Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness (Game)

Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness

GAME » on October 3, 2005

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A Pokemon RPG focusing on the purification of Shadow Pokemon, focusing on XD001, or Shadow Lugia.

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Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness is a stripped down Pokémonadventure for the Gamecube. Unlike its handheld counterparts it’s not open world, instead giving you a map to fast travel between towns and cities. Another big change in the Pokémon formula is that Pokémon XD uses double battles almost exclusively. The biggest difference between XD and other Pokémon games is how you catch Pokémon. Instead of random encounters in tall grass you must bait traps to find wild Pokémon, or you can “snag” shadow Pokémon from rival trainers.

XD-001, A.K.A. Shadow Lugia.

Shadow Pokémon have had their hearts closed off by Team Cipher and can’t use any of their standard attacks. You unlock their hearts by putting them in a purification chamber with regular Pokémon surrounding them and making them listen to music. The order of the surrounding Pokémon determines the tempo of the purification, the faster the tempo the quicker the heart is unlocked.

Shadow Pokemon and Moves

In XD, there are almost twice as many shadow pokemon as compared to Colosseum. The shadow moves have been expanded from one to a sizeable amount, and are listed as follows;

Shadow Moves

Shadow Blast (XD - 001 only)
Shadow Blitz
Shadow Bolt (shadow Zapdos (Concept) only)
Shadow Break
Shadow Chill (Shadow Articuno (Concept) only)
Shadow Down
Shadow End (shadow Exeggutor, Marowak (Concept) Rhydon (Concept), Snorlax, Magnectric)
Shadow Fire (Shadow Moltres (Concept) Only)
Shadow Half (Shadow Arbok (Concept), Hitmonlee (Concept), Electabuzz (Concept), Swellow)
Shadow Hold
Shadow Mist
Shadow Panic
Shadow Rave
Shadow Rush
Shadow Shed
Shadow Sky
Shadow Storm
Shadow Wave

Trivia

This game has a total of 388 different Pokemon, unlike its 3rd generation counterparts, it has Munchlaxand Bonsly (Concept), 2 fourth generation Pokemon available in the game, although only the latter is available for battling.

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