>>38152566i've been playing through XD gale of darkness lately cause it's the only pokemon game i've never finished. idk why these games get the hate they do, they're actually a really fun variation on the standard formula. all double battles is really cool.
people bitch about "no wild pokemon" but honestly, i'm pretty fucking tired of random wild encounters. not only are zubat caves & surf routes horrible cancer, but you basically have to look up what routes have which pokemon in the normal games since all of the good things have like 5-15% encounter rates, and you don't know which routes have anything good unless you have the game memorized...
downside of shadow pokemon snagging is that the games don't have all that much replay value cause it's the same guys every time, but whatever. you get enough pokemon for a couple replays with pretty different parties from pretty early on anyhow.
also these games got rid of HM's in gen 3, while the mainline games still had them for gen 4, so honestly, ahead of their time there too.
the trainer names are really fucking weird though...
