The Nintendo Switch 2’s GameCube library just got a new addition, and it’s an appropriate one given we’re in the midst of Poké-mania thanks to Pokémon Pokopia!
Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness first launched on the Nintendo GameCube in 2005, and was a successor to Pokémon Colosseum. With an adventure spanning the Orre Region, you’re tasked with capturing and purifying “Shadow Pokémon” by engaging in doubles battles and exploring a 3D world.
It’s definitely an interesting if not particularly compelling slice of Pokemon history, but if you’ve got the hardware and the required Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack membership to access the GameCube Classics catalogue it’s certainly worth poking around in. Pokemon Colosseum will also be making its way to the system at some point in the future.
Here’s the trailer Nintendo released for Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness’ Switch 2 arrival a couple of weeks ago:
From the official description:
“Shadow Pokémon have reappeared in the Orre Region in this role-playing game, released for the Nintendo GameCube system in 2005. You are a young boy living at the Orre Region’s Pokémon HQ Lab with his mom and little sister who gets swept up in a grand adventure when an incident occurs at the lab. With your Aura Reader, which can detect Shadow Pokémon that have had the doors to their hearts shut, and the Snag Machine, which can capture Shadow Pokémon from evil Trainers, it’s up to you to save the world. Stand against evil and reopen the doors to the shut hearts of the Shadow Pokémon to restore them to their natural selves!”
This brings the Switch 2’s GameCube Classic library to a tidy nine titles, which are:
Nintendo Switch 2 Classics – All GameCube games
- Chibi-Robo!
- Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance
- F-Zero GX
- Luigi’s Mansion
- Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness
- Soul Calibur II
- Super Mario Strikers
- The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
- Wario World