For everyone asking: I AM STREAMING XD GALE OF DARKNESS IN LITERALLY 30 MINUTES ON TWITCH

Imagine being in a competitive Pokémon match live at a coliseum with thousands of spectators, and this dude with weaker Pokémon than you pulls out a master ball and steals your metagross.

"Confused, paralyzed, and attracted" sounds like a night out with the bois

I’ll never forget when Evice used a dying slowking’s skill swap on his slaking to get rid of truant and absolutely blowing my mind to pieces when I was little.

So, if anyone was curious, the AI for Colosseum is similar to the AI in Gen 1. They get to see what move you make, and respond accordingly. It's why they "read" so well.

Fun fact about Colloseum, the NPC trainers cheat. they select their turns after the player, so if you heal a status or switch out a pokemon, they are very likely to reapply the status the same turn.

Seeing an adult struggle with that final boss makes my inner child SO happy just for getting that far.

seeing bosses with strategies due to the double battle system is so satisfying, wish more leaders or bosses in the main games had strategies

That final team Evice has is absolutely stacked. That's one of the most difficult battles I've seen in a Pokemon game

30:55 "Because Hyper Balls don't exist". Hyper Ball is the Japanese name for Ultra Ball. It's why they have an H on the lid.

Not catching Raikou in the lab actually makes the second encounter with Ein significantly easier than otherwise, since Raikou gets replaced with a high level Lightningrod Manectric, so Mr. Smallant was actually gigabrain here by failing to catch it. Well played as usual

Umbreon literally carried me during the last fight because it's so bulky, it kept tanking damage while toxic and confuse stalling the enemies

Another fun fact is that this game and XD are the only games where you can actually have 12 vs 12 Pokémon battles if you have 3 GBAs each can bring their full party of 6 to the battle. Can’t be done legally ever since…

15:07 "I had no idea triple kick could hit three times" Ah, I see "Double"-slap has made him doubt the name of any move indicating a number

People getting shocked at that Slaking Skill Swap never gets old.

Fun Fact: Shadow Tyranitar has a lower catch rate than Shadow Metagross. Apparently Metagross’ catch rate goes up while Tyranitar’s goes down. Some Shadow Pokémon have higher catch rates than usual while others have lower catch rates. For example, the Legendary Beasts increase their catch rates from 3 to 15.

crazy how this games combat is infinitely more visceral and engaging than what we get nowadays ;-; and this game is almost 2 decades old lmfao

Worth noting: That Tyranitar was the first time the ability Sandstream appeared in a game. To people playing this when it released, Evice might as well have sent out Kyogre/Groudon

Coliseum is how I wish pokemon games were made cause it really does have some of the best TRPG gameplay around. They just make the single player parts easy enough for anyone to play

Y'know, one thing that always unnerves me about Nascour's fight is the fact that there's no music. At all. I thought it was a bug my first run as a kid, but nope. That's intentional, designed to show just how serious the battle is.

People don't always realize that, while playing through a traditional pokemon game, (one with wild pokemon encounters) your pokemon that you use for a while are going to get really strong. Pokemon gain EVs for every pokemon they defeat, which increase their stats in unseen ways that are separate from level. (The newest games let you see what's going on behind the scenes, and actually have some freedom with it). Colosseum has EVs and IVs and everything that a "real" pokemon game has, but it gives you a VERY limited amount of pokemon that can be defeated in the entire game. Your pokemon not only level up less, but gain way fewer EVs from random battles so they don't get their stats boosted nearly as much. Most of the games give you specific advantages, but this one largely doesn't. So when people call this the "hardest official pokemon game" they are not lying.

This game is really sick I would love to see more deviations with the core pokemon system like this. If arceus ends up good I hope that leads to more stuff.

The cool thing is the reason the chose the shadow Pokemon they did for this game was so you could get a lot of the pokemon that don't appear in the gen 3 games

One of my favorite quotes is by the film director Orson Welles: "The enemy of art is the absence of limitations." Genius Sonority didn't have the same amount of resources that Game Freak did, so they were effectively forced to be more creative and move away from the "typical" Pokemon formula. That's why Colosseum and XD were so great.

i still can not over the fact that this game from the mid 2000s has better animations than sword and shield, and the music still slaps

Seeing you struggle with this game makes me even more proud to have beaten it as a child It was so hard it was the first time I HAD to use strategy in a Pokemon game

“I haven’t saved in awhile but it’ll be fine” *Famous last words*

This is one of those games a lot of us couldn't even complete as kids

Getting Ho-Oh in this game is one of the most brutal challenges in all of Pokémon

Colosseum and XD are some of the best pokemon games ever.

29:45 I love crawdaunt's getting hit animation. Just like "WHY"

Getting Ho-Oh in this game is truly a journey and I wish everyone to experience it once, _especially_ single battle Mt Battle 100(the non-story mode)

21:27 This might be good to know for the secret boss fight post-game (it's VERY hard) - the AI absolutely ABSOLUTELY cheats in this game and will pick its move(s) after yours. It will "predict" your switch-ins like 100% of the time.

The animations in this game give the Pokémon so much personality, I love it!

I loved starting w/ umbreon and espeon in this one, really needs a release on Switch i think.

Watching Ant play this without knowing that "call" will clear confusion and sleep is physically painful

The way chat was disrespecting the Admin theme honestly has me tilted.

26:50 “They actually give you a gen 3 Pokémon!” *Cries in flygon*

Would love to see a remake of these Pokémon games with updated graphics and maybe more unique designs like dark Lugia.

SUCH a cool game. Being a thief taking down a tyrannical organization is a thrilling plot, and the camera movement, and all of the trainer and Pokemon animations are so evocative! Pretty dang tough, though. Some of the music is fantastic. Other tracks are a bit odd, haha. I think I do like XD a bit more and more refined, but this was pretty epic too.

If only there was a game where every trainer had a cradily

The two Orre games are my favorite Pokemon games, honestly some of my favorite of all time. I wish Genius Sonority would be given another shot at a third game set in Orre.

Grinding the metagross was a super chill part of the stream. Probably my favorite part

Back when this came out in 05-06, I was 19 working night shift at a factory with a bunch of other people my age. Every morning after work, we would go to my house where I had set up a giant mattress/couch/pillow fort with this game in front of it and play it for hours until we passed out and woke up for work in the afternoon.

38:30 It's so rare to see SmallAnt meet his match and react to significant setbacks. This is one of those times. You're welcome, Internet!

4:10 "They're using strats!" I know this is meant to be the hardest Pokemon game, but this is so far above all other games in the series!

I love this game, and the battle style is so fun. The animations are unique (my favorite is zigzagoon running between your legs after it gets hit. So adorable) which makes it a lot more interesting

Man! I remember playing this game when I was like 7 to 9 years old. I had no idea what I was doing and now I wanna go back to my game cube and catch all the pokemon I accidently took out without catching. Keep this series going my guy!

I played this game as a kid and loved my flygon, I transferred it to my emerald and then firered to always have with me. This game helped me complete the fire red Pokédex as much as I could with out like jirachi and deoxys. I loved the music of this game a lot to. Very underrated.

Fun fact: Shadow Pokemon don't share the same catch rate as other members of their species, instead each one has a hard-coded catch rate in Colosseum's code. I'm not sure if they're listed anywhere but I was looking into the Colosseum rom hacking community once upon a time and that's one of the things they've found.

I honestly wish they made more of these. Pokemon Colosseum and Pokemon XD Gale of Darkness were my favorite titles in the series. Also, proved that you can make fully 3D pokemon games with multiple animations per pokemon. Looking at you Sword and Shield.

Funny that youtube (gaming) labels this video as "Pokemon Sword and Shield"

The classic game of being like 10 levels underleveled

"They just literally bombed a hole into the ground" Wait, how is that possible, at least without hurting themselves? Oh right, they have Pokémon.

I feel so happy seeing a childhood game get more exposure! 🥰 It's really a shame we don't have more challenging Pokemon games like this anymore 😔

You’re amazing Ant

Pokemon Colosseum was my favorite pokemon game ever!!! Literally the coolest experience to play pokemon I ever had. Especially the part where you can connect the GameBoy games to the GameCube. Honestly amazing childhood 😁

Pokemon Colosseum: You are an ex-felon out to take down your former masters, in the desert criminal-infested hellscape of Orre. Cool jacket, cool shades, cool hair, cool gauntlet, cool one-wheeled motorcycle with a giant engine and exhaust pipes, cool partner girl with psychic powers, and you start with an ESPEON AND UMBREON. Pokemon XD: *haha scooter go brrrrrrr*

This was a blast to watch and I'm SO HAPPY that you're playing Gale of Darkness too!! One of my all time favorites! Can't wait to see where you go with it!

Ayyy good job man! Was good watching someone play through it. Beating that boss too gg! Didn't take many tries

I've never before seen SmallAnt as baffled while playing Pokémon, as I have here. It's refreshing, and no small amount entertaining.

Nobody: Smallant constantly: "i am an idiot" Also Smallant: easily beats the hardest pokemon ever

Played through both coliseum and game of darkness multiple times when I was younger. I really wish more stories like these could be made. Loved watching your experience with this!

The Difficulty in this Game was extreme especially when you deal with the Level Spikes. Ein was so hard to deal with in the Lab with those Rain Dance Pokemon. This is not a Game you can Speed Run through. I had to grind it out going to the Colosseum Challenges. Also I think all the Shadows Pokemon in this game and XD had Perfect IVs once they're purified.

When I saw the first episode uploaded I screamed like a child. I love this game so freaking much! You’re amazing Ant, keep up the good work!!

Won’t lie, As a completionist, seeing Smallant kill shadow pokemon makes me flinch

Ariados, Forretress, Skarmory, Heracross, Misdreavus, Sunflora, Noctowl, Stantler, Magcargo & Jumpluff are some of the most underrated Pokemon in the game. Ariados is my favourite Pokemon in this game as it gets Sludge Bomb on purification and you will have a much easier time defeating Miror B's Ludicolo in Realgam Tower but train Ariados on Mount Battle once you purify it so it will be higher in level than Miror B's Ludicolo. I also recommend taking Noctowl through the entire game as you can spam Earthquake with Flygon and just to let you know Ampharos is the best Electric Pokemon in the game the Plusle that Duking gives you counts as a traded Pokemon and the EXP boost allows it to level up rather fast. Slugma is extremely underrated in this game and once you evolve it into Magcargo it can be very reliable it comes with Flamethrower on purification yes it has two 4x weaknesses to Water & Ground but you can get around that. Jumpluff & Sunflora will be very reliable to you if you decided to raise them as their Speed doubles when Sunny Day is used. Piloswine is also a great choice to raise its typing of Ice/Ground is good. Swablu can be a great Pokemon to raise but it will be even better once you evolve into Altaria. Ursaring is obtainable in the Snagem Hideout in the post game and it will do wonders for you in the Deep Colosseum if you decide to raise it.

I knew once he used the masterball on Metagross there was no chance in hell he was going to try to catch that Tyranitar. It's practically uncatchable and takes forever with any other ball.

"Did I save? I'm sure it'll be fine." Well, there's only one reason to include THAT line in the video....

18:38 “it is confused, paralyzed, and attracted” sounds like trying to get a girlfriend in the current worldstate

This game was a highlight of my childhood. First Pokemon game I played where mashing A didn't work. Beating Evice felt incredible.

Hell yeah I was excited to see the rest. I played through and got cut off around where you stopped between episodes.

The editor did a great job on cutting out the dead air in battles. Anyone who has played these knows that the battles are SUPER slow lol

Yay! More Colosseum! This game is so unique and interesting. And it looks really nice and the plot is cool. A nice change of pace from the "main" series. Also 2:54 Chunky is gone in the next shot... oh dear.

This is very cathartic. I struggled soooo much when this game came out against the final boss. I ended up using the master ball on the t-tar. I forget what gets replaced by it, but I remember it being easier than the t-tar.

I really hope he comes back to this and catches the rest of the Shadow Pokemon. I see some many people drop this game after beating Evice and not the post game final boss.

A lot of people were asking "Is there a place to grind?" the answer is yes. Mt. Battle.

The way I used to dance and snap along to miror B's theme music as a kid, I'm surprised I didn't know I was gay sooner in life.

Yooo I haven't seen this game in so friggin long, use to play it at my friends house on his Gamecube but we never had the game ourselves, it was one I always wanted to play more but never could, can't wait to watch you play this heckin game!

Just want to let you know, there's more to the game. I think you unlock some extra stuff after beating "final boss", and you can catch Ho-Oh if you purify every catchable pokemon and fight your way to the top of the battle tower. I've done everything in the game except catch the ho-oh itself because it takes a while to purify.

The raikou made me reset so many times back in the day. Later I found out you can fight trainers again to get the shadow pokemon you missed. Which I had killed like 5 by the end of the game. That first ball catch on raikou triggers me; I don't know if it's easier during that battle but I call bs on that.

Hardest game : KZfaq detecting it as sword and shield

I just want to let you know right now that I am thoroughly immensely enjoying the fact that you are playing this game because this is literally one of my favorite games of all time including XD and I just can't wait for the Gale of darkness videos thank you so much for doing this thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you sir thank you kindly oh my gosh

I love how the big brain strats are exactly why you were having such a hard time. "Let me uhhhh waste a turn and switch out to ______" *AI sets up a weather condition or paralyzes/confuses your team* "oops! Let me do this everytime the whole way through and underlevel my team as well!" xD

God I wish they actually cared enough to make more Pokemon games designed for people who grew up with the series.

What's sad is that the attack, faint, and idle animations in this game are so much better than the modern pokemon games. Edit: Don't get mad this is just my opinion

"FLYGON IS SO COOL" Literally my favorite pokemon glad to see the love 🥰

Ant: why thank you, Nascar. Nascour: you're welcome Ant: not you. We named the metagross, Nascar.

I remember my espeon being so much kickass (and i grinded the battle tower so many times) that i legitimately regretted not only not having a copy of pokemon emerald but also losing the memory card with ita data

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, Jaiden needs to make a video on this game, it would be so amazing with her art style

Thank you for part 2, can’t wait to watch

I sure hope console pokemon games continue to improve and dont regres in every way

I was waiting for him to see the level spikes.

As someone who missed the twitch streams I'm really hoping that XD is eventually put on KZfaq as this is my favorite couple of videos from small ant

Been waiting for pt.2! So excite! XD Gale of Rawrkness is gunna be lit too

Always a good day when Smallant posts some highlights

I have played through colosseum at least a dozen times, I don’t think I’ve ever seen hitmontop only kick once as much as Richard did

i absolutely LOVE the pokemon games on the gamecube. They were pretty difficult and I remember crying so much as a kid but they are still my fave pokemon games

Props to the alogrithm to put you in my feed. Relieved so good memories and further reinforced how hard pokemon games can and should be.

Still waiting for you to do an XD: gale of darkness play through!!! Love the content!