Pokémon XD
| Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness | |
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North American cover art.
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| Developer(s) | Genius Sonority |
| Publisher(s) | The Pokémon Company |
| Distributor(s) | Nintendo |
| Director(s) | Manabu Yamana |
| Producer(s) | Gakuji Nomoto Hiroyuki Jinnai Hiroaki Tsuru |
| Designer(s) | Sui Hotate Ryota Aomi Kōji Ōno Koichi Iwata Kuniko Kobashi Chiharu Sugaya |
| Programmer(s) | Teruhito Yamaki Akihiro Yoshida |
| Writer(s) | Kazunori Orio |
| Composer(s) | Tsukasa Tawada |
| Series | Pokémon |
| Engine | Modified Pokémon Colosseum engine |
| Platform(s) | Nintendo GameCube |
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| Genre(s) | Role-playing video game |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness, released in Japan as Pokémon XD Yami no Kaze Dark Lugia (ポケモンXD 闇の旋風ダーク・ルギア Pokemon Ekkusudī Yami no Senpū Dāku Rugia?, lit. "Pokémon XD: Whirlwind of Darkness Dark Lugia"), is the second role-playing video game from Nintendo's Pokémon franchise for the Nintendo GameCube. It is the successor of the GameCube game Pokémon Colosseum. The game takes place in Orre, the setting of Pokémon Colosseum's adventure mode. All of the Game Boy Advance Pokémon games can connect to this game through trading and Battle Mode.
The main focus of the game, like its predecessor, is to capture Shadow Pokémon and purify them. Shadow Pokémon are captured using the Snag Machine, as in Pokémon Colosseum. In this game there are 83 different Shadow Pokémon to capture. Each Shadow Pokémon has a set of Shadow moves that it knows to give it more variety in combat, which is a significant change from Pokémon Colosseum. If at some point in the game the player cannot catch a Shadow Pokémon, there is a second chance available: at random points throughout the game an antagonist Miror B. will appear and have a Shadow Pokémon that the player was not able to catch. Once the player has obtained 82 of the Shadow Pokémon Miror B. will appear one final time with the final obtainable Shadow Pokémon in the game.
Once a Shadow Pokémon is captured the player then has to purify it. There are two different ways of purifying Pokémon: one way is to use the Purification Chamber, and the other is to carry the Pokémon in the party just like in Pokémon Colosseum. The Purification Chamber allows the player to place anywhere from 1 to 4 Pokémon in a circle and a Shadow Pokémon is placed in the center of this circle. Depending on the Pokémon that are placed in the circle the tempo will increase, which increases the speed of purifying the Shadow Pokémon. After that the Shadow Pokémon will be purified as the player walks around, and they will be notified when a Shadow Pokémon is ready to be purified. When the player carries the Pokémon in the party and battles with them, they will gain experience when they are purified. If the Purification Chamber is used then the Pokémon will not gain any experience, but with the Purification Chamber multiple Pokémon can be purified at the same time.
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