"Why is this so clean" welcome smant to the best pokemon experience ever created by the actual pokemon company. Whoever created this, should have been promoted.
Idk if it was made by the same team as Colosseum, but Nintendo hired the same team that made some the recent Dragon Quest games at the time, and asked them to make Pokemon Colosseum, fun fact is that none of the people on the team was a Pokemon fan and they still managed to make this masterpiece
@@Calmtimer It was indeed the same team! They knew practically nothing about Pokemon going into Colosseum and what they ended up going for was a game with a protagonist that would be about as old as the fans of kids who had played gen 1 (so about 17) and they designed it so as to not hold the player's hand so much! Then in XD, they kind of improved on everything they'd learned from Colosseum.
Dude I love how expressive the Pokemon animations are in this game. Little details like how houndour cowers a little at being hit before facing his fear and jumping back in or delcatty regaining composure and sacheting back into position
I played both Colosseum and XD multiple times as a kid long before Gen6 was a thing and was so utterly disappointed by faint and damaged animations in Gen6 haha
Big memories with XD - it was my first ‘big’ console game. I remember never using any other pokemon aside from Flareon and Ursaring, with Ursaring basically carrying me with Return. My ma’ always thought it’s idle animation was funny, and to this day remembers and can mimic it (which I thought was hilarious at 9). Good times.
This game is the source of some of my best and worst pokemon memories. A Togetic carried me through Mt.Battle and has remained my favorite pokemon ever since. I traded the Lugia from this game to a friend who was struggling in a gen 3 game, expecting to get it back the next day, and he immediately traded it to another friend I didn't know
I got news for ya, buddy.... He didn't trade it to his friend. He traded it to his other game so you thought he wouldn't have it anymore and then kept it...
call me petty, but I would've quit that friendship for that. actually did that when someone wiped a save from a game where I collected all my fav pokemon from older games... that and had him pay me money.
This game is an improvement on Colosseum in basically every way - except you have to play as some wiener of a kid who rides a scooter instead of a badass in a trench coat who rides a hover motorcycle.
Okay I know I'm only one person, but I would love to see you try and 100% the Orre Colosseum in XD. It is one of the most, if not, the most brutal challenge in a Pokemon game I have ever seen.
Can anyone tell me why after making this and Pokémon Colosseum, Genius Sonority was relegated to making Pokémon Café ReMix and other similar Pokémon apps? It just seems so ass backwards. Like "You made the first home console Pokémon games and they still hold up today. Instead of letting you make new spin-offs however, how about we let you make our mobile style games for the rest of eternity." Like I know that most of the people working at Genius Sonority aren't the same people, but still.
My first Pokémon game before I got sapphire. I remember my first party wipe was my bday night and I was in my room playing and cried my eyes out and shouted to the adults downstairs all my pets died lol
I remember I made my eevee into Vaporeon for this game but picked the fire stone in the beginning. I knew there was a vulpix and growlith in the game so I just did it that way to get both of them to evolve. Worked out great since I found that water stone later.
I know that you just recently did both of the GameCube Pokemon games, but there are patches for both out that highly affect the game in a positive way. In grand coliseum, you can choose Kanto, Johto, or Hoemn shadow Pokémon, adds new shadow Pokemon, and also adds increased difficulty and special split. Pokemon XG does so much more with the game, like adding new Shadow moves, new types, new Pokemon, and tons more. I’d highly suggest playing those through at a later date!
They had a chance with this developer again in Pokemon Battle Revolution, but for some reason turned out more similar to the Stadium games (no story!). But if you watch some of it there’s a chance it would have been a sequel to this. Even the composer references the music in this game, like ten times
Fun fact - All the Protaganist in Gale of Darkness and Colosseum are 15 years old due to the developers who know nothing about pokemon wanting to reach a certain fan base
@@pokedude720 Pokemon cartel likes em young so the Ore boarder police only send them to juvi for a few days instead of putting them in the slammer when they get caught crossing the boarder with smuggled pokemon.
Just gonna throw this out there, there’s a really fun romhack of this game called DX. It’s pretty challenging, adds a bunch of new pokemon and the fairy type, and would be fun to watch
I remember the last time I replayed this game: I choose Vaporeon and Shiftry, then made it to the end with literally nothing else because none of the other Pokémon were a high enough level to keep up. I wasn’t about to sit there and grind when my main 2 annihilated everything.
1:07:03 Well, at this point in the game your character's had their eevee since early childhood. It's not a starter you got yesterday, you two have been hangin out for years. Makes sense he'd evolve near immediately.
The ball ceiling story reminds me of when I was like 12 our class was in the gym, and our gym had high ceilings, we were playing volleyball and when I tried a serving spike for the first time the ball went straight up and got stuck and it was the only time a ball had gotten stuck up there lol. Noone bullied me after that
I’ve been waiting for the XD videos if for no other reason than I never had the chance to play it so I will live vicariously thru Smant with this one :)
the pair up with pokemon company and genius sonority was a match made in heaven with a nice plot point involving shadow pokemon and the animation movement of the pokemon beats that of modern pokemon games while still able to maintain close to 30FPS when modern pokemon games can barely maintain around 15FPS.
The + next to some levels is a signifier of a new mechanic in this game. Enemy shadow Pokémon get a small buff to all their stats (you can call this a Shadow Boost). It goes away when you catch them yourself though.
Why are so many stream viewers obsessed with timers? Someone asking about it around the 33 minute mark on this video, and then people on DougDoug's streams are CONSTANTLY foaming at the mouth telling doug to pause/start timers, or put one up in the first place. I don't understand.
Seeing somebody using the "what Psychic physical moves are there in this gen?" as the argument for Claydol being a special attacker is bad, because using their own logic, what special ground moves are in gen 3?
Man I played this and Colosseum non stop when they came out. I still do once in a while even though I’m an old 30 year old now… anyway yes you win the tutorial fight if you EQ twice.
This game has the best fight animations! All the other games are soooooo lazy about them... 15 years later, and now we just get bouncing in the new games.
Dude I started on these, played Black 2 as my first mainline game and I was like wtf is this shit, they just stand still. Like at least the 3D mainline ones have them doing SOMETHING
@@McAwesomePants69 Black 2 actually had amazing animations. I think you're talking about Gen 4 where they just stand there. The 3D ones are bad too, I know you've seen the double kick animation just being the model moving up and down, lol
I had this game on Gamecube as a kid, and one of my favorite things about the game was the animations and the amount of love put into them for every Pokemon AND every character. That, and the music SLAPS. But I think there's a built in game gallery for all of the Pokemon fainting animations, if memory serves me?
If you did that nuzlocke battle with Pokémon challenges but instead YOU were each others rivals and ran simultaneous nuzlockes. That would be something special
That lovrina fight can really be threatening when you go into it with purified Pokémon Take it just from the Mareep damage - it was doing 10 damage while it was still a shadow Pokémon, so it would’ve done 40-43 if it was purified (out of its 48 health). That delcatty is STRONG for that point of the game
"Does this look better than Sword and Shield". Ah, you must have missed all the videos in 2019 where people were pointing out how the Gamecube games are leagues above the Switch games.
I remember getting this when I was probably 12 years old for Christmas. I also remember my family thinking I was weird for wanting it and too old for that kind of game. Now I’m 29 and still play Pokémon 😂
Let me say this Ant, XD is STACKED! 15/83 of those Shadow Pokémon have a Gimmick related to them. 4 Pokémon that can G-MAX in Sword/ Shield and 11 THAT CAN MEGA EVOLVE! I know 15 is only 23% of all 83 Shadow Pokémon, but, Colosseum had 6 Mega Evolvers and that is IT. But, if you can, transfer your Scyther to Legends Arceus for a Rare Kleavor.
I gotta say if you need a new game to play. I HIGHLY recommend Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky. It is easily the best written pokemon game by a long shot.
"Why is this so clean" welcome smant to the best pokemon experience ever created by the actual pokemon company. Whoever created this, should have been promoted.
Idk if it was made by the same team as Colosseum, but Nintendo hired the same team that made some the recent Dragon Quest games at the time, and asked them to make Pokemon Colosseum, fun fact is that none of the people on the team was a Pokemon fan and they still managed to make this masterpiece
Also because he's emulating it at 4x AA. I actually played it on proper hardware recently and the jaggies are real.
@@Calmtimer It was indeed the same team! They knew practically nothing about Pokemon going into Colosseum and what they ended up going for was a game with a protagonist that would be about as old as the fans of kids who had played gen 1 (so about 17) and they designed it so as to not hold the player's hand so much! Then in XD, they kind of improved on everything they'd learned from Colosseum.
It definitely wasn’t Gamefreak
The developer is Genius Sonority
Dude I love how expressive the Pokemon animations are in this game.
Little details like how houndour cowers a little at being hit before facing his fear and jumping back in or delcatty regaining composure and sacheting back into position
I played both Colosseum and XD multiple times as a kid long before Gen6 was a thing and was so utterly disappointed by faint and damaged animations in Gen6 haha
Misdreavus might have the best death animation in this game. It's so ominous
Colosseum and XD use the same models from the Stadium series, with some touch ups on the quality
Big memories with XD - it was my first ‘big’ console game. I remember never using any other pokemon aside from Flareon and Ursaring, with Ursaring basically carrying me with Return. My ma’ always thought it’s idle animation was funny, and to this day remembers and can mimic it (which I thought was hilarious at 9). Good times.
I got to the final area of this masterpiece and my memory card got corrupted
omg lol my mom used to make fun of the pokemons animations!!!!
This game is the source of some of my best and worst pokemon memories.
A Togetic carried me through Mt.Battle and has remained my favorite pokemon ever since.
I traded the Lugia from this game to a friend who was struggling in a gen 3 game, expecting to get it back the next day, and he immediately traded it to another friend I didn't know
I got news for ya, buddy.... He didn't trade it to his friend. He traded it to his other game so you thought he wouldn't have it anymore and then kept it...
@@mikesenju8734 Can confirm, I was the Gamecube
Rip luigi
That's so rude >:(
call me petty, but I would've quit that friendship for that. actually did that when someone wiped a save from a game where I collected all my fav pokemon from older games... that and had him pay me money.
This game is an improvement on Colosseum in basically every way - except you have to play as some wiener of a kid who rides a scooter instead of a badass in a trench coat who rides a hover motorcycle.
And jovi exists
With a babe no less
My only complaint is that we lose the two battle arenas/coliseums from the Unders which were my absolutely favorite battle backgrounds
Protag simp confirmed. At least col protag looks like he could take someone in a fight.
As soon as I saw you can save anywhere in this game, I never went back to Colosseum.
Never in my life did I think I’d hear “Shadow Luigi taking the boat”
I don’t think I’ve ever seen that Metagross crit with Sludge Bomb. I’ve seen people lose to it though.
I've seen the crit, but I've never seen a loss. 2 Earthquakes wins no matter if it's a crit or not
Never fought the metagross, only ever played the XG mod version where you're the metagross up against a gardevoir
Okay I know I'm only one person, but I would love to see you try and 100% the Orre Colosseum in XD. It is one of the most, if not, the most brutal challenge in a Pokemon game I have ever seen.
Original Stream Date:
Wednesday, October 27, 2021
thank you
That would explain why no one freaked out at MORBIT
Bro, I think this is the first time I've ever seen someone loose that Salamence vs. Metagross battle
"Pokémon Pro"
It was probably due to good strategy in the days when you were probably supposed to spam earthquake
@@Kyush4 But even nowadays nobody will try to set up on a Metagross lol
Huh? All you have to do is use anything other than earthquake and you lose the fight it's very easy to do
lose*
This game felt like a fever dream when I first got it back in 2006. That Ursaring with Return was a BEAST through most of the story
Pokemon XD and Colosseum are so good i wish they would bring this genre back
Yea, but I don't think Pokemon Company will ever work with Genius Sonority again
@@thelegacyofgaming2928 cause they don't wanna be 1-upped at their own game.
“I don’t want anyone screaming my name”
In a game in a gen where EVERY name is in CAPS LOCK…
“Ant is out of usable POKéMON.”
Can anyone tell me why after making this and Pokémon Colosseum, Genius Sonority was relegated to making Pokémon Café ReMix and other similar Pokémon apps? It just seems so ass backwards. Like "You made the first home console Pokémon games and they still hold up today. Instead of letting you make new spin-offs however, how about we let you make our mobile style games for the rest of eternity." Like I know that most of the people working at Genius Sonority aren't the same people, but still.
Pokemon Battle Revolution sank things
"Are you supposed to lose that?"
This is back in the day where damage output was the only strategy.
I approve of this video for its usage of Spheal and the purification of said Spheal. That is all. Until the next Spheal video.
My first Pokémon game before I got sapphire. I remember my first party wipe was my bday night and I was in my room playing and cried my eyes out and shouted to the adults downstairs all my pets died lol
It's funny you mention Sw/Sh, because many of the people who worked on this game at Genius Sonority went to GF and worked on Sw/Sh.
Mmmmmmmm
They must've gotten old then, because the animations in this game are actually good.
I just beat GoD a few days ago! one of the GOAT Pokemon games for sure. Hella stoked to see this VOD :D Sad I missed the stream tho.
i am glad this VOD was uploaded! i think i missed this stream. always looking forward to your content :)
I remember I made my eevee into Vaporeon for this game but picked the fire stone in the beginning. I knew there was a vulpix and growlith in the game so I just did it that way to get both of them to evolve. Worked out great since I found that water stone later.
The one and only Pokémon game where the player’s mom actually has a name
not true, dppt's mother is named johanna
The purify chamber seems confusing at the start but once you get used to it it's a godsend
I know that you just recently did both of the GameCube Pokemon games, but there are patches for both out that highly affect the game in a positive way. In grand coliseum, you can choose Kanto, Johto, or Hoemn shadow Pokémon, adds new shadow Pokemon, and also adds increased difficulty and special split. Pokemon XG does so much more with the game, like adding new Shadow moves, new types, new Pokemon, and tons more. I’d highly suggest playing those through at a later date!
Gamecube games were pretty smooth. It's still sad pokemon didn't come up with better games after 2005.
They had a chance with this developer again in Pokemon Battle Revolution, but for some reason turned out more similar to the Stadium games (no story!). But if you watch some of it there’s a chance it would have been a sequel to this. Even the composer references the music in this game, like ten times
People sleep on the gamecube as a console thing was built different
what?
It was the most powerful of its generation.
Fun fact - All the Protaganist in Gale of Darkness and Colosseum are 15 years old due to the developers who know nothing about pokemon wanting to reach a certain fan base
Micheal I can see, but Wes was only 15?
@@pokedude720 Pokemon cartel likes em young so the Ore boarder police only send them to juvi for a few days instead of putting them in the slammer when they get caught crossing the boarder with smuggled pokemon.
@@JFarencinot juvi, I think you meant JOVI
@@pokedude720 Wes is 17, Michael is 13.
1:20
Hippity Hoppity, this is now my property.
Oh Ant.. Should've just used earthquake twice in that opening battle xD
I've never seen somebody not do that. It's such an obvious choice 😂
Just gonna throw this out there, there’s a really fun romhack of this game called DX. It’s pretty challenging, adds a bunch of new pokemon and the fairy type, and would be fun to watch
That sounds super cool do u know where i could find the romhack?
Look up Pokemon XG
how do i find that hahah
XG next gen
Gives you a shiny beldum as a starter
I remember the last time I replayed this game:
I choose Vaporeon and Shiftry, then made it to the end with literally nothing else because none of the other Pokémon were a high enough level to keep up.
I wasn’t about to sit there and grind when my main 2 annihilated everything.
I miss this game so much….my childhood right here. Possibly one of the first “real” RPGs I ever played, I’m pretty sure before even FireRed.
Finally I can see Ant playing my second favourite pokemon game
What’s your first
@@janosvarga3263 definitely Explorers of Sky
@@ichliebefireemblem7241 based, as the kids say
@@ichliebefireemblem7241 red and blue were better imo
@@ichliebefireemblem7241 Shouldn't spinoffs be their own category?
1:07:03 Well, at this point in the game your character's had their eevee since early childhood. It's not a starter you got yesterday, you two have been hangin out for years. Makes sense he'd evolve near immediately.
The ball ceiling story reminds me of when I was like 12 our class was in the gym, and our gym had high ceilings, we were playing volleyball and when I tried a serving spike for the first time the ball went straight up and got stuck and it was the only time a ball had gotten stuck up there lol. Noone bullied me after that
I’ve been waiting for the XD videos if for no other reason than I never had the chance to play it so I will live vicariously thru Smant with this one :)
Dang man, you missed out in your childhood. Aside from Gen 3, this was the only Pokemon game people played for a good while until the DS era
Dolphin emulator, you can just play it on the computer
"Smash or pas son the mom?"
Smash dude, definitely Smash.
Someone in the chat said 'what if they gave wooper a variant' lolol
the pair up with pokemon company and genius sonority was a match made in heaven with a nice plot point involving shadow pokemon and the animation movement of the pokemon beats that of modern pokemon games while still able to maintain close to 30FPS when modern pokemon games can barely maintain around 15FPS.
I just dug out my GameCube and gale of darkness yesterday to start again. Crazy timing with the VOD Smant.
'Pokemon Pro' loses the first tutorial battle
Really hope you complete the 100 battle challenge, like a real Pokémon pro
Honestly made me so good at double battles as a kid there’s some strats in there lol
Mt. Battle was some of the most fun I've ever had in a video game.
I didn’t realize this till now, but I knew so much about Pokémon back then versus now. Now I realized why I stopped playing it.
The + next to some levels is a signifier of a new mechanic in this game. Enemy shadow Pokémon get a small buff to all their stats (you can call this a Shadow Boost). It goes away when you catch them yourself though.
“Pokémon: uwu” will be a FireRed ROM hack by 2023.
It's crazy how an almost 3 minute bathroom break is like long for Tanner
Why are so many stream viewers obsessed with timers? Someone asking about it around the 33 minute mark on this video, and then people on DougDoug's streams are CONSTANTLY foaming at the mouth telling doug to pause/start timers, or put one up in the first place. I don't understand.
Seeing somebody using the "what Psychic physical moves are there in this gen?" as the argument for Claydol being a special attacker is bad, because using their own logic, what special ground moves are in gen 3?
My man losing the tutorial, that's wild
Man I played this and Colosseum non stop when they came out. I still do once in a while even though I’m an old 30 year old now… anyway yes you win the tutorial fight if you EQ twice.
This game has the best fight animations! All the other games are soooooo lazy about them...
15 years later, and now we just get bouncing in the new games.
Dude I started on these, played Black 2 as my first mainline game and I was like wtf is this shit, they just stand still. Like at least the 3D mainline ones have them doing SOMETHING
@@McAwesomePants69 Black 2 actually had amazing animations. I think you're talking about Gen 4 where they just stand there. The 3D ones are bad too, I know you've seen the double kick animation just being the model moving up and down, lol
@@thelegacyofgaming2928 I've never played gen 4, it's def Black 2, but really I just want XD/Colosseum style animation tbh
My 3rd favorite game in the Pokémon series.
Its just behind Emerald and Black 2
It’s actually Pokemon emergency department
the main battle theme sounds like the background music for a used car dealership near me
Still no shortened edited video? Guess I’ll binge this 😊
I had this game on Gamecube as a kid, and one of my favorite things about the game was the animations and the amount of love put into them for every Pokemon AND every character. That, and the music SLAPS.
But I think there's a built in game gallery for all of the Pokemon fainting animations, if memory serves me?
Love this! Thanks for the VOD!
41:30 Mario Sunshine? Is that you?
50:42 Also Darth Vader, apparently
He's asking why the game looks so good like he isn't playing it on Dolphin with 4x AA and mutlicore rendering.
I WAS LOOKING FOR THIS VOD YES
I've been looking forward to this! Thanks for uploading these, dude!
Also, to those guys who said "Hi UA-cam"...
Hi Twitch Chat!
35:00 weeeelll... they only have one snag machine, and they made it scaled for a child's arm 😅
If you did that nuzlocke battle with Pokémon challenges but instead YOU were each others rivals and ran simultaneous nuzlockes. That would be something special
Even having you two pick your starters at the start would be cool!
4:28:00 wow baltoy really just self destructed without using self destruct
Can we get 41:50 - 42:04 clipped? Ant hating Jovi is hilarious.
When are you going to edit down the XD Gale of Darkness VODs?
That lovrina fight can really be threatening when you go into it with purified Pokémon
Take it just from the Mareep damage - it was doing 10 damage while it was still a shadow Pokémon, so it would’ve done 40-43 if it was purified (out of its 48 health). That delcatty is STRONG for that point of the game
not gunna lie i didn’t know you could loose that simulation battle
Noooooooooooooooo I can't wait another year for the next part
Dusted off my gamecube and was playing XD then the algorithm showed me this
I can't believe you were so reluctant to use a fire type against Roselia lol
funny that the loading screens are in XD shorter than in the new Violet and scarlet LOL
2:00:46 what in the actual fuck?!?!!?!? "rub down your pokemon gently" like umm idgaf if its its heart is closed off. i am not doing that! hahahaha
There was no Minus electric mouse given, but there is data for a shadow Minus electric mouse in the game it’s just not used
I played Colosseum a tonne back in the day but somehow had never heard of Gale of Darkness until now.
“Mom I frew up”🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
"Does this look better than Sword and Shield". Ah, you must have missed all the videos in 2019 where people were pointing out how the Gamecube games are leagues above the Switch games.
We had pokemon colleseum when I was real small. I couldn't really get it, but there was a mini game corner we were obsessed with
Can’t wait for part 2!
Cant wait to see this game in its entirety
This game was made by ex dragon quest developers who didn't know pokemon
You can buy a big variety of pokeballs at that old train diner
3:17:41 Actually "XD", the title of the game, stands for "Extra Dimension".
why are vods uploaded so long after the stream i wanna be up to date but dont have time to watch live DX
I really wish he went with jolteon lol it’s my favorite Pokémon.
1:57:16
XD skip line cracked me up
I remember getting this when I was probably 12 years old for Christmas.
I also remember my family thinking I was weird for wanting it and too old for that kind of game.
Now I’m 29 and still play Pokémon 😂
Let me say this Ant, XD is STACKED! 15/83 of those Shadow Pokémon have a Gimmick related to them. 4 Pokémon that can G-MAX in Sword/ Shield and 11 THAT CAN MEGA EVOLVE! I know 15 is only 23% of all 83 Shadow Pokémon, but, Colosseum had 6 Mega Evolvers and that is IT.
But, if you can, transfer your Scyther to Legends Arceus for a Rare Kleavor.
I tried it as a nuzlocke where i could only catch the female shadow pokemon that appeared
I gotta say if you need a new game to play. I HIGHLY recommend Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky. It is easily the best written pokemon game by a long shot.
that cutscene water was nuts
Easily my favourite Pokémon game. Hope they remaster it
Pokemon ED killed me
51:45 ayo krane and grunt moving kinda mad
the whole game back when it came out i used ursurang and tyanitar my all time fav pokemon duo
I'm pretty sure this was the stream I got my first gifted sub in
How did I just find this video
Ok, 2:46 first time I ever saw someone actually lost this battle. Huh.
Anyways, still watching this so...
Pokemon pro lost in a tutorial battle ? somebodys lying here
If u ever catch a nosepass please name it Ant