Pokemon Colosseum and XD are good games

I always felt like the gamecube pokemon games were really slowpaced. everything being a double-battle + everything having long drawn out animations means just a little gauntlet of 2-3 trainers feels like an endless slog

shadow pokemon are sort of lame too.

but otherwise I really like the variety of them from the main games. the limited team selection is a genius way to make you use weird pokemon