Built in the continuity of Pokémon Stadium on Nintendo 64, the episodes on GameCube were to allow the player to truly taste the experience of 3D in the marvelous world of Pokémon. Unfortunately, it is clear that the result is very dull and that we will quickly prefer productions on laptops. Explanations.
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Taking place only a few years after the events of Pokémon Colosseum, we are still faced with the problem of shadow Pokémon. So to speak, the latter have completely withdrawn into themselves and become particularly aggressive towards humans. As one might expect, a mysterious organization then wishes to take advantage of this and satisfy their domination over the whole world. The problem is all the more serious since the famous Lugia, the legendary Pokémon that adorned the cartridge of the silver version on GB, has also gone over to the dark side and is increasing its attacks on local villages. We then embody a young trainer who will then have the heavy task of putting an end to this situation and purifying all the charming little critters. An entire program !
Di Doo Dah!
Admittedly, video games offering a somewhat crude story are commonplace, but we wouldn't allow ourselves to break so much sugar on Pokémon XD if his achievement wasn't as flat as Jane Birkins' chest. The character design is bad, the rare animations are lousy, the sets are hopelessly bare… and we can't go on praising mediocrity for long. Finally, there is undoubtedly a slight improvement technically compared to its predecessor but on the other hand, it would have been difficult to succeed in doing worse. Moreover, we realize that the developers are supporters of the cult of minimalism as soon as we start to take an interest in the gameplay. With unequaled linearity, you quickly lose pleasure in browsing the different environments. Same feelings for the clashes. If the latter are quite interesting tactically by highlighting the fights with four Pokémon simultaneously, they still lack a little dynamism which makes us pick up very quickly. Do not seek either to save the furniture on the side of the soundtrack which, in apotheosis, is well below average. The show then seems to be ensured by the "Versus" mode which allows player trainers to fight with each other on the big screen with a predefined team or to import their team from its version if it is recent enough (Pokemon FireRed, Leaf Green, Ruby, Sapphire or even Emerald) In short, shouting scandal at Nintendo to obtain a refund would certainly not be ungrateful in this case.
