Bashing/Praising Thread for Colloseum/XD

[dragonshaun9]

Frustrations with the GCN Pokemon games? Yeah, I've got plenty of those. My primary list:
Colloseum-
1. The Shadow Pokemon mostly SUCK!
2. The Admins are utterly ridiculous
3. The computer trainers are stupid
4. The whole Purification process is tedious and not worth the real reward of the game
5. The Cipher Peons look like space clowns. I hates clowns:guns:
6. No Shadow Mewtwo

XD-
1. Seriously. LUGIA?!
2. Lugia's color changes back
3. Lets see...ultimate Shadow Pokemon that cannot be purified...why not oh, I dunno, MEWTWO?!
4. Still lacking some good Shadow Pokemon to Snag
5. The boss is a midget

[Bulbasaurus Rex]

The Shadow Pokémon in Colosseum were mostly the Johto Pokémon you couldn't catch in FR/LG, which I think is a good idea, although you can now also catch them in Emerald.

The computer trainers in Colosseum aren't any stupider than the computer trainers in the GBA games outside of the gym leaders and Elite 4 members.

The purification process can be tedious, but it had never been done before, in a Pokémon game, so it was a new interesting experience whose tediousness had never been tested before, and they did fix it in XD.

Lugia is actually a better choice than Mewtwo, because Mewtwo can be caught in FR/LG without a Nintendo Event. Except for XD, the only way to catch Lugia legally in the 3rd generation in English is to get the ticket at a Nintendo Event.

Your other points are all about how things look, which are more of your opinion, and also secondary to the gameplay and mechanics of Pokémon games.

[dragonshaun9]

I accept the point, but still. I recognize that Mewtwo can be caught normally in Fr/Lg. BUT, i think it would be cooler to have the ultimate shadow pokemon be Mewtwo, and have IT jet-black, and not change back(sorry for the rhyme) as a special feature for snagging it here. My thoughts, wanted them out in the open.