So, I decided to replay this game after like 8-9 years and honestly, Pokemon Colosseum is still as awesome as I remembered it. I'm honestly more surprised of the fact that the rating of this game is kinda low since I've seen a lot of people praise this Pokemon game as one of the best due to it's nice animations for the mons and the concept of snagging other people's Pokemon in a battle. I can understand the criticism of this game because I know some people don't like the level curve spike near the end of the game or mid-way through and also the fact that, there are people who want to purify all Shadow Pokemon, but the process is very long since there isn't much you can do to lower their shadow gauge other than walking, battling, or using scents. The problem is that the scents in the shop are expensive and they probably aren't worth it most of the time unless you want to know the nature of a shadow pokemon you snagged and soft reset for a better one. If you want to purify all Shadow Pokemon, it's going to take the whole day or two to do it, so be prepared for that. Another problem I can definitely understand is that the fact that most of the Shadow Pokemon you snag are mostly from Johto. And Johto is notoriously known to have bad Pokemon overall with not many great base stats or good movesets. They fixed this problem by giving some Johto Pokemon evolutions (Sneasel, Gligar, Yanma, Aipom, etc.) Problem is that this is pre-Gen 4, so those mons don't have those evolutions in this game and throughout the game you will have to catch them as Shadow Pokemon and they aren't going to be helpful whatsoever in your team. I do like how your options are limited in this game on the amount of Pokemon you can catch, but catching only Johto Pokemon that aren't very good in Gen 3 is just kinda lame. There are definitely some good Johto Pokemon you can catch in this game, but almost half of them you snag aren't going to be very good. Don't get me wrong though, there is some Hoenn Shadow Pokemon you can catch in this game, it's just that most of Shadow Pokemon you will find in trainer battles are going to be from Johto most of the time. You can still build a pretty great team regardless of your limited options and I think that's what makes this game great today still for me. The starters you start with are great both offensively and defensively, so you should use them for your team unless you want to try something different in your team. Also, I don't think grinding was as bad as people said it is in this game since I got my party on par with their levels against most of the difficult pokemon battles in this game. Mt. Battle is your place to grind levels and you should definitely go there to grind levels as much as you can. The final boss is very difficult and that's what I liked a lot about this game. I play Pokemon competitively and I really like some of the competitive strategies some of the trainer bosses use in battle that most casual players may not expect in their playthrough and I think that's what makes this game special to me a lot. For the final boss, you should definitely have your Pokemon around level 50-55 to be safe cause you're going to be underleveIed regardless for it and it's going to be a pushover most likely. I played this game without using healing items or using any items at all in battle since I'm a tryhard at a children's game for some reason and I went in with level 50+ Pokemon against the final boss, barely won, and played the entire post game content (including purifying all Shadow Pokemon.) So, I can say that I enjoyed playing this game again as it's still very memorable and special to me to this day and it's definitely one of the best Pokemon games that I recommend people should play 100%.

Just finished this game and gotta say that this was a great sequel for the Hero of Time, and I genuinely enjoyed most of the side quests in this game as well. I do prefer the temples and bosses more from Ocarina of Time, but these were still pretty enjoyable in this game as well. I actually really love the concept of masks in this game and the utility with almost all of them as they can help with some small things in this game. I do like the main masks a lot as they all had their own fighting styles and abilities outside of combat as well. I would say the only thing I didn't like was how bad I was with controlling the Goron roll and Zora dolphin jump. Honestly, the Zora dolphin jump is probably a skill issue, wouldn't be surprised. Despite this, I still had fun regardless. I already know that this game was in development for only a year and the fact it reused the Ocarina of Time engine, and that may be why there wasn't more temples/bosses, but it could've been predetermined at the start to have that low amount in Majora's Mask. It doesn't bother me that much since I think I understand that this kind of formula with the Zelda games has always existed with like the certain amount of temples and bosses to do before the final boss. I wasn't too familiar with the old Zelda games cause I only played the newer ones (BOTW/TOTK), so I'm glad I understand a bit of it now. I plan on playing more Zelda games like Twilight Princess, Wind Waker, A Link To The Past, etc.

Decided to play the old Zelda games after TOTK, should've done this sooner, but I'm doing it now at least. Honestly, if I gave this game more of a chance back when I was a kid, I would've loved it. I already knew what was going to happen for the majority, but it was still very enjoyable. I can genuinely see why people loved this as a kid or even still love it now. I like most of the dungeons in this game and the boss fights were pretty fun too. I'm not exactly the best when it comes to puzzles, so I may of taken a while in some dungeons, but it's still better than what it would've been if I was still a little kid playing this cause I would've definitely looked up more on how to solve the puzzles in this game, and not try to figure them out on my own majority of the time. Anyways, great game, going to play Majora's Mask now.