Pokémon XG: Next Gen - The DEFINITIVE Way To Play Pokémon XD

Pokemon Colosseum and Pokemon XD: these were the two 3D Pokemon adventures on the GameCube that attempted to spice up the mainline gameplay with a set-up that was quite the departure from the standard, but they left many people cold. I thought they were interesting experiments, but I have to agree that they both could have been better. The question is, how?

Well, many years after, a fanmade mod of Pokemon XD has been created: Pokemon XG - Next Gen. This has transformed the game into something far beyond anything I had ever known I'd wanted. Allow me to explain why...

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Golden Lub Lub drawn by Dragonfetus.

[RelanxStars]

Thanks for the great review! Really informative and insightful without too many spoilers. I’m happy you enjoyed it!

[realbepis]

15 years later and this game still has better animations then the mainline series lol.

[Sean_Bird]

I loved Pokémon Colosseum when I was younger, but I never played XD. The fact that there’s a full-fledged mod out for XD is both surprising and really cool.

[qoyote]

Similar unpopular opinion: in a series where so many characters are like "you shouldn't just care about Pokemon's strength, it's the bond that's important", it's weird that the way to win fights is to breed them from birth and roadmap their whole lives to get the right values.

[maddiehunter]

holy shit, they practically reprogrammed the entire thing. just because they put in *that* much effort is enough to sell me on it

[douglasarchibald]

wow, If I remember correctly, the shadow moves in XD were used to test the physical special split for gen 4 so I'm happy this rom includes it for all the moves

[TheDiego]

It'd be cool if you covered more of these "definitive hacks" in Pokemon, there are many other great ones as well

[mrsuperheatran]

I loved this hack! I loved that it improved on movesets like giving Swellow Extreme speed.

[Neenscrame]

Hol' up, the Mudkip line gets Aqua Jet AND Liquidation?!

[batofdestiny]

Glad to see people giving love to these games. Very underrated. I didn't know there were mods for this!!!

[TheAwesomeDarkNinja]

This is a dream honestly. Imagine if the devs gave Colosseum a facelift.

[forestdragonwing]

As someone whose only Pokemon game was Pokemon XD, and who didn't even play Pokemon Red until a few years ago, this mod looks amazing.

[AKitchell]

Even crazier, there are two Shadow Moves that are super effective against Shadow Pokemon: Shadow Hunter (physical) and Shadow Slayer (special). So, really watch out for those!

[RedMageCole]

Very happy to see some love for XG, this mod is awesome! Gotta get back to it myself, the slow battles can be a bit of a slog for me personally but I can find other things to do in the downtime.
I do have one minor complaint, though: for some reason, Ampharos was not given the nice treatment the other Mega Evolved Pokemon got. For one thing, it's still an Electric type rather than an Electric/Dragon type which feels like a wasted opportunity to me. Second, its stats took a hit all around: compared to its old stat spread of 90/75/85/115/90/55, it now has 95/60/70/120/80/20. Minor boost in HP and Special Attack at the cost of a bad hit to Attack, Defense, Special Defense and especially Speed. I will say that at the very least, Ampharos does get Tail Glow and Cotton Guard to boost itself up, but in my opinion giving the poor thing a BST of an Audino seems unnecessary in a game where Earthquake is the best thing since sliced bread.

However, I echo all of Git's points: XG is an excellent game and definitely worth a try as a Pokemon game that has not made me turn on my 'no items' rule to make it harder, just want to warn some Ampharos lovers (though for me, I already have Salamence and Sceptile on my team, I don't need more dragons).

[JackPR]

I had started this game on my phone but lost the save when I switched phones. I started it a few days ago and am already halfway through again, this was my favorite game from my childhood and this mod really breathes new life into it

[DarkFoxKit]

Thanks for covering this mod, I really wanna play it. I used to play Pokemon XD all the time. This mod is exactly something I've been looking for to give me a whole new experience with the game. :D Also, as far as I know, Pokemon XD's shinies are impossible to get unless they're wild Pokemon. So I guess this mod also fixes it where you *can* get shiny Shadow Pokemon, which is awesome!

[hawklass]

thanks a bunch dude !!! I was doing it with tsukuyomi and it didn't want to work!!! you really saved me <3

[driptcg]

Omg, thanks u so much for sharing this!

I saw another video reference this mod in passing and i immediately looked it up and found ur video. This looks absolutely beautiful!! Cant wait to play it

[vktrlndwll]

Tried the rom hack. Had a lot of fun trying out smogon strategies and nuzlocking the game. That was damn damn damn difficult. Got to shadow lugia, got wrecked and said "ok I give up." Also, Umbreon is legit busted in this game. Helping hand, yawn, wish, taunt(that works), snarl, and thicc as hell, it's a fan-TASTIC team player.

[JellyJiggler]

This mod is easily one of my favorite pokemon experiences ever. Thanks for bringing attention to it.