Pokemon XD Gale Of Darkness, A long Grinding Game

Pokemon XD Gale Of Darkness

Pokemon XD Gale of Darkness is a complicated game that I believe when I first tried it I was too young to fully grasp the game. I played it again recently for around two weeks straight after my wisdom teeth were removed. While being bed ridden by that with a combination of a sickness I played this game constantly. This game starts as a cut scene of the legendary Pokemon Lugia attacking a large ship and abducting it, then it cuts to your character watching TV in a lounge. As you explore where you are, eventually you discover that you are working in a lab under your mother. You have to do tasks with your sister which takes you to the Dr's place, where you experience your first battle with your level 5 Evee. After winning you take your sister home and are sent to pick up parts for the new creation, at the port where the parts are you can talk to a man in the parts shop to get a stone to evolve your Evee into whatever Eveelution you would like. After this you learn about shadow Pokemon which is the new feature of this game, as the scientist of the lab gets abducted by a strange group of men. You can capture shadow Pokemon with the new invention, after you steal the thugs shadow Pokemon the professor is hauled away and you begin your challenging journey.

Shadow Pokemon

Shadow Pokemon was a genius idea that was added to make a new plot for Pokemon, due to how these Pokemon are rare but not impossible to find. There is only around 80 shadow Pokemon that are able to be caught or technically snagged. These Pokemon often only have two moves and sometimes only one, they are not regular moves either. The moves are special shadow moves which deal large amounts of damage or make it so that the opponent cannot escape. They are very popular moves for killing enemies fast, but they have a chance of making your Pokemon angry which means it will not listen to you occasionally, but they will also take recoil damage. 

The Lessons of the game

As I played this game when I was older I learned that it is a very very long game, with my first complete play through of just the story. This one play through took me around 40 hours of in game time to beat the game. I also learned about patience, due to the addition of shadow Pokemon. Upon accidentally killing a few of the shadow Pokemon on accident and realizing that they can also appear at snack spots. Snack spots are where the player can go to bait a trap to to try to catch normal Pokemon as well as the shadow Pokemon that fled from battle. Over all I believe this game is a great game to play if you love battling and beating a game in your own way, as well as a journey that constantly involves either getting new Pokemon or using a team from beginning to end.

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  1. UnknownNovember 26, 2018 at 1:41 PM

    this was a great game i like how you put this on your blog and i agree with what your saying 100%

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