05, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I really enjoyed the gameboy pokemon games. I never bought stadium or collosium though, because I liked pokemon for its RPG elements and catching all the pokemon. When I heard that nintendo was bringing Pokemon to GameCube as an actual RPG I was very excited. This game is not a full pokemon RPG; it's nothing more than Stadium/Collosium with a few basic RPG elements thrown in. I'm very disappointed in nintendo, not just for their poor game, but for all but lying about what it was.

Innapropriate

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 41
Date: December 16, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This should not be available. i mean "gale of darkness"? do you want the children of today to be hypnatized with all the is evil? i mean it is just wrong to letting kids see this much darkeness. kids like me need to be experiences good stuff like ponies, bunnies, and cats, the light of the world, good stuuf NOT EVIL!!! PLEASE LISTEN TO MY ADVICE SO YOU DO NOT HELP RAISE A BAD INFLUENCE!!!!!!!!!!!! and yes i am 11 yrs old..... if you want anymore bold ideas from we just e-mail me at [...] please. you are setting a bad influence umong kids.

Why? Why Nintendo? Why did you did it again?

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 8 / 17
Date: October 05, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I dont believe this they did it, AGAIN! This pokemon game is as worst as its predecesor, I mean, when we were back in the 2003 Nintendo announced a POKEMON RPG adventure for the cube, at first it was like WOW!!! I thought it was going to be like a gameboy game just that it was for the cube, this was a really good idea so I waited to the release date, the wait was finally over I got this game, I even remember saying: "At last Ive got it, good bye Pokemon Stadium" then I started playing, imagine my face when I realized you "steal" pokemon from other trainers and not in the open grass terrains, this didnt bother me it was like cool, but then this thing of the shadow pokemon and that I could only steal the ones were bad, so after that I got dissapointed, sold it to a little kid in no more than 2 months, and started playing pokemon stadium again.

Now one year later they get this one out and I say: "Didnt you learn anything in this year?" I mean the only difference I see is that the character has changed and obiously the story, but its still the same and again it has the crappy multiplayer system that lets you use only your pokemon from the GBA games, so what I mean is that what they should have done was to make it as the GBA games (you can capture WILD pokemon and pass through gyms) and to have done a Pokemon Stadium style multiplayer in which the game has all the pokemon from the series at your disposal.

So in all this game is a huge mistake done by Nintendo, I hope they realize this when the revolution is realeased, so if you like good RPGs dont buy this game, if you like the GBA and Pokemon Stadium games dont buy it, if you are a pokemon fan well is up to you, ah and one more thing, my little brother has this game so dont think I dont know what Im talking about.

Better than Colosseum? Not exactly.....

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: October 26, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I rented this game for two weeks. I liked it for the first few days, then got increasingly bored with it. It lacked something that Colosseum had, that was: balance.
Most of the Pokemon you catch are repeats of the old ones, sometimes higher evolutions, sometimes lower. The only new Pokemon you catch is Lugia, but it doesn't even really count because of the Pokemon events.
About the balance thing: You know how Colosseum had all the version specific Johto Pokemon from FireRed and LeafGreen? This one doesn't have a complete set of anything. You say, "How about FireRed and LeafGreen's original 150 Pokemon?" Nope, some are missing, say, Krabby and Kingler. Colosseum was good, also, because the Mt. Battle training was open to all levels. This one isn't open to half. Mt. Battle has drastically disimproved; sometimes the training levels skip from 40 (the end of an area) to fifty (the beginning of a new area).
Also, one more thing about the wild Pokemon: you can only catch 9. Yes, nine. That's it. I'll name them ALL: Sandshrew, Gligar, Trapinch, Hoppip, Phanphy, Surskit, Zubat, Aron, and Wooper. Not a lot, eh? Yeah.
So, that's about all I have to say. Generally, the bad things overcome the good things.

Another Entry in the Pokemon Empire

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 20 / 28
Date: September 29, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Pokemon XD is one of those games that would be good if we didn't know there could be something better. It's basically a refit of Pokemon Colliseum with a few updates and a new story. Which is good, right? Well, if you like Colliseum, yes. Then it's great. If not ... well, you still might have issues.

The idea of shadow pokemon is, to put it bluntly, gimmicky and annoying. The purification process still takes far too long, and catching only certain pokemon from trainers (which sounds cool) exists only because of the major flaw that exists in this game.

Once again, you can not battle wild Pokemon, like in the Game Boy versions. That means no catching them in the wild, and (my biggest issue) no battling wild pokemon for experience. Instead, you have to fight trainers, and these battles are long and frustrating. I hate to say it, but Pokemon is the kind of game where grinding through dozens of quick, wild pokemon battles is an integral part of the game. Having to fight the harder, longer trainers for experience that in the end is not proportionately higher as to make it worth it, makes the experience nothing short of boring.

It makes me sad, because if a game was perfectly translated from Game Boy to Gamecube, it would be wonderful and entertaining. The story in this is better than any Pokemon before, and the areas beautiful. Its' just those 'improvements' in the battle system that spoil it for me.

Again, I recommend this cautiously. If you like Colliseum, then fine, this will be fun for you. If you don't, stay away. And for those of you who never played Colliseum, I would suggest renting, or trying Colliseum first (it's only $20, certainly an amount that can be risked on a maybe game).

Kind of Boring

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: November 05, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game from ToysRus a couple days after it came out. It was exciting all the way for the first few days. After that, there was not much fun left in it. The game went too fast and made you easily bored.after beating the game, all you could do was capture the rest of the shadow pokemon you missed. The wild pokemon spots are the worst thing in the game. The pokemon that appear there are pokemon you'd rather knock out than capture. It's so annoying that on the spot radar you can't tell what pokemon is at the spot. It only shows which spot is responding.This game was very easy and the makers could have made a better game. They need to improve the types of pokemon you catch and the wild poke-spots.
Overall, I am somewhat disappointed at what I have purchased. It is very exciting to capture shadow lugia, but once you capture it, is there any fun left? For me, there isn't.

Pokemon XD

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: December 27, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is okay but I really dont get it. I mean it seems like its continued from another game.I got confused!I really,REALLY dont understand.I mean they-- act like like you should know all these new people!I was sort of glad my mom said to stop for a while.But I started to learn the people and it got fun.Though, you might want to rent it before you buy it--just in case your brain cant handle more!

Same thing as Pokemon Colosseum

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: July 22, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Pokemon XD: Gale of Darkness is the sequel to Pokemon Colosseum. It's almost the exact same game, but it seems like Nintendo just changed a few things and added some more stuff. So I'll start my introduction of this review with some pros and cons of this game.

+ Long Adventure (Around 40 - 50 hours)
+ Purification is easier
+ Good Background Music

- Uses the same old graphics as Pokemon Colosseum (Which means that there is no new improvement)
- Also uses a lot of places you have already seen in Pokemon Colosseum (Which almost means you're playing the same game again)
- You can only catch shadow pokemon
- Battles get annoying later in the game, because the battles take too long and the battles comes to frequently.

Pokemon XD: Gale of Darkness has fairly good graphics. It's really good for the gamecube, but the graphics don't improve that much from Pokemon Colosseum. Actually the look quite similar and Pokemon Colosseum came quite a while ago. The background is bright and colorful and it's nice seeing the pokemon in 3-D and on the big screen. The pokemon also have nice animations for their attacks.

Some of the music in Pokemon XD: Gale of Darkness is actually pretty catchy and it makes this pokemon game feel a lot better. Everything is in text, so there isn't any voice acting. Which is too bad and the pokemon make the grunting sounds. The background music is nice and goes with the mood of this game very well, but it won't stay on your mind for that long

The story mode is pretty long. (It took me forty hours to finish this game, while the reviews said twenty hours) You're a trainer who must save pokemon from the evil shadows. So you steal shadow pokemon from trainers and you raise them until they are free from the shadows. While doing that you get to fight the evil organization called Cipher and they plan to rule the pokemon world, unless you stop them. The pokemon battles are easy to understand and the battles are all in doubles. So you'll be sending out two pokemon at a time to battle the trainers.

The story, well I guess I just explained that to you already. Multiplayer is pretty fun if you get your friends to join in. You can battle your pokemon with each other and see who's stronger. The controls are fairly simple and you'll probably understand in the first hour of the game.

A pretty long game if you want to catch and purify all the pokemon, so have fun with it. The game is twenty hours long if you want to run through it, but it can take up to forty hours if you want to purify all your pokemon and be a good trainer and all that stuff.

Not so bad, in my opinion it's about the same as the original Pokemon Colosseum. If you're not sure about this game give it a rental before you purchase it. This game will last you for a while (mainly because of the long battles) and will have its ups and downs during some moments of the adventure.

Taken from my GameFAQs review.

Similar .. but BETTER than Colosseum

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 73 / 82
Date: October 22, 2005
Author: Amazon User

A fun trip back to the land of Orre with some familiar faces and some new friends. If you like Colosseum, you will find the upgrades in this game to be a godsend. I still don't enjoy the GameCube versions as much as the GBA ones, but everything that I WISHED I could do in Colosseum can be done in XD.

The main differences are as follows:

1. What we all wished for has happened .. you can SAVE the game anywhere, anytime, as often as you like! This was by far the most annoying thing that I discovered when I first bought Colosseum. I was so used to saving my game before any major battle, or before trying to catch a "one-shot-only" Pokemon. With XD, you no longer have to seek out a PokeCenter or a computer to save the game. This makes all the difference in the world. I am no longer "afraid" of what's lurking around the corner because I can always start over if I wasn't ready for what was lurking in the darkness! LOL

2. You can catch WILD POKEMON in XD. Another thing that I could never get used to in Colosseum. In XD, you are shown three "Poke Spots" where you leave treats (bait) for wild Pokemon. You have a Pokemon-detector that goes off if any wild Pokemon are munching your treats at a Poke Spot. Again, with the new "save feature", you can save the game and THEN go hunting. If you kill the wild Pokemon by accident, just restart.

3. There is a cool new Purification machine so you can purify up to NINE Pokemon at the same time. Very much a time saver. No more dragging around Pokemon that you never intend to use just to open up their hearts.

4. New story line. Some old towns, some new towns, but an interesting storyline throughout.

5. Graphics. Graphics are noticibly better in XD.

6. Shadow Moves. Instead of one shadow move, all shadow pokemon automatically come with at least two. There are many possible shadow moves .. all with different strengths and effects. Much more interesting.

7. New Pokemon. There are (at least) two new Pokemon. You can't catch them, but I think their appearance foreshadows a new batch of Pokemon which will probably be available in the next version of the game. One character even mentions that new Pokemon are being spotted all over the land.

All in all, much better than Colosseum. Just adding a few simple changes (most notably the "save feature") brings a whole new enjoyment to an older game. Pokemaniacs will not be disappointed with this purchase.

NOTE: As I have suggested in my other reviews, buy the NINTENDO POWER guide instead of the Prima guide. MUCH more complete.

No more mistakes!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 17 / 20
Date: January 27, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Pokemon XD: Gale of Darkness is very fun. It has much better graphics than Colliseum. This time, there is an actual story. Brand new cities, brand new characters, and brand new pokemon. You can also catch wild pokemon and save anywhere in the world, anytime! It is much easier to purify, with the new purify chamber that has nine chambers. More moves, especially shadow moves. If you have a GBA or a DS, you can trade your pokemon onto XD, and you can crush. With all new minigames and 4th generation pokemon, this is a full fledged game.

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